point fingers of blame

[olegv]

Please expain me the meaning of "point finger of blame" in the context of the following sentence - Politicians point fingers of blame if the bust can be avoided -

thanks

 

[waflob]

Politicians are reknowned for this sort of thing. They are looking to place the blame for something on someone else.

 

[5jj]

I agree with waflob about the blame part, but your sentence does not make sense to me. I cannot see how one can blame somebody 'if the bust can be avoided' - and I don't know what 'the bust' means.

 

[Tdol]

The bust is strange- what's the context?

 

[waflob]

I understood it in the sense that the politician would get busted (i.e. caught and punished) and tries to divert the blame away from himself/herself.