[CAJ note: Rhode Island, your man Congressman Patrick Kennedy is talking again, and it’s not pretty…]
After Obama Rally, Dems Pin Blame On Bush
By Felicia Sonmez
Hot Line On Call
January 17, 2010
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.”
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.”
Blaming their problems on Bush does carry a risk for Dems, however — with their sights so firmly focused on the past, Brown’s campaign has managed to wrest the “change” mantle from them.
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Common American Journal would like to note that Congressman Kennedy assumed office on 3 January 1995. So that means he was in office during the entire eight-year term of George W. Bush.
And the Democrats have held the majority of seats in Congress since November 2006 when Rep. Nancy Pelosi promised to “drain the swamp” of GOP corruption. They were able to either block or override every White House program and initiative if they wished to do so during the final two years of the Bush administration.
Does anyone else notice the problem with this lack of responsibility, with the blame game the Democrats and the President are playing? Is anyone else bored by this group’s brand of corruption, cronyism, and hypocrisy? Surprised that liberal Democratic Massachusetts seems poised to elect Republican Scott Brown?…
