Yet just a few months ago, the Obama camp was singing a little different tune. It was under criticism for the $787 billion stimulus package it bulldozed through Congress on grounds that massive spending was needed to keep the unemployment rate from breaching 8 percent. When joblessness hit 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden said, "We misread how bad the economy was."

They inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, or the economy turned out to be worse than they thought. Which is it? It can't be both -- unless your brain is completely addled by the Obama charisma.

That's the backdrop to the story of Rush Limbaugh getting booted from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams. He was smeared on CNN and MSNBC with false accusations of making two racist comments. He is an abrasive critic of Obama, so he must be racist...

Recently an MSNBC personality accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of lobbying for policies that amount to being "treasonous . . .

I thought that Bush, when in office, was playing the "spend" game that is usually attributed to Democrats when they're "behind the wheel," and wondered how the Democrats, when they came into office, would be able to play their side of the Game with all the money gone.

Bush beat the Democrats to the punch by playing their Game and has left them to hold the Bag.

In a metaphorical sense, Bush took a big "Hoover" on the Oval Office Floor and, nine months later, instead of cleaning it up, the White House is leaving it where it is, while complaining about the smell he left behind to anyone who will listen.