{"id":2108,"date":"2010-08-03T06:50:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2010-08-03T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:50:35","slug":"after_a_while_blaming_someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"After A While Blaming Someone Else Gets Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/026901.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article entitled, &#8220;Finger-Pointing Reaches Sell-By Date.&#8221;&nbsp; Pollster <a href=\"http:\/\/liten.be\/\/0lPTC\">Scott Rasmussen<\/a> has been asking voters who is responsible for America&#8217;s economic problems since May 2009.&nbsp; The poll released yesterday found that 47% of Americans blame George Bush for the bad economy, and 48% blame President Obama.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hinderaker points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Actually, though, that headline is misleading. The body of the story indicates that the choice (as in prior polls) was between &#8220;Obama&#8217;s policies&#8221; and &#8220;the recession that began under Bush.&#8221; So not all though who voted &#8220;Bush&#8221; blamed the recession on his administration&#8217;s policies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;One more notable point: here, as on nearly every issue, there is a big divide between &#8220;mainstream Americans&#8221; and the &#8220;political class.&#8221; Sixty-one percent of mainstream Americans blame the policies of the Obama administration over the recession he inherited, while 87 percent of the political class blame Bush. That&#8217;s convenient, of course. A final populist touch: 62 percent of likely voters trust their own judgment more than Obama&#8217;s on economic issues. Makes it hard to exert a whole lot of leadership.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t know if there is something in the air or water in Washington, D. C., but our representatives and elected officials no longer represent us.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time for the voters to pick up their &#8216;broom&#8217; and vote everyone out of office who is not representing them.&nbsp; When bills are passed over the objections of more than half of the American people, we don&#8217;t need to educate the American people&#8211;we need a new Congress and a new President.&nbsp; We can&#8217;t&nbsp;vote out&nbsp;the President until&nbsp;2012, but we can change Congress.&nbsp; Make sure you are registered to vote, and exercise your right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line&nbsp;posted an article entitled, &#8220;Finger-Pointing Reaches Sell-By Date.&#8221;&nbsp; Pollster Scott Rasmussen has been asking voters who is responsible for America&#8217;s economic problems since May 2009.&nbsp; The poll released yesterday found that 47% of Americans blame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}