Posted on 04/08/2010 9:57:18 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former President George W. Bush gets more blame for the countrys economic troubles than his successor or the Democrats who control Congress, according to a Harris poll out Wednesday.
Thirty-one percent of the 2,344 adults surveyed said Bush deserves the most blame for a rough economy, leading the second-place Wall Street by 6 percentage points.
Democrats in Congress were blamed by 16 percent of those polled, while President Barack Obama was blamed by 14 percent. Republicans in Congress were blamed by 9 percent of respondents, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was blamed by 4 percent.
A majority of Democrats 53 percent blamed Bush for the economy. Republicans, meanwhile, blamed Democrats in Congress more than Obama.
The memory of President George W. Bush and the state of the economy he left as part of his legacy still sticks in the craw of Americans, wrote pollster Louis Harris in his analysis.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It was a bubble. It was bound to burst. Read “Return of the Great Depression” by Vox Day.
W will not be on the ballot in November so the people will have to take it out on someone else.
Folks, the REAL blame for the economy can be summed up in two sentences from today’s Investor’s Business Daily PageA10:
“In 1996, President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development told Fannie and Freddie that 42% of their financing had to go to those with incomes below the median.”
“By 2000, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo proudly unveiled new regulations to provide $2.4 trillion in mortgages for affordable housing for 28.1 million families.”
Pretty much says it all.
Well, those should be easy to find, if one is willing to wake up and smell the coffee and acknowledge that McCain is really a Rat.
this is the MEME for the DNC november campaign.
They are going to keep pushing the change and teh MEME of blame GWBush.
In a completely unrelated story; today’s Rasmussen poll finds that 28% strongly APPROVE of the job Obama is doing as president...28% approval vs. 31% blame Bush...certainly within that well-known ‘margin of error’...
Pfft...nothing more than Politico - again - tossing rose petals at the feet of Obama and their liberal brethren.
Well, heck yeah. If rabs decides to humor me and posts something negative about Democrats, it'll be historical. Wouldn't want anyone to miss it.
BTW, I'm glad to see you're OK. You were on my prayer list for a while a few years back, if I'm remembering correctly.
I blame him too.... but that doesn’t excuse B.Hussein O’s making it much, much, much worse.
To be honest, I think at the end, they were working “together” to create a mess, which they did.
BINGO!
praying they will....
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
That's a joke, right?
Congress controls the purse-strings.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress during the last two years right before the financial meltdown and they are still in CONTROL.
This enough is reason to uncover the Soros link to the Obama-electing crash.
Even better.. a friend had this as his Facebook status.. Pres. Bush is being blamed for the mine explosion - no, it’s series! and Hugh!
Not just a murderer by safety violations but, a toxic waste causing, environmental criminal. ANOTHER GIFT BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUSH!
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/07/blankenship-coal-pays/
He was literally between a rock and a hard place, in Sept of 2008, when there was, I believe, a 'manufactured crisis', but the fix he came up with has already righted itself, because IIRC, all the money the Fed. Govt. lent to businesses in the Fall of 2008 has been paid back.
It's the Obama stimulus package, and the uncertainty businesses have about the health insurance situation, that are causing the problems in the economy, and the joblessness we see today, and those were NOT caused by George W. Bush.
Well, those should be easy to find, if one is willing to wake up and smell the coffee and acknowledge that McCain is really a Rat.
I pray he doesn’t win!! I can’t stand the thought of him as the pub. choice for presidential canidate. Yuk and Ug!
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