President Obama inherited a mess – a foreign policy mess, an economics mess and a business community unregulated and out of control. He’s doing well and he deserves your support. You might benefit from a more historical review and one less party-oriented.
Actually, a lot of Democrats voted *for* president Bush’s programs, so they are already to blame.
The fact is that you have to blame people by their actions, not simply because there is an election and suddenly someone is in office.
Bush was handed a slow down and made it into a recession by doing nothing.
Reagan purposely created a recession to get rid of Carters’ inflation and high interest rates.
The financial panic was caused by deregulation and the lack of monitoring mainly by the Bush Administration, although deregulation did not start with him.
In the current case, the recession was caused by high oil prices of the Bush administration, and has lasted a long time. Spending too much money does not cause recession, but it may cause inflation. – and that will be Obama’s fault.
Did you say “take responsibility” in the same breath as the word Dem? Wow I’ve never seen this before. The most repeated phrase in the Obama administration whenever someone points to their failed socialist agenda is “we inherited this from the Bush administration”.
Funny – You never heard Reagan say this while he was handling the Carter recession or Bush with the Clinton recession.
I guess the slogan “The buck stops here” is a capitalist term Obama doesn’t subscribe to.
Never. Democrats have destroyed our economy through forced regulations on our banking industry. They forced the banks to provide loans in all neighborhoods at the same rate reguardless of down payment and payment history. When the banks made it clear that they would be in violation of federal regulations due to taking on this higher risk at the same reward (interest rate received) Democrat Clinton told them not to worry he’ll have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy them. This increased the amount of people that could get loans and therefore increased demand changing the supply/demand curve and due to higher demand than what was available in the current market prices went up. Due to increasing value the bad loans didn’t matter because they could be refinanced or foreclosed on and someone else was waiting there to buy it at the inflated price. The Republicans tried on 12 separate occasions the change this rediculous system and the Democrats blocked them every time. Democrats want America to fail so they can say they are helping the people by implementing their Socialist/Communist agendas. The Democrat Party’s program is to steal from Paul to pay Pedro and Peter and therefore win elections by 2/3rds of the vote. Look at how they have dumbed down our educational system. Look at how they blocked social security reform, knowing it would go bankrupt soon. Look at how they are pouring our money into bankrupt companies. Look at how they have blocked for years our country’s ability to produce it’s own electricity and oil. That is the core issue of hurting our US auto industry. Democrats don’t take responsibility for what they destroy. They state a lie as many times as they can and know the media will report it as the truth. It’s horrible.
I’m sorry, I don’t normally pick on spelling, but since ‘failure’ is the main word in this question, I believe it should be spelled correctly. No politician will ever take responsibility for their failures.
While the Chosen One is in office, the communist led media will give
Obama an “A” on any thing that goes right. If it goes wrong they will blame it on Bush and give Bush an “F”
Unfortunately, we are still seeing the effects of the Bush Administration, which I am still a Bush fan. However, dems as a whole must take responsibility for their actions now. The senate has been a Democratic majority for enough time to take responsibility for their actions. Bush couldn’t have done anything on his own for the last year of his term, even if he wanted to, because Congress had a say in what was being done. The whole blaming the Bush Adminitstration thing is an excuse, and honestly, I think there will always be some excuse.
Gee, maybe it’s because Rep’s will not stand up and be accountable for their illegal action.
We are a nation of laws, unless your saying that Rep’s should be above the Constitution.
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February 28th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
President Obama inherited a mess – a foreign policy mess, an economics mess and a business community unregulated and out of control. He’s doing well and he deserves your support. You might benefit from a more historical review and one less party-oriented.
February 28th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Actually, a lot of Democrats voted *for* president Bush’s programs, so they are already to blame.
The fact is that you have to blame people by their actions, not simply because there is an election and suddenly someone is in office.
Bush was handed a slow down and made it into a recession by doing nothing.
Reagan purposely created a recession to get rid of Carters’ inflation and high interest rates.
The financial panic was caused by deregulation and the lack of monitoring mainly by the Bush Administration, although deregulation did not start with him.
