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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why aren't Republicans being taken to task for trying to wreck the recovery??? [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)18. Not so nutty really
I have an old friend I reconnected with at our HS reunion, who surprisingly was a Tea-bagger
type, his whole mentality, scary.. and a key part of his mantra about the big economic crash
was to BLAME Fannie Mae, was "all their fault" in his words.
So I know there is some truth to what you are saying.
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Why aren't Republicans being taken to task for trying to wreck the recovery??? [View all]
99th_Monkey
Oct 2012
OP
Most "inconvenient" truths necessarily started out as "conspiracy theories".
99th_Monkey
Oct 2012
#5
blocking bill after bill...jobs bill for Veterans, transportation, etc...holding the US hostage
amborin
Oct 2012
#6
it's been ongoingly decried in the ny times...both articles and editorials...they abuse the US
amborin
Oct 2012
#11
Well. a recent poll showed that uninformed voters always vote against their own best interst....
lib2DaBone
Oct 2012
#13
I, too, have wondered where were the ads put out by the Dems really taking the
Grammy23
Oct 2012
#22