[Bigh4u2]

“but I can’t find the part where they blame his failures on anyone else.”

Really?

How about this?

“With the debt-ceiling debate, the right-wing Tea Party movement has taken both Congress and Obama’s presidency hostage.”

Or this?

“It is no longer the president who determines the issues and sets the tone of the debate, but a small, radicalized group of unashamedly amateur politicians who have declared the government to be their enemy.”

And that’s just 2.

You need to read ‘into’ the article a little bit more.

It’s not hard to spot.

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It's a given that Der Spiegel doesn't like the Tea Party, but that doesn't mean that the writer blames them for Obama's own mistakes.

They might even think that it's the other way around -- that another Democrat in the White House not only would have been able to manage the Tea Party, but even to prevent their becoming a factor.