In the current case, the recession was caused by high oil prices of the Bush administration, and has lasted a long time. Spending too much money does not cause recession, but it may cause inflation. – and that will be Obama’s fault.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Did you say “take responsibility” in the same breath as the word Dem? Wow I’ve never seen this before. The most repeated phrase in the Obama administration whenever someone points to their failed socialist agenda is “we inherited this from the Bush administration”.
Funny – You never heard Reagan say this while he was handling the Carter recession or Bush with the Clinton recession.
I guess the slogan “The buck stops here” is a capitalist term Obama doesn’t subscribe to.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Never. Democrats have destroyed our economy through forced regulations on our banking industry. They forced the banks to provide loans in all neighborhoods at the same rate reguardless of down payment and payment history. When the banks made it clear that they would be in violation of federal regulations due to taking on this higher risk at the same reward (interest rate received) Democrat Clinton told them not to worry he’ll have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy them. This increased the amount of people that could get loans and therefore increased demand changing the supply/demand curve and due to higher demand than what was available in the current market prices went up. Due to increasing value the bad loans didn’t matter because they could be refinanced or foreclosed on and someone else was waiting there to buy it at the inflated price. The Republicans tried on 12 separate occasions the change this rediculous system and the Democrats blocked them every time. Democrats want America to fail so they can say they are helping the people by implementing their Socialist/Communist agendas. The Democrat Party’s program is to steal from Paul to pay Pedro and Peter and therefore win elections by 2/3rds of the vote. Look at how they have dumbed down our educational system. Look at how they blocked social security reform, knowing it would go bankrupt soon. Look at how they are pouring our money into bankrupt companies. Look at how they have blocked for years our country’s ability to produce it’s own electricity and oil. That is the core issue of hurting our US auto industry. Democrats don’t take responsibility for what they destroy. They state a lie as many times as they can and know the media will report it as the truth. It’s horrible.
March 1st, 2010 at 12:52 am
I’m sorry, I don’t normally pick on spelling, but since ‘failure’ is the main word in this question, I believe it should be spelled correctly. No politician will ever take responsibility for their failures.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:36 am
While the Chosen One is in office, the communist led media will give
Obama an “A” on any thing that goes right. If it goes wrong they will blame it on Bush and give Bush an “F”
March 1st, 2010 at 5:38 am
Obama and the Dems do not know how to take responsibility. They only know how to point their fingers and cry: Bush did it. Pathetic!
March 1st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Right after the Republicans own up to the last 8 years.kind of expensive isn’t it cleaning up after the last 8 years of Failed policy’s
March 1st, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Obama and the Democrats might be to blame for some American failures.
But your failure at spelling is all your fault.
March 1st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
What is a failier?
When will idiots like you start taking responsibility and learn to read and write at an adult level?
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:33 am
They will still blame others – even in 2011 they will still blame others – self-introspection is not their strong suit.
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:26 am
I refuse to take responsibility for any failiers anywhere.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
When did Bush and Cheney ever accept and responsibility for the failures of the past eight years?
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm
He meant failure you idiots.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
capitalism as a whole is to blame
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
NEVER…they never wil, they will continue to blame others
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:42 am
Unfortunately, we are still seeing the effects of the Bush Administration, which I am still a Bush fan. However, dems as a whole must take responsibility for their actions now. The senate has been a Democratic majority for enough time to take responsibility for their actions. Bush couldn’t have done anything on his own for the last year of his term, even if he wanted to, because Congress had a say in what was being done. The whole blaming the Bush Adminitstration thing is an excuse, and honestly, I think there will always be some excuse.
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:55 am
Gee, maybe it’s because Rep’s will not stand up and be accountable for their illegal action.
We are a nation of laws, unless your saying that Rep’s should be above the Constitution.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Not cutting it anymore with whom? You?
You’re irrelevant.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 pm
What’s a “failier?”
I hope Jimmy J’s answer is not deleted. It’s completely true.
March 4th, 2010 at 2:18 am
when will you start taking responsibility for the failure or America? After all, America is made up of people like you.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:16 am
Do you take responsibility for not being able to spell?
Give him more time!