When in doubt, blame Bush

Joe Curl gives Maverick a chance to do what he does best -- bash Republicans:

Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat.
"We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years. . . .
"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his campaign plane en route from New Hampshire to Ohio.
"Those are just some of them," he said with a laugh, chomping into a peanut butter sandwich as a few campaign aides in his midair office joined in the laughter.

Notice he doesn't criticize Bush for supporting amnesty. Wonder why? Curl is giving the McCain campaign a chance to blame their defeat on Bush. However, McCain led Obama as late as Sept. 16, before he started blaming greedy Republicans for the financial crisis. If Obama had led all along, it would have been another story, but clearly McCain controlled his own destiny into September, then blew it. The "blame Bush" explanation won't work.