AMERICAblog: "Mr. Bush has sometimes seemed invisible during the housing and credit crunch"
CDS2
· 1 year ago
Has anyone niticed that this stuf is all occuring since the Democrats took control of Congress? What hppened to gas pricess since they took over? What happened to unemployment since they took over? What happened to the stock market since they took over....Unemployment ? The housing problem....inflation ? Hard to say that the Dem's have been successful in solving any problems, but easy to say that the began when they took over Congress.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
CDS2: your implication is that it is the dems fault. In one year they have driven the economy into the toilet. I think not, though i won't put it past McStain to say that in the coming months. The GOP have been running this country for the past 14 years. They had control during Bill's last term as well. I think you will remember the money and energy pissed away trying to prove he got a hummer. The gutting of every department and its oversight was done by the GOP. The appointment of every incompetent boob who could spell Chimpy to run those departments (Ashcroft, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld, Brown) spellled the end for America.
CDS2
· 1 year ago
lynchie...
When Bush took over, we were in the early stages of a recession. Every single one of the bloggers on this site blamed Bush for the recession. It's how things are. The party in charge get's the applause, or the boos. The Dem's are in charge, Bush can't do anything without their approval. Yet, their reason for being, so they told us, was to get us out of Iraq. So what do they continue to do.......FUND IT. Ya can't have it both ways.
ldlew
· 1 year ago
So you admit that we were on the early stages of a recession and the bush and friends put us into a recession. Good point CDS2
CDS2
· 1 year ago
Sorry you misread my comment. Bush got us out of the recession caused by Clinton.
ldlew
· 1 year ago
And then put us back in to recession...outstanding logic
CDS2
· 1 year ago
What do you have a crystal ball. We are not in a recession. There is a threat of a recession, but I doubt we will get that far with the Fed pouring money into the economy.
ldlew
· 1 year ago
And where does that money come from....China, Japan? With each loan, our dollars are worth less. The less it is worth, the more it takes to keep our economy going. Where does this money go...China, Japan? No glass balls are needed...my check book shows me that we have a problem. Printing money doesn't mean anything...it is what you can change that money to purchase. A technical explaination of a recession means nothing to the average person....only what they can get with the money that they have.
ldlew
· 1 year ago
I see that you are an idiot just like bush, greenspan, and cheney. This goes back to deregulation starting with Clinton when the repugs were in charge of Congress.
CDS2
· 1 year ago
idlew...
Why do you folks always resort to name calling. It shows your lack of breeding and education. I notice you didn't respond to my comment about the Dem's funding the war they promised the voters they would stop? Are those that vote for funding liars ?
Deacon Blues
· 1 year ago
Well, what you expect when you elect a president whose IQ is in the double digits? (I think)
theWalrus
· 1 year ago
Bush clueless and out of touch.
That's news?
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Chimpy is in hiding. He knows the economy is going straight down the shitter. Paulson and Bernacke have already told him this.
Bernacke bailed out Bear Sterns to stop the ENTIRE financial system from COLLAPSE. This is much, much worse than they have admitted before.
Bluestocking
· 1 year ago
I agree that "invisible" is not the best word to use to describe Bush under the circumstances -- but then again, I don't think "clueless" quite captures the spirit of the thing either. The word I would use is OBLIVIOUS...
For a man who came into office as the nation’s first M.B.A. president,
The question is, did he earn it or did daddy buy it for him?
Bluestocking
· 1 year ago
Well, according to Dr. Yoshi Tsurumi -- a professor of economics who was a visiting associate member of the faculty at Harvard Business School while Bush was a student there and who taught him for at least two semesters -- Bush was not a good student, so it seems safe to assume that the answer leans toward the latter. When I was in graduate school at an Ivy League school, a final grade lower than B- in *any* class was considered grounds for immediate dismissal from the program -- and if a prestigious school like Harvard University had anything like a similar policy in place while Bush was, it seems quite possible that he was allowed to remain in the program regardless of whether his grades were up to scratch or not. For that matter, it's known that Bush's grades when he was an undergraduate at Yale weren't exactly stellar -- so one is inclined to wonder just how he managed to get into Harvard in the first place.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
If McCain steals the election, we will be stuck with four more years of clueless.
McCain already admits he does not understand the economy.
That is dangerously incompetent.
CDS2
· 1 year ago
Tom3, McCain won't need to steal the election. The Democrats are fighting for who will be their nominee, when neither one of them can possibly win in a General Election.
