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Home Front: Politix
The American Dream was murdered - Democrat fingerprints are all over the corpse
2011-06-09
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#7  What lotp said.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-06-09 20:00  

#6  Face it. It was the entire corrupt elite inside the Beltway of all stripes. The only difference is that the resistance, what little there was, was predominantly ,pub. But, a minority of the minority (small at that) ain't gonna do much.
Posted by: AlanC   2011-06-09 18:10  

#5  Barney Frank belongs to Congress so don't pass up the legion of RINOs who let it passed while they had control of the keys to the store up till 2006.

I didn't mean to say it was just Bush. But it wasn't just Bawney either, as much as I despise that odious little man. They had LOTS of company on BOTH sides of the aisle.

And I've heard the theory that Bush had to compromise to get support for the war. But it's gonna be kinda hard to continue fighting the war when we're broke.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-06-09 17:32  

#4  Yes. Bush did what he thought he had to do to continue Congressional support (such as it was) for the GWOT. He did, in fact, attempt to reform both Fannie/Freddie and Social Security after 2004 but was vilified for both efforts.
Posted by: lotp   2011-06-09 17:16  

#3  ..but Bush had a chance to strangle them in their cradles and he failed.

Bush made a choice to fight a war delivered on our doorsteps on 9/11. Barney Frank belongs to Congress so don't pass up the legion of RINOs who let it passed while they had control of the keys to the store up till 2006. Like the Paleos, they always take the opportunity to pass up an opportunity. It's like there' something in the water in the Beltway. Time to import the stuff from outside.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-06-09 16:47  

#2  Like his father, "W" wanted to be seen as a "compassionate conservative". You know, hands across the aisle and all that rot. Clueless!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2011-06-09 14:23  

#1  Democratic power brokers stoked the housing bubble and turned a blind eye to the increasingly rampant corruption and incompetence at Fannie Mae and the associated predatory lenders who sheltered under its umbrella; core Democratic ideas may well be at fault.

This was going on the entire eight years that George Bush was in office. He turned a blind eye too. You may love him for his prosecution of the WOT but his fingerprints are on the corpse of the American dream right next to Bawney Fwank's. He may have started whimpering about it in 2006 but he should have been screaming bloody murder from 2000 onward. Donks are not entirely incorrect when they blame Bush and that is why it will not be so easy for Trunks to exploit this issue in 2012. Fannie and Freddie may be jimmuh carter's babies but Bush had a chance to strangle them in their cradles and he failed.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-06-09 14:12  

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