what liberals have done
Herbert Hoover's Mess
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the
31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Besides his political
career, Hoover was a professional
mining engineer and author. As the
United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents
Warren Harding and
Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government
intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In
the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the
Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States. The nation was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat
Al Smith.
Hoover, a trained engineer, deeply believed in the
Efficiency Movement, which held that government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them. When the
Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the following Great
Depression with volunteer efforts, none of which produced economic recovery during his term. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the
1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward economic spiral, compounded by popular opposition to
prohibition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover
Apparently some "liberals" must have voted fot him, too, LOL.....