Home ownership and low income housing are completely different items.
The BDS crowd is completely ignoring arguments:
1. Bush 17 times advocated reforms to fannie mae and related programs to prevent the current crisis.
2. In 2007, the democrats gained control of the Congress and accelerated the crisis.
3. Low income housing and home ownership are different. Home ownership is capitalism. That is conservative. Less than 7% of mortgages are in some sort of default.
4. Bush’s TARP plan pays back taxpayers. Obama’s does not.
5. Bush spent only half of the original $750 billion TARP 1.
6. The BDS crowd is not offering alternatives and refuses to repudiate Obama’s actions.
It is completely legit to reject the BDS arguments as more efforts to stymie the conservative movement.
This is politics. W was chosen in 2000 because the alternative was McCain. W was and remains more conservative than McCain. There is nothing preventing anyone here from running for, supporting, or defending conservative candidates for Congress.
That is not what is being done here. This is a Bush bash fest which caters to the Left’s domination of the public sphere. All conservatives will be pilloried until they are unsustainable. Palin and others will be internally smeared to prevent the re-emergence of conservatism as a public cause.
DUH!
I didn't say they were.
He called for reforms... but not to prevent the current crisis.
2. In 2007, the democrats gained control of the Congress and accelerated the crisis.
The foundation was already built -- by both pubbies and dems.
3. Low income housing and home ownership are different. Home ownership is capitalism. That is conservative. Less than 7% of mortgages are in some sort of default.
Home ownership, funded with taxpayer money is not capitalism nor conservative.
4. Bush’s TARP plan pays back taxpayers. Obama’s does not.
They both suck.
5. Bush spent only half of the original $750 billion TARP 1.
Half of a bad idea is still a bad idea.
6. The BDS crowd is not offering alternatives and refuses to repudiate Obama’s actions.
I repudiate Obama's actions all the time. But that isn't the subject of this thread.
This is a Bush bash fest which caters to the Left’s domination of the public sphere.
As I said earlier, I oppose liberalism whether it comes with an R or a D attached. Defending it just because it was offered by a Republican is simply denial and of no value, IMO.