Posted on 02/18/2023 10:54:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The awesome responsibilities of the presidency can be a heavy weight to shoulder, a lonely burden of ultimate decision-making authority enduringly encapsulated in the words of the iconic sign President Harry Truman kept on his desk in the Oval Office: "The buck stops here."
President Joe Biden, however, has time and again sought to sidestep the weighty burden of history through the simple expedient of passing the buck for presidential choices gone awry to his predecessor.
With Biden's job approval rating remaining well underwater, his administration is redoubling efforts to blame its perceived failures on former President Trump — a practice dating back to its botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and stretching right up to the present, with its much-panned responses to the Chinese spy balloon and the Ohio toxic train derailment.
In the five examples that follow, administration officials have made at least some effort to blame their problems on the decisions of their Trump administration predecessors. These efforts have varied in their level of directness, but at the core of each is an insinuation that the last administration dealt the current one a bad hand.
Here are five leading examples of Biden administration blame-shifting:
1. "We're constrained"
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this week appeared to blame Trump's policies for the East Palestine, Ohio, train disaster. The episode saw a number of train cars containing toxic chemicals derail, leading officials to evacuate the town and order a controlled burn of the toxins to prevent an explosion.
The environmental fallout and possible harm to residents has focused critical scrutiny on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The incident is merely the latest in a string of infrastructure and travel fiascos that have dimmed the former presidential candidate's once bright political star.
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More like 105 times.
Obama did it every time something happened
The numbers 3, 4, and 5 are in the wrong order in the list.
They should be 1, 2, 3. Numbers 1 and 2 should be 5 and 4.
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A piece of crap on two feet.
Obama did it every time something happened
He was still blaming Bush in 2015.
Recount!
Far too many bucks have stopped with the Bidens.
“It was already here when I got here”
Biden lies like a 9 year old being caught with the money from his mothers purse found under his pillow.
Five times?
More like five times TODAY
and every other day.
Wonder how many times this post of Biden has been retweeted to him?
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