"The Blame Deficit"

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(The following quotes are from an exclusive interview with GOPolitical Top Gun Karl Rove by Fox News anchor Brit Hume.)

Hume: Mr. Rove, President Bush's poll numbers continue to hover at record lows, compared to all previous administrations. The number of problems, real or imagined, that the American public holds them responsible for is unprecedented. It's the conventional wisdom, almost a cliche now, that sooner or later, a Republican spokesman will come forward with the statement that "There's plenty of blame to go around." My question to you this morning is just this: Is there still plenty of blame to go around?

Rove: Brit, as usual you've hit the nail squarely on the head. The Grand Old Party is suffering a severe blame deficit. We're running out of scapegoats. In the past we could trot out Ted Kennedy, Hillary and/or Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Tom Daschle, even Cindy Sheehan. Just by mentioning one or more of those names along with our tried and not-necessarily-true talking points we could turn any adverse situation into, at the very least a bi-partisan blame game. In fact, among our hard-core true believers, many times we could shift all the blame to the Democrats. Unfortunately, and unhappily for us, that strategy is no longer working.
When we tried to slime (John) Murtha (D-PA), most political pundits realized that we were scraping the bottom of the barrel, so to speak.

Oh hell. This is as far as I got with this.
Anybody want to finish it up?
:-)