Responsibility?

This post is going to be snarky only because I don't like the first sentence in this article.

Former White House adviser Claude A. Allen took responsibility yesterday for shoplifting from stores in Montgomery County last year, saying that the months leading up to the thefts were marked by huge stress and sleep deprivation.

Claude Allen pleaded guilty to reduced charges. So much for his twin brother being involved. Do you remember that excuse being floated?

Claude Allen took responsibility?

Really?

In the same article:

"Stealing is not something that I ever thought that I would ever do, and I did," he said. "I accept full responsibility for my actions and what I did. I am intensely, immensely sorry for that and very remorseful for the harm that I've caused so many. Something did go very wrong. I lost perspective and failed to restrain myself."

He accepts full responsibility?

Really?

In the same article:

His wife cited Hurricane Katrina as one of the stressful issues that Allen was grappling with last fall.

...

She said the months that led up to the thefts were trying for Allen. "In addition to the demanding household of four young children, we lived out of storage boxes in a friend's basement," Jannese Allen said. "Claude's 14-hour workdays became more demanding after the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

If he accepts responsibility then his wife accepts her husband's responsibility.

Fie.

How did he come up with this scheme? Chances are he's done it before. He just got caught this time.