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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
Kinda like the dems blaming Bush for the Clinton recession his first three months in office
or the budget shortfalls the dems blamed Bush for even though it was Clinton's budget ?
Or, it's like the dems blaming Bush for the Fannie/Freddie mess when Bush tried 38 times to fix the problem and the dems blocked him every time ?
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If you have a recession the first 3 months you're in office it's 100% not your fault. I'd say the same for the first 3 months of a Republican admin... (actually the first year or two unless they did something really crazy). And yes you can blame the previous admin for budget shortfalls depending on the level of debt involved. You can't wave a magic wand and balance a budget in 12 months.. What is stopping Bush from magically giving america a surplus tomorrow in that case?
Yes I agree wholeheartedly that Bush didn't 100% cause this crisis. It works both ways. If Clinton burnt the constitution and stayed in power over the last 8 years we'd still be on the same rough trajectory. The parties aren't THAT different in general policy thrust there might be a year or two delay but Bush didn't drive us to this on his own. It's retarded to think that if the Dems were in power for 30 years there wouldn't be another recession lol.