Ugh. I agree with parts of what he said—the recession was shaping up during 2008, and GWB made a LOT of mistakes through his term on economic policy (especially in spending like a drunken pirate and cranking the deficit up to ridiculous levels). But just because President Bush made a ton of mistakes doesn’t mean that we can’t call President Obama out for making WORSE mistakes, such as running the deficit even higher out beyond the event horizon, nationalizing major corporations, attempting to execute more state control over the economy, and now trying to nationalize our healthcare system.
You can argue whether Bush was bad on the economy, but I can’t see how any conservative could argue that Obama isn’t much, much worse. One does not prevent you from pointing out the other.
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Hundreds of billions transferred from taxpayers and taxpayers' children into the pockets of the politically influential, based on the lie that "we gotta do something RIGHT NOW, there's a CRISIS".
In that sense it is Bush's fault.
And if we replace Obama with a Republican who continues to prop up the investment banking zombies with government debt, in the long run we'll be no better off.
“You can argue whether Bush was bad on the economy, but I can’t see how any conservative could argue that Obama isn’t much, much worse. One does not prevent you from pointing out the other.”
Correct. The author seemingly cannot tell the difference between bad and really, really ,really bad.