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PROBLEM: Bush should have fired both men . 
There 's been a lot of talk lately about George W. Bush 's legacy in Iraq , and what it means for his brother Jeb 's hopes of following him to the Oval Office . 
When he was first elected , in 2000 , Bush 's rough-and-ready demeanor had a Harry Truman cast . 
Bush 's incompetence was ultimately responsible for the ineffective federal response from August 29 to September 2 . 
Bush , furthermore , embarrassed himself by flying down to the Gulf and claiming that "Brownie" was doing "a heck of a job ." 
The national media rightly ripped into Bush like never before . 
More than any other event of his White House tenure , Bush 's slow response to Katrina made Americans ask if he was a "bunker" commander , relying too much on cautious paper pushers such as FEMA 's Michael Brown and Homeland Security 's Michael Chertoff . 
After the attacks on the United States on September 11 , 2001 , Bush was virtually unseen during the first 11 hours , making only brief statements and effectively ceding the public leadership role in the crisis to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani . 
Politically , Bush was wounded , never to fully recover , his standing made all the worse as the economy tanked in 2008 . 
Just as New Orleans 's levee system catastrophically failed to work -LRB- breaking in about 50 places -RRB- Bush had catastrophically failed to save lives . 
Bush chose to fly over New Orleans in Air Force One instead of doing an on-the-ground inspection -- a clear sign of aloofness , indeed , of fear . 
Even George W. Bush 's most stalwart supporters cringed at his disconnect from reality . 
Bush , like Michael Jackson in his days at Neverland Ranch , was living in a bubble . 
Bush was , quite simply -- as Coast Guard first-responder Jimmy Duckworth phrased it -- "out of the game ." 
Instead , Bush monitored developments mostly from afar . 
On the 10th anniversary of Katrina , with the advantage of hindsight , it 's clear that Bush 's lack of leadership in late summer of 2005 cost his presidency mightily . 
Unlike Ronald Reagan , after the Challenger explosion , or Bill Clinton , after the Oklahoma City bombing , Bush had failed to feel the profound implications of the moment as his predecessors had . 
But Bush -- a private man by nature -- was never a particularly accessible president or an outwardly sensitive one . 
Instead , Bush acted as though he were disinterested in the natural disaster . 
No matter how the Bush library in Dallas tries to spin Bush 's Katrina performance , we all know he deserved an F in crisis management .

SOLUTION: George W Bush

PROBLEM: Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.)  described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14  including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now "  she  said. (House Administration Committee)
 Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.)  described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14  including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now "  she  said. (House Administration Committee)
âThis is about a member  who is here now. I donât know who it is  but somebody who I trust told me this situation â  Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.)  said at the hearing on sexual harassment.
The male member tricked a young female staffer into meeting him at his residence   Comstock  said. When the staffer arrived  he greeted  her  in a towel  then exposed himself   she  said. The staffer left the house and subsequently quit  her  Hill job   she  said.

