Bush Promises Probe

"What I intend to do is lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong."

I'm sure this is all over the place by now, so please let it be another stupid remark by Bush and one that his advisors will straighten out later.

"President Bush intends to seek as much as $40 billion to cover the next phase of relief and recovery operations from Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Tuesday as leading lawmakers and the White House pledged to investigate an initial federal response widely condemned as woefully inadequate."

Notice though that Bush did not agree to a commission, only a probe. I mean there's no sense in really finding out what went wrong.

Even in the case of some make-believe probe, the president should not be the head of it. The president cannot lead the investigation into his own governments failures. It just doesn't work that way. If that's the case I'm sure Clinton would have jumped all over the chance to lead his investigation.

Just like we need an independent commission setup to investigate the intelligence fiasco of WMD in Iraq, we also need a bi-partisan commission designed to uncover the bureaucratic incompetence of Bush's big government.

I think the reality of an independent commission to investigate either Iraq or Katrina will depend on the death tolls.