I'm so glad Bush didn't win that 2nd term

[Patiod]

NPR's "Talk of the Nation" was talking to Tea Party fans today.

The one guy was furious because he had "done everything right" and yet his house was under water, the federal debt was crushing, and no one was listening to him.

My reaction was "where were you between 2004 and 2008? Was anyone listening to you then?"

So Obama created both the deficit AND the housing crash? So, what, is this his adminstration's 9th year?

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Right, and there was no deficit when Obama assumed office

He raised it to 12 trillion all by his lonesome.

[BOSSHOG]

2. It was magical

The fake patriots all of a sudden got concerned about the economy in January 2009.

The federal debt was crushing?? Well golllllly, lets go march against Obama. Fucking morons make glen beck, the alcoholics job so much easier.

[Nay]

6. Yep, it was one of my reasons for almost wishing the Pubs won.

Now, for the next 30 years (if there IS a next 30 years for this POS country), it will all be "the democrats' fault" even if Obama is a one-termer. You KNOW how it's going to go down. After 60 years of being on this earth, I am just about terminally sick of the human race.

[jgraz]

3. Well, technically, he didn't "win" a second term.

Just sayin...

[joeybee12]

4. He didn't "win" a first one, either...n/t

[newtothegame]

5. Bush aside, Obama CHOSE to be president.

If all it required to be President was to complain about he previous administration, everyone would do it.

[FrenchieCat]

9. It's not about the President Complaining....its about establishing the FACTS.....

and I'm sure you won't find anything wrong with that, would you?
Nor should anyone else.

If a bridge was build under water, and your job is to build the rest of it above water....
the bridge still started under water. The job is not to make it appear as though it never did.

[newtothegame]

10. Fair enough. It just gets old hearing about how things are "inherited" by Presidents.

You choose to run for President, you deal with what you get. Case closed. No one forces you to be President.

[Political Heretic]

15. See #14.

[lpbk2713]

7. Short-term memory is a common trait among RWingnuts.

This is what got Saint Ronny of RayGun elevated to sainthood. :eyes:

[TheWraith]

8. Amen to that.

Somebody said the other day the Republican party was trying to pretend like it just came into being in 2009. Apparently that's when these idiots woke up out of their slumber.

[PM Martin]

11. They are dead-enders.

These teabaggers are parasites on our society who are only dragging us down.

[spanone]

12. i always listen to npr, not today. pathetic whining....after 8 years of silence

[Zoeisright]

13. Too bad you couldn't have asked the idiot that question to his face.

All of those problems that little jerk is having is because of BUSH. And the 20 years leading up to Bush, starting with Reagan.

[Political Heretic]

14. I agree, that there's a campaign to try and pin all responsibility for crisis on Obama

Republicans would like nothing more than for the public to forget about George W. Bush as quickly as humanly possible. They certainly want this to be "Obama's recession" and "Obama's Debt" and "Obama's Housing crash."

Obama did not create those messes. And while I do believe his administration has adopted the wrong strategies for cleaning up those misses (wrong direction, not about "speed") and while I believe the decisions to do so were not "accidental" but representative of the pervasive "trickle down" economic approach that Giethner, Summers, Bernanke and others strongly believe in -- it doesn't mean Obama created this collapse.

You can thank more than eight years (as it was not just Bush that failed on key economic issues) of failure for the crisis that began before Obama had even one day in office.

We should keep this straight. I criticize this administration for doing the completely wrong things in response to what's broken (my opinion.) No one should be revisionist enough to criticize them for creating the crisis itself.

....only setting up the next one. :( I know, that last bit is a point of contention, many disagree - but that's my fear.