Like Obama, James Carville Blames Bush For Coakley Loss
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 25, 2010, 4:24 AM
Last week Barack Obama and his ego blamed the Massachusetts massacre on eight years of George W. Bush.
Well Barack Obama is not alone.
Yesterday, far left hack James Carville also blamed Bush for the shocking democratic senate loss in Massachusetts.
The Financial Times reported:
…Democrats would not be playing the blame game with one another for the loss or for the healthcare debacle if they had only pointed fingers at those (or in this case, the one) who put Americans (and most of the world) in the predicament we’re in: George W. Bush.
It is under his disastrous tenure in the White House that health insurance premiums nearly doubled for the average American family and the number of uninsured skyrocketed. It was under Mr Bush that the deficit spiralled out of control as we fought an unnecessary and endless $3,000bn war in Iraq and enacted the largest unfunded entitlement programme in history with the Medicare prescription drug benefit. It was Mr Bush’s economic team that worshipped at the Church of Deregulation and was asleep at the wheel as banks and insurance companies became too big to fail.
But Barack Obama, the US president, and his team admirably and eloquently argued that the US was ready to turn the page on the Bush years, ready to be united. Rather than look backward we should march forward in a new post-partisan environment.
Part of the problem is that Mr Obama was refreshingly naive in believing his own rhetoric. He really believed we could rid Washington of revolving doors filled with lobbyists or that “there is not a liberal America and a conservative America”. Mr Obama and his team really believed he could bridge the partisan divide. Being elected as a change candidate in a change election does not translate into changing Washington. Nothing can change Washington.
Once again here are a few facts that Carville forgot to mention in his Bush hit piece…
During the Bush years, despite the 2000 Recession, the attacks on 9-11, the stock market scandals, Hurricane Katrina, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration was able to reduce the budget deficit from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop. In 2004 the federal budget deficit was 412 billion dollars. In 2005 it dropped to 318 billion dollars. In 2006 the deficit dipped to 248 billion dollars. And, in 2007 it fell below 200 billion to 162 billion dollars. During the Bush years the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, the economy saw the strongest productivity growth in four decades and there was robust GDP growth. These were amazing accomplishments considering the unexpected challenges. You certainly didn’t read much about this in the press.
But, things changed in 2007. Democrats took over Congress, gas prices started to rise, and at the end of the year and into 2008 several financial institutions started to crumble as the housing bubble began to burst. Of course, it should be noted that President Bush publicly called for the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 17 times in 2008 alone before Congress acted. Democrats, on the other hand, blocked reform numerous times. It was later reported after the 2008 election that Bush had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Hoover Institution visiting fellow Scott S. Powell wrote in Barron’s in February of 2009 that the present crisis began in the 1970s, during the Carter administration, with passage of the Community Reinvestment Act to stem bank redlining and liberalize lending in order to extend home ownership in lower-income communities. This risk was acknowledged in the Bush administration’s first fiscal-year budget, released in April 2001. Sadly these warnings were ignored by Congress.
It’s weird how democrats always seem to forget those facts when talking about George W. Bush.
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GrayRider commented:
It’s now beyond obvious that the Democrat talking points issued to the pols and pundits is to keep bashing George Bush to deflect attention from their own beyond woeful record. Lost Kennedy’s (the people’s) seat…blame George Bush. We suck on the economy…blame George Bush. Running for re-election in 2010…gotta keep blaming George Bush. This likely won’t work at all, and could very well backfire since the majority of Americans have finally awoken. Democrats have taken a page out of the Nazi regime:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Germany Information Minister
squeaky commented:
“Mr Obama was refreshingly naive in believing his own rhetoric. He really believed we could rid Washington…….” you don’t say. i suppose that sounds better than dellusional. i don’t think describing obama as being refreshingly naive is particularly comforting. sorta like a “his heart was in the right place ” moment to describe an economy sliding over the edge.
-Ed. commented:
I used to wonder why the Democrats spent so much time and effort demonizing President George W. Bush. No more do I wonder. Demonizing him to the extreme was to have created one of the four pillars upon which they would build their plan to drag us into socialism and further Federal control of our lives and fortunes: control the White House; control both houses of Congress; brand the Republicans as an incompetent alternative to their plan.