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
"When he does speak, he gets it wrong. I'd say we're well past Bush "looking" out of touch. He is out of touch."
Joe, I can only applaud your comments, and would only add why is anyone even listening to this sad buffoon who has almost destroyed America through his corrupt and greedy henchmen and his immoral, illegal, and unnecessary war. May they all burn in Hell for eternity!
Tom3
· 1 year ago
In other news, scientists have proven that Botox can migrate from your skin to your brain.
This explains Mann Coulter.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Hillary's tax returns have millions of dollars in offshore income.
She's a rich bitch and part of the elite that is destroying our nation.
Another reason to vote for Obama.
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel
· 1 year ago
Nothing to see here, move along, move along, is what W. would say if he said anything.
He won't be evicted from his "ranch" in Crawford, and he cares f**k-all about the rest of us.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
I see Chimpyloving Busboy is back. And he thinks there's no problem with the economy. Typical Chimpyloving Inbred Redneck Racist Repuke Moron.
Busboy is a drooling Neanderthal and a closet case with a crush on Chimpy.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Ted Turner thinks his old network has veered too far away from serious news, instead favoring lighter stories delivered by attractive female "chickies" and opinion-based news such as Lou Dobbs' show.
I wish he had never sold it. CNN has become a travesty of itself.
Jason
· 1 year ago
Ted Turner needs to get back on his Lithium salts...
Believe me, if that rich spoiled fuck could get his hands on the right plague to wipe out mankind he would release it. He is roony-toons.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Let's be honest.
Bush is too dumb to be president.
He's always been too dumb to be president.
This country's full of idiots who thought "he's just like me!"
Unfortunately, they were right.
Jason
· 1 year ago
When idiots are outlawed, only outlaws will be idiots. Or something like that...
shanobama
· 1 year ago
If any in government had responded with action to Senator Obamas letter on the mortgage crisis last year, then the problems would not have been so deep and widespread. Another example of Obamas good judgement contrasted with the Bush ignorance of what is going on in America.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
BTW:
I think Bush is just dodging the mortgage meltdown.
Remember, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda was "The Ownership Society." In fact, one of his reelection themes was the number of new homeowners. And, indeed, there is some evidence that his administration stopped state officials from enforcing laws against deceptive mortgage practices because they wanted to get that number up.
Now that it's apparent these people are becoming ex-homeowners, he's running as fast as he can from the whole mess.
Andrew
· 1 year ago
The president's been invisible?!?!?! the guy can't tie his own shoes and you really think he's knows what's going on with the economy or that gas will be over $4 a gallon this summer? All Bush is concerned about is keeping the war going while letting the economy tank and leaving it for the next president to worry about. All his corporate friends have already reaped the financial benefits of his pro business stance and to hell with the average citizen. Invisible?!?! No, the guy is just out to lunch and never has been palying with a full deck.
Webster
· 1 year ago
This says it all friends--just forwarded to me. It's the 'terrasts," folks...Gotta blame the "terrasts."
I'd rather have Ted Turner giving me the news than Rupert Murdock.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
"When idiots are outlawed, only outlaws will be idiots"
"They can have my idiot when they pry George from my cold, dead fingers" - Dick Cheney.
bunnyjump
· 1 year ago
uhhhh.....DUHHHHH!....
lynchie
· 1 year ago
But Chimpy was told that MBA stands for My Bad Ass. he couldn't run a farting contest after a baked bean dinner.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
But Chimpy was told that MBA stands for My Bad Ass. he couldn't run a farting contest after a baked bean dinner.
Sigh! Actually, that is the problem. Bush is perfectly qualified to do exactly that, but that is the only thing that he is capable of doing right. Not fair though since he would also win the contest.
Jim Olson
· 1 year ago
Mr. Bush is a criminal who should be impeached for lying to the American public about the reasons for the Iraq war. Mr. Bush is a criminal who should be impeached for continuing to allow torture in the name of the American people, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Mr. Bush is a criminal who should be impeached for any number of a dozen reasons. He should be tried, found guilty, and imprisoned for the rest of his sad, miserable life.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Home ownership plunges to pre-9/11 levels, according to Census Bureau:
Has anyone niticed that this stuf is all occuring since the Democrats took control of Congress?
Thanks, you made my day. God, I haven't laughed that hard since Barbara Bush's tit fell out of her bathing suit in Kennebunkport. Well, OK, that made me puke, but I laughed too.
nicho
· 1 year ago
lynchie 13 minutes ago
But Chimpy was told that MBA stands for My Bad Ass. he couldn't run a farting contest after a baked bean dinner.
