I strongly believe that one of the legacies of the GWB administration is an overwhelming, cultural sense of – lack of responsibility. Nothing is my fault any more. Everything is the fault of, the other guy. This is very, very, very bad for America, me thinks.
Seemingly, it’s a family affair. The emphasis is mine:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush today said that both Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would have a hard time getting nominated by the more conservative voters in today’s Republican Party.
“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad, they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party, and I don’t, as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,” Bush said, according to Buzzfeed, which reported Bush’s giving the comments at the headquarters of Bloomberg LP in New York City.
Bush, a much-discussed contender to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, said he sees the ultra-conservative and partisan standards of today’s GOP as “disturbing,” but called “this dysfunction … temporary.”And this:
Bush railed against both sides, but blamed President Obama for much of the clashing.
“His first year could have been a year of enormous accomplishment had he focused on things where there was more common ground,” Bush said, arguing that he believed Obama made the “purely political calculation” to run a more partisan administration.So, let me see if I get this right. Clashes between the left and right – mostly driven by President Obama – have caused the Republican Party to drift to the right. So much so, that Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush might not be elected president in today’s climate. And this is a bad thing. But problems within the party are not the root cause. The president, is.
Take responsibility.
Oh yeah. Republicans and Democrats, alike.
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