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The Dem's blame game has failed again

Donald Lambro:

A week of finger-pointing and blame-game playing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has scored few political points for the Democrats and their party.
Democratic leaders pounded President Bush last week, charging he and his administration were slow to grasp the full depth and breadth of the destruction and to help the Gulf coast's storm-ravaged victims.
But when the Gallup Poll asked voters last week who was to blame for the city's problems following the hurricane, only 13 percent faulted Mr. Bush for not acting fast enough -- suggesting Democratic leaders made a monumental blunder in trying to turn a human tragedy into a political opportunity.
Instead, the national Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today found 18 percent blamed "federal agencies" and bureaucratic delay; 25 percent blamed "state and local officials" for bungling the rescue efforts; 38 percent said "no one was to blame."
Democrats last week re-evaluated the polling data, but this wasn't the first time they have tried but failed in a blame-game strategy they've used throughout the Bush presidency.
They blamed him for the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies, attempting to tie him into the corporate abuses that shook the business world. But the charges had zero political traction as an aggressive investigation, dozens of indictments and a string of convictions and prison sentences resulted.
Then they tried to blame the corporate accounting scandal on Mr. Bush, charging his administration was asleep at the regulatory switch when businesses were cooking their books, lying to stockholders and letting accountants engage in dubious accounting procedures that hid losses and invented fictitious gains. But these charges didn't stick either, as the investigations revealed the scandal's roots went back to the 1990s when billions were being made in the tech stock market by companies that had no profits and fewer scruples.

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In the end, though, Americans have no appetite for the blame-pointing and political attacks in the midst of a natural catastrophe, in which there are no winners, only victims who need help. In situations like this, there are only two groups of people: doers and the blamers.
Mr. Bush and his administration lead the vast majority of doers, while the Democrats appeal to a small minority of blamers -- a poor strategy for a party that wants to lead this nation again.