Blaming It on Bill

If there is something the Republicans are willing to claim isn't Bill Clinton's fault, I've yet to hear about it. But Bush's latest line about inheriting the recession reaches a new level of hypocrisy and dissembling. According to this story in the Washington Post:

The trouble is it's a case of what the president has called, in another context, revisionist history. The recession officially began in March of 2001 — two months after Bush was sworn in — according to the universally acknowledged arbiter of such things, the National Bureau of Economic Research. And the president, at other times, has said so himself.

Of course, as the Post kindly points out, Bush has also been having a fun time revising his opinions on affirmative action and sodomy laws, too.