God Damn It, But Clinton Is To Blame

These people are so pathetic. Almost anything wrong now was caused by Clinton and they are heroically doing their best to rectify the situation.

I recently saw someone joke about how best to blame Clinton for all of Bush's mistakes, but when they got to the biggest budget deficits in U.S. history, after Clinton had left Bush the biggest budget surpluses in U.S. history, the joke stumbled. No serious person could come up with any way to blame the deficit of Bush's predecessor.

Then again, Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), has never been considered a serious person.

"The deficit is actually a result of a recession that began in his administration. We are exponentially paying down the deficit in an accelerated time frame."

Putting aside the fact that far too many Republicans seem to have an almost pathological tendency to blame literally every domestic and international challenge on Clinton, no matter how well he handled the issue, Sweeney's public comments reflect a truly bizarre connection to reality. None of his words make any sense. Trying to understand how a member of Congress thinks a temporary slow-down six years ago caused this year's quarter-trillion dollar deficit is incomprehensible. For that matter, there's no such thing as "exponentially paying down the deficit." We can pay down the debt — indeed, Bush promised to in 2001 — but we're not doing that either.

Don't get me wrong. Clinton didn't hang the moon. He did do a competent job of leading US. He handed the idiot-in-chief a healthy country which still respected the rule of law and was respected world-wide and Bushco destroyed it all. The dim son has shown his talent for failure. I can't think of any other person who has failed so miserably at everything he's touched. What's the opposite of a Midas touch?

(read more)