Kyl Spikes Schumer's Bush=Hoover Shtick

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

With Eliot Spitzer gone, Chuck Schumer moves to the head of the list of self-righteously bloviating New York pols. So it was particularly satisfying to see Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ] put Schumer is his place on today's This Week.

A guest with Kyl for purposes of discussing the economy, Schumer clearly came in with a game plan: to analogize President Bush to the man who presided over the beginning of the Great Depression: Herbert Hoover. After he tried it twice, Kyl had had enough and unleashed a riposte that was as reasoned as it was devastating.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

View video here:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/23/kyl-spikes-schumers-bush-hoover-shtick

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Kyl puts Chucky in his place ping to Today show list.

[Piquaboy]

Chucky Schumer makes me want to puke. Weasel faced a-hole.

[the invisib1e hand]

The sitting duck is yesterday’s battle, isn’t it? Are they really that wounded? Will they dig up his bones when he’s gone and burn them?

[JaneNC]

This is great. Love it, love it.

[Vaquero]

if Hoover would have been re-elected in’32 the depression would have been over 5 years earlier than it did....Roosevelts anti free market crap prevented Wall Street from its natural course correction...if Hoover was re-elected, then we wouldn't have had to bait the Japanese into attacking us by cutting off their oil supply, to start a war to end the depression. another socialist failure of Franklin Delano Roooosevelt.

[blastdad51]

I would ask Schumer “ What admistration, culture, country in all of this planets history ever taxed itself into prosperity? and why would our present day democrats plan be different?”

[csmusaret]

We are more than half way through Pelosi’s first term as Speaker and what do we have to show for it? Gasoline is up a dollar per gallon. The stock market is down 1500 points. The dollar is down 40%. We have a credit crisis and the economy teeters on collapse. What has the Democratic Congress done? They have blamed Bush and pretended that they are innocent bystanders. When is the press going to start holding them accountable? Maybe when Hillary divorces her meal ticket.

[radar101]

Chuckie SHOOO MAH:

[Brilliant]

Not tough enough, and unfortunately, Kyl is just one Senator. The Dems are like a broken record, droning on and on about this without being challenged by the GOP, except once in a blue moon.

[tomnbeverly]

Chucky missed his history classes.... The Democrats are an extreme danger to this country. If the populace only really understood...

[wolfcreek]

IMO, the *powers that be* are looking to start another war with another economic crisis. Just a thought.

[PGalt]

Thanks for watching/reporting, Mark.

Schumer should be selling Hoover vacuums. He sucks.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kyl’s comments are right on target. The leadup to the subprime mess was sprang from the liberal mindset.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

There you go again, Shcmuckie.

And just like all you stupid liberals who only have half an education, you overlook your own faults.

Hoover was right. There was economic turmoil ahead as his term was ending. It was FDR who claimed it was Hoover's policies that caused the problems. He denounced Hoover in order to gain power. Well, FDR won, and what did he do? He implemented most of the policies that Hoover was propounding. Unfortunately, FDR hated the free market and was a Socialist. Combining Hoover's policies OUTSIDE of the free market is what helped lead to a decade of the Great Depression.

So, once again, a Dem is lying about a Republican for his own party's gains of power.

This time, though, if a Dem wins, the DemocRAT party will not have a Reagan-type robust economy to parasite off of for 4 or 8 years. And that is because of W's FDR-style Big Government policies. If the Dems win in 08, look for even worse economic events. How long will it take before they replay that old chorus, “It's all Bush's fault. We had no idea how bad things were under his control. No one could have fixed his mess.”

Socialism sucks.
Free(dom) markets kick ass.

[Digital Sniper]

JON KYL: Well, first, I wondered how long it would take my friend, Chuck Schumer, to blame the Bush administration here. Of course, it wasn't the Bush administration, as much as it was Democrats in congress, who were pushing the lending institutions to get out there and lend more money, even to unqualified buyers. To minorities, to the poor, to the young, so that everyone could own a home. The Bush administration was somewhat to blame for that, as well. But Democrats in congress were making that push. And as a result, a lot of people took loans who couldn't qualify. In fact, they didn't have to qualify. No money down. There was no credit reporting. And a lot of them, frankly, couldn't afford it. So, let's don't blame the Bush administration for this.

And as to Hoover, it's Senator Schumer and his Democratic colleagues who want to raise taxes, like Hoover did when he refused to allow the Coolidge tax breaks to stay in effect and put in the Smoot-Hawley [a tariff-raising law widely blamed as a cause of the Great Depression]. And they of course, are opposing the free trade agreements that the president's trying to bring up. Let's understand that the Bush administration is trying to be pro-active on the tax and trade fronts.

Oof. That's gonna leave a mark. Of course, the Democrats will not be shamed. Only those with souls have a sense of shame.

[Digital Sniper]

The leadup to the subprime mess was sprang from the liberal mindset.

Well, of course! And the other lesson here is that this mess is precisely what happens when the Republican leadership "reaches across the aisles" to the Democrats and goes along with their asinine plans. We wind up with a huge mess and the Democrats always blame us for their disastrous plan!

And here we have John "Maverick" McCain leading the GOP as the liberal's Judas Goat, taking our nation still further down this road to perdition.

[TNCMAXQ]

Probably more than half of Americans can’t even say who was president before Bush. For the Dems to keep bringing up Hoover, who left office over 70 years ago, is pretty lame IMO.

[Digital Sniper]

Probably more than half of Americans can’t even say who was president before Bush. For the Dems to keep bringing up Hoover, who left office over 70 years ago, is pretty lame IMO.

You may be right, but remember that the public "schools" history classes only hammer in the failures that can be pinned on Republicans. When it comes to the failures of Democrats, they only focus on the "admirable intentions" of the policies that failed "only because people didn't believe hard enough."