Catch 22- Bush as Yossarian

Jeb Bush: "Student loan debt has doubled under Obama"

I just love it when a candidate for high elected office says the political equivalent of "Nanny anny boo boo" because they have no other friggin ideas and in the process let's you know they're idiots!  

This statement is, of course, sort of true, except student debt  hasn't actually quite doubled. This, however represents a fairly intelligent man (li'l Jebbie is by far the brightest of the three Bush boys) making a statement to which the correct response is "And?"

        Just like the other morons running on the lunatic right side of the GOP, these days, and even worse just like Bachmann, Palin, and Nugent, this is a case of "Blame the black guy."  Of course tuition costs at State schools, and to a markedly lesser degree, private universities, are sooo not tied in any way shape or form to who is in the White House!

        Does anyone recall during the 2008 campaign when, then candidate, Obama blamed the federal government for increased student loan debt?  Of course you don't because he didn't, even though student debt increased by about the same percentage (actually a bit more) in "W"'s two terms. The article (in Politifact)does a good job of examining the cost increases and discussing reasons why.

        What astounds me is that any former state governor, who should be well aware of funding modalities for state colleges and universities, would even attempt to make some linkage to the federal government! State school funding (among other things) took a hit when state budgets took an even bigger one during  to the 2008 recession and the following several weak economic years. State governors, like Bush used to be, in better times in Florida are the persons responsible for prioritizing state education expenditures. If Jeb Bush believes that, somehow, tuition and other college costs would be in his, or even the  Federal Government's  purview as President, he's proven himself unqualified to hold the office.

       What Bush even more conveniently omits, of course,  is the fact that such efforts as the Obama administration has made in looking for ways to help these graduates with crushing debt loads cope with that debt has been met by those selfsame Far Right morons with resistance and opposition. So, summarizing,  Bush in essence blames the current administration  for the increase in student debt, while ignoring his own party's obstructionist efforts  regarding any Obama attempts to help alleviate the problem. It's Catch 22 - Obama hasn't done anything to lower tuition because he can't, and what he has tried to do has been opposed by Far Right sychophants, but it's still his fault!

 That's some catch, that Catch 22, huh, Yossarian?