[FromTheSidelines]

FromTheSidelines has been ... refusing to acknowledge the fundamental reality that BOTH sides own this mess.

I have? Really? Can you point out where? Or would you like to retract that statement as well? Because I haven't done that - the first part of deciding who's responsible for what is first properly determining who DID what. That was the first step.

You can stick to your claim about what I said - but I'd like to see you quote it first, or admit your error...

His assertion evidently rests upon the exclusion of W's TARP from the fiscal policy that obviously unfolded well into FY2009. Thank you for pointing out that error.

No, it stems from President Bush not passing - nor even proposing what was ultimately passed - the FY2009 budget which the graph shows/claims.

Seems you're still wrong about a number of things, reading in what you want to see - not what is actually written.

[LomanBill]

>>I have? Really? Can you point out where?

Then you’re ready to admit the folly inflicted upon our financial infrastructure by the pirate enterprise of W’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, the Godfather of Subprime?

Are you ready to accept that, or are you just going to keep squawking about FY Timelines that evidently obscure your perched view of the systemically corrupted RINOcRATic forest?

[LomanBill]

>>Or would you like to retract that statement as well?

 

I haven't retracted anything, you argumentative dipstick. 

 

Seeking the Truth is an exercise in correcting one's own perceptions;  and that's difficult enough in instances such as this where focusing those perceptions requires making sense of overly cluttered graphical aids that don't include a self-explanatory ledger. 

 

You're not helping that process to unfold by incessantly regurgitating the Fithcally Conthervative GeeOpie party line.

 

 "Brrraak FY2009 Weeee didn't do it! Braaak FY2009 Weee didn't do it!"

 

Yes, you did - and you're gonna eat your fair share of the Albatross, one way or the other.  Bon appetit.

 

 

[LomanBill]

"No, it stems from President Bush not passing - nor even proposing what was ultimately passed - "

 

TARP didn't get passed? Uhuh - then what's this:

"The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008. It was a component of the government's measures in 2008 to address the subprime mortgage crisis."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program

 

What part of  "signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008." is your tiny little Party-Parot brain having trouble arranging its dendrites to comprehend?

 

What happened to TARP on December 31, 2008 - did it turn into a pumpkin?  Noooo, my little Rainbow Feathered FRiend -- it rolled right on over into, wait for it, {drum roll please} FY or not - 2009.