The Goat Pen

bluetick wrote:"Let's make no mistake about it right now: increasing THIS debt ceiling? This is George W. Bush and the Republican Party's debt.

Five years from now? It's Barack Obama's. But right now, this is what happens when you spend the type of money you spent from 2001 to 2009... This is what we have been led to in 2011. This is George W. Bush's debt. You can't just put this on Barack Obama."
-Joe Scarborough, 7/12/2011, Conservative Analyst and former Repubican Congressman (FL)

Borrow, spend, and cut revenue....sounds as futile as your "buy high/sell low" strategies.

Look at your own graph and you'll see dubya doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 tril. Yet you never made a peep about that...funny how that works.

puterbac wrote:

bluetick wrote:heh @ Washington Examiner

Tick used to make some cogent points, but now it's just sad. Never comments on the content of an article or column anymore. Just tries to make snide comments about either the author, the site published on, or both in a sorry attempt to discredit. Could you be any more un-serious? It's become a reflex kind of like the left calling anybody who ask oprama or holder a question a racist. Why do they do that? Cause they got nothing else.

C'mon man at least the old guys in the balcony on the muppet show were funny.

Professor Tiger wrote:

...and of course, slick willie did absolutly nothing about the building snowball that was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Somewhere between slick willie and the financial meltdown of 2008, I believe there was a Republican president for 8 years and Republican majorities in both houses for 6 years. They did nothing about that snowball either. They absolutely, totally, completely and utterly failed to use their complete control of the US government to regulate Fannie and Freddie, and generally ensure a sane banking system. This recession is their fault.

Bush's handling of the war in Iraq was also a breathtaking essay in incompetence. He was wrong about their WMD. His administration never spent five minutes thinking about what they would do with Iraq after we conquered it. He spent the next year pretending everything was just peachy keen when the whole country descended into chaos.

Throw in his deficits (the second worst in US history), the federal response to Katrina, the Dubai ports deal, Harriet Myers scotus nomination, and you have a completely failed presidency.

With his deficits and war on the Catholic Church, Obama might still be worse. We'll see in his second term.

Jungle Rat wrote:And you wonder why people laugh at republicans. They'll cry about anything.

http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=8097501

Hacksaw wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:And you wonder why people laugh at republicans. They'll cry about anything.

http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=8097501

Said the unaffiliated guy who doesn't care about politics...and who has evidently forgotten all of the times he posted criticisms of Bush for just these kinds of silly incidents.

I hope your next wife/partner pays you some attention.

Hacksaw wrote:I can still remember the waterfall of posts by yourself, 'tick, DSL, The Talent, Hedge, et al, absolutely indignant and outraged by such examples of Bush's incompetence, real and imagined. I remember how concerned you all were with any sign of bad economic news -- like when unemployment topped 6%!

Now we have Obama wrecking the economy and creating a mess that it will take decades to fix. And you're all okay with it.

Oh, to go back to the days when Bush was trying to walk through locked doors and such.