7 Responses to “Blame Where Blame Is Due”

1. rawshark, on November 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm Said:

   It’s never the fault of the republican president. He’s always a Great Man and history will bear this out. Even if history has to be revised. This is not snark. Bush will put on a pedestal and all his failings will be washed over.
   At the sametime those people are revering Bush they will rake him over the coals when they defend conservatism. A conservative president with conservative republicans owning both houses of congress enacting any and all legislation they want but conservatism is NOT a failure.

2. cbh8377, on November 20th, 2008 at 11:57 pm Said:

   Great post, Mr. Larison. I found you a while ago and have been lurking around. I really enjoy your writing style and honesty. Please keep up the good work. I don’t come from the same place as you, but you seem like the sort of person with whom a man can have an honest disagreement. In this case, however, I am in total agreement: President Bush earned the scorn he now receives. With a compliant press and Congress, nearly all of the policies that now are causing us problems are his (though he merely kept the ball rolling on some of the economic and immigration policies). The American people would be celebrating him if he were successful; we’re right to blame him for his failures. The buck stops in the Oval Office. A wiser man could have done some good things in the past eight years, but on all of the big issues, he has dropped the ball. Thanks again for a smart, lucidly-argued blog. It’s great reading for this agnostic, centrist, moderate independent. Cheers.

3. angela, on November 21st, 2008 at 4:58 am Said:

   But but but….he kept us SAFE for 7 years!

   (And that *was* a snark.)

4. gsmart, on November 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am Said:

   I do find it curious that those who bray loudest about the need for “personal responsibility” accept zero responsibility themselves for the country’s state of affairs.

   One of the things I did find appealing about McCain was that he freely admitted that, yes - the GOP screwed up. But isn’t this one of the chief reasons the base hated him?

5. zic, on November 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am Said:

   Fine and good.

   Now please explain why his vice president hasn’t been impeached?

   Given Cheney’s belief in plausible deniability, I’ll let the buck stop there. He should be in prison for his many crimes, like the men ordered released yesterday after YEARS in gitmo; listening to my phone calls (overseas journalism calls will trigger that, you know, bet they’ve listened to yours, too,) snooping my bank records, MILLIONS of innocent Iraq and Afghan citizens killed. . .do I need to go on?

   Thanks for this bit of comfort, Daniel.

6. zic, on November 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am Said:

   Sorry for the hyperbole, make that more then a million, not millions in the above post.

7. BarryD, on November 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm Said:

   gsmart, on November 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am Said:

   “I do find it curious that those who bray loudest about the need for “personal responsibility” accept zero responsibility themselves for the country’s state of affairs.”

   It’s not surprising - ‘personal responsibility’ is something for others to have, not themselves, nor any of their cronies or supporters.

   Well, now it *is* also their supporters, who are generally expected to take it up the, ah, ‘nether orifice’ after 8 years of Bushnomics.

   But never themselves, nor their cronies.

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