"Clinton recession"

[ButterflyBlood]

has anyone else seen this term before? I just saw it over on Freeperville. I found it rather humorous, another Orwellian attempt to blame one of *'s many failures on Clinton.

[Cursive_Knives512]

1. Hmm, I don't remember a Clinton recession ever taking place...

That must've happened in Bush-Land.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. The statitistics from Bush's economic team say March 2001

was the beginning of the recession.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. This is a product of the RW echo chamber, repeated endlessly

on FOX, Rush/Hannity etc. Of course it eventually takes hold in the masses. They will not talk about recent recession without using the term "Clinton/Gore" recession, as if none of the recent badness could be in any way associated with their boy even though it all happened on his term.

[Warpy]

4. Oh, yeah, since the NASDAQ bubble began to burst

..on Clinton's watch (just the way speculative bubbles are SUPPOSED to), that makes Smirky's loss of 3,000,000 jobs and decline in wages at the remaining jobs and lousy retail outlook and wretched inflation numbers and ineffective tax giveaways to fat cats who used them to rebuild factories in India and China ALL CLINTON'S FAULT.

Honestly, you should know that by now.

With sound economic policies, the NASDAQ bubble would have burst, taking a few instant millionaires in their 20s with it. Whether or not much would have spilled over into the inflated DOW is a matter of debate. What we would NOT have had is the tremendous unemployment problem in this country that we do right now. Anyone with an understanding of how economics actually work would have taken steps to stem the tide of job loss to the third world, now that the office work that has been the mainstay of suburbia is going. People with the brains they were born with can tell when their policies aren't working, and they CHANGE THEM.

Alas, we have Bush.

[madrchsod]

5. the recession started at the end

of clintons watch but the point is that bush did nothing to stop it, and his tax policy and war has made the recession worse than it should be.

[BillZBubb]

7. The recession DID NOT start on Clinton's watch!!!!!

Please do not buy that Repug talking point. The recession started near the end of March 2001--after Chimpy was annointed. Go to NBER.ORG and check out the recession data.

And, even then, it didn't have to be a recession, except Chimpy's inept policy let the economy slide on for another two quarters. So, the Repugs can invent all the lies they want, but the truth is the recession belongs to Chimpy in toto.

[pinkpops]

6. When you call a plumber or electrician to your house

the important thing is for them to do something appropriate to fix your problem, not just find some way to sell you what they have in their truck.