Stop it with the "Blame Game" already.

[skids]

Good I got your attention. No I'm not saying "now is not the time."

What I'm saying is that "Blame Game" is a repuke term. We shouldn't use it.

And whenever a repuke says it, there should be one and only one response.

"YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?!?!?!"

This is no game. We are deadly serious.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. Thats a great response!

:yourock:

[bee]

12. agreed

Repukes call the quest for accountability in the needless deaths of Americans a "game".

[expatriot]

2. Here is what we should call it, the "accountability assessment." nt

[iconoclastNYC]

5. Zzzzzzzzz. Snooze.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. How about "Cover Up"

[iconoclastNYC]

22. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! n/t

[annabanana]

23. We're DEMANDING accountability!

We have to stop these incompetents before they do even MORE harm.

[thecrow]

26. but but... what does that word mean?

RWingers don't do large words.

Saying "THIS IS NOT A GAME" clearly... well , they can understand that.

Kicked and nominated.
GREAT MEME!!

[iconoclastNYC]

3. Excellent!!!!!

Framing, Framing, Framing, Framing.

Buy and read "Don't think of an Elephant." Read it again. Give the book to someone else, and repeat the process.

[Zenlitened]

4. Agreed. The word we're looking for is "accountability."

Accountability. We the People DEMAND it.

Repukes, bush-bots and apologists fear it.

[Shredr]

6. kick

[redqueen]

7. It's not about blame... it's about accountability.

Great post. :)

[prodigal_green]

8. It is all a big chess game with them

though with the chimp in charge, it is more like chutes and ladders.

Human life means NOTHING to them. Politics is everyting.

[mshasta]

9. good!!!!!!!!!!

!:kick:

[Tyranny_R_US]

10. Right on

[Pirate Smile]

11. From the NYT today.

"With the size and difficulty of the task of rescuing and rebuilding New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas still unfolding, it seemed early to talk about investigating how this predicted cataclysm had been allowed to occur and why the government's response was so slow and inept. Until yesterday, that is, when President Bush blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to "find out what went right and what went wrong." We can't imagine a worse idea.

No administration could credibly investigate such an immense failure on its own watch. And we have learned through bitter experience - the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example - that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs.

Mr. Bush signaled yesterday that we are in for more of the same when he sneered and said, "One of the things that people want us to do here is to play a blame game." This is not a game. It is critical to know what "things went wrong," as Mr. Bush put it. But we also need to know which officials failed - not to humiliate them, but to replace them with competent people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/opinion/07wed1.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x154372

[Dhalgren]

13. Excellent reply!

It isn't a fucking game! This is about responsibility and accountability. If anyone thinks this is politics, they should be forced to go to NO and carry body-bags for a while - there will be plenty to carry...

[sabra]

15. Hillary Clinton agrees with you!

"It's time to actually show that this government can be competent," she said on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday. "Every time anyone raises any kind of legitimate criticism and asks questions, they're attacked. Let's stop it. This is not a game."

[Tyranny_R_US]

21. HOLY SHIT!

...now if she could take back the request for Bush to investigate this disaster.

[glitch]

28. Excellent!! Every Dem needs to repeat this, preferably to their faces.

THIS IS NOT A GAME.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

16. Games and blame are for children

We're looking for accountability from adults.

[skids]

19. Hrm... "Games are for kids. We want adult accountability."

WRT this and the below reply, this might be a good one to throw back at them.

[mcscajun]

29. Silly Republican -- Games are For Kids.

Adults want Accountability.

Just another way to spin it. :)

[Alizaryn]

17. I was thinking exactly the same thing!

Its not a GAME.

game1 (gâm)
n.
An activity providing entertainment or amusement

Call it what it is Protection and Life Saving Ability Failure Accountability Moment. (or something along that line.)

Some one should start a poll to come up with the ultimate "Blame Game" replacement and we could push it out there as a united front.

[LisaLynne]

18. Exactly.

I've been saying, "No, it's called accountability for those who had a duty to do their jobs and failed to do so. And it is far from a game -- people have died."

[wildeyed]

20. It is not about blame and it is not a game.

It is about making sure that it never, ever happens again.

[stevietheman]

24. While playing a "blame game" might appear to be untimely...

in face of the work still left to be done for the survivors, the evidence is dramatic, to say the least, that especially the federal response to this disaster was slow and pathetic, if not willfully held back.

...

This is NOT a partisan political issue. This is NOT "politicizing" a tragedy. This is engaging the POLITICS OF NATIONAL SURVIVAL—with many hands sadly forced by President Bush's strangely delayed reaction to the hurricane disaster. We have to ask this question: If we don't bring politics into this now, when will we?... a few weeks from now when we will certainly hear the buoyant and eerily recognizable cries of Bush minions and sycophants saying "It's time to move on!"? Sorry, no dice this time.

--Excerpts from my new article: "The 'Singularity' of This Latest Preventable Tragedy: For the sake of the republic, President Bush should resign"

(1) http://democracy2.blogspot.com/2005/09/singularity-of-this-latest-preventable.html
(2) http://dl.stevemagruder.com/articles/The%20Singularity%20of%20This%20Latest%20Preventable%20Tragedy.pdf

[katinmn]

25. I hear you. The Repukes and the media are all using it.

It is not a "Game."

[Is It Fascism Yet]

27. No, not a game, when we blame Shrub, we are NOT PLAYING! N/T

[ClusterFreak]

30. Bingo.