Doocy says poll showing most believe recession is Bush's fault means people "bought into" Obama's argument
February 09, 2010 6:24 am ET
From the February 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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The notion that anyone has "bought in" to President Obama's argument just means that they have the ability to observe the facts of the situation and can make a logical conclusion.
Here's a simple one that even a Fox and Friends host could understand.
President clinton as handed a $290 Billion deficit, at its time, the largest in history.
The deficit was reduced each year President Clinton was in office.
His last three budgets were surplusses ($69B, $129B, $236B).
President Bush took the 8 years of President Clinton's record deficit reduction and then turned over a $1.2 Trillion deficit to President Obama.
If that's too complicated... here's a graph... although it only goes through 2006 (you should get the idea), there's pictures of the Presidents to help you out.
And oh, btw... for those GOP Reagan lovers, the 2010 budget is the higest deficit spending since Reagan (as a percentage of GDP)
Thank goodness for those good folks at Fox for bringing this out in the sunshine. I was beginning to think that no one saw this dastardly socialist/nazi/commie plot.
Nope it means you failed in opening your mouth!
SMH!
Oh, even Bush's own party doesn't miss him. How can they miss him when they are working so hard to prove that he never existed and that his dismal financial policies never existed either.
Republican party and Fox news, no matter how hard you try, we are not going to forget that the recession was cemented long before Obama took office. Democrats, it is imperative that, no matter how many insults they hurl and no matter how much whining they do about BIOB (Blame It On Bush), you continue to let everyone in this great country know who is responsible for the economic collapse. Do not let them spin it on you. Do not let them place the blame for our sad economic state on Obama's administration.
They're going to be repetitive, so you be repetitive. They're going to say it louder, so you say it louder. Do not try to play it cool. Do not sit back and wait for them to bring the fight to you. Take it to their face.
Strange- it sure SEEMED like at LEAST eight years.
The blue dogs voted with Bush on everything but will not help the new president get his legislation passed.
The blue dogs are destroying the democratic party.
People are getting tired of hearing the trash of Limbaugh, the lies of Hannity, the disgust of Savage and the nonsense of BillO.
When the Democratic Party decides to unite for the election of 2010, the Repubs and the Tea Party gang will switch to something much stronger to sip. I am going into the alcohol business.
Republican strategists knew the deluge was coming. Imagine how desperately they wanted it to wait until early March 2009 (when, as it happened, the Dow hit its low) or at least until Inauguration Day. But Sept. 8, 2008 (Black Monday) was six weeks before the presidential election. And, as others have noted here, the economy had been slumping for nearly a year.
All of which left Fox News analysts with egg all over their faces. For months the Fred Barneses and Brit Humes had seized upon a laughable technicality, claiming no recession was under way because the GDP had not declined two months in a row. Which I guess is why McCain saw such strength in the economy's fundamentals.
Nobody could forget such a turning point in early 21st-century history. It was personal.
Jerry Elsea
And not just the Fox News analysts.
You'd think a president with an MBA would know that you can only spend $12 billion/month on two preemptive wars without paying for them for so long before the bubble bursts . . . they were just HOPING it would occur AFTER the inauguration.
Poor guys -- they ALMOST made it . . .
I.e., they're grounded in reality . . .