From The Hill:
Democrats will keep blaming George W. Bush until the problems from his administration end, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In an interview with MSNBC, Pelosi said congressional Democrats feel justified in blaming the Bush administration because of the problems it left behind for President Barack Obama.
Asked if there was a statute of limitations on blaming Bush, Pelosi said: “Well, it runs out when the problems go away.
“He brought us to the brink of financial crisis, he brought us to the brink of deep recession, ignoring issues related to climate change,” said Pelosi (D-Calif.), who rattled off a number of problems she said Democrats inherited from Bush and are trying to fix…Pelosi and Democrats more recently have pinned blame for the BP oil spill on lapses at the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the regulatory agency in charge of preventing accidents. Democrats argue the Bush administration let MMS be overtaken by people with ties to the oil industry.
Asked if there was a statute of limitations on blaming Bush, Pelosi said: “Well, it runs out when the problems go away.
“He brought us to the brink of financial crisis, he brought us to the brink of deep recession, ignoring issues related to climate change,” said Pelosi (D-Calif.), who rattled off a number of problems she said Democrats inherited from Bush and are trying to fix…Pelosi and Democrats more recently have pinned blame for the BP oil spill on lapses at the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the regulatory agency in charge of preventing accidents. Democrats argue the Bush administration let MMS be overtaken by people with ties to the oil industry.
Nice. If only Bush hadn’t ignored global warming, we never would have had a housing bubble or a recession.
If Speaker Pelosi thinks anyone is buying this, then she is even more out of touch than I thought.
By the way, her office has not returned our multiple phone calls over the last two weeks seeking the names of Bush administration appointees that she claims supposedly burrowed into MMS. I’m almost starting to think she was making it all up.
