Posted on 04/28/2009 12:33:24 PM PDT by presidio9
for all the ****ty things you mentioned, you do realize that there has to be a buyer? nobody stuck a gun to their head
That's THEIR claim (liberals). (I don't think so)
But I'm making the point that both parties indulged in 'deregulation'. So if they want to blame the current situation on that, they have to take much of the blame themselves.
Yes, you are right. There were the sh*tty buyers of mortgages.
But I will say this, if people don’t have the money to buy a house and someone offers it to them and works it out where they won’t have to lay out any money — a lot of people will take it.
So, I don’t blame them quite as much - some people will do whatever they have to for their family and worry about the consequences later (not talking about the speculators).
BDS...
I absolutely HATE that talk. It is never a blessing in disguise to have one political party in power without any checks and balances (in the political sense - no Republican controlled branches of govern.) for at least two years.
Maybe then the American people will get a clear picture of the Democrats total incompetence.
Has it ever occurred to anyone, that maybe the American people will not get a clear picture. Has it occurred to anyone, that maybe the American people will keep giving the liberals numerous chances with the help of the MSM. I don't mean to sound pessimistic ... but ...
100 days and he still has his support thanks in part to the MSM. Even after numerous controversies so far. His poll numbers are still high ... The previous congress(Dem controlled) had the lowest approval ratings ever ... and were rewarded by having more liberals elected into office.
I do not have faith in the American Public when they receive their news and have their opinions influenced by the MSM.
Both. Bush should have vetoed so much more of the overspending.
It wasn’t Bush, it was Andrea Mitchell’s hubby, Alan Greedspan.
Fair argument.
The bulk of blame should always rest with Congress because the President is not consitutionally assigned this duty and has only one blunt instrument for trimming the budget. That blunt instrument can have devastating political effect for Republican President speaking to democratically controlled Media.
Agreed! But just as I wouldn’t let Clinton (and won’t let Obama) off the hook for “not vetoing,” I can’t let Bush off the hook for it either.
no problem.
I think your argument is fair.
Loaning massive amounts of money to under qualified borrowers is the problem. The government encouraged it, incentivised it, subsidized it, politicized it and in some cases required it. Socialist policy is breaking the back of capitalism.
The unpopularity of the Bush-Cheney administration did soften things up for Obama. But the economic downturn (and the media) helped the One hoodwink the voters. McCain did not do enough to sway opinion in the Fall.
Oh, I dunno. He convinced over half the country to vote for 0bama. I don't like 0bama, but the thought of President McCain staggering around the White House with Meghan doesn't warm the cockles of my heart, either. No matter who won this election, I knew I'd end up with cold cockles.
“How long did it take to capture Saddam Hussein? Should we have left and let him get back into power?”
Well I guess if we left the Iraqi army intact to keep the place under control like anyone with half a brain would of done ,Saddam would have been easer to find with their help.
Plaese tell me you left out a sarcasm tag...
We could structure a debate about how a milquetoast moderate President McCain would have continued the disaffection for the GOP that Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld really got going, but we’re stuck with Obama now until 2012. Some realistic appraisal of how we got here might be prudent. The media and the orchestrated Fabian dumbing down of the population by Deweyite education certainly had a fair share in that. But a presidential candidate (or president) has to be able to connect with and speak to the American people in competent English tht motivates them to cast their votes for him. How much it was from conservatives staying home or voting for third parties, OK, fair enough, maybe. There were the establishment types overly impressed with Obama’s alleged eloquence and suave hoodwinking.
Well said!
I am sick of the Bush bashing...especially from FReepers. Why do you think the left and the media always bring this subject up? Because they want us arguing among ourselves and making the argument for them to the whole country about ‘what is wrong with our party’!
There is nothing wrong with our party that a return to our conservative and Reagan roots cannot fix and we had better stop playing their game.
Yeah, you’re right! It seems that they are out in force today, for some reason. Well, I hope they are happy with what we have now, Pres. Obama and the whole Congress/Senate in Dem. (far left) leadership! I’m sick of it too!
I would’ve thought by now they would’ve been well, missing Bush a little. I guess not! They’d rather have what they have now. Well, we all are stuck with the left-wing now, even the crabs on here now, and it’s going to be reallllyyy hard to get the left-wing out now!
Maybe these Bush-haters will have their gut full of the left-wing soon. They have nothing but spite for Bush now. Maybe they’ll appreciate what we had when the left-wing regime we have now takes everything away from us all. I doubt it. Ten years from now, it will still be all Bush’s fault!
NO when it was left up to Bremer For some unfathomable reason!!he disbanded the lot of them! Now you have an unemployed Army..
Think about it and get back! That Puke Constitution was another work of Genius, they should have been handed one and told to use it..
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