PROOF Democrats caused Economy Crisis!

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Registered: 08-29-2008
PROOF Democrats caused Economy Crisis!
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 10:34am

Even BILL CLINTON was man enough to admit it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:30am

That is not true. President Bush PROPOSED regulations. The Republicans could not have passed this legislation without Democrat support. There was not a filibuster-proof congress and the Democrats made it a partisan issue (as evidenced in this video). Even Bill Clinton was unable to sway the Democrats who coddled their cash cows when HE was in office.

Good try, though.

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Registered: 10-17-2005
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:33am

Hindsight is 20/20. We're in this mess, so who can help fix it now. The Republicans are always spouting lets look forward not backward, so what's their solution? Bring it to the table and quit using scare tactics about Obama. If they want to inspire people to get behind them it should be about the issues not about who's to blame for crap that's already happened.


Fine, you want McCain in office. Have him. Let him try to clean up this horrific nightmare of a mess. And I sure hope he does. I fear that this mess, if Obama can't clean it up, will impact other minority pres candidates in the future. So, let's roll w/ another 4 years of the same. And boy, thanks for the PROOF! I feel so much better that it was addressed some 4 years ago and no action was taken on it. Does this clip fix anything???!!! NO!


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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:39am

The Republicans could not have passed this legislation without Democrat support.


Republicans were the majority party in both houses. They could have passed anything they pleased by a MAJORITY vote, since they were the MAJORITY party. The Republican president could then have signed it.


There was not a filibuster-proof congress and the Democrats made it a partisan issue


Oh please-Republicans could have brought it to the floor and used a Democratic filibuster for their own partisan purposes, assuming this was that important to them. It obviously wasn't.


(as evidenced in this video).


Leni Riefenstahl's disciples seem to be all over YouTube these days.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:42am

Fine, you want McCain in office. Have him.


Ummm, No.

~ SW

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:44am
It surely makes me uncomfortable to see the "fox guarding the henhouse" to this day. We have the same clowns in charge of trying to fix this mess that got us into it. I say throw them ALL out beginning with BARNEY FRANK!
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Registered: 01-12-2007
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:46am

Oh dablacksox you know that isn't true.

   

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:49am
Do you understand how our government works? On issues which were important to the Democrats during the time that the Republicans were in charge they could filibuster and keep the bill from coming to a vote. And they did this on EVERY partisan bill. They even did it on JUDGES, which at the time was unprecedented. The republicans did not have enough majority votes to override a filibuster. The Democrats made this a partisan issue which meant the Republicans COULD NOT PASS IT.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:51am
I really think a lot of people just don't understand how our government works. The extremist websites prey on these people.
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:55am

You are correct.

~ SW

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Registered: 11-11-1999
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:57am

It takes a lot more than just the majority.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.