Reply #31: Rooting for a recession? You've got to be kidding.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

As for as economic collapse, that's laughable. I have a kid in college that relies on the food industry to make a living (she's a waitress). She's already seen a reduction in her income. I have in mine also and I'm in a different field of the service industry.

I keep hoping day after day that something will happen to mend our failing economy. Right now, however, things simply aren't looking that great for our short term economic outcome. Hell, our long term is on shaky ground if things continue as they've been.

The reason you're hearing this type of talk from these idiot pundits is because people have been expressing more and more concern in polls about the sagging economy. These pundits know that it's going to become an issue in 2008 and they're looking for a way to lay it at the feet of the Democrats, or at least poison it for the Democrats. In other words they fear another 1992 style defeat.

If Americans actually vote with their pocketbooks and not based on manufactured fear as they did in 2004, the likes of Rudy Giuliani won't have a leg to stand on.

As amazing as it may seem, for all the atrocities that the Bush administration has committed in the past 7 years, the one thing that may once again be the death sentence for Republicans in 2008 could be the economy.