{"id":3383,"date":"2010-01-25T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:20:58","slug":"if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed-blame-your-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3383\/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed-blame-your-predecessor\/","title":{"rendered":"If at First You Don\u2019t Succeed, Blame Your Predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"

That appears to be James Carville\u2019s new strategy amidst the Democratic bloodbath last week.\u00a0 Writing in the Financial Times<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Carville argues that Democrats need to end their circular firing squad and start blaming the real culprit behind recent failings \u2026 George W. Bush, of course.<\/p>\n

President Obama has had more than a year to \u201cfix\u201d the nation, but his attempts at restoring economic growth were littered with the tired and failed ideas of yet another government stimulus plan.\u00a0 His spending schemes and continued bailouts have only exacerbated the unemployment rate, while still spending more than any president in history, including George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

What George W. Bush has to do with an election in the most liberal state in the nation is unexplained by Mr. Carville\u2019s article.\u00a0 President Bush\u2019s economic policies did contribute to the deficit and to the unemployment rate but they didn\u2019t make Martha Coakley take a vacation during her campaign or make President Obama ignore the race until it was too late.<\/p>\n

For Mr. Carville, President Bush is a convenient boogeyman, but not an explanation for electoral disaster in the Bay State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That appears to be James Carville\u2019s new strategy amidst the Democratic bloodbath last week.\u00a0 Writing in the Financial Times, Carville argues that Democrats need to end their circular firing squad and start blaming the real culprit behind recent failings \u2026 George W. Bush, of course. President Obama has had more than a year to \u201cfix\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,775,753,159,14],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-george-w-bush","tag-james-carville","tag-martha-coakley","tag-massachusetts","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}