Bush Blames Clinton For Lost Jobs

[hatrack]

COLMAR, Pa. - President George W. Bush on Thursday blamed President Bill Clinton's administration for the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs. Bush warned against backing the Democratic ticket in November because of a "hidden Kerry tax plan."

In the last six months of the prior administration, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. We're turning that around," said Bush, who cited the addition of 107,000 manufacturing jobs this year.

According to the Labor Department, the number of payroll jobs has grown by 1.7 million in the past 12 months, but the economy still has lost 913,000 positions since Bush took office in January 2001.

In manufacturing alone, the number of job losses under Bush stands at 2.67 million, recovering by 107,000 factory jobs since January."

EDIT

You've just got to LOVE a headline like this! Whose fault is it? Why, CLINTON'S FAULT, of course! ;-)

[skooooo]

1. pretty weak, George.

[Scairp]

41. This has got to be a first

I have never seen a sitting president blame so much of what is wrong and what has happened to this country during his administration on his predecessor. How low will Dumbya go to save his job? Pretty low it seems. How would he have felt if Clinton had blame his old man for the WTC bombing in '93? Or the economy? Or any other problems he had during his 2 LAWFULLY elected terms? These people are just scum, and it perturbs and puzzles me every single day how the American people don't see this. Unbelievable!

[Born Free]

67. right wingers I know still blame the blow job

Just yesterday they were discussing how the "blow job" destroyed America, everything would be fine now if Clinton had not gotten the "blow job" in the oval office - the latest theory is if he had received the blow job outside the white house it probably would have been OK .These people are hopeless, past help.

[TahitiNut]

65. Well, it makes sense, you see.

All the new jobs under Clinton just plumb tuckered people out. They were all looking for a chance to take a loong vacation and Junior set the example. When they saw DimSon on vacation 42% of the time, they said "That's the 'right stuff'!"

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[mhr]

2. No Accountability For Piss Poor Performance

eom

[struggle4progress]

57. Bush: Irresponsible yesterday. Irresponsible today. Irresponsible tomorrow

[gratuitous]

3. Doggone it, did Clinton actually win a third term??

And no one told me about it.

George W. Bush adds whole new universes and dimensions to the idea of "responsibility avoidance."

[Dem2theMax]

62. Don't know why I missed this thread till Sunday,

but I'm glad I finally saw it, cuz your post is a LMAO post! :)

[acmavm]

4. I can just hear Ricky Ricardo right now. "George, you're just so

ree-dick-u-lous."

[Cocoa]

5. Clinton destroyed the great Reagan-Bush economy

his 1993 budget brought about a Depression, just like Dick Armey warned us.

Thanks George W. for saving us from the disastrous Clinton legacy.

[nyhuskyfan]

15. The Repugs were all Gloom and Doom in 1993

That budget passed without one Repug vote. Not one. And they all said that we were doomed.

Why anyone would trust a Republican on economic issues any more, I have no idea.

[UpInArms]

26. let's see - how did all that spinning go?

Clinton was "reaping the benefits of the RayGun policies" and now idiotboy has to deal with the "fiasco" of the Clenis :crazy: ???!?

[Tommy_Douglas]

6. If you're a voter that takes 10 seconds to think...

You have an incumbent that blames the president before him for all his woes even after he's been in power for 4 years...

Forget the war and everything else. When you look at this you see a guy who has no accountability, has no plan after four years to stop what he says are the mistakes of the previous administration, and preaches the same promises he did before his first term.

How does one vote for a guy like that?

Geez it seemed to me that Clinton quickly with the first year or two began righting the ship after 12 bad years of Reagan and Bush...

[KansDem]

32. "I know what I'm doing..."

“We all want the mission to be completed as quickly as possible. But we want the mission completed,” the president said. “The mission is not going to be completed as quickly as possible if the enemy thinks we will be removing a substantial number of troops in six months.”

Military commanders should be deciding troop levels, Bush said.

“I know what I’m doing when it comes to winning this war, and I’m not going to be sending mixed signals,” he said.

Phil Singer, a spokesman for Kerry, said Bush would “say or do anything to avoid a discussion about his failed policy in Iraq.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5676278/

I agree...

