No dice. The GOP had the house, senate, White house and a working majority in the Supreme Court. And they gave us the NSA, Patriot act, TSA, Prescription Drug, a pussified approach to war, 4 dollar gasoline in the spring of ‘08. and an explosion of government spending.
So he cannot claim that all our problems now are that the same GOP leaders do not currently control the levers of power.
Yep, that’s the hard cold truth isn’t it.
What did they do with the power we gave them?
Diddly squat!
But they made up for that by getting "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke and Henry O. "Hank the Shank" Paulsen to get together, cobble up some banker-b.s. back-room necromancy, and crush the commodities space ... and my IRA along with it .... by deliberately invoking rules that started a panic among the commodities and tangibles "longs".
Oh, and eventually broke Lehman Brothers by breaking their leveraged commodities funds ..... ooops, a block of Lehman Credit Default Swaps just crossed the market at 20 cents on the dollar ..... ooops, all the big banks in the world are instantaneously bankrupt!
Oooops! Damn!
Well, we never did like Dick Fuld at Lehman anyway ....