Hillary Clinton: Qualifications to be President

[rightwinger]

When in time does being First Lady make you qualified to do anything other than plan a party?

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

 

[Esmeralda]

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Obama made changes for the republicans? Lol, you do realize obama care didn't get one vote from the republicans?

Republicans Turn Against Their Own Health Reform Proposals. Ten GOP Ideas in the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans Turn Against Their Own Health Reform Proposals Center for American Progress

 

[rightwinger]

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Obama made changes for the republicans? Lol, you do realize obama care didn't get one vote from the republicans?

Republicans Turn Against Their Own Health Reform Proposals. Ten GOP Ideas in the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans Turn Against Their Own Health Reform Proposals Center for American Progress

Any Republican endorsing anything healthcare related is the kiss of death Limbaugh would destroy them

 

[Dad2three]

You do understand we got the Clinton's because of big ears Perot.

And we got W because of dipshit Nader

Amen! We should have had President Gore! The world would be a much better place! Then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush and then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris rigged the election for Dubya.

We should have had President Gore!

You liberals sure do love to see corrupt people in office and running the country.

Yes, BECAUSE Dubya worked out sooooo well


CBO: Bush Tax Cuts Responsible For Almost A Third Of Deficit In Last 10 Years (2001-2010)


Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street

BUSH GAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD SUMMER 2008

Why Prosecutors Don t Go After Wall Street NPR

“When regulators don’t believe in regulation and don’t get what is going on at the companies they oversee, there can be no major white-collar crime prosecutions,”...“If they don’t understand what we call collective embezzlement, where people are literally looting their own firms, then it’s impossible to bring cases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html?pagewanted=all

The FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
'
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis William K. Black

Dubya was warned by the FBI of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004. He gave them less resources.

FBI saw threat of loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

Shockingly, the FBI clearly makes the case for the need to combat mortgage fraud in 2005, the height of the housing crisis:

Financial Crimes Report to the Public 2005

FBI mdash Financial Crimes Report 2005

The Bush Rubber Stamp Congress ignored the obvious and extremely detailed and well reported crime spree by the FBI.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and CONGRESS stripped the White Collar Crime divisions of money and manpower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?pagewanted=all

DUBYA FOUGHT ALL 50 STATE AG'S IN 2003, INVOKING A CIVIL WAR ERA RULE SAYING FEDS RULE ON "PREDATORY" LENDERS!

Good for you Bubba, you have an out of context Vid from Barney in 2003 talking about F/F ACCOUNTING scandals of 2003-2004. AND?


Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. — Unknown”


Q When did the Bush Mortgage Bubble start?

A The general timeframe is it started late 2004.

From Bush’s President’s Working Group on Financial Markets October 2008

“The Presidents Working Group’s March policy statement acknowledged that turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007.”


Bush's documented policies and statements in timeframe leading up to the start of the Bush Mortgage Bubble include (but not limited to)

Wanting 5.5 million more minority homeowners
Tells congress there is nothing wrong with GSEs
Pledging to use federal policy to increase home ownership
Routinely taking credit for the housing market
Forcing GSEs to buy more low income home loans by raising their Housing Goals
Lowering Investment banks capital requirements, Net Capital rule
Reversing the Clinton rule that restricted GSEs purchases of subprime loans
Lowering down payment requirements to 0%
Forcing GSEs to spend an additional $440 billion in the secondary markets
Giving away 40,000 free down payments
PREEMPTING ALL STATE LAWS AGAINST PREDATORY LENDING


But the biggest policy was regulators not enforcing lending standards.


FACTS on Dubya s great recession US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum






Conservatives Can’t Escape Blame for the Financial Crisis

The onset of the recent financial crisis in late 2007 created an intellectual crisis for conservatives, who had been touting for decades the benefits of a hands-off approach to financial market regulation. As the crisis quickly spiraled out of control, it quickly became apparent that the massive credit bubble of the mid-2000s, followed by the inevitable bust that culminated with the financial markets freeze in the fall of 2008, occurred predominantly among those parts of the financial system that were least regulated, or where regulations existed but were largely unenforced.

Predictably, many conservatives sought to blame the bogeymen they always blamed.


Politics Most Blatant Center for American Progress

 

[Kosh]

When in time does being First Lady make you qualified to do anything other than plan a party?

