I hate to be crass, but could someone blame the Republicans?

[gulliver]

I know, I know. We're just too good for that. Blaming is so primitive, so human, so icky. Everyone knows that anyone who watches anyone blame anyone actually looks down on the one who is doing the blaming. People are incredibly bright, rational, and adult after all, not emotional, easily misdirected nincompoops.

But just this once can we try doing the primitive thing? We could try acting all outraged and retaliatory and, well, you know, blame the Republicans for what they did. I mean, I guess humans evolved these feelings of anger and this icky "social mechanism" of blame for all these thousands of years. It always seems to work for the Republicans. Maybe, just maybe, blaming is actually part of life that is not completed outmoded, even in the sophisticated, just, and stable civilization of our times.

Blaming people for doing bad things and causing problems for everyone is horrible, I know. Terrible to think of really. Maybe just this once, though?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/08/06/credit.rating.reaction.cnn/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[L0oniX]

1. It's overly simplistic to just blame it all on the repukes. Banksters and other criminals

come in all flavors.

[kentuck]

2. The official line is:

"They are both to blame".

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Oh yeah, be glad to blame the Republicans

been doing so since Reagan. HOWEVER, there's supposed to be ANOTHER political party involved in these decisions to provide a check ON the Republicans. It's hard to ONLY blame Republicans when they are coddled by the other party.

[TacticalPeek]

4. How can one blame the Rs?

They are only doing their job, which is to provide a justification for greed and to defend the interests of the undeserving rich and Big Brother government. It is in their platform.

It is the Ds' job on the other hand to defend the little guy, at which they are doing such a piss poor job it makes you wonder if the fix is in.

:shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

5. I hate to be crass, but could someone blame the Corporations and the parasite wealthy that run them?

Republicans in both parties are willfully stupid puppets to the power agenda.

Talk about "Origin of the Feces".

[ElboRuum]

6. Sure

Blame's healthy. Without blame, there is no bad feeling of having done wrong. No real incentive to not do it again. I don't know who said blame is outmoded, but I blame him for turning this into a world where no one is held accountable for anything. That person was probably to blame for a lot of things and just got tired of feeling bad about himself.

[coalition_unwilling]

7. I blame the industry insider S&P - they brought us the banking and

financial collapse by giving AAA ratings to CDOs that were pure shit. Why? S&P got paid fees to rate the CDOs. Fuck S&P. They have 0 credibility in the minds of anyone who pays any attention whatsoever.

I do blame the Republicans, though :)

[jberryhill]

8. Patience, Grasshopper

Although, when Chang got to the western United States, he found a reason to kick someone's ass every Tuesday at around 8:45 PM!

And THAT is why you tuned in to WATCH!

[dana_b]

9. I see lots of people here blaming the Repubs/Tea Party

although I feel that it is years and years of politicians, businesses and obviously Wall Street latching onto this free market and laissez-faire type of govt. and the philosophies and ideals behind them. Its the haves or the oligarchy that is now trying to crush us: the have-very-littles. SOME of the people doing this seem to be Dems too. Most are Repubs though and I think most people here understand that. What we want is more support from the Dems who do seem to give a damn. "No more Mr. Nice Guy" - as Alice Cooper would say. We can't afford to play nice. It is killing us.

[saras]

10. You don't blame the rats for eating your grain - you blame the guards who failed to stop them

Rats are rats. Of course they will steal your grain. On an island, they will eat everthing until they're barely getting by on cannibalism. They're not going to change their behavior because we disapprove of them.

The rest of us know this perfectly well, but many are, out of laziness at first, and now simply out of fear of giant mobs of hungry rats, not closing and locking doors, nailing up metal screen, locking up food wastes, etc.

The Tea Party is full of criminals - blatant, stupid ones. We could be throwing them in jail as fast as they break laws, instead of pretending that they are legitimate participants in our government. It's not their fault we don't do that.

[IndictW]

11. Other Governments have a stake in whats happening.

They recognize what the politics of the W regime spawned. I would not want to be Grover when they exact a pound of flesh. The r/teabagger party will be vilified on a Government level. Could another country investigate and prosecute the aholes who brought down their governments.

The S+P names names. Will the world follow?

[Horse with no Name]

12. Did I miss the part where Obama vetoed that toxic piece of shit he was handed?

Sadly enough...there is plenty of blame here and unfortunately, with the stamp of our President, none of this would have happened.

I'm thinking that Obama needs some new advisers. And I don't mean the same old "new boss same as the old boss" shit...I mean NEW ideas on how to get us out of this fuckswell we are in.

[sabrina 1]

13. Well, that was why we elected Democrats. We did BLAME

Republicans and we wanted them held accountable. But the Dem Leadership decided not to hold them accountable for anything. Not only that, but they decided they had some good ideas, like extending the Bush Tax Cuts, lifting the Ban on Offshore drilling etc. and they told us to STFU that our ideas were 'retarded'.

So now, we are having a problem with 'blame'. IF Democrats had done what we elected them to do, Republicans would have zero power right now.

So yes, I blame Republicans, but unlike before we got a majority and the WH, I know have to blame Democrats who let them off the hook and decided that bi-partisanship was more important to 'effectively get things done'. We disagreed but they did not want to hear from us.

When you do not prosecute criminals, this is what happens. They do not change their ways, did anyone really think they would? Or was it that half the Dem Party now agrees with their policies.

[eridani]

14. It's the Repuke MESSAGING that is most damaging

Especially when it comes from people who are supposed to be on our side.