If you have an incumbent President who, after waging war for a year and a half, is still trying to assuage fears of his incompetency by declaring that he knows what his doing, then serious doubts arise. This statement was one of the deciding factors in realizing that Bush is completely out of his element...and completely insane.

Also, I found the statement "Military commanders should be deciding troop levels" to be a bit disingenuous. As I recall, Bush went against the advice of top military advisers in his run up to war, but apparently once he got our troops in, then its up to these same ignored advisers to finish it.

Bush is an asshole par excellence

[kysrsoze]

7. Hmmmm...I thought it was all the "frivolous" lawsuits

Whatever.

[progressivebydesign]

28. Damn! I can't keep up! Who will he blame next? His Dad? n/t

[drdtroit]

59. No no,

steroids in sports, er, hydrogen cells for autos, er ....

[nickinSTL]

8. Right! Everything's Clinton's fault!

Like that choking incident with the pretzel! That was Clinton's fault, too! /sarcasm

[hatrack]

11. Hurricane Ivan? Clinton's Fault! Erectile Dysfunction? Clinton's Fault!

Sagging Disney stock prices? Clinton's fault!! The Plague of Athens? Clinton's fault!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

52. If Bush got hemorrhoids

he'd find a way to blame Clinton

:puke:

[Ganja Ninja]

9. But George, I thought you had taken care of that with your tax cuts!

You said you had the fix for what wasn't broken. Are you saying that the tax cuts didn't work and it's all Clinton's fault?

[nyhuskyfan]

10. Clinton created 23 million jobs

And he shrunk the size of government. Bush has lost just under a million jobs total, but he has added approximately 600,000 government jobs.

They can talk about adding 1.7 million jobs, but that still falls way below the average year under Clinton (2.9 million jobs), who didn't lose millions of jobs first before trying to claim a comeback. And think about what else has happened. The Bushies have gutted the surplus and plunged us into deficit spending and they have rolled back hundreds of environmental regulations, so corporations don't have to spend on safety issues. They've been fiscally and socially irresponsible, and we have seen almost NO economic benefit from their vast pillaging and plundering.

Frankly, if this country was totally booming economically following Bush policies, you would still have to say that the boom came with a significant price tag (deficit, environment, social programs, long-term stability). We've gotten that price tag, but no boom that came with it. If you squandered your entire life savings and went into debt and plundered your potential long-term assets, wouldn't you at least hope that your quality of life improved short-term? A nice swimming pool in the back yard or a convertible in the driveway or something?

You can't overstate how dreadful this administration has been economically. It's been an unmitigated disaster.

[auburngrad82]

55. Exactly

He created 23 million jobs, balanced the budget and put us into a surplus for the first time in about 40 years. I don't really understand why so many people can't see this.

[Beetwasher]

12. "Hidden Tax Plan" PROJECTION

Ughhh, he's talking about his OWN hidden tax plan...What a sack of shit...

[Catfight]

13. What happened to his Ownership Society? LOL...what a lame duck.

[realFedUp]

14. I hope we attribute Bush's job loss to Kerry...

Back to Waco wacko.

[Fleshdancer]

16. It's as if he purposefully screwed up the economy just so he could blame

Clinton. This guy is mental.

[MidwestTransplant]

17. Hmmmm 200k vs 2.67 Million. That damn Clenis.

[Doosh]

18. they try so hard to destroy the clinton legacy

don't let theM get away with it, call these bastards out on every lie!

[hyphenate]

19. Of course!

It goes without saying that Clinton is responsible for almost everything that has gone wrong for the chimp in chief. Repukes have been blaming Clinton for everything for the past twelve years.

I'd like to take that charge and say it's ALL RONALD REAGAN'S FAULT and see how quickly they dismiss it then.

[bamacrat]

20. whole new meaning

He gives a whole new meaning to neocon retard.

[still_one]

21. how long has he been president!

what an asshole

[KayLaw]

22. Duh...

Sure, George, whatever you say.

:crazy:

[LynnTheDem]

23. All I can say is...

ROTFLMAO!

