US votes rigged as hell, no democracy here!!!, page 2

It figures you'd like Rome, that little weasel. Who was the QB who kicked his butt on air?

All the Republicans who did well ran as Democrats, so it all works out! More proof positive that the country is firmly moderate. I can't believe anyone in the South would vote for any candidate who would want to take their hunting gun away. People think that NY is nothing but NYC. Right! We're more 'hick red neck' in parts of this state than anyone living in the trailer park next to Thomas!

Yes, I know when Bush was sworn in. It's not a question so much of giving birth to the recession, but doing nothing to stop it and hastening it on for ulterior motives, specifically the tax cut. Historically, the economy goes into stasis during a presidential election year voting period. Why? Logically, the people with speculative call in Corporate America are going to see who the winner is and which fiscal platform is going to be applied. The president's office does not make legislation. It does not drop interest rates like the FRB. But it does have the bully pulpit and the country does listen. All of the Bush rhetoric during the campaign, and after inauguration centered on the key theme of recession. A recession would be all that was needed for his tax cut as stimulus plan switcheroo. You do remember all the speeches about hitting the Trifecta that Bush made, don't you?
Not getting into the label tutorial again, the recession started then, but the degrees it progressed to in 2002 where not nearly as severe in 3/01. The fault is in the Bush administration looking to surf it out instead of applying stop gap measures to curtail it, in other words, they could have sealed the finger hole in the dyke early instead of it turning into a gusher. Intentional or incompetent, his was a negative effect regardless, just like ignoring the Israel/Palestinian conflict for 18 months.
Failed policies of Clinton? Where? And where's the proof? You have an economy that did in his 1 1/2 terms what the previous 3 terms of GOP stewardship couldn't do: raised the standard of living, took more people off of welfare, closed the gap between the haves & have nots with more Americans rising above the poverty line, and grew the economy to it's historic highs. To not think something is going to come down from a pinnacle is to not understand the physics of economics. Prosperity in the 90s was the result of technological innovation, productivity and globalization; and not Reganomics. The costs of speculation and the limits of global expansion, previously ignored, are now playing into the formula. Don't look for that chapter of history to repeat itself anytime soon.
The economy IS the real issue, and the rest are fireworks to keep people looking at the sky and not to the ground. The problem with fireworks is that attention span is only so long... and in order to keep attention you need to keep making bigger and brighter blasts. This administration is dealing with urgencies instead of priorities, urgencies mostly of its own making. This is very poor management and stewardship. The game here is to keep us engaged until the next wave hits. Hopefully by then we have not been made ragged.