The Buck Must Stop with New President

More and more it appears that Bush will use the same defense with Intelligence-Gate as he has with the Yellowcake Business: he will blame his subordinates. He will plead credulity, ignorance-- "it wasn't me, it was someone else."

The other Democrats must start saying, again and again, "It my administration, the buck will stop with me: I will take responsibility for the actions of my administration, not leave the tough thinking to others, whom I can blame afterward if a mistake is made."

(Then, of course, he should follow through with this claim. But first things first.)

PS. For the Senators who voted for the war, this would involve some gutsy stumping: they'd need to say "I want to get to the bottom of this, because it was my vote, too, that took us to Iraq, and we must be better prepared to face such challenges in the future."