NBC Meet The Press host David Gregory made his usual Friday appearance on Morning Joe to preview his guests on Sunday. His segment came after a discussion of the perceived "split" within the Republican Party. Gregory came up with a not so unique answer to the genesis of the party's disagreements: it's Bush's fault!

But Joe, I want to say something about where Republicans are....It really does strikes me that what you have right now among Republicans is this tension between resistance and governing. It is still a reaction to the governing of President Bush. Whether it was education policy or whether it was Medicare, certainly the security state ushered in after 9/11, and of course the bailouts. This is still the big schism in the Republican Party, which is how much should it be doing? And that's where the problem on health care and other issues is that Republicans get in trouble for the answer being, “well, what the other guys are doing is wrong and simply not doing enough.” So the answer from Republicans too often is let's not do anything at a government level to fix this.

There are two major issues with Gregory's contention. First, while the Tea Party movement began around the time of the bailouts, it didn't pick up steam until Obamacare began to be discussed in Congress. Indeed most of the Tea Party congressional members were elected in 2010 to fight Obamacare. The second issue is that George W. Bush left office on January 19, 2009. That was 1,748 days ago; this coming Sunday will be the 250th episode of Meet The Press since the end of the Bush Administration. Perhaps it's time for Mr. Gregory to find a different scapegoat.