Yep there really are “Conservatives” in VA stupid enough to vote for a guy who was a Democrat when Reagan was President.
“It’s Virgil Goode’s fault, it can’t *possibly* have anything to do with the fact that we nominated a severely liberal milquetoast idiot as our candidate!” PING
Bush’s Fault?
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 payoff 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.
*Note that I copied and saved this, but neglected to save the source. If it was you or you know who it was, let me know so I can credit it properly.
Romney needs to be more concerned that liberals might vote for Obama instead of him.
He needs to emphasize his liberal creds, which are unmatched by any governor in the history of the United States. He was the first executive in America to get Socialized Medicine enacted into law. He was the first Governor in America to preside and sanction gay marriage.
What more could a liberal want?
Last GOP Congress and President 2006. Federal Defecit $160 Billion
Last Democrat Congress and President 2010. Federal Defect $1.6 Trillion
Sorry you did not get the GOP candidate you wanted. Time to stop pouting about it, suck it up and deal with it.
Obama or Romney will be the next President. Spending all your time squealing about Romney does one thing, help Re-Elect Obama. This nation cannot survive 4 more years of Obama. Between his judicial appointments, his Executive Orders and his Energy Policy you will not recognize this nation in 2016. That is too high a price to pay just to assuage your hurt feelings!
So sorry your feelings were hurt, get over it.
Mitt Romney lose to that fraud? Obama's base has no self reliance, they all want hand outs and little work. A culture that is not American....Mitt Romney has worked hard all his life, gives back and is Self-reliant to a fault....Obama is weak, a security threat to all of us.
So I send a page and half of text to you and you read, think about it and respond in lest then 60 seconds?
Rather then assume you are the infallible mouth of God on earth, and responding with your per-programed opinions take the time to actually think about the point being made to you
Your knee jerk responds are made in a spirit of arrogance and pride. You are not acting in God’s spirit.
Who really is to blame for the 2008 financial crisis?
Democrat Nancy Pelosi was running the House, Democrat Harry Reid was running the Senate in 2007 and 2008. Obama actually sued banks in Chicago back in the 1990s to make them lend money to deadbeats, and that with CRA led to bogus no-doc loans by 2006 that with the subprime loans were ripe for collapse when housing price bubble popped.
But somehow although the Democrats ran the most powerful branch of Government when the crisis hit, and despite all the actinons Democrats took that led to the housing bubble and the subsequent crash, they are not at all responsible, it’s all just Bush’s fault.
Never mind that when gas hit its highs in 2008, the Republicans were calling for action, and Nancy Pelosi refused to do anything.
Republicans begged for a plan to cut oil prices by ‘drill here, drill now’ but Pelosi did NOTHING. the Democrats who ran Congress - led by Democrat nancy Pelosi and Democrat Harry Reid - did NOTHING because they wanted to crash the economy to get Obama elected. The Democrats’ evil plot worked. And we got the worst President in our lifetimes.
Never mind that Obama voted for all the TARP, bailouts and all the actions the Democrats pin on Bush.
Democrats played a big role in making the crisis happen. It wasnt just Bush alone. And now Democrats ran Washington and have run the White House for 4 years while our economy has remained in this rut. Democrats destroyed the economy, kept it in this rut, and have no plan to get the economy moving again, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
All the Democrats and Obama have left is ... excuses.
The GOP picked it’s upper crusted,fair-haired boy and now we will see how tassle-toe-loafers do against the Marxist in Chief, when we really needed a candidate in combat boots.
GOP should have commercials showing Reagan coming back off Carter. It can be done, it just wasn’t.
Wow you managed to contain yourself a whole minute.
You keep kidding yourself that you are acting out of any other spirit then one of malice and anger.