[C19fan]

Romney is bringing all of Bush The Younger's economic team.

[Da Coyote]

Dear WaPo...take all of your negative descriptors of the Bush team, multiply them by a very large number, and we can then apply them to your cretinistic quota baby president.

Shove it up your smelly collective Obamas, journo-holes, your first grade understanding of econ doesn’t hack it any more.

[mnehring]

The Bush economy is one of the worst on record.

Actually, it wasn't. The two dips during President Bush's terms were mild compared to some we've had and the gains were some of the strongest. Just because the media and politicians called it the 'worst economy in 50 years' doesn't make it so. You can't argue with the math.

[ilgipper]

Ezra Klein needs to have his parents get him back to his pre-school class. They are about to have milk break.

[Gay State Conservative]

This,I guess,would be the crisis caused by Attorney Corporal Reno having warned mortgage lenders that any such lender who denies a loan to a member of the victim class will have the entire US Department of Just Us dropped on top of them.

[concerned about politics]

Yeah. That 4.3% unemployment was a real bitch. Oh, and those record stock market numbers were real killers. Even worse - gas prices were only about $1.60!

Good thing the democrats housing bill did something to stop the horrors. Good thing Oboma was elected on"hope and change" to keep poverty in the U.S. alive and well !!

Go welfare! Go Food stamps! Go homelessness! Go Oboma!

[Iron Munro]

And no one at all seems to be curious about who caused the financial panic in Sept. 2008 that put Obama in office.

[mnehring]

GDP averages for every President since 1948.

1948-1952 (Harry S. Truman, Democrat), +4.82%
1953-1960 (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican), +3%
1961-1964 (John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat), +4.65%
1965-1968 (Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat), +5.05%
1969-1972 (Richard Nixon, Republican), +3%
1973-1976 (Richard Nixon / Gerald Ford, Republican), +2.6%
1977-1980 (Jimmy Carter, Democrat), +3.25%
1981-1988 (Ronald Reagan, Republican), 3.4%
1989-1992 (George H. W. Bush, Republican), 2.17%
1993-2000 (Bill Clinton, Democrat), 3.88%
2001-2008 (George W. Bush, Republican), +2.09%
2009 (Barack Obama, Democrat), -2.6%

[what's up]

It was remarkable how Bush sustained the economy even with a horrific terror attack (funny how everyone seems to forget that) and then 2 hard wars.

The week it looked like the surge was working Pelosi and her MSM friends started attacking the economy and they never let up until Obama was riding high in Fall of '08 and sure enough people got terrified of the socialism coming and the economy crashed.

The headlines were relentlessly focused on the WOT until the surge. It was amazing how fast the media high-tailed it and turned to economic issues when Bush won in Iraq.

[mnehring]

Unemployment, Bush v Obama

2002- Bush	5.8
2003- Bush	6.0
2004- Bush	5.5
2005- Bush	5.1
2006- Bush	4.6
2007- Bush	4.6
2008- Bush	5.8
2009- Obama	9.3
2010 - Obama	9.6

[RightWingConspirator]

It seems to me that the US economy really started to sink when Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi took control of the Congress in 2006.

[Zman516]

Ezra seems to have forgotten that the RATs essentially took control of the economy when Pelosi and Reed became House and Senate majority leaders in January 2007. That, coupled with the seven RINO Senators like McCain so eager to please the RATs left GWB essentially helpless.

[mnehring]

Romney is bringing all of Bush The Younger's economic team.

That may be one of the first smart things he's done.

[silverleaf]

Never mind your lying eyes, comrades!

FORWARD! FORWARD!

for the commander in chief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_z_pHUKajc

[Falcon4.0]

"The Bush economy is one of the worst on record."

Lesson.
This is what happens when you are "Bi Partisan" with democRats and give them "half" of everything they want.

[nathanbedford]

You certainly wouldn’t think we’d just emerged from a decade in which large tax cuts and financial deregulation led to major economic distress.

Actually we just emerged from a decade which government overspending and government meddling in the housing mortgage industry led to a leveraging by derivatives of government forced loans which led to "major economic distress".

The problem was not generated by Bush who attempted to regulate the grotesque interference by Congress and the Clinton Administration who forced banks to make uneconomic loans to minorities and aggravated the harm with shameful cronyism of Democrats and the bureaucrats in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who personally profited from cooking the books.

The problem was not Bush, nor was it lack of regulation but too much regulation and it certainly was not deregulation that led to "distress", it was government spending and government meddling.

This is an illustration of the truth being unable to get its boots on before the lie has gone halfway around the world.

[CMAC51]

Actually the true measure of the Bush economy should start post 9/11. The post 9/11 crash had nothing to do with Bush’s economic policies, but the dramatic recovery sure did.

[Vendome]

To the author:

You need to get off the bar stool and stole living in the past. We are still four years into the saviors administration and nothing has improved.

Would that your team of psychologists could help you steer your life to the present and address the issues important now.

[SoldierDad]

But here’s one: I’m old enough to remember when George W. Bush was president. It was, after all, only four short years ago. And it didn’t go so well. The Bush economy is one of the worst on record.

Why does everyone leave out of the equation some very important facts:

1) 9/11/01 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

2) The mess created by the democrat's attempt to manipulate the housing market (Freddie Mack/Fanny Mae which CAUSED the market crash 3) The democrats took control of Congress (both houses) in January 2007, placing road block after road block in the path of the Bush Admin with respects to domestic items. 3) Democrats impeding nearly all of the Bush Admin domestic policy beginning shortly after Bush's inaguration in 2001, and continuing through 2008.

Anyone who tries to pin the entirety of the economic mess we are currently in to G.W.B. is a liar.

[Obadiah]

Ezra Klein

Journ-O-List

[elpadre]

Before you heap all of these problems on President Bush, remember the Democrats had control of both Houses during his last two years and they were working fervently to destroy the economy in order to set up Obama as the savior.