Observation number 1:
Remember when Ronald Reagan was president?
We also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash....
Now we have Obama, no hope, and no cash.
Observation number 2:
It is absolutely amazing that after only one year in office, President Obama can take something that was in terrible, terrible shape and manage to bring it back from the brink of absolute disaster; The Republican Party.
Observation number 3:
Are you better off than you were four trillion dollars ago?
And finally, observation number 4:
The other bill that congress never reads is the Bill of Rights.
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Observation 5: The Republican Party does fine when it doesn't actually have to govern.
Observation 6: Have you ever noticed that conservatives don't remember history? I don't mean ancient history. I mean, like, 2008.
Dave, I noticed you turned off comments on your blog regarding your wildly inaccurate revisionist version of recent history. Didn't you want anyone contradicting you with the real facts, sir?
Marquis, as for your comment, I largely agree with you.
On that posting, yes, I did turn off the comments. I was getting so tired of the right wing revisionism that is rampant in the media, on the blogs, and on the radio. Things did not start getting bad on 1/20/09. The recession began in 2007. The debt didn't start that day, terrorism didn't start that day, the banking system didn't collapse that day, unemployment didn't begin to rise that day. All of that started before then. And, yeah, there is still some of it now, too.
I was just feeling a little frustrated that too many on your side of the aisle turned a blind eye to the things you oppose when there was a Republican administration, and now have their panties in a bunch over the issues with a Democratic administration. Change takes time. You cannot undue the damage of decades of supply side, voodoo economics in just a year, yet that seems to be the bar that is set for Obama.
I should have pointed out the hundreds of times that Reagan blamed Carter for his lack of progress in his first term. In fact, he kept blaming Carter until 1983, when the full impact of Reagan's changes took place. What you guys are bitching about is the lingering effect of Bush 41, Bush 43, and Reagan. I just wanted to set the record straight without interference. It was the first time I did that, and I don't see it happening again.
But who knows, next time I see some bimbo on Fox say that the bank bailouts from 2008 happened under President Obama (who hadn't even been elected yet), I reserve the right to insert some comment free commentary.
Dave, I have no argument at all with everything you said in the first paragraph.
The difference is that when Reagan took office from Carter, he did not continue the same policies, only to a larger degree, then Carter did. He did the exact opposite. He cut taxes drastically and thereby caused a HUGE increase in tax revenue to come into the federal government.
I would cut Obama some slack except for the fact that he is doing precisely what got us into this mess and repeating all of Bush's worst mistakes. That doesn't correct the problem; it exacerbates it greatly.
I think Bush was a fool for doing so and said so at the time and I am doubling down on Obama since he has doubled down on the same foolish Bush policies.
If it makes you feel any better, I do applaud Obama for his execution of the war in Afghanistan over the last month or so. He has indeed gotten that part right.
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