re-spon-si-bi-li-ty: n., pl. -ties. 1. The quality, state, or fact of being responsible. 2. Something for which one is accountable : DUTY.
re-spon-si-ble: adj. [Obs. Fr., corresponding to Lat. respondere, to respond.] 1. Being legally or ethically accountable for the welfare or care of another. 2. Involving personal accountability or ability to act free from guidance or higher authority. 3. Being a source or cause. 4. Capable of making moral or rational decisions on one's own, thereby being answerable for one's behavior. 5. Capable of being trusted or depended on : RELIABLE. 6. Based on or marked by good judgment. 7. Having the means to pay debts or meet obligations. 8. Required to render account : ANSWERABLE. The cabinet is responsible to the President. > -re-spon'si-ble-ness n. -re-spon'si-bly adv.
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As in, the responsibility of the Mayor of New Orleans was to implement the disaster plan his administration had signed off on? As in, the Governor of Louisiana had a responsibility to the people of her state -- a responsibility that two fine Republican governors, Barbour of Mississippi and Riley of Alabama, didn't seem to have a problem embracing at a time of crisis.
That kind of responsbility?
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