| The Party of Personal Responsibility, folks. Further, while the killing of Osama bin Laden came on Obama's watch, it was years of military intelligence gathering under Bush which allowed Navy SEAL Team 6 to finally corner and take out the world's most wanted killer. Again, Bush gets no thanks for his leadership as commander-in-chief, even as Obama gets the appropriate credit for approving the final mission. Omitting the Bush contributions is one thing, but Dems have gone even further in blaming him and the free market system for the recession and current $16 trillion national debt. If a finger is pointed at Bush, then several must be directed at the Democrats who controlled Congress when the recession started in 2007.
This may be the dumbest thing ever written in the English language and published by an outlet anywhere in the state of Michigan. In order, what he's saying is that George Bush should get partial credit for Osama bin Laden's killing because intelligence gathering for it started during his presidency (perhaps Bush himself was out roughing up local sources), credit for the health and vibrancy of the auto industry (keep in mind that not too long ago Magic Frank was complaining about this because it forced the closure of auto dealerships) because the initial aid to the automakers came through the TARP program (Magic Frank doesn't appear to know this, but them's small potatoes; he also doesn't appear to remember Richard Shelby's and Bob Corker's opposition to the real aid that helped GM manage its soft landing in bankruptcy that came in the early days of the Obama administration), and that it was Democrats -- and, in fact, Obama -- who were responsible for the near-collapse of the finance industry through that Carter-era law they appear to believe prompted sub-prime loans. The Daily Caller, a media outlet with the journalistic credibility of your average copy of Highlights, said so. It seems like a fairly pointless exercise to once again deflate these claims, especially the last one which is the most important. We're at a point where you're either familiar with reality -- i.e. loosened regulations on banking institutions that allowed them to become very large also allowed them to leverage out too much bad debt, and permitted betting against that bad debt, and that this all started unraveling when things predictably went south, or you simply live in a fantasy world where the answer to everything is to hoot, "No, Democrats guilty!" and point in the other direction because you think that argument is the practice of naysaying the other person. |
