Much in the identical approach David Gregory did this morning on Morning Joe, Crossfire host Stephanie Cutter contrasted the way President Obama apologized to the American people ultimate night about Obamacare with the way former President George W. Bush refused to say sorry to the American individuals about the Struggle in Iraq.

“The president’s apology is more than we’ve gotten during the past from some presidents,” Cutter mentioned. “Some presidents don’t be aware of find out how to express regret.” She then showed a clip from a 2010 interview Bush gave to the Nowadays Exhibit’s Matt Lauer. Whereas the previous president admitted he was “sickened and angry” that we didn’t to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he refused to make an apology.

“I imply apologizing would mainly say the choice used to be a flawed resolution,” Bush instructed Lauer, “and I don’t imagine it used to be the flawed resolution.”

Cutter urged her conservative visitor Grover Norquist to “give credit where credit score is due” to Obama for doing “something that other presidents weren’t able to do.”

“I’m now not sure I heard an apology,” Norquist answered. “He lied to the American individuals over and over.” He then went on to castigate President Obama for trying to come to a decision what health care plans have been “sub-par” and that have been now not.

When Cutter and Washington Submit columnist Ruth Marcus mentioned that the Affordable Care Act actually does enable the government to decide which well being care plans are up to par, Norquist fought again by questioning the validity of its passage.

“Sure, it’s a legislation, which he handed, which is a lie from what he said,” Norquist said. On high of that, he added, “it was passed all with Democrat votes,” which in Norquist’s ebook seems to make it illegitimate.

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