IT'S BUSH (!!); WE TOLD YOU, IT'S BUSH (!!) - AT 8:40 A.M. ET:  It seems that President Obama now is pushing the idea that all his problems are the fault of his predecessor.  From The Washington Post:

Over the past month, Obama has reminded the public at every turn that he is facing problems "inherited" from the Bush administration, using increasingly bracing language to describe the challenges his administration is up against. ..

...Obama's more frequent and acid reminders that former president George W. Bush left behind a trillion-dollar budget deficit, a 14-month recession and a broken financial system have come at the same time Republicans have ramped up criticism that the current president's policies are compounding the nation's economic problems.

COMMENT:  This was supposed to be a "post-partisan" administration.  Yeah, right.  It's one of the most partisan we've ever seen.  And this doesn't even include foreign policy, where the "we inherited it" mantra will probably be applied to every problem, new and old, that we face. 

March 14, 2009