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Republican White House & Republican Congress (Prosperity)
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
Republican white house & democrat congress (Things start to slip)
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4
Democrat president & democrat congress (ECONOMIC DISASTER)
2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0
2010 9.7 9.7 9.7 9.9 9.7 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.6 9.6 9.8
No, I don't blame the republicans at all.
The democrats are SOLELY responsible for the Obama economic disaster. They have had full control of the federal government for two years, and the democrats controlled congress for four years.
Guess who was promising to tax and regulate everything out of existence at that time, thereby scaring the shit out of business owners?Oh yeah from 3.18 on the deficit to THREE TIMES THAT in 2009. Sure shows Bush is at fault!
Want to try that again???????
Exactly, 2009 was a Bush budget. Thank you for confirming this.
It starts with Barak Hussein.
Wont even take responsibility for his own disasters.
Former vice president Dick Cheney was on CNNs State of the Union today, and he absolved himself, the Bush administration, and the Republican Party of any blame for the economic crisis. Instead, he blamed Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd, but press releases from the Bush administration say otherwise. In their own words, here is why Cheney and Bush should be blamed for the economy.
Host John King asked Cheney if the Bush administration left Obama with an economic mess. Cheney answered, Well, I dont follow the news quite as closely as I once did. But theres no question that what the economic circumstances that he inherited are difficult ones. You know, we said that before we left. I dont think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances. Its a global financial problem. We had, in fact, tried to deal with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problem some years before with major reforms and were blocked by Democrats on the Hill, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
Trashing the economy is something the right wing are pretty good at. Along with increasing the debt and deficit.
More like.. ..Bush/Cheney continue to deny any involvement at all....
When in fact: (as posted in the links from Common Sense)
The pieces were put in place for a collapse by the Bush administration years before the Democrats took power. The problem for Democrats is that this easy lending mortgage idea started with President Bill Clinton, and Congressional Democrats did not even provide token opposition to the Republican plans that allowed the housing bubble.
This should be painful for members of both parties to hear, but they all are to blame. Instead of contemplating the long term effects of risky lending and a lack of regulation, everyone saw a political advantage in riding the housing bubble wave, so they stayed quiet. The Bush administration encouraged sub-prime lending and cut regulation, so they deserve most of the blame, but Congressional Democrats and Republicans arent blameless because they put the pieces in place for a crisis years before the collapse came.
GREED is the proximate cause of the housing collapse. Individual greed and institutional greed; along with a politcal system that calls campaign donations something other than bribes and the governments failure to regulate.
VP Cheney is (at best) disingenuous in his remarks; compare to the thread which discusses the coach using his knee on a player in the Jets game - Cheney ought to be as honest.
Booooooooooooosh&Co had the bully pulpit, if they were really concerned about the housing situation that had the ability to flood the Sunday news with a warning (as they did when they wanted to invade Iraq).
[I await Oddude's stupid response]
Bush had warned congress about the the growing problems. If the news media doesn't want to write about it....who's fault is that, wry?
The White House Warned Congress About Fannie Mae Freddie Mac 17 Times In 2008, Alone Nice Deb
The Democraps have had complete control of the federal government for about two years.
GREED is the proximate cause of the housing collapse. Individual greed and institutional greed; along with a politcal system that calls campaign donations something other than bribes and the governments failure to regulate.
VP Cheney is (at best) disingenuous in his remarks; compare to the thread which discusses the coach using his knee on a player in the Jets game - Cheney ought to be as honest.
Booooooooooooosh&Co had the bully pulpit, if they were really concerned about the housing situation that had the ability to flood the Sunday news with a warning (as they did when they wanted to invade Iraq).
[I await Oddude's stupid response]
Bush had warned congress about the the growing problems. If the news media doesn't want to write about it....who's fault is that, wry?
The White House Warned Congress About Fannie Mae Freddie Mac 17 Times In 2008, Alone Nice Deb
Assuming what you linked is credible, remember the Republican Party held the Majority in both chambers until January 2007. Your post provides clear evidence that the White House and both the Republican leadership in the Senate and the House of Representatives knew of a pending crisis and did nothing about it.