Actually, MBA means "managed by assholes."
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
God, I haven't laughed that hard since Barbara Bush's tit fell out of her bathing suit in Kennebunkport. Well, OK, that made me puke, but I laughed too. ----
I'm eating here!
geraldo
· 1 year ago
The Fed wants to bail out the big banks by handing out 45 billion dollars. Like they need it. If they want to save the economy sending $600 to everyone is a joke. Why not take that 45 billion and send it to 45 million homes in amounts of $100,000? That would surely save people from losing their homes and the money would end up in the coffers of the big banks eventually anyhow.
As usual, the troll lies - why do people engage the troll?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
if the dems were in control of Congress we'd be getting out of Iraq by now. among other things. they're not, so we're not.
bush, as grand leader of the GOP, has dropped the ball on that party's historic core value: competence. bushco has failed in every possible area of governance. and mcCain is more of the same.
Joshau Norton
· 1 year ago
We have the repiggies dream economy. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
We gots lottsa money as long as the green ink doesn't run out. Soon the exchange rate for the dollar and the peso will be one for one. That should solve the immigration problem, if nothing else. Why come here and bust your ass when you can stay in Mexico and make the same amount of money?
roooth
· 1 year ago
"We have the repiggies dream economy. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor."
In a nutshell...
jr
· 1 year ago
all the cokehead cares about is playing with toy soldiers on the floor. Our economy is in Hooverist tatters
Joshau Norton
· 1 year ago
"I'd say we're well past Bush "looking" out of touch."
Only "looking" out of touch? He's been as lost as Atlantis since the day the Supreme court appointed him.
Joshau Norton
· 1 year ago
"Has anyone niticed that this stuf is all occuring since the Democrats took control of Congress?"
Brilliant wingnut logic. Kind of like saying you got cancer because you changed doctors.
Obviously his spelling skills are the same as his "logic" skills.
ldlew
· 1 year ago
Review of CDS2 logic close to recession with Clinton Seven and half years later..close to Bush's recession. The repugs did outstanding to achieve the samething.
roooth
· 1 year ago
Bush always acts with his own priorities in mind. That's why he ignored warnings about 9/11, has not caught Osama, invaded Iraq, ignored Katrina and is standing by while Americans lose their homes and his rich buddies pick whatever meat is left on the bones of the middle class.
If he had cared about any of those, he would have acted differently. How stupid are we for being surprised each new time he screws us?
barney
· 1 year ago
Karma is good, remember that kids. Karma is good
Rab
· 1 year ago
I hope the 50% dumbasses in this country that voted for shrub are thrilled about the bang up job he's done.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Submediocre-Rich-Boy made his mark on History and it is brown.
Rab
· 1 year ago
Good luck John Mac being the repug nominee, probably will get 38-42% of the votes in this country as it becomes a blowout for Obama. I still think they should take and kick out 38-42% of those out of the country.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Maybe, it is best for all of ust that he's out of the country thinking about other things (not that he knows what he's doing on other issues, either):
Yikes! Do you really want Bush in other nations representing us to the world. Just the thought of that makes me want to hide in shame. As for his thinking about other things, come on! There is solid bone between his ears. He doesn't think. There is no electrical activity in that head unless the earphone that they use to give him secret instructions malfunctions and short circuits. If there are any thoughts in his head, it is to try to avoid Laura who still is trying to get him to finish reading "My Pet Goat."
RG
· 1 year ago
Here's a novel idea. If you don't have the money, don't spend it. That doesn't only include government (they just keep spending away...), but also those morons who make $30,000/year and live in $500,000 houses. The president does get some blame on this one and he is clueless, but what about the idiots who don't do any research on mortgages that think ARM's and interest-only were the greatest things since sliced bread?!? I have no sympathy for those people, even when the president and congress are to blame.
ugh
· 1 year ago
Ugh could that repulsive Stolberg be any more wishy washy and "fair and balanced"?
All Comments
The gutting of every department and its oversight was done by the GOP. The appointment of every incompetent boob who could spell Chimpy to run those departments (Ashcroft, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld, Brown) spellled the end for America.
When Bush took over, we were in the early stages of a recession. Every single one of the bloggers on this site blamed Bush for the recession. It's how things are. The party in charge get's the applause, or the boos. The Dem's are in charge, Bush can't do anything without their approval. Yet, their reason for being, so they told us, was to get us out of Iraq. So what do they continue to do.......FUND IT. Ya can't have it both ways.
