Of course, the Republicans are not entirely without blame, and the Democrats' antics have been part and parcel of a more general "coarsening of the culture" as the expression goes.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Breaching conventions in statesmanship
The first was the "establishment of a culture in which incidents can be reported easily, honestly, and without fear of blame".
If the talks fail, this could be blamed on Chavez, satisfying the general desire for negotiations without giving the blame to Uribe.
We know because Operation Market-Garden (the airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944) was a failure, and Eisenhower did accept the blame without any excuses.
He played that role well on Tuesday, gently chiding his party for offering blame without solutions and reminding them of the dangers of disillusion and disunity.
Part of the reason why it is so important to re-energize the dialogue is that frequently discussions of HIV among Black men have had the effect of casting blame without spreading knowledge of the factors that cause Black men to be at heightened risk.
WHITEHOUSE: Blog Posts Related to the African American Community
In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.
This raises the possibility that Mr Bush will nationalise the blame for educational failure without nationalising the means to eliminate that failure.
In their latest public appearance, Republicans said time is up, urging Senate Democrats to pass their bill and get on with running the country, without ever recognizing that as both sides blame the other for not passing their own bill, they are both being equally stubborn.
FORBES: Boehner and Cantor To Reid: Pass Our New Bill, Pass Cut Cap N' Balance, Or Face Default
Many Grand Slams go by without spectacular matches, but everyone wants to blame the Williams sisters.
We are just throwing money away when we sell items of value without doing homework and there is no one to blame but ourselves.
FORBES: Seller beware: don't give away the store when selling
Fears of overcrowding were mainly to blame, but the mayor warned that without solving such problems in future a similar fate could befall other events such as the Notting Hill Carnival.
According to the Treasury, if interest rates do have to rise further, private firms and their workers will be to blame, for agreeing on big pay rises without corresponding improvements in productivity.
Nonetheless, the blame-the-video tactic would not exist without our willing collusion.
Mr. Banks said the city is to blame because it allowed so much time to pass without any means to move people out of shelters, causing the homeless population to explode through inaction.
They also blame the federal government for devolving spending responsibilities to them without enough concomitant revenue.
They now conveniently blame the global downturn for much of their domestic woes without appreciating the fact that a synchronized boom across emerging markets was the only reason for India's accelerated growth last decade.
WSJ: Ruchir Sharma: India's Cycle of Recklessness and Reform
Pre-Bork antitrust law might have concluded that Google was to blame for driving the smaller website operators out of business, without ever getting to the question of whether consumers suffered damages as a result.
FORBES: Robert Bork, The Man Who Redefined Antitrust, Is Dead At 85
应用推荐