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

 

[Kosh]

And we got W because of dipshit Nader

Amen! We should have had President Gore! The world would be a much better place! Then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush and then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris rigged the election for Dubya.

We should have had President Gore!

You liberals sure do love to see corrupt people in office and running the country.

Yes, BECAUSE Dubya worked out sooooo well


CBO: Bush Tax Cuts Responsible For Almost A Third Of Deficit In Last 10 Years (2001-2010)


Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street

BUSH GAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD SUMMER 2008

Why Prosecutors Don t Go After Wall Street NPR

“When regulators don’t believe in regulation and don’t get what is going on at the companies they oversee, there can be no major white-collar crime prosecutions,”...“If they don’t understand what we call collective embezzlement, where people are literally looting their own firms, then it’s impossible to bring cases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html?pagewanted=all

The FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
'
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis William K. Black

Dubya was warned by the FBI of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004. He gave them less resources.

FBI saw threat of loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

Shockingly, the FBI clearly makes the case for the need to combat mortgage fraud in 2005, the height of the housing crisis:

Financial Crimes Report to the Public 2005

FBI mdash Financial Crimes Report 2005

The Bush Rubber Stamp Congress ignored the obvious and extremely detailed and well reported crime spree by the FBI.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and CONGRESS stripped the White Collar Crime divisions of money and manpower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?pagewanted=all

DUBYA FOUGHT ALL 50 STATE AG'S IN 2003, INVOKING A CIVIL WAR ERA RULE SAYING FEDS RULE ON "PREDATORY" LENDERS!

Good for you Bubba, you have an out of context Vid from Barney in 2003 talking about F/F ACCOUNTING scandals of 2003-2004. AND?


Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. — Unknown”


Q When did the Bush Mortgage Bubble start?

A The general timeframe is it started late 2004.

From Bush’s President’s Working Group on Financial Markets October 2008

“The Presidents Working Group’s March policy statement acknowledged that turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007.”


Bush's documented policies and statements in timeframe leading up to the start of the Bush Mortgage Bubble include (but not limited to)

Wanting 5.5 million more minority homeowners
Tells congress there is nothing wrong with GSEs
Pledging to use federal policy to increase home ownership
Routinely taking credit for the housing market
Forcing GSEs to buy more low income home loans by raising their Housing Goals
Lowering Investment banks capital requirements, Net Capital rule
Reversing the Clinton rule that restricted GSEs purchases of subprime loans
Lowering down payment requirements to 0%
Forcing GSEs to spend an additional $440 billion in the secondary markets
Giving away 40,000 free down payments
PREEMPTING ALL STATE LAWS AGAINST PREDATORY LENDING


But the biggest policy was regulators not enforcing lending standards.


FACTS on Dubya s great recession US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum






Conservatives Can’t Escape Blame for the Financial Crisis

The onset of the recent financial crisis in late 2007 created an intellectual crisis for conservatives, who had been touting for decades the benefits of a hands-off approach to financial market regulation. As the crisis quickly spiraled out of control, it quickly became apparent that the massive credit bubble of the mid-2000s, followed by the inevitable bust that culminated with the financial markets freeze in the fall of 2008, occurred predominantly among those parts of the financial system that were least regulated, or where regulations existed but were largely unenforced.

Predictably, many conservatives sought to blame the bogeymen they always blamed.


Politics Most Blatant Center for American Progress

It is all the far left religious hacks have, is their propaganda not connected to reality.

 

[Esmeralda]

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

 

[Dad2three]

You do understand we got the Clinton's because of big ears Perot.

And we got W because of dipshit Nader

Amen! We should have had President Gore! The world would be a much better place! Then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush and then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris rigged the election for Dubya.

We should have had President Gore!

You liberals sure do love to see corrupt people in office and running the country.

Yes, BECAUSE Dubya worked out sooooo well


CBO: Bush Tax Cuts Responsible For Almost A Third Of Deficit In Last 10 Years (2001-2010)


Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street

BUSH GAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD SUMMER 2008

Why Prosecutors Don t Go After Wall Street NPR

“When regulators don’t believe in regulation and don’t get what is going on at the companies they oversee, there can be no major white-collar crime prosecutions,”...“If they don’t understand what we call collective embezzlement, where people are literally looting their own firms, then it’s impossible to bring cases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html?pagewanted=all

The FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
'
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis William K. Black

Dubya was warned by the FBI of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004. He gave them less resources.

