Save Yourself, Blame Bush By Joe Scarborough

[jbfam4]

Save Yourself, Blame Bush

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

By Joe Scarborough
Sunday, September 17, 2006; B01

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.


This year, maybe Democrats can beat something with nothing. As for Republicans, their only chance of survival is blasting the president for mistakes of the past and attacking the Democrats for their failings of the future.

Of course, you GOP candidates can be sure that such attacks will annoy Bush, even though your survival may be all that stands between him and a crazy Democratic chairman launching impeachment hearings. But if you win this fall only to face his stern rebuke next winter, just tell him it was schadenfreude for all the times the White House treated you badly. With any luck, Bush will think you are talking about that Berlin disco that Moammar Gaddafi bombed back in 1986 and then dismiss you like the worthless billy goat he always suspected you were.

[MelissaB]

1. "...a crazy Democratic chairman launching impeachment hearings"

:rofl: I could go for that.

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If I were a GOP candidate this year, I would not call the president an idiot (he isn't). But I would spend the next 50 days of the campaign telling conservatives and liberals alike that even though I voted for this war once and this president twice, time has proved that Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were wrong to think that the nation could win Iraq on the cheap. I would also look them in the eye and say that our president was wrong to believe that the United States could fight a war, cut taxes and increase federal spending, all at once. I would castigate my president for claiming to support homeland security while allowing our borders to remain wide open.

That comment about Carter later on pissed me off. :grr:

[bluedeminredstate]

2. Nice try Joe

but the repug Congress has let this maniac get away with everything with absolutely no oversight. Any hearings on the missing 9 billion in Iraq? Any hearings on the Plame issue? Any hearings of significance and consequence on Abu Graib? How about pre-Iraq intel? What about Porter Goss/Duke Cunningham/hookergate?
No, I didn't think so. Maybe it's time for the competent folks to have a shot.

[ClintonTyree]

3. There were very few, "God fearing Reagan Republicans".

They're in the halls of government today. Cheney, Rummy..... the whole lot are "God fearing Reagan Republicans". They sold you a bill of goods then, just like they're selling you a bill of goods NOW! They're liars and cheaters just as they were back in the good old Reagan days. If Scarborough thinks they've changed in any way he's a bigger fool than I thought he was. They've ALWAYS been that way. The Reagan Administration was as corrupt and evil as the Bush Administration has been, they just had a doddering, old, "B" actor nicknamed, "Dutch" at the helm. He was soooooo lovable and warm, just like your Grandpa. :puke:

Scarborough is a fucking idiot.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I agree. If it wasn't for Reagan, Bush would not be where he is today.

Scarborough is like one of those rats running off the ropes of the sinking ship. Too late Joe. You are still one of them... a big, fat, ugly rat!!!!

[wryter2000]

5. I like this bit

With any luck, Bush will think you are talking about that Berlin disco that Moammar Gaddafi bombed back in 1986 and then dismiss you like the worthless billy goat he always suspected you were.