Well, it seems Andrew Sullivan's blameitude yesterday wasn't precise enough: Mr. Slurpy blamed Republican nihilism for voters deserting Martha Coakley's furrow-browed, mouth-breathing moronitude in soon-to-be-red-state Massachusettes. It turns out, however, that neither Republican nihilism nor the nihilism of the Republicans is at fault here. That's because - as we all know - the battlecry of Bambi Obama and the Democrats is no longer "Hope and Change", it's "I Blame Bush". Ergo, Martha Coakley bombing out is all George W. Bush's fault:
As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person -- George W. Bush.
"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."
Well, at least Rosemary has correctly identified and absorbed the overriding theme of Bambi's first year in office. Here's an elaboration of that same theme from Rep. Patrick Kennedy:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by "George Bush and his cronies" are not so easily solved.
"If you think there's magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")
More Kennedy: "One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven't kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We've tried too hard to do that right thing, and that's to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place."
Marcia? Marcia? Patrick seems to have inherited the standard Kennedy IQ, and his battlecry is going to be:
Vote for Marcia Coakley for Massachusettes Senator
How could that not work?
Aside: You know, my little Democratic friends, the people did not vote you in so you could sit around and whimper about how tough things are. "Hope and Change" implied that you were intelligent and resolute enough to do what it took to put things right. To collapse into a snivelling heap of whiney pussytude when confronted with difficulties isn't going to be mistaken for leadership any time soon. Someone might want to forward that insight on to Bambi...
My bet is that he HAD to say "Marcia" because to the Kennedys the next word after "Martha" is automatically "Moxley".
Posted by: JSinAZ | January 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM
The Democrattes haven't spent enough time blaming Bush? Really? Ohhh-kay.
Posted by: Tim | January 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Dennis, this IS how progressives govern:
1. Decry a problem, and bloviate that SOMETHING must be done.
2. Get put in charge of doing it.
3. Sit around wiping their fevered brows with world-weary hands and decry how hard the problem is, while doing nothing about it.
4. When the problem collapses around them out of their own ineptitude, lament "If only someone had done something sooner...!"
5. Decry next problem, etc.,...
Posted by: richard mcenroe | January 18, 2010 at 11:55 AM