God, Dick Morris is annoying. I know, I know, he’s supposed to be — that’s just his way of getting attention, I get it. But that’s like knowing a migraine hurts — sure, you’re aware it will…and it still does.
Here, you’ll see. This will be annoying:
If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.
Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy. The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt, student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.
Had McCain won, he would be the latter-day Hoover, blamed for the disaster that unfolded on his watch. Now it is Obama’s problem. With the Republicans suffering a wipeout in congressional elections (although not as bad as they feared), the ball is now squarely in the Democratic court. Good luck!
Want more? (author’s note: I don’t recommend it, and would rather you didn’t give the guy the satisfaction of a unique visit on his traffic statistics)
Let’s translate what snarky Dick Morris is basically insinuating (and many others will soon claim) here:
I’m glad we didn’t win because what’s been set in motion is so bad, we’re going to need someone else to take responsibility for it. Lucky us, we just handed our disaster off to Obama and Company rather than go through taking responsibility for it ourselves (if McCain had won, we’d have been blamed for it unfolding “on (our) watch”). So good luck — we didn’t want this job right now anyway!
Now, let’s blame Obama for everything so we can resume disaster creation in 2012.
We’d better get used to arguing against this failed logic, because it’s going to be the NeoCon Anthem for the next four years. Obama is months away from office, and we’ve got windbags like Dick Morris breathing big sighs of faux-relief over this nonsense already.
Somehow, whether it’s the economy, the botched wars, the massive national debt, the failed education system, or any other of a number of things that went to hell or were sent off course during the Republicans’ years of total control, it’s going to be Obama’s fault.
Unless, of course, Obama’s plan for something like the conflict in Iraq goes well. Then I’m sure good ol’ Morris will be out there parroting some talking point tripe about the groundwork laid during the Bush years.
Way to go, Dick.
TAGS: 2010, 2012, Blame Game, Dick Morris, election, GOP, NeoCons, obama
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