Posted on 01/02/2010 9:02:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Desperate for Edge in Election Year, Dems Turn to Old Strategy
House Democrats began an ad campaign in December assailing Republicans for opposing legislation restructuring federal financial rules and recalling the final days of the Bush presidency, when the economy tanked
With the congressional GOP poised for a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections, Democrats are dusting off an old playbook, using George W. Bush as their boogeyman and castigating Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.
House Democrats began an ad campaign in December assailing Republicans for opposing legislation restructuring federal financial rules and recalling the final days of the Bush presidency, when the economy tanked.
"Remember? We all know we should never let this happen again," the ad says. It lays into Republicans for voting "to let Wall Street continue the same risky practices that crippled retirement accounts and left taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion."
Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who heads the House Democrats' campaign arm, said his party wants to remind voters who was on their side at a difficult time. "The Republican Party in Washington today is no different than the Republican Party that ran the Congress before," he said.
But that was three years ago. Democrats have been in control since, and Bush is long gone. This is President Obama's country now. Democrats tried to use Bush against Republican Chris Christie in the New Jersey governor's race in November -- and Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine still lost.
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“Dems Turn to Old Strategy, Blame Bush”
And with this current crop of brilliant voters, it will certainly work.
Watch the 2010 election turn into a great victory for Liberals.
IMHO
RAT strategy isn’t going to work this time. They’re TRAITORS and we have the proof.
They not only tried "Bush's fault" but they had a 3rd party stalking horse in there to siphon off votes from Christie , the man-child Soetoro made 5 trips up to NJ and ACORN was evident in all the major cities dispite all that, Jon Thorazine still got smoked. The dems are banking on the public's short attention span, unfortunately for them it's their supporters who have the short attention span and need to be bribed to get to the polls, conservatives will walk accross hot coals to throw the RATS out.
WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THEM TO BLAME BUSH FOR THE ECONOMY TANKING WHEN THE LEFT TOOK CONTROL OF THE PURSE STRINGS (congress) IN 2006?!?
I fear that you may be correct. The libs don't even have to win a majority of the seats in November, they only have to lose less than most mid-term elections. Their mantra will then be that they have a "mandate".
Let them keep reminding us about President Bush.
We were safe then. And we weren’t about to lose our health care to this cabal of fraudsters.
They won the election in November 2006, but did not take over until January 20o7. Otherwise you are correct.
There was nothing wrong with the economy until then, and unemployment was practically nonexistent
Make that 2007
I predicted in the last election that this could very well happen if the rats get the majority again
Huh?
Who passed on billions of our money to AIG, Goldman Sachs, the negotiable debt traders? That's not Wall Street?
If there is any primary conservative argument at all to be raised, it is that Democrats are every bit or more "cozy with Wall Street," confiscating billions of taxpayer dollars to be given to "Wall Street", to what should be independently free market, do-or-die, private institutions.
If "Republicans" do not clarify and assert this then just one more proof there is an elitist, Republicrat oligarchy manipulating all of us.
The United States Government is as, or more, corrupt than any government in the western world. And that sad attribute is currently held by Democrats.
God these people are shallow!
How obvious is it?
This should be a major focus of the 2010 campaign.
Bump
That’s right.
how pathetic are the leaders of the GOP???
when will the GOP start running ads to remind everyone these problems occurred once the rats took full control of the senate and house in 2007???
Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes
New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 11, 2003
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
[snip]
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,''
said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee.
''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.
Other rats speaking out:
Demonrat Rep. Maxine Waters said:
"Through nearly a dozen hearings, we were frankly trying to fix something that wasn't broke. Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Franklin Raines."
Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone… Dems Ignored Warnings
Sunday, September 21, 2008, 12:32 PM
Jim Hoft
For many years the President and his Administration have not only warned of the systemic consequences of financial turmoil at a housing government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) but also put forward thoughtful plans to reduce the risk that either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac would encounter such difficulties. President Bush publicly called for GSE reform 17 times in 2008 alone before Congress acted.
Unfortunately, these warnings went unheeded, as the President’s repeated attempts to reform the supervision of these entities were thwarted by the legislative maneuvering of those who emphatically denied there were problems.
Now WAKE UP and come out slugging with your own ads using the commies own words!
Sure, go ahead and try to scare everybody with stories of the time when we had half the current unemployment and a quarter of the current budget deficit.
What a bunch of assclowns.
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