On blaming Bush, do Dems forget or just lie?

Updated on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 7:19PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

If you listen to a speech by President Barack Obama, at some point he will remind you he “inherited” this economy and he will imply that America’s skyrocketing debt is all the fault of President George W. Bush.  Are Democrats lying or merely confused?

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Obama’s 4-letter defense should be a 10-letter word

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Tax Day protests in 2009 reflecting growing Main Street anger about accountability with taxpayer dollars. Conservatives applauded the protests. Neoliberals derided the protests. Both overlooked the greater lesson—the emergence of a political philosophy aligned directly with Main Street rather than with either major political party.[Screen shot/CNN broadcast, April, 2008]It’s become a guessing game in our household—every time the president is on TV, how long it will take him to blame all the nation’s problems on Bush. We’ve come to dub Obama and the Democrats blaming President George W. Bush the ‘inheritance defense.’ It makes sense as political strategy—it’s called passing the buck, even when you, in fine oratorical fashion, say, “The buck stops with me.”

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Democrats blame Bush, ignore their own missteps on economy, war

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Are you weary of listening to the inheritance defense blaming President George W. Bush that the Obama administration and Congress jump on every time they face criticism over problems with the U.S. economy and war? This defense is a classic consequence of lack of experience in a national leader and lack of ability in an ageing, clueless Congress. The 'Bush legacy' is really getting to be tiresome spin.

A perfect example is the reinvention of the healthcare wheel—rather than turning to the free market for solutions, Democrats sequester themselves and come up with thousands of pages of bureaucratic layers that will cost in the neighborhood of $1 trillion dollars. Most of the Dem party brokers have been in Washington so long they’ve become walking monuments—stone-like creatures clinging to antiquated approaches that rely on taxing “ everything that moves and doesn’t  move,” as Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said recently. That statement is a perfect example of how Democrat-think sinks the economy. (Article continues after graph below.)

The US Dept. of Education gives an idea on Democrat spending increases beyond President George W. Bush's spending. Yet Democrats criticize Bush for this and other spending they have increased.

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