How can that be? Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were that powerful? Or, the Republcan leadership was that inept? Or, the Republican leadership were unduly influenced by the banksters and others who reaped obscene profits from derivatives and other speculative investments with other peoples money.
Oddude? Meister? I expected at least a personal attack before you ran away (never did I expect a reasoned response, not from two members of the echo chamber).
Bush;s only mistake was appointing Ben Bernanke head of the the Fed.Wont even take responsibility for his own disasters.
Former vice president Dick Cheney was on CNNs State of the Union today, and he absolved himself, the Bush administration, and the Republican Party of any blame for the economic crisis. Instead, he blamed Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd, but press releases from the Bush administration say otherwise. In their own words, here is why Cheney and Bush should be blamed for the economy.
Host John King asked Cheney if the Bush administration left Obama with an economic mess. Cheney answered, Well, I dont follow the news quite as closely as I once did. But theres no question that what the economic circumstances that he inherited are difficult ones. You know, we said that before we left. I dont think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances. Its a global financial problem. We had, in fact, tried to deal with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problem some years before with major reforms and were blocked by Democrats on the Hill, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
Why Cheney and Bush Should be Blamed for the Economy
J. Miller Rampant!: The BUSH-CHENEY RECESSION/DEPRESSION: In Charts
I know you guys just want to point at the other guys. But anyone with a scrap of honesty knows that both parties are responsible to some degree because of their actions and inactions.
However, the American people are even more responsible. We are free people. We are free to educate ourselves. We have a responsibility not to let greed blind us to the truth.
The Housing market collapse started this because people
1) Dishonestly took out loans they knew they couldn't pay back
2) Dishonestly lent out loans they knew wouldn't be paid back and then sold them to someone else
3) Lied to themselves by convincing themselves that prices would always go up. That there could be no risk or limited risk.
4) Elected politicians that are known to be corrupt as hell
5) Want to blame everyone else for their mistakes and pretend they are victims
We have had an economic recession because of our unchecked greed, dishonesty, and pride.
Some people seem to think that changing the laws are going to fix that. It won't It will just restrict the honest people. We can't change the laws to fix this problem. We need to change the people. That can't happen as long as you continue playing the blame game.
We start with ourselves. Change ourselves and we change the world
Bush had warned congress about the the growing problems. If the news media doesn't want to write about it....who's fault is that, wry?
The White House Warned Congress About Fannie Mae Freddie Mac 17 Times In 2008, Alone Nice Deb
Assuming what you linked is credible, remember the Republican Party held the Majority in both chambers until January 2007. Your post provides clear evidence that the White House and both the Republican leadership in the Senate and the House of Representatives knew of a pending crisis and did nothing about it.
How can that be? Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were that powerful? Or, the Republcan leadership was that inept? Or, the Republican leadership were unduly influenced by the banksters and others who reaped obscene profits from derivatives and other speculative investments with other peoples money.
I...unlike you can admit that the republicans dropped the ball on this, wry. There are dirty hands from both parties with regards to this, wry......it politicians...not parties.
aint the "free market" great?
aint the "free market" great?
It is great. Because it has a natural mechnism to correct itself when people become dishonest.
Natural law does that. It fixes things. Some people seem to think they know better than nature and can change things to work better. it never does.
Oddude? Meister? I expected at least a personal attack before you ran away (never did I expect a reasoned response, not from two members of the echo chamber).
Do I see a persoanl attack here, wry? my, my....what a bigot.
The graph shows the final year of the Bush administration's Budget ( Sept 2009) to be quite an increase in the debt alrightie. Good job.
But why would the libs attack you for showing that it was one of the results of the the Bush Administration's policies that increase the debt so much. It just bolsters their argument.
Oh yeah from 3.18 on the deficit to THREE TIMES THAT in 2009. Sure shows Bush is at fault!
Want to try that again???????
Exactly, 2009 was a Bush budget. Thank you for confirming this.
