Correct, but Obama thinks it was just a matter of him not "communicating" his polices well enough for people to understand. It makes me wonder if Hitler could have used the same excuse for his rationale in exterminating the Jews: "It's a good policy, but I just haven't communicated it good enough or else the entire world would love me for doing it". Bad policies and bad ideas can't be dressed up with a little lipstick and mascara. Obama needs to realize that he's going down the wrong path.
Well, I think anyone who thinks of mandates and thumpings might want to look at the races, the margins and the votes. Like in Illinois...Kirk won by about 70K votes....but it was a mid term election and about 1.7 million people who would typically vote in a Presidential election cycle didn't even go to the polls. I am sure the other races in other states were similar. Which is why I say this "thumping" can reverse very easily if the Repos don't start improving things fast.
So this was just the start of the thumping? and not the real thumping? lol Face it, on the national level, they won the easy house of congress in a mid term election. And the one that is most easily flipped back too. Now comes the hard part...actually doing something to show the voters they should keep their new jobs in 2012. It is going to take more than vague mutterings about cutting spending, extending the Bush stimulus plan, and a pipe dream of repealing the health care bill.
So far what I've heard is that their plan is to oppose Obama at every chance they get. So much for the Republicans turning over a new leaf....
NO, it's putting party and pork over country and that's why our economy is in a depression in the first place.
Our economy is cyclical, always has been. Recessions are inevitable but the bad ones usually involve really bad business practices during the bull years (real estate market). The politicians don't control the economy and partisanship did not cause the recession.
No, George Jr. caused the near depression (The party's best representative at the time) with his deregulation of everything and anything, not to mention he and PNAC's little agenda of 911...you know...George's "new pearl harbour" (that's Georgey's direct quote...not a paraphrase nor an opinion).
Name one deregulation and how it caused the current recession! Furthermore, his comparison of Pearl Harbor to 9/11 is extremely accurate. The United States has only been attacked on it's own soil twice after the war of 1812. I wonder what those two attacks could be. Oh that's right, Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Only you and your clown posse thinks that he is equating 9/11 to the utterly ridiculous conspiracy theory that the US allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor to happen. Why do you believe in every single conspiracy theory? The obvious answer is that you are a clown. What is your answer?
Yeah, except that the pearl harbor term was PNAC's stated objective well prior to 911. Those words verbatim I believe.
This is the quote clown: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor" George Bush did not write that so it is not a direct quote. Perhaps you can explain how you extrapolate that quote to mean that they planned 9/11? Have you even read the PNAC material or are you following the truther drone handbook again?
Scuse me oh credentialed one. Not a direct quote but he said it just the same AFTER 911 occurred. Do I have to post that link of the criminal in chief saying it too? PNAC's own objectives (whose members are most of Bushie's cabinet) was to essentially, invade countries for control of oil (that I AM paraphrasing). They "needed" this catastrophic event for support of the newly created war. That's the PNAC PRIOR part. Georgey said something like "there's our new pearl harbor" AFTER 911. I know...it was just a coincidence.
Are you serious? Holy bats**t! How bout the mortgage meltdown? Wall Street and banking? For 8 years there was a dramatic expansion in the services and fast consolidation of what had been separate and regulated industries. As banking, brokerage, insurance, and financial services companies acquired and merged - the speed of these transactions far exceeded the regulatory ability or resources (not by accident) resulting in such things as credit default swaps that now even seasoned wall-streeters say were hard to understand. The Bush Recession wasn't the result of a single bad decision, or even actions out of our control. For 8 years HE allowed a handful of private industries to operate WITHOUT oversight or review, with a focus on short term gains, as environmental and world economic issues loomed large. This crap didn't happen overnight, but the hypocrites on the right would have you think Obama somehow caused it all.
Wow, you love to invent fantasy as you go along don't you. READ and LEARN clown. Blaming Deregulation BTW, he provides a biography on the page. See clown, this is a real source. The Washington Post! Not Prisonplanet.com or truthclown.com or any other fantasy bat sh*t you found on the internet. A real news source, with a smart credentialed guy blowing your fantasy propaganda out of the water.
Hey, I am glad to see you posting links in lieu of explanations. That's good! Don't want to waste your breath. I understand. Hence....my links upon links. Hey...when you go to the dictionary, encyclopedia or whatever, what is the definition of a "real news source"? Got a reference there do ya? TRUTH...deal with it.