It "Could" Have Been Worse

We've all heard people, in selling an idea or two, resort to all sorts of dubious explanations. My favorite was "if we don't do this it will be trouble" or some variation. How to refute something that can't be refuted?

The above excuse has no meaning. It's not rooted in anything concrete or substantial. In order for an assertion to be solid it has to have a way out to examine it.

Not surprisingly, politicians are masters at this and Obama has made it a feature of his political raison d'etre.

The other day I heard V-P Biden "sell" the administration with a "if we didn't do this and that we'd be down the shitter because of that cockroach Bush."

I paraphrase and read between the lines of course.

No matter how you cut it, it's bull shit.

First off, enough of this inherit crap. Enough! Be gone!

You own the bitch now so to speak. You and you alone chose to run for office so quit complaining about what the last guy did. 1 1/2 years in and still harping about that?

In a way, when you think it to its logical end, of course you inherit the work of a previous administration. That goes for all sorts of things in life. However, to focus on the negative aspects of the past is a cynical ploy to skirt accountability as well as pulling a fast one over the heads of the electorate by framing the narrative as though you "had no choice." We all have choices the saying from that book written that day way back when.

Anyway. Did Jefferson not "inherit" Washington's "problems" to a certain extent? Madison of Jefferson and so on until we hit the current babies in power?

Now do you see why it's a losers mentality to say this?

Next, I don't by the argument if you didn't do what you did and claim to do will prevent further destruction. There is no PROOF if you introduce bail outs, financial regulation or health reform things would have been worse off down the road. What's the criteria to measuring the failures and successes of such things anyway?

Seems to me politicians need to refine how the sell their goods.