It’s a perfect soundbite, one that has a long an ignoble heritage, and a perfect example of what’s wrong with the passive voice in politics: Gee, something bad happened, but I sure didn’t do it, and I’m not going to suggest than anyone else in particular did it either. Mistakes were just made; nobody made them.    I kept thinking about that as I watched the supes hearing today on the Great Leaning Tower of Soma. Everyone seemed to agree that the project was a mess from the start and that the “fix” the engineers agreed to has just made things worse.  But nobody is taking responsibility.    Read the entire article……………………………….