Democrats avoid responsibility by blaming others

 Michael Goodwin:

This is not a news flash: Modern Democrats are addicted to the blame game.

When they aren’t pointing fingers at Donald Trump, Republicans and the pandemic for everything that goes wrong under the sun, they pick on banks, oil companies and even supermarkets to explain soaring prices on consumer goods.

Big Banks, Big Oil and now Big Grocery have bull’s-eyes on them. Next in line are the amorphous supply chains, which are appealing targets precisely because they are faceless and nameless. Nobody rises to defend supply chains.

Yet despite the Herculean efforts to create villains to rescue the drowning Biden administration, there is no sign of a lifeboat on the horizon and the president’s approval ratings continue to sink into the deep.

But nothing can be the president’s fault, even one in obvious decline, so the search goes on for someone or something else to blame. Comes now a novel idea from one of the party’s prized strategists.

Paul Begala, who cut his political teeth in the glory days of Bill Clinton and acts as a permanent party mouthpiece, has a hunch about what’s ailing the White House. The problem, he says, are Democrats’ voters.

“I think the problem for the Democrats right now is not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers, OK?”

That’s how Begala sees the inability of Biden and party leaders to pass the two federal election bills they have been flogging for months. To pass them in the 50-50 Senate, they would first need to break the filibuster rule, and two Dems — Sens. Krysten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — have said no, no and no.
Trying to explain that failure and rebut charges that Biden has not tried hard enough to convince Sinema and Manchin the election bills are uniquely important, Begala, on CNN, added: “Those of us who want to save voting rights — we need to get to work. I do think Biden is putting everything behind this, but he needs better followers. He needs all of us in the game as well.”

In sports terms, this is like firing all the players on a bad team instead of just the coach.
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Stripped of its virtue veneer, the idea illustrates why Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have spent all their political capital trying to let Washington overrule states and set all election rules.

They are using charges of racism and “voter suppression” as hammers, but the real issue is that Dems don’t have confidence they can win close elections without taking over state operations, as they did in 2020. For those who subscribe to this thinking, the only reliable path to victory lies in universal mail-in-ballots and removing all safeguards to ballot integrity, including identification requirements.
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Recall, too, that this is the same party that’s OK with requiring vaccine passports and photo identification to eat in a DC or New York restaurant, but believes any ID requirement for voting is racist.
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This is why voters should vote against every Democrat on the ballot.  The Democrats are not to be trusted when it comes to voter integrity measures.  They do not think they can win if voters have to identify themselves. 

See, also:

Biden’s Attack On Voting Rights Far Surpasses Trump’s Election Claims

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