The Absurd Report

Just listened to the usual, “blame Bush” soliloquy on Fox News Sunday, and a question came to mind:

If under the ministrations of Pres. Obama and his brilliant economic brain-trust, the economy was now in real recovery,,, would you be “blaming” Bush for that too?

My original question was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It basically asked: If the economy was actually recovering, would the Bush Administration still be “blamed” [credited], as they are now being blamed for the abject failure of Obama’s brutally expensive, and misguided initiatives. Let’s remember that these programs have failed to meet the objectives, that this Administration set. Bush didn’t get a say in this misguided spending and policy. So why should 43 get blamed for their failure to do,,,,, what Obama promised they would do? In other words is this the general calculation, as it appears to be:

If things go well, Obama gets the credit. When things go poorly; Bush gets the blame?

The Democrat “talking point” announces that poor President Obama just didn’t realize how bad things were? Well how could he? Just look at the caliber of the people who’ve been around him, since he decided to run for the Office! Whose fault is it that he decided to run Government as though is was a Marxist civics-laboratory at some Leftist diploma-mill? Whose fault is it, that rather than men with practical experience, he’s surrounded himself with dozens of shabby ideologues, who couldn’t manage a “one-car parade” in Red Square? Bush’s fault? Don’t think so.

Another example of this juvenile disingenuousness: A few months ago Biden had this to say:

“I am very optimistic — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this Administration.”

Think about that. First of all Biden and Obama were constant Iraq critics, every step of the way.

Here’s Obama in opposing “the surge”:

“We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war. And until we acknowledge that reality, uh, we can send 15,000 more troops; 20,000 more troops; 30,000 more troops. Uh, I don’t know any, uh, expert on the region or any military officer that I’ve spoken to, uh, privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.”

Biden in April ’08:

“So, where are we after the surge? Back to where we were before it started. With 140,000 troops in Iraq — and no end in sight.”

The other element of Biden’s “great achievements” boast is that their Administration is now so bereft of real achievements, that they are embracing, taking ownership of Bush’s “wrong war”, and Bush’s “exit strategy” to end our hostile presence there. To clarify, by “real achievements” I mean things to which they can point with pride, and with confidence that most Americans will agree with their assessments.

A smug President Obama recently claimed that he and his Democrat Congress have put the car in “D”. What he failed to say though, was that in this case the “D”, stands for,,,, “Disaster”.

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