Obama, “continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself,” reads a release from Boehner’s office posted online and distributed to reporters Monday. The quote was attributed to Boehner himself in a Financial Times story. The online post and the press release came from Boehner spokesperson Kevin Smith. (here)
Oh come on… I know it was later corrected to suggest that the President is not responding to the drought (I guess maybe by praying for rain?), but this is still a bit cra-cray.
I remember it was Eric Cantor who tried to keep Federal funds from helping victims in Missouri.
This blame game… is sad. it is not laughable, just sad.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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You are, right… the blame game is sad. The President is to blame for the drought just like President Bush was to blame for hurricanes. And by the way, Joel, you’re to blame for all the bad arguments that are made on all the op-ed pages of all the major newspapers in the country. I think you should know that.
I accept that blame… and the blame for the destruction of the American grammar.
I think it easier to blame than to work.
You just wreak havoc everywhere you go.
my wife says the same thing!