The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s “inherited” tic in an article today. It begins:

In his inaugural address, President Obama proclaimed “an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.”

It hasn’t taken long for the recriminations to return — or for the Obama administration to begin talking about the unwelcome “inheritance” of its predecessor.

I’ve previously discussed the issue here, here, and here — noting that while the president most frequently abuses the term, it sometimes seeps into Republican rhetoric, too.