When New Orleans flooded, the Bush/Cheney administration delayed the federal “response” to this disaster for critical, life-threatening days, even going so far as to eventually blame Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, for what must have originated as a partisan directive from the top levels of the DHS and the Bush/Cheney administration. Top Bush officials also put the squeeze on the FEMA emergency disaster coordinator at his command center in Baton Rouge, especially after he complained to a reporter (as people were dying in New Orleans) that he was seeing his federal disaster relief efforts subverted and his orders directing personnel and supplies to New Orleans overruled…presumably by someone higher-up at DHS. Plus, the Bush/Cheney administration blocked civilian rescue attempts (Louisiana boaters offering their services) while chastising some Air Force helicopter pilots (flying out of Pensacola FL) for their daring to help rescue people from rooftops in New Orleans.

The prelude to this massive economic crisis reeks of similar Republican partisan antics. Warning signs had been abundant for several years that the artificially-created, Republican-promoted housing bubble would burst. Attempts to stop predatory lending practices were blocked time and again by Republican in the White House and by their rubber-stamp Republican friends in control of Congress through the end of 2006. Republicans milked the housing bubble for everything they could until the bottom fell out, then they came up with a “bail-out plan” several weeks ago with provisions meant to milk it even more.

Unfortunately, for the culture of corruption Republicans, many people weren’t “buying” the crony Republican “bail-out plan.” Unfortunately, for American citizens and the rest of the world, Republican delays in addressing and mitigating this artificially-inflated housing bubble (just like during Hurricane Katrina) has made things much worse. Immediate action was called for, but Republicans dropped the ball, dropped the ball, dropped the ball, apparently in an attempt to hand off all their crap to the next administration. But no one should be surprised, especially since neither Bush nor Cheney (nor any other of the top Republicans in their administration) can ever seem to admit that they make mistakes, mistakes that have done severe harm to our nation and the future of our nation’s children.

Too bad there is still a several month delay before we can finally kick these Republican Bush Bums out, leaving them several more months to continue harming our nation and the future of our nation’s children.

It’s only a recession when a Democrat is President.
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Watch for Republicans everywhere to use the “R” word starting January 21.

The madness!

sound familiar?

Saddam has hidden the recession in the US!!!

(probably in some less than “pro-american” part, i bet)

The rich are still doing fine.

they can be technically right if they want, I still don’t like them, respect them or believe them.