It is hard to imagine a more sinister plan. Or a dumber one.
plainslow commented:
Wow. This Bush guy is amazing. More than one year after leaving office, he is winning races n a state who does’nt even like his kind. Without even being there. I was told for years how dumb he was.
Hedgehog commented:
When Carville clears his throat there is a puff of dust. I think he is a cadaver. The perfect spokesman for the Democrat party.
Lynn commented:
Another reason I left the Demonrat Party!
I watched C-Span as Maxine Waters, Franklin Raines and Barney Frank took apart the suggestions of the gov regulators and IG. Maxine Waters said there was no problem with Fannie Mae and why fix what isn’t broken.
How do they sleep at night knowing full well they had a hand in ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of people?
It wasn’t Bush who wrecked the economy, it was the Demonrat Congress.
NeoKong commented:
Is that the only tune they know….? It is getting to be like an irritating television jingle. I can’t ever recall the Bush administration ever referring to Bill Clinton when discussing the nation’s problems.
” Well as you are all aware, had Bill Clinton simply taken custody of Osama Bin Laden when the Sudan offered him up we would still have the World Trade Center“
lyle commented:
We’ve seen this process over and over, with all politicians but especially democrats. Their first response to a stunning loss is to take it for what it is, a defeat for their candidate and their policies.
Over the ensuing weeks and months, various new narratives are floated, blaming the fecklessness of voters or the wickedness of the opposition. Sooner or later they’ll settle on a version that says that they were right all along, their policies were right all along, the American people are on their side, and they should keep doing what they’re doing.
Sometimes, as with the fall of Soviet communism, the narrative takes years to develop, since it has to be constructed out of counter-historical whole cloth. Other times, as with the Scott Brown victory, a new narrative surfaces and is embraced quickly.
It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to justify doing more of what got them defeated in the first place.
LimoLibsStink commented:
Although, I am smarter than Bush I still blame Bush for my Asperger Syndrome.
Sure, I have my Jumbo Jet, my Limousine and my big house but, I cannot stand to interact with those stupid Typical White Tax payers. I really should be focusing upon my magnificent ego.
But, enough of that, I have hemorrhoids which I also blame on Bush. Every time I get a good idea and scratch my butt until the details are clear in my brain. My hemorrhoids are quite sore and it’s Bush’s fault. It has nothing to do with Barney Frank and Fannie Mae.
My limousine is running and I have a meeting with Barney Frank and Kevin Jennings. I must look busy. Good day.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Keep it up, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.
Your not listening, (thank GOD). Even your ignorant constituants are seeing you as a failure. I inform them and they are seeing it. LOL you cannot control all the people all the time. People like me and others get the truth out and let the Obama supporters make up thier own mind. They are a slow buch but the NOTUS’s actions are self explanatory. Race baiting got you elected. It will not keep your popularity up nor get you reelected. No coat tails for you Barry.
Powder is dry.
Corporal Vere commented:
There is a modicum of truth in the most egregious lie.
If Bush’s wonderful presidency has anything to do with Senator Brown’s achievemnet, it would be his honesty and the ‘humanity’ that he displayed throughout his (wartorn) two terms.
Carville: just a former (one disgrace to the Corps) jarhead that didn’t take his brains back when he got discharged.
avery commented:
They need to audit Fannie may and Freddie mack to see who all they were paying off.Franklin Raines walk with a least a cool 90 millions.If Bush cause Coakley to lose this man has some power,he also can cause Hurricain and Earthquake.
jim from cleveland commented:
The left has created this giant fiction about George W. Bush that keeps getting more and more unhinged from reality. It’s part of an even more outlandish fiction that portrays an affirmative-action black with a shady past, who can’t do much more than spout platitudes which he reads from a teleprompter, as some sort of messianic figure come to transform the country.
The least qualified person ever to become president portrayed as a messiah. Spike Lee should make a movie about it. The acorns will love it.
crystal commented:
I am soooooo going to print up t-shirts that simply say “Blame Bush”.
Liberals would buy it, because they wouldn’t get it.
What madness. At this point, President Bush has to be laughing his ass off everytime he sees his name come up.
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