p.s. speaking of sanity, woofie provides additional support that '98 FReepers rock.
Posted on 05/02/2012 8:13:03 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
This may have been around before but it is worth reading it again!
This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
Some people aren't aware of all of this. Don't just skim over this, please read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out.
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007... the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH Remember the day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress So when someone tries to blame Bush.. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!" Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th." There is no way this will be widely publicized unless each of us sends it on!
p.s. speaking of sanity, woofie provides additional support that '98 FReepers rock.
Of course ... there’s ALWAYS an exception to the general rule.
Yes, '98 was a good year. You shoulda been here. In those days I was defending Gingrich!
Why don't you ask the babies that were allowed to live during his eight years, if he was "compassionate".
Better yet, why don't you ask the families of tens of thousands of American victims who were slaughtered, raped, robbed, murdered, shot, scammed, maimed, and burglarized from millions of Bush's illegal Mexican friends, whom he rolled out the red carpet for, during war time.
All this while Bozo Bush's Homelands Security Chief Chertoff, was found to have people who entered the country illegally, wandering around the inside of his private residence. All during war time.
The Bush crowd are one pathetic pack of fools.
BS. He didn’t do anything close to rolling out the red carpet for ANYONE. He was very tough on illegals when he was Governor, but he recognized that the party had to grow in order to block the Left and hispanics should be a HUGE voting block for Republicans since they are Christian and natural conservatives. Finding a way to expand the party by adding more conservative voters makes the whole thing a hard road with the illegal problem. Reagan understood and so did Bush. Obviously you’re too stupid, so keep doing what you do best...talk crap.
Luv you too hun.
Now were told by Ded the Bush family secured our borders during war time?
Bull shit is right Deb, and you’re up to your neck in your own BS.
Your spin is speeding up the rotation of the planet...Stop before we all fly off.
Precedents Team Bush set to be used against us are unforgivable. Let's also not forget his stacking of LIBERAL LONG TIME FAMILY FRIENDS {RINO's} in the houses which gave us the 2006 election collapse to start with. Remember this senator. Conservatives were in general not liked by Bush from as early as before taking office in 2001 and they still aren't. Like Father like Son. Never, ever, forget it when the name Bush comes up for a possible election.
Sad to say the Nelson Rockefeller Liberalisms of GW Bush help set the way for Obama 2008. He took the party and the nation further left. Not quite as far as Gore would have. But recall his saying in 2000 he and Mr Gore were not that far apart on most issues.
Why, thank you.
In fact, Bush was so damn bad, he allowed in more Muslims AFTER 911, than the previous two decades..
I have no doubt you’re a Bush supporter.
GW Bush put up a bigger fence on the border and spent more $ on the problem than any other administration ....but I guess that does not count
I have no doubt you’re a Bush supporter.
Oh, and I was just told during 8 years of Bush, he secured our borders...lol
Some of these comments here are just over the top...
You're a graduate of the Tokyo Rose school of propaganda?
In fact, Bush was so damn bad, he allowed in more Muslims AFTER 911, than the previous two decades..
I have no doubt you’re a Bush supporter woofie.
woofie?
Team Bush! Go team!
Relentlessly prosecuting a War on Terror despite constant snipes from the enemy on the ground and in the media while enacting a tax cut (which was so popular a Dem president and Congress couldn't find the courage to reverse it) and standing strong against a major offensive for embryonic stem cell research is "carrying Dems' water"?
Uh...don't think so.
You just keep repeating the same tired crap over and over. Just repeating what you hear on TV or from your Bircher friends does not make it so. Bush instituted more on site job raids, added more border patrol, jailed and tried or deported more illegals than ANYONE. Weren’t you paying ANY attention or were you just happy believing the idiots? The fact that Obama and the Democrats have spent the past five years halting the fence, pulling border patrol and suing Arizona, would say to any thinking person that Bush was doing something right, but the typical Bush bashers never look up from their Keith Olberman talking points to look for the truth. Its all there. Open your eyes, useful idiot.
Bush nearly single handily made American citizenship all but pointless.
Bush supporters are like dealing with incoherent glue sniffers.
I've been screaming for years that the economy and the world was pretty good back before the rats took control in 2007.....THEY ARE THE REASON THE ECONOMY TANKED....
Bush was too timid a prez in many ways and should have fought harder but he had the two houses plus the DBM plus the hollywhore group against him at every turn....
not that I think the economy of the world wasn't heading towards armagedden, but there at least was American confidence back then....
think about that when you pull the lever for obamey....
He did not use it for the money bailouts. That what I was talking about. I did not lie.
Bush didn't push his own people in Congress on some really important issues. He just wasn't as much of a leader as he could have been.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the alibi Bush gave people like Barney Frank, or at least the alibi they're using for their own failures and errors.
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