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Blame Bush' Strategy Wears Thin

Larrry

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Looks like the leftwingernuts will have change their strategy


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/25/obama-administration-blaming-bush-president-enters-second-year/

Blame Bush' Strategy Wears Thin as Obama Enters Second Year

FOXNews.com

Whether it's the economy, national security or America's reputation abroad, President Obama and his top advisers have been pinning the blame on the prior administration, directly or obliquely, ever since Obama's inauguration a full year ago –– including at least seven times since last Tuesday's upset in the Massachusetts Senate election.

One year into his administration, President Obama might want to consider dropping the "blame Bush" page from his playbook.

Whether it's the economy, national security or America's reputation abroad, the president and his top advisers have been pinning the blame on the prior administration, directly or obliquely, ever since Obama's inauguration a full year ago. They've done so, in fact, at least seven times since last Tuesday's stunning upset in the Massachusetts Senate election.

While the loss of the late Ted Kennedy's longtime seat forced Democrats to acknowledge shortcomings in persuading Americans to support their health care reform plan, it didn't stop them from continuing to invoke the failings of the George W. Bush administration –– though Obama had just completed his first year in office.

Some Republicans, and even some Democrats, say it's time to choose a different strategy in selling and defending the Obama agenda, noting that the anti-Bush demographic just isn't as energized now as it was when Bush was in office.

"What you have the last two cycles is the angry voters, the ones most motivated to turn out, were Democrats, who did not like Bush. They didn't like his policies ... You saw it, what we call the surge voters," said former Rep. Tom Davis, former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"Bush is gone now –– they're all asleep," Davis said.

But Obama appears to be trying to wake them up.

In the first presidential postmortem on the Massachusetts race last week, Obama invoked Bush right away in an interview with ABC News.

"The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office," Obama said. "People are angry, and they're frustrated. Not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years."

He and his top staff referenced the Bush years later in the week as they unveiled new proposals for regulating Wall Street. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday said the country can't go without stiff financial regulation, or else "we get into the same type of situation that we found ourselves in in September of 2008."

Obama, in a Saturday statement backing the creation of a deficit-tackling commission, referred to the "economic downturn we inherited," the "years of failing to pay for new policies," and the "trillions of dollars in deficits" the Bush administration created.

Those themes were bundled up on the Sunday morning talk shows when top advisers took to the airwaves with a coordinated Bush-centered message in discussing the administration's economic approach.

"What we inherited when we walked in the door was an economic situation that was far worse than anybody ever knew," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." "The hole we inherit and the hole that we have to fill is very, very deep."

Senior Adviser David Axelrod, on CNN's State of the Union" and ABC News' "This Week," stressed the huge deficit Obama inherited from Bush.

"When the president walked in the door, he was handed the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a financial crisis that held out the prospect of the collapse of the financial system and a fiscal crisis," Axelrod said on "This Week." "President Clinton left a $237 billion surplus; President Obama received a $1.3 trillion deficit."

Obama contributed to that deficit with his $787 billion stimulus package and other programs, but his former campaign manager David Plouffe nevertheless urged his party not to "accept any lectures on spending" from the GOP.

Plouffe, who is signing on as a White House political adviser, wrote in a Washington Post column Sunday that "Republicans' fiscal irresponsibility has never been matched in our country's history."

But while the Bush administration did in fact turn a projected Clinton-era surplus into a deficit, Obama has not taken any major steps to rein in the spending. He signed pork-filled omnibus packages and is pursuing another jobs-creation bill.

Republican strategist Andrea Tantaros said Monday that Democrats should not "run against George Bush."

"This is about a very distracted, unfocused president," she said.

Politico.com reported that some Democratic strategists are also starting to reconsider that rhetorical tack –– given that efforts by Democrats to link their GOP opponents to Bush failed in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, and the Massachusetts Senate race.

"What a stupid strategy that was," former Obama campaign aide Steve Hildebrand told Politico.com.
 

Faster horses

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Everytime I hear that obama 'inherited this from Bush' it makes
me very angry. He wanted it. He paid big money to get it.
What America got was a president to had no idea how America thinks,
or how the free market works. He still has no idea.
 

Tam

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He and the Dems bought an election and by doing so they bought the problems that came with it.

The thing that makes me mad is when the left try defend their hero we hear things like
a president has no power to make laws, it is done in the congress and the senate. That is the way the constitution is set up.
But for some reason it was PRESIDENT Bush's fault when the Dems controled the Senate. But it's not Obama's fault when the Dems control all three branches of government with a filibuster proof vote in the Senate :mad: Blame Bush is all this guy knows and he will use the "I inhereited" line until he and his radical crook friends are tossed out on their incompetent butts. :x
 

Steve

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ever see a spoiled brat in the store... with the educated parents who want to "explain" to the little guy that what he is doing is bothering others?

or worse mommy of the little darling glares at you and makes a snide comment about how you were never a child or obliviously your child never behaved... ???

and all you want is for parents to at least say NO to the child.. instead of them trying to talk to the the little guy like he understands their concerns?

well keep that thought as Obama and the Dems try to paint the republicans as the party of NO again..

my opinion.. it's about time someone in DC said no to the spoiled child behaviour and the inability of the party leaders to tell them to behave and act responsible..
 
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