SOLUTION: Barbara Comstock

PROBLEM: When the Belgian cartoonist HergÃ© died in 1983 at the age of 75  The New York Times saw fit to run only a brief  182-word obituary  picked up from Reuters. But in the Francophone world  HergÃ©âs death was front-page news  inspiring the kind of orgylike coverage reserved in America for fallen statesmen and overdosed pop stars. Belgian politicians asserted HergÃ©âs greatness  while the French philosopher Michel Serres went so far as to declare that the cartoonist was the author who has had the âmost impact on contemporary French life.â
Granted  many people on this side of the Atlantic are also fans of HergÃ©âs best-loved creation  the tuft-haired boy reporter Tintin  who  along with his trusty dog  Snowy  foiled serial bands of smugglers  gangsters  kidnappers  spies and crude ethnic caricatures across the pages of 24 book-length  Saturday-morning-serial-style adventures. But even Tintinâs most passionate American devotees may choke on the French author Pierre Assoulineâs observation  in his scrupulous but stolid biography  HERGÃ: The Man Who Created Tintin (Oxford  $24.95)  translated by Charles Ruas  that âtoday  some speak with some justification of a âTintin century â signifying the 20th.â American exceptionalist that I am  I had presumed the 1900s belonged to Mickey Mouse or Batman â or maybe to that relative latecomer Bart Simpson. Though I like Tintin too  I wouldnât even give him a decade. A year or two seems about right  alongside other not-quite-epochal worthies like Zonker Harris and the Fantastic Four.
And perhaps that year is the one now ending  which marked the 80th anniversary of Tintinâs inauspicious birth in the childrenâs pages of Le VingtiÃ¨me SiÃ¨cle  an anti-Semitic and pro-Fascist Catholic newspaper. Publishers have taken note: in addition to Assoulineâs biography  originally published in France in 1996  we have an academic study  âThe Metamorphosis of Tintin: Or Tintin for Adults â by Jean-Marie ApostolidÃ¨s  translated by Jocelyn Hoy (Stanford University)  as well as âThe Art of  HergÃ©  â a planned three-volume anthology from Last Gasp press devoted not just to the cartoons but also to  HergÃ© âs impressive  sometimes glorious work as an illustrator and graphic designer. (The second volume will be out in March.) Back in Belgium  a MusÃ©e HergÃ© opened this past June in Louvain-la-Neuve (which should have been the name of a 1920s screen siren)  while in Hollywood Steven Spielberg has been busy directing âThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn â set for release in 2011 and the first of a projected series.
Aside from earnestness  an interest in world affairs and a slapstick sense of humor  one doesnât glean much sense of authorial presence in the Tintin books  for all their lively charm.  HergÃ©  is a somewhat remote presence even in Assoulineâs biography â the author himself concedes he is âelusiveâ â though to be fair  the cartoonist seems to have been a tough nut to crack. Like Tintin   HergÃ©  rarely revealed much of  himself  beyond a public facade of wholesome  cheerful industriousness. Of course Tintin  the relentless do-gooder  didnât possess any private life at all  a perpetual adolescent with no family of origin and no hint of angst or hormones â even the Hardy Boys had girlfriends â or anything else that makes real adolescents interesting (if impossible). We donât even know why  he  insists on having  his  hair cut like a blue jayâs.  HergÃ©   born in 1907 as Georges Remi ( his  pen name derives from the French pronunciation of  his  reversed initials â AIR-zhay)  was a darker and more conflicted character: a workhorse who suffered from depression and periodically chucked  his  responsibilities for months at time; a moralist who was also a philanderer; a staunch Catholic who in later life embraced Taoism; an entertainer of children who didnât particularly like them or have any of  his  own  except for an adopted 7- or 8-year-old orphan  he  forced  his  first wife to return after a couple of weeks  which is just about the cruelest thing I can imagine.
Tintinâs adventures began in 1929 with a trip to the Soviet Union  where our hero blew the lid off Bolshevik perfidy. Next up was a jaunt to the Congo  where he instructed childlike natives about the wise and benevolent glories of Belgiumâs colonial system. Full of inner-tube lips and appalling dialogue (âWhite master  you come quick! Lion him get mad!â)  âTintin in the Congoâ has in recent years been quarantined by libraries and purged from the canon by HergÃ©âs American publisher  Little  Brown. It is often cited as a stain on his legacy  as it should be  though I would point out that many other beloved cartoon characters â Bugs Bunny and Popeye come to mind â have similar skeletons in their closets. Years later   HergÃ©  would dismiss his early books by saying  âThey are not very intelligent  I know  and do me no honor: they are âBelgianâ booksâ â meaning  in Assoulineâs explication  that they were âself-satisfied and narrow.â Fortunately  HergÃ©âs skills as an artist and storyÂ­teller waxed as his taste for bourgeois agitprop waned.
But then there is âThe Shooting Star â begun in 1941 under Nazi occupation when  HergÃ©  was working for the collaborationist newspaper Le Soir  in which Tintin faces off against Blumenstein  a greedy  hook-nosed Jewish-American financier. In later years  an apologetic but defensive HergÃ© â he would tone down Blumensteinâs nose in postwar editions and change his name to Bohlwinkel â shrugged off accusations of anti-Semitism by saying âThat was the style thenâ (well  yes)  or comparing his Jewish caricatures to ethnic jokes about âpeople from Marseille  or the Scotch.â As Assouline plainly points out  âHergÃ©âs equations seem willfully obtuse.â Not that he suffered for them or his other wartime sins: he avoided retribution following liberation  and Tintinâs popularity only grew.

SOLUTION:
HergÃ©