Today, public opinion polls show the public would broadly blame the GOP for a collapse of fiscal negotiations; and while every member of the House has to run again in two years, Barack Obama never has to run for anything again.
The addition of Podhoretz to the team was a dramatic political gesture by Giuliani, coming at a moment when the neoconservative agenda has been broadly discredited, and blamed for a misbegotten war.
In Mr Steinbrück's case, it is broadly ironic (he blames his Danish grandmother for teaching it to him).
More broadly, while many retail experts blamed the softening economy in general, Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research, said a lot of consumers were just plain bored with the merchandise.
More broadly, the administration is at risk of being blamed for blowing the surplus, a contention that Democrats are turning into a battle cry as they prepare for the the 2002 election.
Do not blame too broadly.
The former prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, was broadly criticized for allowing fellow Shiites to run amok in ministries, leading to the spread of militias blamed for many politically and criminally motivated murders.
Many critics blame aid organizations more broadly.
To Bacevich, a retired colonel, our modern militarism is unsustainable and unwise, and he spreads the blame broadly.
A report in April by the United States Coast Guard spread the blame broadly among companies involved in the well, citing problems at Transocean that included inadequate maintenance and training and a "poor safety culture".
