J.T. Young: The End of Blaming Bush
[J.T. Young served in the Department of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004 and as a Congressional staff member from 1987 to 2000.]
Today's election is more about America's Left and Right, than Democrats and Republicans. And the Left's worst blow from it will be its inability to blame Bush for it. This time, nothing stands between the left and the public's verdict. Tomorrow that verdict will be clear. And with it will go the tiresome posture in which somehow they could be present at problems without ever being responsible for them.
For a full decade, the Left has been laying every problem at Bush's feet. He has been it fail-safe. Like a child's imaginary friend, on whom all mischief in the house is blamed, Bush served the same purpose for the Left. Never was it responsible for anything, despite often being at the scene of the accident.
A parent turns a blind eye to the children's charade, knowing an imaginary friend allows a child the opportunity to ease into accepting responsibility. But in the Left's case, its make-believe only allowed it to ease out of responsibility. In life, children grow older; in this instance, only the liberals' device has grown old.
Apparently the public no longer has a parent's patience. To quote, the apostle Paul: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Here the childish thing is not being put away, it is being taken away.
With this Tuesday's unmistakable results, the public finally will take away the Left's patented excuse...
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Today's election is more about America's Left and Right, than Democrats and Republicans. And the Left's worst blow from it will be its inability to blame Bush for it. This time, nothing stands between the left and the public's verdict. Tomorrow that verdict will be clear. And with it will go the tiresome posture in which somehow they could be present at problems without ever being responsible for them.
For a full decade, the Left has been laying every problem at Bush's feet. He has been it fail-safe. Like a child's imaginary friend, on whom all mischief in the house is blamed, Bush served the same purpose for the Left. Never was it responsible for anything, despite often being at the scene of the accident.
A parent turns a blind eye to the children's charade, knowing an imaginary friend allows a child the opportunity to ease into accepting responsibility. But in the Left's case, its make-believe only allowed it to ease out of responsibility. In life, children grow older; in this instance, only the liberals' device has grown old.
Apparently the public no longer has a parent's patience. To quote, the apostle Paul: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Here the childish thing is not being put away, it is being taken away.
With this Tuesday's unmistakable results, the public finally will take away the Left's patented excuse...