Here's an alternative approach — aggressively blaming even future bleakness on the GOP, matching their refusal to take any responsibility for the worst period of governance in modern times with a no-holds-barred assault on their brand.
A day later, Yahoo announced that it would be finding a new home for Delicious, passively aggressively blaming the press for the way that users found out about the news.
Texas Republican and congressional troll extraordinaire Steve Stockman spent a few days during the first week of the shutdown aggressively blaming Democrats for the shutdown and all of its effects.
They blame prosecutors for aggressively pursuing the case and MIT for not stopping it.
"We have had to fight very aggressively, and frankly, I don't blame them.
It is powerless against an aggressively rightwing government whose leaders abusively blame it for Palestinian terrorism.
Like a politician, he is careful not to blame votes, while passive-aggressively chastising their habits.
"This is not to shift blame, but he was very aggressively pursuing Mrs. Stanley to escalate the relationship," Anderson said.
The Fed's failure to curb bubbles, while aggressively easing policy when they burst, is partly to blame for America's imbalances, which could give the next Fed chairman a lot of grief.
Politically, who could blame the Hungarian water polo team for aggressively taking on their Soviet opponents in 1956, just a few months after Soviet armies moved into Budapest to put down a revolt of the Hungarian people.
