Bush Derangement Syndrome alive and well (but fading a bit)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 8/18/09 | Rasmussen Reports staff

[SeattleBruce]

"Again this month, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% say the bad economy is caused more by Obama’s policies, but 55% blame President Bush. These findings are unchanged from the previous two months.

In May, 62% blamed Bush more, while 27% thought Obama’s policies were at fault.

Also unchanged this month are the overall findings on economic judgment. Sixty percent (60%) of voters say they trust their own judgment on economic issues more than the president’s. Twenty-seven percent (27%) trust Obama more, and 14% are not sure. "

[SeattleBruce]

What?? 55% still blame Bush - wow, that excuse had some legs...at least it's gone down 7 points and bammy's blame up 12 - how much longer before he's underwater on that lame blame excuse?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Not bad for a bunch of pinheads who get ALL of their information and knowledge about economics from Obama’s eunuchs in the state run MSM.

[SeattleBruce]

It’s lame anyhow to blame the president completely for the economy - although the prez sets the tone. How lame is it 3 years after completely controlling Congress and 7 months after taking the WH to blame Bush??

Lame
Blame
Game
Frame
Same
Dame (for Clinton)
Shame

[Le Chien Rouge]

Issues the left will eternally blame on Bush policies:

1) Economy
2) Any Terror attacks
3) Global warming
4) Racial strife
5) BCS fiasco
6) Pakistan Implosion
7) Afghan War deaths(even as Obama increased troop strength)
8) Crime rate in Chicago
9) Crumbling highway bridges

... if they could find a way, the left would blame Bush for the breakup of the Beatles

[the invisib1e hand]

I found this little gem just this morning:

Fazil Mihlar on how President George W. Bush’s wild spending spree over the past eight years put the...

From the "Top Picks" section of the Vancouver Sun... http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/communityofinterest/archive/2009/08/19/bush-and-obama-have-driven-the-united-states-into-insolvency-is-the-world-going-to-pay-the-price.aspx

[stevecmd]

Yet we still se posts on FR about the MSM-Deathwatch. They are very alive and still impacting the great unwashed.

[dalebert]

i dont get it...they voted in a democrat congress to fix things and we crashed big time so they vote in more dems and a dem president but still blame bush....makes perfect sense.

[LibLieSlayer]

Since Rasmussen asks about “somewhat approve” for hussein the muzzie... how about asking if those being polled “somewhat supported” Bush and his tax cuts. How about asking if they "somewhat blame" hussein for the economy? Rasmussen does not ask THOSE questions because only the zero must be bolstered by polling games and slight of hand techniques.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

You forgot KATRINA.

LLS

[boomop1]

Unemployment was still at acceptable low all during Bush years. This new O'bozo illegal has destroyed the banking, auto and soon maybe the health care system. He has a stunning unemployment record as the economy is his doing, end the blame it on Bush shit.

[ohioWfan]

Just when you are beginning to think the American people are smarter than you feared, they prove you wrong.

Blaming Bush for this mess in the first place was ignorant (it was the Dems who caused the Fannie/Freddie crash in the first place), but blaming him now is brainless.

Wake up America. Don't believe a thing the MSM tells you, and you'll be on the right track.

[ohioWfan]

Make that ALL Hurricans, LLS.

Katrina was the biggest, but the diabolical Karl Rove controlled them all. Remember? ;)

[ohioWfan]

Arrgh - hurricanes, not hurricans.

[SeattleBruce]

From your article by the Daily KOS, er the Vancouver Sun: "Bush left the Obama administration with a $10 trillion debt. The new president’s trip on the wild side will leave the sole remaining superpower — if you can call an insolvent nation a superpower — with a debt load of $14 trillion by 2010.

The debt-to GDP ratio — a measure of a country’s ability to pay the interest on the debt and the debt itself — is projected to hit 90 per cent in 2010, up from the current 70 per cent.

And there is no end in sight. Even if economic growth returns to the U.S. soon, most forecasters estimate that budget deficit will continue to be high as $500 billion annually.

This fiscal path is not sustainable. No wonder the Chinese — the folks who hold a quarter of U.S. Treasuries that are in the hands of foreigners — dumped a tranche this week because of the eroding value of the greenback and no credible fiscal plan from Obama to address the deficit."
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I agree with that. What he didn't mention was that Bush's spending was over 8 years and the deficit started at:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
5.7 Trillion and ended at
10.6 Trillion

So, under 8 years of Pres. Bush and the last 2 years of dim bulb congress - the public debt went up 4.9 Trillion (also fighting a 2 front war.)

While many of us have decried Bush's spending, let's see what bammy's done in 7 months:
From 10.62 Trillion to
11.72

1.1 Trillion increase in 7 months...and he's just getting started. Extrapolating over 4 years that is 7.54 Trillion. And that's him just getting started!

It helps to look at facts. It helps to have actual numbers.

[the invisib1e hand]

(also fighting a 2 front war.)

Not only fighting them, but mobilizing them, which is where the greatest expense is. And there's all the Homeland Security and post 9-11 extraordinary items.

Bush and Obama are not in the same league, fiscally.

[SeattleBruce]

Rasmussen does not ask THOSE questions because only the zero must be bolstered by polling games and slight of hand techniques.
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He should ask those questions. He doesn’t really support Bammy - he’s out ahead of the polling game, imho. If anything he rocks the boat.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Once the # blaiming bush drops to below 50% obama is history.

[Vanders9]

I thought Bush DID break up the beatles!

[italianquaker]

Believe it or not for this I do blame the gop. They never made an issue about the rats controlling Congress and the fall of the stock market etc

[Cicero]

Yes. In the first place, Bush WAS a big spender. He was good on taxes but lousy on spending.

In the second place, as you say, the Republicans have NEVER blamed the Democrat congressional majority for the economic problems of Bush’s last two years.

In the third place, Bush stupidly listed to Paulson, who was working for Obama. It was Bush who passed the TARP bill. It was Bush who first screwed up the Big Three bailout and blocked a normal bankruptcy proceeding that might have actually done some good.

In the fourth place, Bush let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac run rampant and never made it clear how dangerous the situation was. He even got on TV and boasted how many subprime loans he was making to poor black people—a piece of stupidity that the Dems took and used as a campaign ad.

Sure, Obama is the main culprit. But Bush was far from blameless. Bush and McCain and the RNC helped make it possible for Obama to get into the White House.