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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)he's erred.
For example, he blamed DADT on Powell, when he was the one who got Powell and Morris involved, consistent with his love of Third Way triangulating. No one forced the CIC to cater to Morris or Powell on that--or even to consult them.
And I don't expect an error of the magnitude of near global economic collapse to be the time he breaks his pattern of denials and attempts to shift responsibility. Hell, he even blamed the right wing for lying about Monica--and that is from the mouth of his wife, when being interviewed by Matt Lauer before the truth came out.
He told Democrats he wanted the Bill on his desk ASAP and he did not veto it. Both those things are on him and they paved the way for economic collapse in several nations. Without that, Bush could not have mismanaged the repeal, if indeed he did.
As far as bad advice from his cabinet, who the hell chose his cabinet? Appoint a fiscally conservative Republican or neoliberal or whatever weirdo Summers is and then, you, the brilliant Rhodes scholar claim you just acted on bad advice without understanding anything and therefore you really have no responsibility? And I am supposed to buy that? How gullible would someone have to be?