Posted on 01/17/2009 7:13:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Gone, not forgotten: Dems go after Bush By: Patrick O'Connor January 17, 2009 07:23 AM EST
For the last eight years, Democrats have been counting the days until George W. Bush leaves the White House.
Now some of them cant seem to let him go.
On Friday, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) distributed a video showing how the policies of the Bush Administration have failed the nation and continue to affect our ability to confront the current economic crisis.
Earlier in the week, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr., (D-Mich.) released a 486-page report documenting a litany of alleged abuses by Bush and members of his administration.
And when House Democrats approved their biennial rules package last week, they included a provision allowing the Judiciary Committee to continue its pursuit of documents and testimony from Bushs chief of staff and former White House counsel.
This right-up-to-the-end Bush-bashing is part reflex and part coordinated message.
With Bush in office, some Democrats have defined themselves by their opposition to a man they long viewed as a less-than-legitimate president.
And with Bush leaving and a Democrat taking his place Democrats want voters to remember that the nations economy crumbled when the Republicans held the White House.
Theres nothing to gain from pointing fingers at past presidents, Hoyer says in the video released Friday. "But there's a great deal to be gained at looking back honestly at the financial choices weve made in the past and their consequences."
In an op-ed that ran in Fridays Washington Post, Conyers said he understands that that many feel we should just move on. But in my view, it would not be responsible to start our journey forward without first knowing exactly where we are.
Bush is really not going away,
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
And by doing so, deflect the fact that the Dems were in charge of Congress for the previous two years, during which most of the crumbling took place, and were largely responsible, through their neglect in overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for the mortgage and real estates crises.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
George W. Bush will be blamed for everything that’s wrong with the country for the next 86 years!
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