Cavuto: It's human nature to take credit when things go well
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Bad numbers...on them.
Good numbers...on us.
I've noticed this trend of late...that with every improving economic stat, the administration takes a bow.
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This stronger-than-expected 3 percent spurt in the fourth quarter GDP, the latest example.
But every bit of bad news...it takes a pass.
So when a bad employment number comes out...its part of "the mess we inherited."
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When a good one surfaces...it's "thanks, to the fix we initiated."
It's human nature, I suppose.
But this white house has made it an art form.
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If they're up against a deadline and not getting their way...
It's because Republicans are blocking 'em.
But when Republicans agree to white house demands...
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A big press conference to announce 'em caving to those demands.
They can't win. But the president can. And does...
I guess that's what presidents do.
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And this president's quite right to say he inherited a mess.
He did.
Leaving aside a "democratic" congress for most of that time "before" had a hand in that mess, and a congress, by the way...
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Of which "Senator" Obama was part.
But back to the inherited thing.
What's the statute of limitations on it?
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One year? Two years? Three years?
Until the numbers get good, no matter the years?
Then the recovery that looked like a mess just the month before, because of the other guy... Turns suddenly better the next month, because of "you,” the new guy. The suddenly getting-it-done guy?
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Here's the beauty of that strategy.
You can keep using it "as" things get better.
For those times "some" things do not.
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Then when some bad stuff happens, it's an earthquake in Japan...
Or unrest in Egypt...
Or a partial eclipse of the moon...
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Or a full eclipse of the sun. You get the point.
There is no point!
It's like the retailer that blames the bad weather when sales are bad.
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But never mentions the "good weather" when sales are good. Then it's good management.
Good grief.
John Kennedy once said, "Victory has one hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan."
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But that didn't stop him from owning up to a "bay of pigs" fiasco, for which, at the very least, he had company.
JFK chose not to go that route.
No talk from this young, new president about a young, new president and the mess he inherited.
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Just a young, new president admitting to the American people, a mess "he" regretted.
You'd think the guy who quotes him a lot today, would remember that.
Then again, I’m sure there's some aid to blame...
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For never giving this president that quote from "that" president.
Otherwise it would be on "this" president to read it.
And "this" president to understand it.
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Hardly likely. Makes you wonder why he'd hardly...bother.