When the newly elected President ,
let down by the Tax irregularities of Public Officials about to be nominated to his Cabinet Team , cuts out all the usual
waffle and procrastinating by declaring
unilaterally ;
" I take full responsibility -
It happened on my watch ! ! ! " .
Popularized by the channel 'Oversimplified', there phrase refers to the over-taxing of the 13 colonies by the Townshend acts, nearly taxing every singlegood.