Polls show increasing concern among Americans about the debt, and increasing assignment of blame to the Obama administration's agenda.
Other issues that will need to be factored into future thinking are the nature of uncertainty and the assignment of blame.
They disagreed on many issues, including the use of subpoenas to compel administration cooperation and the assignment of blame to both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Fiery, fact-agnostic proclamations and ready assignment of blame for the scapegoat du jour fails to address why so many people feel left behind, bewildered, and susceptible to propaganda that promises easy fixes.
The president appeared ill at ease, and again avoided any assignment of blame.
"But an unequivocal condemnation, unambiguous assignment of blame and unmistakable call for action to stop it from happening again was exactly what the doctor ordered".
Although chance outcomes only play a small role in adults' moral judgments of a person's character or conduct (i.e., acceptability judgments), they play a large role in the assignment of blame and punishment1, 4, 23, 24 (i.e., blame judgments) (for a more detailed discussion, see Supplementary Text S1).
You have handled your job with fairness and humility and a sense that what journalists do is important and can be improved, must be improved, with openness and discussion rather than with petty assignment of blame.
This assignment of blame requires more time -- and dollars -- than a divorce where there is no fault.
"Blamestorming" refers to group discussions devoted to the assignment of blame; the acronym "kiss" means "keep it simple stupid"; and "ego-surfing" alludes to Internet searches for one's own name.