FBI saw threat of loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

Shockingly, the FBI clearly makes the case for the need to combat mortgage fraud in 2005, the height of the housing crisis:

Financial Crimes Report to the Public 2005

FBI mdash Financial Crimes Report 2005

The Bush Rubber Stamp Congress ignored the obvious and extremely detailed and well reported crime spree by the FBI.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and CONGRESS stripped the White Collar Crime divisions of money and manpower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?pagewanted=all

DUBYA FOUGHT ALL 50 STATE AG'S IN 2003, INVOKING A CIVIL WAR ERA RULE SAYING FEDS RULE ON "PREDATORY" LENDERS!

Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis

Private sector loans not Fannie or Freddie triggered crisis Economics McClatchy DC


Wall Street, Not Fannie and Freddie, Led Mortgage Meltdown

Government data show Fannie and Freddie didn’t take the same risks that Wall Street’s mortgage-backed securities machine did. Mortgages financed by Wall Street from 2001 to 2008 were 4½ times more likely to be seriously delinquent than mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie.

Wall Street Not Fannie and Freddie Led Mortgage Meltdown - The Daily Beast



The Myth of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Barney Frank, the Housing Bubble and the Recession

The Myth of Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Barney Frank the Housing Bubble and the Recession The Long Goodbye


Right-wingers Want To Erase How George Bush's "Homeowner Society" Helped Cause The Economic Collapse


2004 Republican Convention:

Another priority for a new term is to build an ownership society, because ownership brings security and dignity and independence.
...

Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all- time high.

(APPLAUSE)

Tonight we set a new goal: 7 million more affordable homes in the next 10 years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, "Welcome to my home."

BUT IF YOU WANT TO BLAME THE GSE'S (F/F)


June 17, 2004


Builders to fight Bush's low-income plan


NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Home builders, realtors and others are preparing to fight a Bush administration plan that would require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase financing of homes for low-income people, a home builder group said Thursday.


Home builders fight Bush's low-income housing - Jun. 17, 2004



One president controlled the regulators that not only let banks stop checking income but cheered them on. And as president Bush could enact the very policies that caused the Bush Mortgage Bubble and he did. And his party controlled congress.


FACTS on Dubya s great recession US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[Kosh]

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

Once again the far left shows that propaganda rules over reality.

 

[Kosh]

And we got W because of dipshit Nader

Amen! We should have had President Gore! The world would be a much better place! Then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush and then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris rigged the election for Dubya.

We should have had President Gore!

You liberals sure do love to see corrupt people in office and running the country.

Yes, BECAUSE Dubya worked out sooooo well


CBO: Bush Tax Cuts Responsible For Almost A Third Of Deficit In Last 10 Years (2001-2010)


Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street

BUSH GAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD SUMMER 2008

Why Prosecutors Don t Go After Wall Street NPR

“When regulators don’t believe in regulation and don’t get what is going on at the companies they oversee, there can be no major white-collar crime prosecutions,”...“If they don’t understand what we call collective embezzlement, where people are literally looting their own firms, then it’s impossible to bring cases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html?pagewanted=all

The FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
'
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis William K. Black

Dubya was warned by the FBI of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004. He gave them less resources.

FBI saw threat of loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

Shockingly, the FBI clearly makes the case for the need to combat mortgage fraud in 2005, the height of the housing crisis:

Financial Crimes Report to the Public 2005

FBI mdash Financial Crimes Report 2005

The Bush Rubber Stamp Congress ignored the obvious and extremely detailed and well reported crime spree by the FBI.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and CONGRESS stripped the White Collar Crime divisions of money and manpower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?pagewanted=all

DUBYA FOUGHT ALL 50 STATE AG'S IN 2003, INVOKING A CIVIL WAR ERA RULE SAYING FEDS RULE ON "PREDATORY" LENDERS!

Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis

Private sector loans not Fannie or Freddie triggered crisis Economics McClatchy DC


Wall Street, Not Fannie and Freddie, Led Mortgage Meltdown

Government data show Fannie and Freddie didn’t take the same risks that Wall Street’s mortgage-backed securities machine did. Mortgages financed by Wall Street from 2001 to 2008 were 4½ times more likely to be seriously delinquent than mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie.

