Republican Rallying Cry: "Obama's Fault"

[ProudLib72]

I'm so sick of this crap!

I was wiretapped because of Obama. Therefore we should investigate who called for the wiretap and not why it was called for and what it produced.

ACA was bad and all my health problems are Obama's fault. Therefore, we should repeal ACA asap without a viable substitute.

Add your own to the list. What it boils down to is the repukes have a perennial scapegoat in Obama because he is black and they are racist.

[coco22]

1. It has gotten to the point..

that I do a countdown on how long it will take before I hear it. I am also sick of the media pretending that President Obama wiretapped Tang, when FBI,CIA,and others said he couldn't do it..

[ProudLib72]

3. But it's not just that

It's clearly a deflection from the original allegation. And he knows that his supporters will lap it up.

[coco22]

5. The only think you will hear from his supporters is...

" GIVE HIM A CHANCE! its only been 2 months".

A lot can be done in 2 months I always wonder what Bannon,Jared, and those sons are doing.

There are many more players and I hope the investigations shine a light on them.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Last month's job report was 100% due to Trump!

It was NOT "Obama's Fault"

Only things that may go wrong are Obama's fault!

[Igel]

10. The February 2001 jobs report was due entirely to Bush II.

That's what was said, with exactly the same justification.

The budget measures passed in February 2009 were entirely Bush II's. Even the ones increasing the budget, the ones he refused to sign because they'd increase the budget deficit, are his. Because whose else could they be?

Also said with precisely the same justification.

In 9/1993 a roommate was aglow with appreciation to Clinton. It was the first positive jobs report (for August 1993), the recession was declared over, and the first money from Clinton's first stimulus package was disbursed. The news left it at that, encouraging the assumption that somehow money spent in September was responsible for hiring in August. My physicist roommate at the time made the causal connection quite clearly. He was quite insane in doing so, but relied on the "they knew that the stimulus would increase spending, so pre-emptively hired new workers."

Which is on par with Obama's "the health care act cut health care expense rises for 2010, in spite of the fact that there were no definitive proposals likely to pass and the bill actually passed in 2011 and took effect in 2012."

We whine to blame others while shifting responsibility from our own shoulders, while whine to shift glory to our shoulders when possible. Recessions happened before the all-powerful President du jour mounted the bully pulpit and begat, miraculously, recessions. And recoveries happened before the equally priapic all-power President du jour mounted the bully pulpit and similarly began, miraculously and in keeping with the Zeitgeist, even as Orisis with Isis, a recovery.

If it's a principle, you're stuck with it all the time.

But if it's a fine whine, then one kind is appropriate to be served with (R) and the opposite served with (D).

All that's left is to decide whether to stand on principle or just give in and be a whine-o.

The Trump claim is utterly ridiculous. Which is to say, it's of the same worth as many exultant and exuberant claims made by (D) politicians.

And we worry about fake news from Russia. No wonder we can't spot fake news from Russia. All we've done is outsource yet another American job. Except for Trump. Then again, his claims may be mass produced in China, for all we know.

[Blue_true]

4. But they take credit for Obama's economy and job market.

Republicans are gross liars, I have never met one that was a decent human being. It is about time the "no difference" people learned that there is a real concrete difference between a republican and a Democrat.

[ProudLib72]

6. Ah yes, job growth

is not Obama's fault. That one is down to the great and glorious Leader even though he'd be damned if he could explain how he managed that job growth.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[rock]

7. The republicons don't seem to realize

That they are the laughing stock of the Democrats.

[democratisphere]

9. republiCONs always blaming someone else for their absolute failure in resolving any problem.

The political party of "no" is NOthing and that is the way it has been with republiCONs for the last 36 years.

[akbacchus_BC]

11. You could not have said it better. Trump is not ready to lead and the world knows it, he is an

idiot being played by putin! And what is more terrifying is that none of his handlers have the balls to reign this clown in! The world is sick of this idiot already!

[sarcasmo]

12. Obama said it, Bill Clinton said it, Hilary Clinton started it.

Republican go to talking points.

[ProudLib72]

13. Except that in their case

it is "talking point" singular. They've latched onto that racist meme and won't let go. One trick pony, but my that pony has his one trick down pat.

[Wounded Bear]

14. It's the new corollary to Godwin's Law...