[Whoa_Nelly]

24. It is true in part, but

Read all of it here (not just the snip) from factcheck.org:
http://factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=234

<snip>
http://www.factcheck.org/imagefiles/Manufacturing%20Jobs,%201993-2004.gif
By choosing to highlight only manufacturing jobs, furthermore, the DNC ad ignores offsetting gains in other sectors that have been growing. A look at the bigger picture -- total payroll jobs -- shows a much less severe decline of just over 1.1 million jobs since Bush took office. The decline in manufacturing payrolls has been offset to a great degree by gains in such industries as health care, construction and government (teachers and firemen, for example.)

http://www.factcheck.org/imagefiles/Total%20Payroll%20Jobs,%201993-2004.gif

At this point it seems unlikely that even total employment will return to the level of January 2001 by the time Bush's full four-year term has ended. As Democrats like to note, that would indeed make him the first president since Herbert Hoover to experience a net job loss over a full term.

It is also true that as of June the economy had regained nearly 1.5 million jobs since the worst point in the job slump in August 2003. Even manufacturing jobs are growing: 91,000 have been added since January.

[geek tragedy]

25. Can Clenis comments be far behind? n/t

[giant_robot]

27. Is Clinton also responible for

Dubya losing his shame and his sense of irony?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I weep for my country every time that man opens his mouth.

[Ilsa]

29. This is the problem of an untreated alcoholic:

without going through a twelve steps program, they will not take responsibility for their actions and omission of actions. Bush always has and always will refuse to take responsibilty for his Administration's failures.

[demokatgurrl]

30. Well if Clinton lost them

maybe we'd better find a way to get him back in office so he can fix things up.

And send Bush to Iraq to fix that up.

[Charles19]

31. I am waiting for Bush to say "If Clinton didn't create all those jobs ...

noboby would have lost them, we all know we have to BLAIM CLINTON for the lost jobs!!!"

Hehehe.

[Triana]

33. graphically....

...there he goes again.

[barb162]

34. keep repeating the lies, keep repeating the lies

and people will believe it.

Yep, the economy is turning the corner, the economy is turning the corner....

[Ravenseye]

35. Nice numbers...

So we've lost about 2.5 million manufacturing jobs, factoring in losses and regains...there are now 2.5 million less manufacturing jobs than when he took office.

However jobs OVERALL are only down 913,000.

And we've gained 107,000 manufacturing jobs this year.

SO...

The Bush Economy has turned about 1.5 Million well paying manufacturing jobs into low paying minimum wage jobs, and they claim the addition of 1/25th of the number of decent manufacturing jobs lost as proof that they're doing the right things.

Thats so MUCH better than what Clinton did.

[denverbill]

36. Bush Blames Clinton for failure to show up for Guard duty. n/t

[MGKrebs]

37. Damn! That Clinton is one powerful sumbitch!

Bush*, despite the full power of the Presidency, a fully Repub Congress, and a ruthless and single minded focus on creating a beneveolent arena for big business, just has not been able to overcome the mojo of Clinton, even though Clinton worked with a divided Congress, and he hasn't signed a single law or had any effect on the economy in over three years.

Now THAT, my friends, is power. All hail the Clenis!

[CookieD]

38. Best to attack Clinton while he's in the hospital ...

with tubes sticking in him and barely able to speak.

Cheney is such a friggin' coward!

[ChrisK]

39. How weird does this man look ?

He is trying to blame a man that has been out of office for three plus years for something he has had the time to repair?

OK I know its not easy with the attacks of September 11th but really...that was three years ago tomorrow and this is the best you could pull off?

If he took the blame and said that he tried a few "ideas" thrown his way and they didn't help as much as he wanted them to, sure, I could buy that but trying to say it was Mr Clinton's fault is the same as saying "you had no control" over what happened and being the President there is not greater control you can get in the U.S. government.

When you have nothing good to report its best to be quite....

*edited misspelling in the title*

[MrBenchley]

40. This is how you know

those claims that pResident Toot is 35 points ahead or whatever are BULLSHIT.

[0007]

42. The most secretive administration in the history of our government

is blaming a real President that created million of jobs and left a chunky surplus of money, is now accusing President Clinton for the jobs that have been lost on his watch while squandering the surplus, and is accusing Kerry of hiding the truth on his tax plan.

