To be fair, Bush inherited this poor economy from Bill Clinton

[Bluebear]

I just figured I would brace you before some right-wing idiot tries that excuse for this loser.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I was so ready to jump all over you

:P

[Richard Steele]

2. This economy was GREAT until the Dems took over Congress.

:sarcasm: in the same vein.

[RockaFowler]

21. I heard this yesterday

When I wrote back that the Democrats have only been in power for a year - that shut him up. I wonder where they get this info. I am scared because they are the ones who are voting!:eyes:

[Richard Steele]

35. Wow. I guess I just can't make a sarcastic wisecrack...

...that's more ridiculous than what some of them actually believe. :silly:

The mind boggles.

[Contrary1]

3. Your wait is over...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2710807#2712052

[Bluebear]

7. See, great economic minds think alike.

:silly:

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Which is bu$hit, of course, but that won't stop the Liars.

The bigger the lie, the more they believe.

[flamin lib]

5. The Clinis strikes again!! and again and again and again nt

[Blackhatjack]

6. Just like a Preview of Coming Attractions at the Movies !!!!

[spanone]

8. and therefore hillary would bring us right back to those failed policies that left us a surplus

:sarcasm:

[FiveGoodMen]

19. No, I don't think there's any danger of that. She seems to like Bush's approach better

[still_one]

9. What they will say is 9/11. However, the truth is all warnings were ignored about 9/11

he ignored the ENTIRE middle east, including the Israelli/Palestinian issue, and refused to take over where Clinton left off

After 9/11, he attacked a country which had nothing to do with it, and committed us to a non-eneding war which not the very least has caused inflation to rise at record levels

[nichomachus]

28. Things weren't that rosy on 9-10

By 9-10-01 the markets had pretty well decided that the Bush tax cuts and rebates were a failure -- which is why the Bush Crime family was grateful for a distraction.

[robbedvoter]

31. March 2001 - recession was declared. November 2001 - declared over :link

See?http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2003-07-17-recession_x.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The committee that puts official dates on U.S. economic expansions and contractions said Thursday that the economy pulled out of recession in November 2001 and since then has been in a recovery phase.

The announcement from the National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee confirmed what many economists have believed: that the economy has resumed growing, albeit slowly.

"At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in November 2001," the committee said in a statement Thursday.

The committee, which consists of top academic economists, met in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss the issue.

The 2001 recession began in March that year, so today's announcement makes it an eight-month downturn.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Yet he was able to take it from poor to full scale disaster in a mere 7 years.

It's hard werk destroying an economy. :P

[Lobster Martini]

11. Damn! Does that mean that if a Dem is elected, we'll have another f***ing balanced budget?

Dear God, don't let us go back to those dark days. Anyone have Rudy Giuliani's direct deposit routing number?

[liberal N proud]

12. No kidding

[liberalmuse]

13. LOL, I knew you were kidding.

DU can get crazy, but it's never sunk to the kind of idiocy level The Free Republic actually has to reach very high to obtain. :)

[niyad]

14. freepers remind me of a line from an episode of "monk"-- where monk

is convinced that the perp is a guy who is in a coma. the police captain says, "but, he's a vegetable. no, he hopes one day to be a vegetable"

[Bonobo]

15. TRANSLATION:

[NewJeffCT]

16. They've been trying that one since the summer of 2000

blaming the "excesses" of the Clinton years for the economy. They mastered "talking down" the economy.

And, Greenspan didn't help with his raising of interest rates several times in 2000

[SIMPLYB1980]

17. LOL!

[L. Coyote]

18. REPLY: To be fair, Bush did NOT inherited his poor intellect from Bill Clinton

[Marr]

20. Yep. There's an 8 year lag in the effect of economic policies.

Unless you're talking about Republican presidents who follow a Republican president. Then the economy's sad state is the result of policies from 9+ years ago.

Or if you're a Democrat with a bad economy who follows a Republican president, of course. Then it's the result of your own policies.

So in summary-- economies are always the result of the previous administration's policies. Except when they're not.

[tandem5]

22. and of course the follow-up: The next president will inherit the positive effects of bush's...

economic policy, which have yet to been felt!

[Marr]

23. Unless the ecnomy tanks, of course. Then GW will have had nothing to do with it.

[progressoid]

24. Yep, that's the beauty of RW talking points. They are so flexible!

[theredpen]

25. "Bush's fault!"

Freepers like to make fun of people who "blame Bush for everything." Granted, it is possible to blame Bush for more than he deserves, but now that he's in the last year of his second term, Freepers look pretty stupid for their inability to blame him for ANYTHING.

[mitchtv]

26. sounds like the Obama people

Indistinguishable from the RW these days, what with the Reagan worshipping, gay baiting , boomerbashing, etc. Trashing Big Dog is a local delight here.

[CatWoman]

27. Bluebear

I swear, I don't know what I'd do with you.

You are the funniest, most clever DUer EVAH!!!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[Bluebear]

37. XOXOXOX

[robbedvoter]

29. Recession started: March 2001. MSM DELIBERATELY had typos saying "2000"

Bush himself was using that little 'oops" in some speeches - not all - I was watching for it at the time. I recall - during the 2000 campaign - W&comp kept screaming recession - where none existed. I also recall W blaming Clinton for not dealing with the gas oil 9which was hunky dory at the time). In fact Clinton was demanding OPEC then to increase production - and they were complying. All that stopped, after W settled in - and he and OPEC started making bundles together from the American consumer.

I used to keep that 2001 article announcing recession - and post it every time they were messing up the year. Unfortunately, I had it on something called smartgroups.com - which simply disappeared one day.
Luckily, google is your friend:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2003-07-17-recession_x.htm
"The 2001 recession began in March that year, so today's announcement makes it an eight-month downturn.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. Didn't Bush adamantly refuse to regulate the hedge fund industry?

Unlike mutual funds, hedge funds do not have to register with the SEC and are issued in "private offerings". Bush consistently refused to require hedge funds to register and felt that the federal government should remain in a deregulation posture towards this industry, with no SEC oversight, no SEC regulation, no nothing. He felt the federal government should not even be able to make itself aware of what was going on with hedge funds and allow the industry to regulate itself. And wasn't it true that many of the home mortgages were packaged and backed by hedge funds, which were later found to be virtually worthless? Maybe I'm wrong, but didn't that contribute a great deal to the bursting of the housing bubble that has led the way in ths current economic slide? I haven't read any articles on that aspect of Bush's contribution to this current economic downturn.

[robbedvoter]

33. And the Enron prices? And just about everything else?

[walldude]

32. Which means the next administration inherits it from

the Democratic congress elected in 2006. No way a Republican could screw up the economy.

[robbedvoter]

34. You got it! Cuz they're the "responsible ones" - not "tax and spend" like libruls

Just read some Raygun - he 'splains it best!

[upi402]

36. i've heard that sooooo many times

i just smile knowingly now and pat the twit on the head.

[Froward69]

38. ohhh i was about to castrate you...

[TahitiNut]

39. Oh? You looking for something to hang from a trailer hitch?

:evilgrin:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

40. Stand Ye in wonder at the Clenis

For it is to blame for all things.

:rofl: :spray:

:hi: :hug: :bounce: