Perhaps this video goes along with the recent polls to show how much the electorate has truly shifted. Apparently Democrat Jim McGovern of Massachusetts thought that he could simply parrot a well-worn Democratic talking point and blame George W. Bush for the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and just about everything else.
Not only this, but he must be willfully forgetting the role of another Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank and Connecticut's Chris Dodd in the fiscal crisis, as well. But McGovern appears to believe that going to this line will help him out.
Except, in Massachusetts, it doesn't. Check out our full election coverage to see what's going on around the country.
How bizarre can you get during this debate that the anti-Bush speech is booed? That might actually be a first. They elected a Republican earlier this year and now this? Maybe they'll bring in Jim Demint to become governor next!
A big hat tip to Hot Air for the idea and Instapundit for the link.
Take a look at the rest of the site!
Serves him right
ReplyDeleteThat is all the democrats have, blame President Bush. People are getting sick of it and rightfully so.
ReplyDeleteUh... excuse me but Bush had nothing to do with the housing collapse. Did you notice the idiot side-stepped the real reason (fannie/freddie) for the economy collapse.
ReplyDeleteTypical libtard BS. Point the finger elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteLook, it's simple.
ReplyDeleteOne of these situations is true:
Obama and the dems are partly to blame for this mess we're in, so vote them out
OR
Bush is entirely to blame for this mess, and Obama and the dems have been completely incapable of fixing it. As Bush is no longer in office, the only people to vote out are the incompetents that are in office that are incapable of good policies.
As a member of the House Budget and Rules Committees, which directly control spending and which legislation gets to the floor, McGovern was in a better position than almost anyone in Washington to see that Medicare Part D and the war were paid for. As well as to fund oversight for Fannie and Freddie.
ReplyDeleteWhat has McGovern been DOING for the thirteen years he's occupied Congress?
Not only did he try the Blame Bush ploy and fail, he even dragged out the Clinton Surplus Myth as well. Should have done his homework....
ReplyDeleteGuys like this are the reason the Dems (and the GOP) are in so much trouble. As voters, we at least need to start asking ourselves why we keep re-electing people like McGovern.
Clinton didn't really have a surplus. He had a surplus projection.
ReplyDeleteIt's so weird that we keep pretending the debt didn't go up that year. The debt went up every single year Clinton was president.
Not that I particularly blame Clinton. The House has the power of the purse. When the GOP held it, from 1994 to 2006, the average deficit was about $104 billion. That's not sustainable, but it's also drastically better than the Pelosi/Obama era.
Things went from good to bad in 2006/7. I wonder why...
Like most Democrtas, as he's blaming Bush, he's forgotten 9/11.
ReplyDeleteBill Clinton had a surplus BECAUSE Bill Clinton had the good luck of having a Republican-controlled Congress during 6 of his 8 years. That's the one thing the DemocRATs leave out when they mention Clinton's surplus.
ReplyDeleteYes, of course. Blame George Bush for everything and allow the Teflon president to slide once again. Geez Barry's ass must be as shiny as a new penny from all the sliding he's been doing. Well the voters are wide awake now and are not going to buy the Bush did it line. Vote these morons out of office. November is coming.
ReplyDeleteBlaming Bush might carry more weight if the morons weren't continuing all of his mistakes.
ReplyDeleteInstalanch!
ReplyDeleteCost of two wars? The Democrats have spent more on Iraq than Afghanistan than the Republicans have.
ReplyDeleteSo he got hooted at a little. All that proves is that the libs in MA are a little tired of hearing the SAME excuse. All he has to do is make up another by Tuesday and he'll be right back up there unless people really are waking up.
ReplyDeleteHe was a weaselly little creep when he was an aide to Joe Moakley. Funny - he's been in Congress for 14 years. When the Dems took over both houses in '06 the unemployment rate was 4.4%. Now Obama is President and it is 9.6%. Obviously it's Bushes fault. wtf?
ReplyDeleteA predictable talking-points spew. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteBush was the worst president in US history and is to blame for the mess we're in now. The ADD public has a short memory that this economic disaster started long before Obama took office!
ReplyDeleteThis site is full of Palin loving morons!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jim McGovern for speaking the TRUTH! BUSH SUCKS!
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