How low can junior go?

[gasperc]

43. nice how he leaves out the 2.5million LOST, how can one even

claim 107,000 created????

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. That attitude was parodied by Garry Trudeau

back in the late 1980s, when he wrote a satiricial review about the Reagan administration called "Rapmaster Ronnie."

It has Reagan at a news conference, with a reporter asking him about some embarassing situation, and Reagan retorts, "That happened during the Carter administration in 1982!"

[Aunt Anti-bush]

45. How do they get away with this garbage???

I've been hearing over and over again how Bush 'inherited' a recession from Clinton, too. Bullshit!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. Mainstream America needs to take more

ginkgo biloba.

[Drifter]

46. When you create 22 million jobs ...

how can AWOL even mention the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Even if we forget about the 3 million lost jobs since the beginning of AWOLs term, he still has piss poor job performance. Clinton created nearly twice as many jobs EACH YEAR, than AWOL has created in entire term.

It is hard to forget about the 3 million.

Cheers
Drifter

[pinniped]

47. Close to the end of this SOB's political career and...

this is the crap they come up with. When all else fails blame it on Clenis. These repukes are absolutely sick and disgusting.

The AWOL SOB sure didn't waste any time putting his "master plan" into effect that rapes our planet and steals our money.

[Deja Q]

48. Wait a mo, * has applauded outsourcing and blamed the American worker

He is a lying scoundrel. x(

Turn this around, *: _|_ (DU middle finger smilie missing. :cry: )

[wishlist]

50. I thought Edwards' type of ' junk lawsuits' were to blame for job losses

His first line of defense that lawsuits are the main cause of the job losses must not have resonated enough, so he has to expand the blame to go back to Clinton. With our sorry media and gullible public, that argument will probably work, since although Bushco did nothing to prevent the 9/11 attacks, he has escaped blame for that also.

[Karmadillo]

51. Bill clinton ate my homework!!! Honest!!! n/t

n/t

[laylah]

53. He is SUCH

an anal opening...:puke: I am amazed at those that STILL drink the "kool-aid"...

Jenn

[coreystone]

54. This must be rather like the "hidden most children left behind", ...

the "hidden nation building", the "hidden jobs" created by the fiscal irresponsibility of the current administration relative to the "hidden tax to the middle class"; and, of course, the "hidden - more compassionate conservatism"! I'm sure that I'm leaving a whole bunch of things off the list which are still being hidden by this administraton! It really is difficult to keep track of these GUYS!

[MODemocrat]

56. George W. Bush is certainly out of the loop

He's as nutty as one could ever be. What he says anymore sounds like a bunch of garbage. The whole administration is corrupt! :dunce: :hangover:

[Dr Fate]

58. Clinton's genitals are DIRECTLY responsible!!!

He should be more specific.

[Flammable Materials]

60. The Era of Responsibility.

[Kimber Scott]

61. I'm getting dizzy! Please, stop the spinning!

nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

63. Have we finished turning the corner yet?

Seems like we're still just going round-and-round that corner. Maybe that's what spin is all about.

[Geo55]

64. *

HEY...Ya know it's only been 4 YEARS , ..I need 'nother FOUR ta really fix this here 'conomy.

I'd call him a dickhead...but even they have more intelligence.

[Tsiyu]

66. When They Thought * was going to Run the Show

all those companies bailed. They put 200,000 workers out because they knew under * the economy was gonna suck. As I recall, the markets weren't too impressed with *'s pending illegal inauguration.

[Sugarbleus]

68. Oh geeez, I just came out of a thread talking about the blame game..

These geeks in office are starting to crack me up in terms of how poorly they lie and side step. As I stated in my post below, I/we should start a journal to document all the various and crazy lies, bogus claims, and slime tactics this MEATHEAD has pulled. It's starting to catch up with him, me thinks.

Would be lovely to document all of the bullshit these goons have come up with in all this time, then publish it in one contiguous article.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=823073&mesg_id=823080&page=

[truthisfreedom]

69. bush blames Hoover for lost jobs

says jobs were "sucked up" by vacuum left by last prez to leave office with net loss