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washingtonpost.com - 3/17/2009

Don't Blame Jim Cramer

— washingtonpost.com — What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity... and correct him when he's wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim Cramer. They didn't cover up the story of ... (more) Don't Blame Jim Cramer

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online.wsj.com - 3/19/2009

Obama Accepts Blame for AIG Bonuses

— online.wsj.com — LAURA MECKLER COSTA MESA, Calif. -- President Barack Obama said he will take the blame for bonuses... being paid at American International Group Inc. if it will settle an intense finger pointing under way over how such payments were possible at a company ... (more) Obama Accepts Blame for AIG Bonuses

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weeklystandard.com - 3/13/2009

The Not-So-Great Game

— weeklystandard.com — Obama goes AWOL on Afghanistan. by Tom Donnelly, Tim Sullivan & Raphael Cohen 03/16/2009, Volume 014, Issue... 25 (more) The Not-So-Great Game

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Leave George W. Bush Aloooooone
Matthew Yglesias — ... The country is in a terrible situation in economic, strategic, and budgetary terms and it’s overwhelmingly the fault of the team that was running the show before January 20th. Naturally, the team that’s been running the show since January 20th wants people to understand the baseline conditions against which they should be judged. The Washington Post is mightily displeased. Apparently we’re just supposed to pretend that this all happened by coincidence. ...

It's Mean To Tell The Truth
Newshoggers.com — ... all but scolding Obama for noting that many of the problems the US is facing are the result of his predecessor's actions and policies. Apparently the proper way to talk to Republicans who refuse to support anything he does and wish for his failure is to help them flush Bush down the memory hole. As Steve Benen puts it: ...

Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch ("Bipartisanship Fetish" Department)
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... The Washington Monthly: THE BLAME GAME.... The Washington Post has an odd front-page piece today, rebuking President Obama for reminding audiences that the problems he inherited are, well, problems he inherited.... The problem, if I'm reading the article right, isn't that the president is saying anything untrue. Rather, we're dealing with a dynamic in which one president hands off a catastrophe -- several catastrophes, actually -- to a successor, and the successor isn't supposed to talk about it. ...

Acid recriminations: The media's new narrative against Obama, pushed by David Broder and the WaPo
The Reaction — ... As for the front-page nonsense, I think Steve Benen, as usual, is right: "The problem, if I'm reading the article right, isn't that the president is saying anything untrue. Rather, we're dealing with a dynamic in which one president hands off a catastrophe -- several catastrophes, actually -- to a successor, and the successor isn't supposed to talk about it. Wilson [the article's author] chides Obama [yes, I see that Steve and I have chosen the same verb] for using 'acid' reminders, offering 'partisan' defenses, sounding 'petty.' To highlight his point, Wilson ...