Poll: George W. Bush still blamed for economy

Politico ^ | 2010-04-08 | Andy Barr

[rabscuttle385]

Former President George W. Bush gets more blame for the country’s 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.

[roses of sharon]

Typical of weenies left and right...scared of the Kenyan and ready to battle with an old retired white guy who can’t claim racism.

[SuziQ]

Though Republicans might be making small gains in WV, that state is OWNED by Democrats, and any concessions made for mining companies would have had to go through Senators Bobby Byrd, and John D. Rockefeller, both long serving Democrats.

[Allegra]

You're expecting Rabs and his posse to fight the democrats?

I was in a daydreaming mood. ;-)

[mo]

Lessee...before COngress was controlled by Democrats....in 2006...when Nancy Pelosi was saying “the worst economy EVER!”

unemployment was 4.7%.....

[bunkerhill7]

Poll: George W. Bush still blamed for The Fall of Man.

[MichiganConservative]

You can’t trust anything Pelosi says. That botox bitch is pure evil.

[Allegra]

Are you ready to do the same, or would you just prefer to continue playing duck-duck-goose with the establishment RINOs and Rats?

Once again, you make false accusations to support a point. I'm pretty sure you know that I don't support RINOs. (However, I consider Ron Paul to be one, which may be the crux of the matter here.)

My point is, and I've said this before, you always seem so ready to go after the RINOs, but never, ever the Democrats. They share as much, if not much more blame in all of this.

[gathersnomoss]

This is EXACTLY what happens when you elect a RINO.

NO MORE RINO’s.

Tell these POS progressives to go to hell.

Conservatives only! Otherwise, you have to argue to their point.

Stop The Madness!

[ajay_kumar]

And people are pretty much correct. BUsh and the majority GOP congress pre-2006 should have done something to reign in Freddie Mac and Fannie May.

Also, the bank bailout plan was anti-free market. In a true capitalist system one is allowed to fail if operating unwisely.

[garyhope]

Thank you. I’ve tried to tell my Dim Dhim Dem friends (?) this to no avail. I may as well talk to a wall.

[DannyTN]

Bush does share some blame.

• He shocked consumer psychology with his announcement that he needed TARP or banking would collapse.
• I know he and the republicans tried unsuccessfully to head some of this stuff off, but what they did was too little.
• They pandered to the banks and allowed Credit Card companies to run wild.
• Republicans seem to have no interest in anti-trust actions which could have prevented "too big to fail" banks.
• Republicans also seem to have no interest in consumer protections which could have prevented some of the credit card and mortgage abuses.
• Republicans abhorrence of regulation possibly led to the failure to identify and regulate AIG credit default swaps.
• I don't see where any administration republican or democrat has had a pro energy independence plan since the last oil shock in the 1970's.
• He failed to use the TARP plans as promised to buy troubled assets, which led to continued doubts about banking, even as we saw the TARP funds go for bonuses.

Obama shares some blame too.

• He continued to talk down the economy further deflating consumer confidence.
• He continued down the same TARP process as Bush.
• Instead of stimulus plan that would benefit the nation with infrastructure projects, they wasted porkulus on condoms and government programs needing more funding, and pipe dream green energy programs that weren't likely to be viable.
• He allowed porkulus to benefit foreign countries instead of the U.S.
• His energy plan is worse than no energy plan. He wants to raise energy costs instead of reduce them, further depressing consumer psychology.
• His focus has been on huge expensive socilized medicine instead of job creation.
• He has acted hostile to free enterprise, assuming control of banking, auto manufacturers and healthcare.

[rabscuttle385]

Post about 20 anti democrat posts of yours. Let’s have some fun.

I'm up to eleven already, and that's just going by cursory glances at the titles of threads I've posted in the last year.

GOP Asks Dems: 'Where Are the Jobs?' [Porkulus was DOA, Obama is a miserable failure]

"Time to make the TOTUS and the rest of the treasonous bastards in Washington unemployed." (27 Jun. 2009)

VA: Kaine hints of Virginia tax hikes; McDonnell disavows move (Party of Taxes™ alert)

Ron Paul: Obama 'deserves an F'

Warner: Questions on individual mandate are 'spurious' (Mark Warner disses the Constitution)

"Go screw yourself, Mark Warner! We haven't forgotten your sales tax increase shenanigans, you Rat bastard!" (15 Nov. 2009)

New York State Tax Refunds Put On Hold (CORRUPT DEMS AT WORK)

Barack Obama critics 'racist', says Jimmy Carter: is he right? [hell no] [barf]

Ala. mayor accused of taking Rolex, other bribes [lots and lots of corrupt Dems]

Gift Card Scandal Could Sink Baltimore Mayor (yet another corrupt Dem from the Freak State)

Congressman drew $15,000 in salary from his campaign (yet another corrupt Dem)

VA: Fairfax hungry for more revenue (Democrats want more taxes, fees) (Party of Taxes™ alert)

Caption McCain with 0bama

[ground_fog]

Alan Greenspan destroyed our economy. The pos on abc the other day made me want to puke.

[NVDave]

Sadly, no, it wasn’t. The economy from 2003 onwards was fueled by easy credit pouring money into the housing market, coupled with outlandish gains made in the financial sector.

Household income, however, largely stagnated during Bush’s two terms, and we’ve lost more jobs than were created in the post-2002 Recession rebound. In other words, we’ve unwound economic progress in this country by more than 10 years. After Obama/Congress allows the Bush tax cuts to expire, the US economy will be fully regressed back to a point before Bush even considered running for office.

This happened largely because Bush was unwilling to take on the problems in the economy and deal with them. He had two SecTreas men who told him the truth of the economy - and Bush rewarded their truth by firing them and installing the world’s most gifted grifter, Hank Paulson.

[Raycpa]

:)

[stuartcr]

The economy and everything was great before he left office?

[TheThinker]

You know, it is interesting and sad that Bush abandoned free market principles markedly at the end.

It's almost as if he saw the blame for the recession placed squarely on his shoulders long after he was out of the WH and was trying to appease an uninformed public and undercut a power-mad, blaming, corrupt Left-wing Congress.

He wanted to at least be perceived as part of the solution even as the prescription was the wrong one. He didn't want to be cast as the second Herbert Hoover.

Yet, with all this talk by the Democrats that everthing's improving, when it all hits the fan, the public will set its sights on Democrat propagandists.

[Raycpa]

You know, it is interesting and sad that Bush abandoned free market principles markedly at the end.

I believe two things were set up. First, there is an untold story regarding the markets back in August before he left and second the true state of the housing loan industry was being covered up until an opportune time so that a crisis could be used to create change.

[kosciusko51]

He didn't want to be cast as the second Herbert Hoover.

The irony is that Herbert Hoover intervened too much instead of letting the market correct itself.

[ex-snook]

It will be Hoover Bush until a recovered economy provides a reset.