He blamed "dysfunction" in the Bush administration for the present quagmire.
I take issue, however, with the fact that Mr. Lugar laid the blame for dysfunction in Washington equally on the Democrats and the Republicans.
This fall's elections are of a different sort: Since almost all the voters are unhappy with politics, the battle will be over which party gets the blame for dysfunction, inaction and disillusionment.
Campaigns all seemed to assume that voters are stupid, he complained: "It's almost embarrassing that we're operating at such a low intellectual level .Third, many voters are strikingly keen to blame Washington dysfunction on the wickedness or obstructionism of individual politicians from the enemy party.
Kluth, like many media elites, lays the blame for dysfunction in state government at the feet of the voters, "the inmates (who) run the asylum" through the direct democracy of ballot initiatives.
Sayne, 54, partly blames the dysfunction on how the Washington establishment has reacted to Trump.
The Dutch MEP in 't Veld blamed "the dysfunction of the council" – EU leaders and home affairs ministers – for the asylum system's inadequacies.
Jackson blamed the dysfunction of his first Cabinet on the corruption and failures of elites and pointed to his reliance on a "kitchen cabinet" of loyal supporters outside the Washington establishment as evidence of his distance from Washington insiders.
A movie about the way technology is a factor in the breakdown of families, marriages, self-esteem, and anything else you can take from a scene where Adam Sandler's character seeks out and uses his son's online porn stash (instead of vice versa – like "the good old days"), it blamed familial dysfunction on our preference for online and digital spaces to the real world.
With emotion in his voice, he told the law students: "It's not the American people who are to blame for this dysfunction; it's our politics.
