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How long will you "blame Bush"?

How long will you blame Bush

  • Less than one more year

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Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?
 
Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?

Once the tax cuts (that supply side guys claimed would lead to robust and sustainable economic growth) are done away with, you will hear less and less about the "**** up" named George W.
 
I think they're on the way out anyway. Gee I'll sure miss that 400 bucks though...
 
I think after years of Democratic control and spending trillions of dollars, liberals need to accept more personal responsibility for our current situation. If they don't want the responsibility, then they should have never ran for the job. Unfortunately, modern day liberalism thrives off of scapegoating and victimization.

I have never seen a leader victimize himself as much as Barack Obama.
 
I have never seen a leader victimize himself as much as Barack Obama.

I have never seen such venomous political opposition outside of the walls of the Sejm. The GOP is more than willing to let the economy falter in the hope that such a scenario will score major political points for the next election.
 
I think after years of Democratic control and spending trillions of dollars, liberals need to accept more personal responsibility for our current situation. If they don't want the responsibility, then they should have never ran for the job. Unfortunately, modern day liberalism thrives off of scapegoating and victimization.

I have never seen a leader victimize himself as much as Barack Obama.
Sorry, but approximately 3/4 of the debt was created by Republican presidents. Reagan tripled the debt and Bush 41 doubled it.
 
Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?

100 years from now, bush and the republicans will still be the ones who passed Medicare D, the PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security Agency, the TSA, etc and nearly doubled the national debt

Facts don't change with time.

PS - We still blame Hoover for the Great Depression, and repubs still blame Carter for the OPEC oil embargo and Jane Fonda for treason (even though the last two aren't true)
 
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Clinton passed NAFTA. I think most of us are done talking about that one.
 
Reagan ran up the National debt like 2 trillion dollars. He is also the first one to introduce the "Trickle down theory". Which obviously doesn't work.
 
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I have never seen such venomous political opposition outside of the walls of the Sejm. The GOP is more than willing to let the economy falter in the hope that such a scenario will score major political points for the next election.

Minus a few exceptions, the GOP is a vile and wretched institution. However, one needs to accept this fact and move on. Unfortunately, our current leader thrives off deflection, scapegoating, and victimization. Obama loves to blame everyone else, but himself. A real leader looks for solution to their problems. Obama looks for ways to blame people in order to validate his crappy administration.

Ironically, for all the bitching that the left does about the right, they try to idolize them. We got more of the same rather than true change.
 
Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?
I'll always hold him responsible for his actions and the consequences of them just like I hold every other president and person responsible for their actions and the consequences of them. However, at this point Congress for their stupidity and Obama for his lack of effective leadership are also responsible for their slow and ineffective actions which, I believe, have prolonged the current state of the economy more than it needs to be.
 
I generally blame Woodrow Wilson.

But until we are no longer suffering from policies and decisions made by Bush and his friends, he will rightfully be blamed for them. Actually, he'll always be blamed for them. Time doesn't change that. But they won't be an important topic of discussion then.
 
Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?

Until the effects of his policies are no longer a factor in our political and economic environment. Its not really a time limit thing, but more of a cause and effect one, until the effects he caused are purged from the system, he keeps the blame, and if it ever happens, his blame becomes a historical consideration.
 
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Pretty simple - for people who just like to say "I blame Bush" over and over, how much longer do we have to hear it?

For as long as y'all used the "I blame Clinton" excuse.
 
Until his mistakes and the repercussions of his policies have passed into the history books.
 
For as long as y'all used the "I blame Clinton" excuse.

Heck, I still see people blaming Hoover, Coolege, FDR, Nixon, etc.
 
I think after years of Democratic control and spending trillions of dollars, liberals need to accept more personal responsibility for our current situation. If they don't want the responsibility, then they should have never ran for the job. Unfortunately, modern day liberalism thrives off of scapegoating and victimization.

I have never seen a leader victimize himself as much as Barack Obama.

Were you not around during Bush's year in office wherein everything was Clinton's fault? Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
 
i blaim Bush for everything that he is responsible for.

nothing more...nothing less.

Exactly. Who gets there responsibility commutted just because they've been stopped? They are still responsble for what they did and the effects of those actions. Bush did some reckless things, had poor polices that had an effect on the country. Just because he isn't there any more doesn't mean his acts had no effect now.
 
Exactly. Who gets there responsibility commutted just because they've been stopped? They are still responsble for what they did and the effects of those actions. Bush did some reckless things, had poor polices that had an effect on the country. Just because he isn't there any more doesn't mean his acts had no effect now.

I still blaim Clinton for some things, and thank Bush 1 for others.

Bush 1 was a good President and a patriot, and he deserves to be honored for his good accomplishments.
 
Heck, I still see people blaming Hoover, Coolege, FDR, Nixon, etc.

For what they did. And what they we responsible for, they should be held accountable for. Their slate wasn't wiped clear once they left office.
 
I still blaim Clinton for some things, and thank Bush 1 for others.

Bush 1 was a good President and a patriot, and he deserves to be honored for his good accomplishments.

Agreed. I liked Bush 1.
 
I think the question is, how long after he loses will Cons blame Obama?
 
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