Wall Street Not Fannie and Freddie Led Mortgage Meltdown - The Daily Beast



The Myth of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Barney Frank, the Housing Bubble and the Recession

The Myth of Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Barney Frank the Housing Bubble and the Recession The Long Goodbye


Right-wingers Want To Erase How George Bush's "Homeowner Society" Helped Cause The Economic Collapse


2004 Republican Convention:

Another priority for a new term is to build an ownership society, because ownership brings security and dignity and independence.
...

Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all- time high.

(APPLAUSE)

Tonight we set a new goal: 7 million more affordable homes in the next 10 years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, "Welcome to my home."

BUT IF YOU WANT TO BLAME THE GSE'S (F/F)


June 17, 2004


Builders to fight Bush's low-income plan


NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Home builders, realtors and others are preparing to fight a Bush administration plan that would require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase financing of homes for low-income people, a home builder group said Thursday.


Home builders fight Bush's low-income housing - Jun. 17, 2004



One president controlled the regulators that not only let banks stop checking income but cheered them on. And as president Bush could enact the very policies that caused the Bush Mortgage Bubble and he did. And his party controlled congress.


FACTS on Dubya s great recession US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

And the far left uses far left propaganda blogs for their "facts"..

 

[Antares]

When in time does being First Lady make you qualified to do anything other than plan a party?

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

Yup she claimed to have "Channeled" Eleanor clearly she would make a good Prez.

You guys will just swallow everything your leaders throw at you.

 

[Antares]

When in time does being First Lady make you qualified to do anything other than plan a party?

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

She laid the groundwork for Obamacare.

Sure thing....the vote was 98-0 against dipshit.

 

[Antares]

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

12 year olds use the "everybody else is doing" reasoning.

 

[Dad2three]

Yes, BECAUSE Dubya worked out sooooo well


CBO: Bush Tax Cuts Responsible For Almost A Third Of Deficit In Last 10 Years (2001-2010)


Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street

BUSH GAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD SUMMER 2008

Why Prosecutors Don t Go After Wall Street NPR

“When regulators don’t believe in regulation and don’t get what is going on at the companies they oversee, there can be no major white-collar crime prosecutions,”...“If they don’t understand what we call collective embezzlement, where people are literally looting their own firms, then it’s impossible to bring cases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html?pagewanted=all

The FBI correctly identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
'
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis William K. Black

Dubya was warned by the FBI of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004. He gave them less resources.

FBI saw threat of loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

Shockingly, the FBI clearly makes the case for the need to combat mortgage fraud in 2005, the height of the housing crisis:

Financial Crimes Report to the Public 2005

FBI mdash Financial Crimes Report 2005

The Bush Rubber Stamp Congress ignored the obvious and extremely detailed and well reported crime spree by the FBI.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and CONGRESS stripped the White Collar Crime divisions of money and manpower.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?pagewanted=all

DUBYA FOUGHT ALL 50 STATE AG'S IN 2003, INVOKING A CIVIL WAR ERA RULE SAYING FEDS RULE ON "PREDATORY" LENDERS!

Good for you Bubba, you have an out of context Vid from Barney in 2003 talking about F/F ACCOUNTING scandals of 2003-2004. AND?


Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. — Unknown”


Q When did the Bush Mortgage Bubble start?

A The general timeframe is it started late 2004.

From Bush’s President’s Working Group on Financial Markets October 2008

“The Presidents Working Group’s March policy statement acknowledged that turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007.”


Bush's documented policies and statements in timeframe leading up to the start of the Bush Mortgage Bubble include (but not limited to)

Wanting 5.5 million more minority homeowners
Tells congress there is nothing wrong with GSEs
Pledging to use federal policy to increase home ownership
Routinely taking credit for the housing market
Forcing GSEs to buy more low income home loans by raising their Housing Goals
Lowering Investment banks capital requirements, Net Capital rule
Reversing the Clinton rule that restricted GSEs purchases of subprime loans
Lowering down payment requirements to 0%
Forcing GSEs to spend an additional $440 billion in the secondary markets
Giving away 40,000 free down payments
PREEMPTING ALL STATE LAWS AGAINST PREDATORY LENDING


But the biggest policy was regulators not enforcing lending standards.


