Posted on 08/13/2009 1:15:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This guy must have one hell of an FBI file.
Both sides are at fault for this mess.. but they would play us for suckers and try to blame the other side to get you angry..
Apparently.. its working.
Uh....how about you live in the PRESENT, Bruce???
I agree. Both parties use government as a taxpayer-funded cash cow to reward their cronies and stay in power.
Ugh. I agree with parts of what he said—the recession was shaping up during 2008, and GWB made a LOT of mistakes through his term on economic policy (especially in spending like a drunken pirate and cranking the deficit up to ridiculous levels). But just because President Bush made a ton of mistakes doesn’t mean that we can’t call President Obama out for making WORSE mistakes, such as running the deficit even higher out beyond the event horizon, nationalizing major corporations, attempting to execute more state control over the economy, and now trying to nationalize our healthcare system.
You can argue whether Bush was bad on the economy, but I can’t see how any conservative could argue that Obama isn’t much, much worse. One does not prevent you from pointing out the other.
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Bush’s fault™
FWIW, McCain and Bush both made weak attempts to fix/end the subprime thing.
This guy is so far off the edge. I e-mail corresponded with him and he HATES Bush. Apparently, he’s pals with the Muzzies or something because he’s just insane.
Republicans have not been in charge for a long time.
Bush was hamstrung by the Democrats in the House and Senate.
Also, Bush and his Father are both Northeast Liberal Republicans, so they are mostly Democrats in their action.
McCain is also, so any questions about how it would be "different" are misguided, at least.
“If George W. Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.” - Bruce Bartlett, 2004.
And, FWIW, there probably wouldn’t be a “free market system” to save if Bush hadn’t fought the war on terror. In five years, he absolutely cremated al-Qaeda. Obama is slowly letting them off the mat in Afghanistan, and we’ll have to do it all over again in a year or so, after more towers go.
Mr. Bartlett: Just imagine how sharply consumer spending would have increased if the trillion dollars of stimulus had gone to tax refunds, for instance. Sure, if that were our strategy, the GDP would probably tank in 2011 by about 5%, but it’d go up by about 10% before then. Now, we’re due for a tanking, with no growth first.
But if your point is that we should be outraged by the 2007-2008 Congress and the feckless, spineless bastard in the White House back then for being so soft on Domestic communism/totalitarianism, then your point is well taken. George Bush and Juan McCain can rot in Hell with Obama.
That's just plain idiotic. McCain sucks, but there are plenty of "conceivable policies" that could have ended the recession already. Louie Gohmert's tax holiday proposal, for one.
>> “If George W. Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.” - Bruce Bartlett, 2004. <<
He was right on that point, in retrospective. The socialists in capitalist clothing in DC warred versus the conservative grass roots.
“He is the author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action and Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy . His latest book, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in October.”
Huh???? One book DEFENDS the Reagan legacy. The next calls it a FAILURE. Sounds like he is not getting invited to enough wine and cheese parties inside the Beltway. What a loser.
Someone obviously did something to him in the past and he won't let it go. Who and what is the question.
If this is 0 cleaning up a mess, I dread mess he is going to make for the next guy. His clean up is a complete screw up.
I take issue with a lot of what he says here because Bartlett is a well known Bush hater and enough so to want to carry water for Clinton. No mention of the tech crash and declining revenues that Bush walked into, no mention of the Wall St. corruption that went on during Clinton’s watch that the Dems were able to blame on Bush (Enron) that prompted Sarbenes/Oxley, Clinton’s WH signed Graham Leach and pushed subprime lending. Clinton also had the Repubs in Congress refusing to go along with his spending plans and kept him in check. Bush did raise the red flag on freddie and fannie and he was crucified for even trying to limit social spending growth. When he talked about allowing people to own some of their tax dollars with respect to SS he was crucified for that as well.
Oh, and please don’t deny that Greenspan had nothing to do with our credit bubble Bruce.
Bush could have and should have made some different decisions but I don’t recall any democrats calling for less social spending.
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