Well, congress’ too
Korda: It really is George W. Bush’s fault.
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August 12th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Markie Marxist sez: “We blamed Bush when he was in office, and we blame Bush when he’s out of office. Obama we never blame. It’s just common communist sense to do it that way! Ha! Ha! All your blame are belong to us!”
August 12th, 2011 at 9:53 am
GWB bears a good bit of the blame for our accumulted deficit.
But so do Barack and Congress.
The deficit under GWB increased dramatically, even if you exclude the Afghanistan war costs.
But the title of the article only tells a modest part of the story and I don’t particularly care for political hacks/consultants like Korda.
August 12th, 2011 at 11:16 am
The last line of the article is:
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It really is George W. Bush’s fault. And Obama’s (who’s busy blaming everyone under the sun but himself). And anyone else who’s served at the federal level who has believed that deficits don’t matter.
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I think that last line is really important.
August 12th, 2011 at 11:47 am
So Nancy and Harry taking over the Congress with a Veto-Proof Majority in the House during Bush’s last 2 years had nothing to do with Deficient Spending?
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.
August 12th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Uhm takes both houses and the president to pass spending bills.
August 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Hey, don’t blame poor Obama – he inherited 5.8% unemployment and an AAA rating.
Whenever the Bush bashing starts, I try to remember all the spending bills Senator Obama voted against and I draw a blank. Then I try remembering all the Democratic deficit cutting bills that Bush vetoed – another blank.
August 12th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
The left would never be assigning responsibility to Bush if the economy had taken off with Obama’s election. Obama would be given all the credit for it and then some, while Bush would be given absolutely none.
August 12th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
The Democrats double the deficits of the GWB era and its GWB’s fault. That’s the logic.
FY 2009 was the last budget adopted of the Bush admin. (Federal fiscal year begins in October of prev calendar year). Bush’s proposed budget was projected to be $400 billion in deficit but the reduced revenues added $300 billion to that projection. So about $700 billion in deficit. Then Obama comes in, and immediately proposes massive failed stimulus package and other new spending for FY2009 such that the final deficit is $1.4 trillion.
But Democrats still blame all $1.4 trillion on Bush.
August 12th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I thought that the article was saying that Bush’s being so unpopular springboarded Barack “I’m not Bush” Obama into the Presidency. Therefore, whatever stupid crap that Obama does, It’s Bush’s fault for putting him there. I suppose there is a certian logic to it, if you don’t think about it.
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August 12th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Obama’s CHANGE is to do more of what Bush and Congress did in expanding the debt. Then they (Obama and his ilk) refer back to hwo well Clinton did in having a balanced budget (by going along with a conservative Congress) but now, label those who want a balanced budget as “terrorists”. This is utter insanity!!!
August 12th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Actually, Pelosi never submitted a budget to Bush for 2009. She knew that it was so high that Bush would actually veto something for a change. So she did continuing resolutions and enacted the budget when THE ONE took office.
August 12th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
If you spent $1,000,000 current US dollars a day, every day, since the day Jesus Christ was born until today….. you still would not have spent $1,000,000,000,000.
You don’t have to believe in Christ to understand the significance of Congress using words instead of numbers in debates. The math is very scary.
Currently, the financial debate in Congress is like playing chicken in locomotives. Both sides are assuming that the other side will back up because neither can turn away.
August 12th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
This Clinton balanced budget stuff – there’s a lag time in macro economics and Clinton’s wonderful circumstances had little if anything to do with him. It was Reagan freeing up and encouraging the people to go make money and defeating the Soviet Union. The latter allowed Clinton and Congress to whack defense spending with a growing economy – good times. Clinton fell into it. Bush I would have had two terms if not for the dork Perot and his breaking his word on taxes.
Bush II screwed the pooch with “compassionate conservativism,” but got slapped back when he did try to cut, like the big farm bill veto.
Korda and the print media dorks are history – better info including ads and shopping is available off this medium right here, for free. Pinko editors can hit the bricks.
America will come back around now that the elite gatekeepers of information can be bypassed.
All hail the internet
August 13th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
“The left would never be assigning responsibility to Bush if the economy had taken off with Obama’s election.”
Good point, Chas.
The 1992 recession technically ended in October or November, 1992, but no one noticed in time and Bill Clinton received his 43% mandate.
And the turnaround was certainly not credited to GHWB.