Why do you folks always resort to name calling. It shows your lack of breeding and education. I notice you didn't respond to my comment about the Dem's funding the war they promised the voters they would stop? Are those that vote for funding liars ?
That's news?
Bernacke bailed out Bear Sterns to stop the ENTIRE financial system from COLLAPSE. This is much, much worse than they have admitted before.
Send your gayest photo to Jay Leno!!
The question is, did he earn it or did daddy buy it for him?
McCain already admits he does not understand the economy.
That is dangerously incompetent.
I'd say we're well past Bush "looking" out of touch. He is out of touch."
Joe, I can only applaud your comments, and would only add why is anyone even listening to this sad buffoon who has almost destroyed America through his corrupt and greedy henchmen and his immoral, illegal, and unnecessary war. May they all burn in Hell for eternity!
This explains Mann Coulter.
She's a rich bitch and part of the elite that is destroying our nation.
Another reason to vote for Obama.
He won't be evicted from his "ranch" in Crawford, and he cares f**k-all about the rest of us.
Busboy is a drooling Neanderthal and a closet case with a crush on Chimpy.
I wish he had never sold it. CNN has become a travesty of itself.
Believe me, if that rich spoiled fuck could get his hands on the right plague to wipe out mankind he would release it.
He is roony-toons.
Bush is too dumb to be president.
He's always been too dumb to be president.
This country's full of idiots who thought "he's just like me!"
Unfortunately, they were right.
I think Bush is just dodging the mortgage meltdown.
Remember, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda was "The Ownership Society." In fact, one of his reelection themes was the number of new homeowners. And, indeed, there is some evidence that his administration stopped state officials from enforcing laws against deceptive mortgage practices because they wanted to get that number up.
Now that it's apparent these people are becoming ex-homeowners, he's running as fast as he can from the whole mess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXKLVgEx0
"They can have my idiot when they pry George from my cold, dead fingers" - Dick Cheney.
Sigh! Actually, that is the problem. Bush is perfectly qualified to do exactly that, but that is the only thing that he is capable of doing right. Not fair though since he would also win the contest.
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/01/home...
Has anyone niticed that this stuf is all occuring since the Democrats took control of Congress?
Thanks, you made my day. God, I haven't laughed that hard since Barbara Bush's tit fell out of her bathing suit in Kennebunkport. Well, OK, that made me puke, but I laughed too.
But Chimpy was told that MBA stands for My Bad Ass. he couldn't run a farting contest after a baked bean dinner.
Actually, MBA means "managed by assholes."
----
I'm eating here!
If they want to save the economy sending $600 to everyone is a joke.
Why not take that 45 billion and send it to 45 million homes in amounts of $100,000?
That would surely save people from losing their homes and the money would end up in the coffers of the big banks eventually anyhow.
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...
they're not, so we're not.
bush, as grand leader of the GOP, has dropped the ball on that party's historic core value: competence.
bushco has failed in every possible area of governance.
and mcCain is more of the same.
We gots lottsa money as long as the green ink doesn't run out. Soon the exchange rate for the dollar and the peso will be one for one. That should solve the immigration problem, if nothing else. Why come here and bust your ass when you can stay in Mexico and make the same amount of money?
In a nutshell...
Only "looking" out of touch? He's been as lost as Atlantis since the day the Supreme court appointed him.
Brilliant wingnut logic. Kind of like saying you got cancer because you changed doctors.
Obviously his spelling skills are the same as his "logic" skills.
close to recession with Clinton
Seven and half years later..close to Bush's recession.
The repugs did outstanding to achieve the samething.
If he had cared about any of those, he would have acted differently. How stupid are we for being surprised each new time he screws us?
Yikes! Do you really want Bush in other nations representing us to the world. Just the thought of that makes me want to hide in shame. As for his thinking about other things, come on! There is solid bone between his ears. He doesn't think. There is no electrical activity in that head unless the earphone that they use to give him secret instructions malfunctions and short circuits. If there are any thoughts in his head, it is to try to avoid Laura who still is trying to get him to finish reading "My Pet Goat."
"the first hint"?
"might be detached"
"has sometimes seemed invisible"?
"in danger of looking out of touch?"
http://www.bushdoctrine.net/images/bush-door-ch...
Was her head up her ass the last 7 years ?