President doesn’t blame GOP in address today about S&P and general ennui

I'm watching a tape of the President's remarks today about , and he once again failed to blame the Republicans for any of our problems (just as Geithner failed to do it last night). It's "Washington." No it's not. It's the Republican party in Washington. But in any case, what does that even mean, even if it is Washington? All the President is willing to say is it that it's people who put their party first? Well, that pretty much defines everyone in town, which is I think is his point.

The President is once again trying to cast blame on everyone but himself, and by everyone, I include - he includes - the Democrats in Congress, who are just barely hanging on in the Senate.  The President's continuing effort to cast blame on "Washington" and "Congress" has to be hurting Democrats.  He's been doing this for years.  And now, we face a GOP that is as nutty as its ever been, and it's threatening real disaster, but the President can't find it in himself to blame them by name.  That of course didn't stop the GOP presidential candidates from blaming the S&P downgrade on the President.

Finally, the President concludes by talking about our troops and how much we love them or something.  Let's wait and see how much love the troops feel when the "trigger" guts them.  Of course, we know that the trigger won't gut the troops.  No one in Congress, or the White House, would ever let that happen.  Mark my words.  Our stuff will be gutted by the trigger, Defense (which, oddly, was defined in this debate as "their stuff") won't.  Not that I want Defense gutted, but the possibility of it being gutted is supposed to be what keeps the GOP honest.  It won't, because it won't get gutted, they (and I mean all of them)  will just pass legislation "fixing" it by cutting more of our programs.  Just wait.

(And yes, Axelrod blamed the Tea Party for the S&P downgrade, and when Geithner was asked that same day about whether the Tea Party owned this crisis, he refused to answer the question, other than blaming "congress," i.e., Dems too.  It's really not a "message" when you have one guy say it once and all the rest contradict him.)