FACTS on Dubya s great recession US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum






Conservatives Can’t Escape Blame for the Financial Crisis

The onset of the recent financial crisis in late 2007 created an intellectual crisis for conservatives, who had been touting for decades the benefits of a hands-off approach to financial market regulation. As the crisis quickly spiraled out of control, it quickly became apparent that the massive credit bubble of the mid-2000s, followed by the inevitable bust that culminated with the financial markets freeze in the fall of 2008, occurred predominantly among those parts of the financial system that were least regulated, or where regulations existed but were largely unenforced.

Predictably, many conservatives sought to blame the bogeymen they always blamed.


Politics Most Blatant Center for American Progress

It is all the far left religious hacks have, is their propaganda not connected to reality.

Stop projecting Bubba. ALL you EVER have are leftest, far leftest or left.... lol


Definition of AD HOMINEM. 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made.

And the irony impaired far left drones and their comments..

Yes, 'irony' is giving a post with 6 links to credible news sources of the time and then showing YOU throwing out ad homs, THEN I SHOW THE DEFINITION OF AD HOMES. Yes, that is irony. You can't make this shit up. You deluded TeaTards are good for a laugh at least...

 

[Dad2three]

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

12 year olds use the "everybody else is doing" reasoning.

Yes, the US is correct on H/C but every other industrialized nation is wrong, lol

 

[Antares]

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

More for left propaganda!

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

12 year olds use the "everybody else is doing" reasoning.

Yes, the US is correct on H/C but every other industrialized nation is wrong, lol

Yup.....glad we agree.

 

[Dad2three]

What a laugh! He's absolutely correct. The Right has always been against any national health care program. Always. Every other modern industrial county on Earth has national health care, but the Right has always been against it.

12 year olds use the "everybody else is doing" reasoning.

Yes, the US is correct on H/C but every other industrialized nation is wrong, lol

Yup.....glad we agree.

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions

Mirror Mirror on the Wall 2014 Update How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally - The Commonwealth Fund

Obama administration officials and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act say they worry that the tax-filing season will generate new anger as uninsured consumers learn that they must pay tax penalties and as many people struggle with complex forms needed to justify tax credits they received in 2014 to pay for health insurance.

The White House has already granted some exemptions and is considering more to avoid a political firestorm



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us...bles.html?_r=0

LOL.

Cool, so your link would support SINGLE PAYER forms of UHC like other other industrialized nation. MEDICARE FOR ALL. Thanks for agreeing

lol

 

[Antares]

12 year olds use the "everybody else is doing" reasoning.

Yes, the US is correct on H/C but every other industrialized nation is wrong, lol

Yup.....glad we agree.

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions

Mirror Mirror on the Wall 2014 Update How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally - The Commonwealth Fund

Obama administration officials and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act say they worry that the tax-filing season will generate new anger as uninsured consumers learn that they must pay tax penalties and as many people struggle with complex forms needed to justify tax credits they received in 2014 to pay for health insurance.

The White House has already granted some exemptions and is considering more to avoid a political firestorm



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us...bles.html?_r=0

LOL.

Cool, so your link would support SINGLE PAYER forms of UHC like other other industrialized nation. MEDICARE FOR ALL. Thanks for agreeing

lol

LOL, do you always have trouble following a conversation?

The article is an Obama article....and the point of it is that he continues to change the law to suit his political purposes.

You really aren't up for these conversations.

 

[Hossfly]

When in time does being First Lady make you qualified to do anything other than plan a party?

When you are Hillary Clinton with a law degree from Yale, are highly intelligent, and are essentially the co-President for 8 years. Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush coo-coo'd and did the tea party (pun intended) thing for 8 years. Mrs. Clinton was a real force, politically, during her husband's eight years as President. She was as important to her husband, politically, as was Eleanor Roosevelt to hers. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Mrs. Clinton's role models--Clinton greatly admired her.

She did great on her failed healthcare plan.

It would have been better than Obamacare......too bad Republicans blocked it

I agree. Republicans don't seem to care what is good for the coountry, only about blocking anything a Democrat proposes. The weaknesses in the ACA are, as far as I know, the result of Obama trying to make adjustments to his original plan in order to compromise with Republicans. It would have been a better plan if he had not done that; but he had to in order to get it passed. I've always found it striking that the Right vilifies Obama over the ACA when it is their fault it is weak.

Republicans have maintained a platform of trying to block all healtcare for everyone. Been doing it for 50 years

I see you support a proven liar who is also the enabling wife of an adulterer and child molester.

 

[9thIDdoc]

The only thing Hillary should serve is a prison sentence.