President Obama takes on the blame for the midterm shellacking. "The buck stops right here."

Courtesy of Politico:  

President Barack Obama is taking blame for the Democratic drubbing in last week’s midterm elections, saying “the buck stops right here at my desk.” 

“Whenever, as the head of the party, it doesn’t do well, I’ve got to take responsibility for it,” the president said in a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation."

Obama also said one lesson from the midterms was that his party has to do a better job selling its policies. 

“We’ve got to reach out to the other side and, where possible, persuade,” he told host Bob Schieffer in the interview taped Friday at the White House before he left on a week-long trip to Asia. “I think there are times, there’s no doubt about it, where, you know, I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction.” 

I think this is bullshit.

I think the President is being very magnanimous by taking on the blame for something that ultimately is the fault of timidity by the Democrats and candidates who believed that if they hid from their progressive ideas, and the successes of this President, that it would make them more attractive to the voters.

I think if Democrats would have walked out among their  constituents with their chests puffed out with pride over what they had accomplished and sold it with the same fervor that Republicans used to sell us the Iraq war, many of them could have emerged victorious.

And at least if they lost they could still look at themselves in the mirror and say that they stayed true to themselves, true to the President, and true to their party.

George W. Bush says that he has "no regrets" about starting the Iraq War. Sadly there are thousands of American families who cannot say the same.

This morning former President George W. Bush went on Face the Nation to promote his book, and answered a few questions from Bob Schieffer. Including if he still thought going into Iraq was the right decision.

This courtesy of Mediaite:  

Bush was on to discuss his new book praising his father (and to honor Face The Nation’ss sixtieth anniversary). 43 insisted he did not invade Iraq to finish what his father started, and said he was surprised when Saddam Hussein called his bluff over the invasion, but didn’t regret the decision to go in. 

“I think it was the right decision,” Bush said. “My regret is that a violent group of people has risen up again. This is al Qaeda plus. I put in the book that they need to be defeated. And I hope they are. I hope the strategy works.”

After all of this time, all of those American and Iraqi deaths, and this asshole still gets to walk free among us as if he were not the biggest war criminal in American history. We can never call ourselves a "Nation of laws" so long as George W. Bush walks free.

Pisses me off every time I think about it.

During the Bush administration, especially after his reelection, I walked around in such a state of agitation that my family was on pins and needles in my presence.

All I could think was that when I was in the grocery store checkout line that I was surrounded by people who helped to elect this mass murderer, this war criminal, this traitor to his country, and it made me want to grab each and every one of them and shake them until they told me why.

That is why I started this blog. So that I could use my words to express the rage that ate me up inside.

I have to say that after ten years of doing this very little of that rage has dissipated.  And I'm not sure if I could respect myself if it ever did.