Tag: blame bush

#rsrh The Hill declares DOOM for “Blame Bush.”

I kind of hope that the Obama campaign was still planning to use the argument that it was all George Bush’s fault, because: That. Well. Is. DRY.

Sparky.

Two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington’s fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else, according to a new poll for The Hill.

It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth and slow economic recovery is the result of bad policy. Thirty-four percent say Obama is the most to blame, followed by 23 percent who say Congress is the culprit. Twenty percent point the finger at Wall Street, and 18 percent cite former President George W. Bush.

Continue reading #rsrh The Hill declares DOOM for “Blame Bush.”

#rsrh Frank Rich starts Bush rehabilitation.

I knew that this was going to happen; I merely never thought that it’d be him leading the way. I’ll summarize the piece for you: Republicans Bad, Democrats Stupid, Republicans REALLY Bad, Democrats REALLY Stupid, and Democrats need to listen to Frank Rich and start branding Republicans as (as Rick Richman of Commentary himself summarized Frank Rich’s ‘argument’) ‘Worse than Bush.’  Don’t get me wrong: Rich still hates and fears Bush with the power of five hundred burning suns.  It’s just that now he hates and fears Congressional Republicans with the power of a thousand burning suns, and one must get one’s priorities in order.

As I’ve mentioned earlier, this is a standard Democratic tactic; use the Republican who is no longer in power as a club with which to attack the Republicans who are in power.  Except that the Republicans are, technically speaking, actually not in power.

Yet.

#rsrh QotD, Ace of AoSHQ edition.

Heh: I said pretty much the same thing as the below, during Fausta’s BlogTalkRadio program this morning.

Know this: When a Republican takes office in 2013, he will be compared unfavorably to Bush, who will be held out as a “conservative who at least had some heart and some sense of compassion” and the current Republican President will be, as each Republican President is called in turn, the worst President in all of history.

No, Ace didn’t rip me off.  He’s simply just as aware as I am that the activist Left has the collective imagination and creativity of a three-toed sloth in the middle of a five-day heroin jag*.

Moe Lane

*Note that I make no comments about their hygiene.

…blamebushblamebushblamebush…

As I’ve noted before: one of the most horrible things to encounter in politics is to watch a group wreck itself and its electoral chances.  The sensation is much like running in mud or maple syrup; you move and move, but never quite fast enough to matter.  For true horror, the situation has to be as follows:

  1. The situation has to be easily repairable;
  2. The needed repair has to be something that is politically unpalatable to the people affected;
  3. The people affected have to know how much trouble they’re in;
  4. They have to spend a lot of effort and capital trying to energetically do the wrong thing;
  5. And they have to keep up with the energy and effort and earnestness until the final collapse and wreck.

Really, it’s horrible.  Frustrating.  The sort of thing that would make any reasonable person want to go into a national party HQ and start beating people with other people while screaming “Why won’t you just LISTEN to me for a change?”  The ability to see a disaster but not be able to do anything about it has been the fuel for particularly frightening tragedies since the days of Homer, and has nothing to recommend it.  Unless, of course, it’s happening to the other guys.

Then it’s just funny. Continue reading …blamebushblamebushblamebush…

“Blame Bush,” RIP: 2001-2010.

It was a good run for the Democrats, but all things must come to an end some day.  I know, I know: it’s downright horrible for the American people to start expecting the political party that’s held Congress since 2006 and the White House since 2008 to actually take personal responsibility for the bad things happening to the economy.   But the Democrats will have to live with it, as the American people have started to assign more responsibility to Obama for the current economy than to Bush – at least, the Republican and Independent sections of the American people have, which is really the important thing these days.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters now think Obama’s policies are to blame for the continuing bad economy, up three points from last month. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the recession that began under Bush is at fault.

There are, of course, many hidden victims here of this betrayal of the Democratic party by the people of the United States.  No, really.  I mean, think of all of those soon-to-be Democratic former Congressmen who have to hope that the lobbying industry can handle the sudden influx of new glad-handlers, parasites, and influence-peddlers that comes from a Congressional readjustment!  For that matter, think of those poor, poor staffers who next January will be facing the specter of having no job and no prospect of getting one – and in one of the more expensive metropolitan areas, to boot.  Some of them may even have to move back in with their parents.

The horror. Continue reading “Blame Bush,” RIP: 2001-2010.

#rsrh Good news: Pelosi commits to Democratic cliff-diving.

(via @davidhauptmann) Contrary to first impressions, this is not an example of the popular definition of insanity*:

Democrats will keep blaming George W. Bush until the problems from his administration end, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In an interview with MSNBC, Pelosi said congressional Democrats feel justified in blaming the Bush administration because of the problems it left behind for President Barack Obama.

…after all, it worked in 2006 and 2008, right?  Push the button marked ‘Blame Bush,’ get the food pellet named ‘win elections.’  Classic Skinnerite operant conditioning… and if Pelosi and her Democrats needed less time to be conditioned than Skinner needed to train rats and pigeons, well, I will not be unkind and voice my opinion about what that says about the mother-wit of the Speaker of the House.

The only question is, what are the Democrats going to do when they notice that the button is no longer wired up to the food pellet dispenser?  Do they even realize that this could be a possibility?

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Good news: Pelosi commits to Democratic cliff-diving.