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“Sen. Clinton ticked off the issues about which she is ticked off, because she says the Bush administration has failed to deal with them. They include health care, Social Security, Medicare and Iraq. The Bush administration has attempted to address all of these, but Democrats have blocked any progress. It’s an old political trick. You work against success and then blame failure on the president.” —Cal Thomas
posted by HeavyHanded at
10:51 PM
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The Democrats run this play as often as USC runs ‘student body left’. Other examples include; engage in constant partisan bickering and blame the Republicans for the partisan atmosphere in Washington; force Bush 1 into a tax increase and excoriate him for having ‘gone back on his promise’ to not raise taxes, (this one was a two-fer, they got their tax increase and a way to castigate the Republican President); attack on a personal level, re: “Bush is stupid”, Republicans are “mean-spirited”, and blame Republicans for ‘the politics of personal destruction’; ignore or deny that 90% of the MSM support Democrat policies and positions and accuse the Republicans of a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy. It goes on and on.
You always know what the Democrats are up to; it is whatever they are currently accusing the Republicans of doing. Apparently, knowing themselves to be ‘the good guys’ they just figure that the ‘bad guys’ must be doing whatever they are doing and worse.
It doesn’t work in reverse however. Clinton fights Welfare Reform with all he’s got and looses. Then, casting about for any substantive accomplishment during his administration that he can misuse to alter his real legacy, he takes credit for it and the Left cheers. A corollary would have been for Republicans to cheer the Bush 1 tax increase.
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