Joe Scarborough: Save Yourself, Blame Bush

[Mark E. Smith]

Washington Post Sunday, Sept 17

I can't help but feel sorry for my old Republican friends in Congress who are fighting for their
political lives. After all, it must be tough explaining to voters at their local Baptist church's
Keep Congress Conservative Day that it was their party that took a $155 billion surplus and
turned it into a record-setting $400 billion deficit.

How exactly does one convince the teeming masses that Republicans deserve to stay in power
despite botching a war, doubling the national debt, keeping company with Jack Abramoff,
fumbling the response to Hurricane Katrina, expanding the government at record rates,
raising cronyism to an art form, playing poker with Duke Cunningham, isolating America and
repeatedly electing Tom DeLay as their House majority leader.

How does a God-fearing Reagan republican explain all that away?

Easy. Blame George W. Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091500996.html


Excuse me Mr. Republican Congressman, but why is it you call your albatross George?

[Oceansaway]

1. dead intern Joe's at it again, hahaha..n/t

[blue cat]

2. Joe

is still a major asshole. I can barely look at his friggin face. I'll never forgive him for giving countless hours to the swift boat assholes. Never.

[Human Torch]

3. That's a tricky one...

...because he does have a point.

Unfortunately, the point is wrapped around a punch line that could easily be taken as crybaby rhetoric ("Blame George W. Bush"...another tear shed over the "Bush Haters").

And the truth of the matter is that Republicans seeking re-election will probably maintain a "dead man walking" attitude toward Bush, even though their own track record falls well below his (yeah, I know, "What track record").

:patriot:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. The Republicans did this to themselves.

At least Joe seems to realise that much.