Posted on 06/14/2012 11:48:01 AM PDT by ReformationFan
More than two-thirds of Americans—including half of Republicans—still blame former President George W. Bush for the country's economic ills, according to a new Gallup poll released on Thursday, hours before President Barack Obama was to deliver a high-stakes speech defending his handling of the weak economy.
What one might call the blame gap has narrowed considerably: When Gallup first asked Americans in July 2009 whom they blamed for the poor economy, 80 percent laid a great deal or a moderate amount of blame on Bush, and only 32 percent blamed Obama. The current numbers show 68 percent of the public blames the former president while 52 percent say Obama deserves the blame. (The numbers total more than 100 percent because the question was not "which one do you blame more," but how much blame each president deserves individually.)
The Democratic president has crisscrossed the country in recent months pleading for patience from voters still struggling in the anemic recovery and grappling with stubbornly high unemployment above 8 percent.
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point out to anyone blaming Bush to that the rats CONTROLLED BOTH HOUSES starting in JAN of 2007 and IIRC, they had the Senate two years before that....and they had COMPLETE control of the govt for the first two years of bamey boy....
the price of gas in Jan 2007?...under $2 bucks a gallon...unemployment?...less than 5%...
Before Dodd/Frank there was Sarbanes/Oxley.
In the liberal mindset, they’d say this “proves the economic problems are all Bush’s fault. He didn’t go along enough with what Reid and Pelosi wanted.” Don’t expect reason or logic to play any factor here.
That's the defensive posture of one who fears that "what he believes to be true, ain't."
Bush certainly did lots of things wrong, which contributed both to the unbridled federal spending and the atrocious deficits.
"Compassionate conservatism," and "compromise."
The 'Rats idea of "compromise" is you give me 5 bucks today, and I'll give you $100 in ten years. That always works out well, and by the time the taxpayers realize that they've been had again, no one remembers how it all came about.
The bottom line : whatever had been done wrong up to Jan 20, 2010 wasn't immediately set right. What was done made everything worse.
It doesn't take three years to figure out that your economy bus is riding on four flat tires.
Buying votes with money to be paid later just doesn't work among responsible adults. Never has.
I would vote for Romney if only I really believed that he was serious about eliminating the Department of Education, The Department of Energy and the EPA the first week he is in office.
Then he could address the entitlement national cancer, and devise a schedule for eliminating permanently the Food Stamp Presidency culture.
What's no longer defensible? 60%? 80%?, 100% of the total population?
Keep on repeating the mantra, it must be true. The MSM is doing to Bush on the economy what they did to Nixon on Watergate.
I am assuming that you took every opportunity to defend Bush then.
If memory serves me right, many freepers jumped on the bash Bush wagon as his favorable poll numbers went down.
Amazingly, most people realize George Bush isn’t on the ballot in 2012.
Toss in the mischief of George Soros and friends leading up to the market collapse at the end of 2008, and it is obvious that Obama and friends are wholly to blame for the disastrous economy.
Gallup is known for its leftist support and is not above cooking numbers or rigging questions to get this kind of result.
IOW, I highly doubt their conclusion and believe it is little more than concentrated BS!!
The next guy will legitimately be able to say he inherited a mess, but I suspect that he will instead just roll up his sleeves and try to get started fixing the problem.
Leaders don't whine like the petulant child president does. We have a real struggle ahead because of the damage the Marxist has inflicted, but we can fix a lot of problems right away with roll backs on his legislation, executive fiats and some draconian budget cutting.
Did Reagan ever whine about the Carter Economy he inherited? Did GW Bush ever complain about the issues he inherited from Clinton? The trashing of the White House, the “stolen” paintings that the Clintons took, the removal of the “W” keys on the computers?
That is all that Barry has ever done, aside from playing more golf in 2 years than all previous presidents - combined. Whine, blame someone else. He is utterly incompetent.
And, I might suggest that the downward economic spiral that Bush left was started by Congress’s odious flaws in both the Energy arena as well as Bwarny Fwank and the Housing bubble. When gas hit $5/gallon; people had a choice; pay the mortgage or drive to work, or to buy groceries. Gas prices skyrocketed, as well as electrical and natural gas.
Congress’s responsibility is to ensure a smooth, steady supply of energy (that’s partially why we have an Energy Department), and their gross mis-managment of the Fanny Mae and various HUD loans - all lead to the collapse we enjoyed then, and are still enjoying now.
Obama simply added his ill-thought out plans on top of the pile, thus making a decent sized pile, a monument to stupidity.
While war and government growth helped with the unemployment rate, you can see from this chart that there was nothing exceptional during W's eight years. The rate had declined steadily during Clinton's eight years. All the major stock indices were lower when W left office, than when he entered.
“. (The numbers total more than 100 percent because the question was not “which one do you blame more,” but how much blame each president deserves individually.)”
The first set of numbers 80% - 32% = 112
the second round of polling is 68% - 52% = 120
will the next round of polling be 150%?
I do not get their explanation for more than 100%
I agree with you 100%.
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