Posted on 09/15/2009 7:15:46 AM PDT by GoldStandard
One year after the collapse of global financial firm Lehman Brothers, most voters (56%) continue to blame the nation’s current economic problems on the recession that started under George W. Bush, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
That’s up one point over the past month, but down six points from mid-May.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) blame current problems on the policies implemented by President Obama, down two points from August.
While the majority of Democrats (81%) and unaffiliated voters (52%) blame the Bush administration, 59% of GOP voters blame Obama’s policies.
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depends on the “bush”
The funny part of this is that 19% blame CLINTON.
Bush shares blame for his Keynesian policies, his inaction towards Congressional Democrats and setting the stage for Obozo, who is even more Keynesian, thorougly anti-capitalist and anti-constitutional. The future mess will be the work of Obama and his fellow rats, but Bush has not covered himself with glory either.
The Democrats are just partisan. They’d blame the nearest Republican no matt what. The Republicans are just shallow. They don’t think these things thru.
A lot of people had a hand in creating our economic problems and exacerbating them. GW Bush is one of them.
jeez what about congress....
Well, with 24/7 ‘information’ from the MSM telling everybody that it was the Bush administration that caused all of the economic problems, and practically none of the Republican Party standard bearers defended or explained what’s going on, what do we expect? What’s surprising for me is that the number is quite low...
Bush's reckless spending is still having a negative impact on the economy, but that is being dwarfed by the damage the Kenyan has caused in his few short months on the job.
Some will refuse to ever acknowledge it, but as more time passes, it will get harder and harder for the libs to continue to blame GWB for their messiah’s ineptitude.
If the GOP were a competent opposition party that was pointing out Obambi’s failures with a coherent, disciplined message, it would help. Looks like that is too much to ask for though.
How about Senator Obama who, for two years, was in the Senate writing the bills that then President Bush signed. A president can't just pull these spending bills out of his a**.
Lot of good it did them and us for 43 to invite the Kennedy clan over for movie night at the WH and for 41 to adopt Bill Clinton ...
If there was a deficiency in judgement, it will pale in comparison to where Obamas trojan shadow government is wanting to take America. If Obama gest his way, the currency will become meaningless wallpaper , unemployment will soar, and America will become a third world banana republic.
All in the marxist spirit of “redistribute the wealth” along the way.
Well, looking at the results of the election, it is quite obvious that 52% of the American voters are morons.
And yet none of them blame themselves for theft-by-ballot-box.
Even some Freepers parrot this propaganda regularly.
The day that Obama put out the unemployment chart showing (monthly put up here) how it would peak and drop with the passing of his stimulus than without it is the day that he took ownership of this whole thing. Still burns me to no end that there isn’t someone in the GOP that isn’t screaming this from the rooftops every month with the chart in hand.
That chart should be in every commercial run by the GOP.
$0- All spending must originate in Congress per the U.S. Constitution. Sure, he made recommendations and signed final bills, but Congress is who actually 'makes' it.
I agree, but I would also add W's great dislike of the technology sector and Wall Street.
Well, I would also have to add his neglect of the weak dollar, and skyrocketing commodity and housing prices.
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