This morning Lawrence Summers talked at length at Brookings in a major speech on the economy and the plans of President Obama. He covered economic policy and philosophy from John Maynard Keynes on and explained why the plans of President Obama made sense. The speech was carried in part or in full on cable tv. However, he seemed unable to say the mess was due to President George W. Bush and his Administration and the lack of regulation under that Administration or that the Republican Party had a major if not exclusive role in creating the mess. Why?
Why are we afraid to blame Bush and the Republicans?
In his March 13 speech to the Brookings folks, on TV and covered in the press, Lawrence Summers was a typical Administration speaker and typical Democratic leader, all of whom seem afraid to simply lay the blame on George Bush and the Republicans.
The Republicans are never shy about blaming President Obama and the Democrats, even when they have no facts to support their arguments---especially when they have no facts to support their arguments. As a result they dominate the TV and other main stream media outlets.
Democrats and particularly the Obama Administration people seem unwilling to pin the tail on the Elephants.
Occasionally the President will say something like, we inherited the deficit, but that is about as direct as it gets.
Please tell me why "we" are afraid to use the blame words over and over to lay this at the feet of the Republicans?
Lawrence Summers described how the various studies showed the market and economy were back at mid 1960's levels, but never pointed out that the Republicans were in charge of the White House and for most of the time, the Congress too as this mess developed.
This is a quote from a typical part of his talk, as set out in the NY Times:
"Our problems were not made in a day or a month or a year, and they will not be solved quickly," Mr. Summers said. "But there is one enduring lesson of the history of financial crises: they all end."
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Is there some good reason the Democrats in Congress and the Democratic Party leaders around the country and the talking points generators, chat show speakers from the good guys side of the street are almost all afraid to say that it is Bush and the Republicans who gave us this mess and therefor the Boehner/McConnell/McCain/Limbaugh/O'Reilly/Hannety crowd have no credibility?