Democrats offer no solutions, just blame

“It ain’t our fault, it’s theirs” award has to go to Miriam Albert for her letter of June 23, “Republicans have it all wrong.”

No, in this case, you do, MsAlbert. Listening to her, you’d think California’s energy crisis was all the Republicans’ fault. She ignored Democrat Gov. Gray Davis’ stupid deals that he made for our state and his insipid leadership.

It’s also worth mentioning that for a very long time, a gladhanded Democrat majority of legislators had ruled in Sacramento, gleefully and irresponsibly spending more than it took in. A Republican governor is trying to fix that, but the Democrats will try the blame game on his efforts, too, instead of cooperating for the general good.

Then Ms. Albert claims regarding the Enron scandal in the film “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” it was “large Republican donors, some of whom were taped laughing at the financial problems they were dropping on the ‘Grandma Millies.’”

I saw that film and don’t recall any labels identifying which scoffers were Republicans or Democrats. It’s the Democrat mantra: turn the hose on Republicans at every opportunity, regardless of the truth.

Most outrageously, Ms. Albert claims it was Republicans who were responsible for the Clinton/ Monica scandal. She states, “As for the Monica foolishness, indeed President Clinton was set up by Republicans. . . .” Yeah, there they were again, skulking around the Oval Office, conniving with Monica to do the dirty with the president so we could bring him down.

Actually, Clinton was quite capable of accomplishing that and plenty more to ruin his own reputation without outside help. But he’s a Democrat and Democrats never do wrong.

Ms. Albert then suggests if Republicans have problems with sexual impropriety they should legislate that any man who lied about his sex life can’t run for office. (Women excluded? How gender insensitive.) Republicans also can suffer sexual improprieties. But if you’ll recall, when Newt Gingrich was accused, he didn’t parse sentences and try to defend the indefensible. His own party censured him. Gingrich had the humility to leave office instead of remaining an embarrassment to his party.

I don’t expect either party to be perfect. People are fallible, no matter what their affiliations are. Errors of judgment are made. If anyone deserves justifiable blame, blame Supreme Court liberal-minded judges for their recent majority ruling against private property rights, which 94 percent of Americans protest.

Why are Democrats so into the blame game? Currently it isn’t only “blame Republicans” but “blame America” in general, no matter what, perhaps because they’re without ideas of their own.

There’s too much at stake for each of us for such pettiness. Miriam Jaffe Thousand Oaks