Word: faults
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...cannot allow the Grand Old Party of optimism and opportunity to become the party of perpetual pessimism. George Bush spent too much time warning America about the hazards of the opposition rather than laying claim to their concept of change. It was always someone else's fault--Congress, the media, the bureaucracy. Republicans should not play the blame game...
...veto is also a matter of forcing a delinquent branch of government to take responsibility for its actions (or rather, its inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...
That was precisely the emotion Clinton played upon last month during a visit to Boeing, the troubled aerospace giant, which plans to shed 28,000 jobs. "Very little of that is your fault," Clinton told workers. Instead, he blamed the layoffs on sales that Boeing has lost to Airbus Industrie, a European consortium that does not produce passenger jets as efficiently as Boeing, yet often undercuts the U.S. firm's prices with the help of $26 billion in subsidies from four European governments...
Wilkinson stresses that the problems are not all the undergraduates' fault...
...response to the comments by Jewett and Wolcowitz, two students poster the campus with a flyer titled "Attack Jewett" that asked students to voice their concerns directly to Jewett. Another poster with Wolcowitz's picture, asks: "Is date rape the woman's fault? The University seems to think...