President Bush on “the responsibility era” in 2004:

At home, the job of a president is to help cultures change. The culture needs to be changed. I call it, so people can understand what I’m talking about, changing the culture from one that says, “If it feels good, do it, and if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else,” to a culture in which each of us understands we’re responsible for the decisions we make in life. I call it the responsibility era.

Apparently we’re only responsible for the decisions we make in life if we’re not scandal-plagued GOP incumbents:

Over the past several weeks, Mr. Bush has come to the aid of Representative Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania, who admitted having an extramarital affair; Senator George Allen of Virginia, whose campaign has been plagued by accusations of racial and ethnic insensitivity; and Representatives Richard W. Pombo and John T. Doolittle of California, both of whom have been touched by corruption scandals in Washington.