Which simply demonstrates the absurdity of the credit or blame game, played with alacrity by nearly every politician. If you'd like to play the game, be sure you know the rules and the relevant facts. Republicans wanted to blame the Clinton administration for lapses in security at Los Alamos, allegedly compromising nuclear technology. While blaming executives for the lapses of a single employee is within the rules, the relevant facts may cast a pall over Ronald Reagan's Energy Department, not Clinton's. If Los Alamos sent a nuclear researcher to China with instructions to cooperate in a scientific exchange program, it was done under the watch of a Republican administration.
Boomerang play in the blame game.
The first rule of the game is to fudge. Don't try to claim credit for low inflation. Instead, take credit for encouraging policies that reduced inflationary pressures. Of course, everyone can take that kind of credit, since it has almost no meaning. I reduced inflation by choosing not to refinance my house last year.