[Mr. Brightside]

Part of the problem with Bush administration stats is that they measure from the bottom of the 2001 recession rather than from the state of the economy before the recession. The recovery from the recession has actually been very slow, even though the recession was shallow.

Of course the terror attacks on 9/11, the war in Afganistan and the war in Iraq didn't have anything to do with the slow recovery. And neither did the corporate accounting scandals (Arthur Anderson, Enron, WorldCom).

If only Pat Buchanan was in charge of the economy! THEN our problems would be over.

[driftless]

"measure"

Ditto..what you said. According to these geniuses Bush can't win. I can imagine that these are the kind of pessimists who if the Dow hits twelve thousand sometime this year, they'll say that it should have hit fifteen thousand. People "reject" the Bush economic policies because they're told it's awful by Big Media...who lie through their teeth.