Blaming Bush

By Dell Hill
Isn’t about time?  I mean, really!
Democrats thrived on dumping blame on to President Bush for virtually everything that is wrong in the entire world and now that President Barack Obama has inhabited the White House for nearly two years, they’re finally coming to the realization that blaming Bush 43 has outlived its usefulness.  It’s time to find another target, otherwise they’ll have to assume responsibility for the actions of a Democrat controlled House and Senate for the past four years. 
The very last thing they want American voters to understand is the fact that it was the “We’re in charge now” crowd, led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi that has called virtually every shot for the last two years of Bush’s second term and the first two years of Obama’s presidency.  If you should suddenly realize that it was Democrats doing all that spending and that it was Democrats who refused to recognize the pending meltdown of the housing market, and it was Democrats…..Well, you get the picture. 

Brent Baker outlines the Dems political target deficiency in this posting at NewsBusters:     
“It will be “very difficult for Democrats to demonize” George W. Bush “again” during this campaign season, liberal nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields despaired on Friday’s Inside Washington, because he’s “a circumspect and discreet former President.” Quite unlike, he didn’t say, the often boorish Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. 
Reacting to Vice President Joe Biden’s indictment of the supposed disastrous results from the Bush administration’s economic policies, Shields fretted:
The problem for the Democrats is this, that the energizer bunny for the 2006, 2008 campaigns has disappeared because of George W. Bush’s being a circumspect and discreet former President it makes it very difficult for Democrats to demonize him again.  He’s become a non-person.  He shows up at a ball game once in a while, he greets soldiers coming back.  He hasn’t said anything controversial and that makes it a tougher fight for Joe Biden to make.
Charles Krauthammer is a regular on the weekly program, so I’ll use that as a hook to highlight his latest column, “The last refuge of a liberal,” which includes this well-framed observation:
Promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
Krauthammer elaborated: 
– Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
– Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
– Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California?  Homophobia.
– Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero?  Islamophobia.
Another great formulation, about how those tricky Tea Party activists weren’t clever enough to fool the liberal media:
When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president’s proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms.  
(Inside Washington is a weekly show produced by ABC’s Washington, DC affiliate, which airs it Sunday morning after it runs Friday night on DC’s PBS affiliate, WETA-TV channel 26, and Saturday on local cable’s TBD TV.)”

 As it now appears, Charles Krauthammer has become the voice of reason for the Conservative cause and anyone brave enough to sit on a live TV panel with him is risking total humiliation when it’s his turn to speak.  We think quite highly of Mr. Krauthammer at Uncoverage.net
–Dell Hill