Republicans brought socialism to America

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/10/8 | Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate Inc.

[SmithL]

Let the record show that it was George W. Bush, the rich Texas Republican, who brought socialism to America, so don't blame it on that African American Chicago Democrat community organizer who made it into the White House. The government takeover of the banking and automobile industries not only happened on President Bush's watch, it was also the deregulatory mania of this president's family, beginning with his father, which took this country into such starkly unfamiliar territory.

What a betrayal of unfettered free market capitalism. And who would have thought that it would be the candidates backed by conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh who made it possible? You actually could trace the destruction of corporate capitalism to the much-ballyhooed "Reagan Revolution" of the movie actor who got his main training for the presidency as a huckster for General Electric, where he honed the message of "getting government off our backs." The revolution of unfettered corporate capitalism led to an era of unfettered corporate greed, which sowed the seeds of its own destruction.

[swarthyguy]

He’s correct, you know.

[domeika]

bad loans made possible by bad politicians

politicians don't make loans, bad loans made by greedy/unethical loan officers is more like it

I didn't say politicians made bad loans, I said they made them possible.