Gone, not forgotten: Dems go after Bush

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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 can’t 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 Bush’s 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 nation’s economy crumbled when the Republicans held the White House.

“There’s 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 we’ve made in the past and their consequences."

In an op-ed that ran in Friday’s 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,”

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And with Bush leaving – and a Democrat taking his place – Democrats want voters to remember that the nation’s economy crumbled when the Republicans held the White House.

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.

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