I think we would be appalled if we could somehow wave a magic wand and reveal all the shenanigans this administration has fallen prey to.
Truthfully, I consider it a miracle George Bush has accomplished as much as he has in the face of the constant attempts to discredit him and sink his plans.
The sad part is that you have to wonder how much he could have accomplished if he had gotten even the cooperation that Democratic presidents have gotten from Republicans over the years. Sure, the Republicans have fought the president tooth and nail, but there's never been the outright attempts to destroy a president and his administration regardless of how badly it damaged the country.
Regarding IncyMac - Schumer’s comments hastened the inevitable. The bank was going to fail, regulators had it on a watch list and were monitoring it, anticipating a need to intervene. What might have been a month or two glide path to takeover became a precipitous decline after Schumer’s public remarks - and that short-circuited what would have been a more orderly takeover or transfer of the bank operations. Some might say - it would have failed anyway, what’s the difference? The difference is enormous - and the dollar amount difference between doing it the way Schumer did it and the way it would have happened in the absence of Schumer’s remarks is very large. The losses to the FDIC and to employees of the bank were significantly larger as a result.
Repeating successful tactics: John Pierpont Morgan again used rumor and innuendo to create a panic that would change the course of history. The panic of 1907 was triggered by rumors that two major banks were about to become insolvent. Later evidence pointed to the House of Morgan as the source of the rumors. The public, believing the rumors, proceeded to make them come true by staging a run on the banks. The public thus became convinced that the country needed a central banking system to stop future panics, overcoming strong congressional opposition to any bill allowing the nation’s money to be issued by a private central bank controlled by Wall Street; and the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.
“The sad part is that you have to wonder how much he could have accomplished if he had gotten even the cooperation that Democratic presidents have gotten from Republicans over the years. Sure, the Republicans have fought the president tooth and nail, but there’s never been the outright attempts to destroy a president and his administration regardless of how badly it damaged the country.”
That is an excellent summary of what the rats have done our country in their non stop attempts to destroy him and his people.