Huckabee: Obama Needs To Stop Blaming Bush Because Bush Didn’t Complain About Inheriting Clinton’s Economy
Huckabee: Obama Needs To Stop Blaming Bush Because Bush Didn’t Complain About Inheriting Clinton’s Economy
On Fox and Friends this morning, host Gretchen Carlson asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) about Vice President Biden’s comment that the Obama administration “misread the economy” when they made predictions about the impact of the stimulus earlier this year. “Here goes Biden again and he says something that is really in this case true,” said Huckabee. “They didn’t realize how bad things were.”
Huckabee claimed that “there’s one thing though that Biden and President Obama have got to get under control. And that is quit blaming George Bush.” He then made the common conservative claim that Bush inherited a recession from Bill Clinton, but didn’t complain about it:
HUCKABEE: There’s one thing though that Biden and President Obama have got to get under control. And that is quit blaming George Bush. George Bush inherited an economy when he became president back in 2001 that was already beginning to show real signs of the stress from the breaking of the technology bubble. George Bush didn’t go out whining and complaining every day, he stood up like the president of the United States and he worked on trying to get it fixed.
Then 2001, 9/11 came, things really went tough, but he worked on the economy and it was in much better shape for most of his presidency. Then the recession started, wasn’t totally his fault for sure and all you hear from Joe Biden and President Obama is how, how terrible it was, what they inherited, how it wasn’t their fault. No, look, you own it now. You got elected, you wanted the job. Stand up and take it and get this thing rolling. But quit spending money.
Watch it:
As ThinkProgress has pointed out, it’s false to say that Bush and his colleagues refrained from “whining and complaining” about the economy they inherited. In fact, Bush complained about it right up until he left office:
“When I took office, our economy was beginning a recession.” — Bush, 8/7/02
“The president inherited a Clinton recession and turned it into the early stages of Bush prosperity.” — Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, 9/2/04
“In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.” — Bush, 1/12/09
As Media Matters noted in their comprehensive report on the backdating of the 2001 recession, which actually began in March 2001 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bush OMB Director Mitch Daniels once used the inherited a recession talking point in three separate interviews on the same day.
Transcript:
HUCKABEE: There’s one thing though that Biden and President Obama have got to get under control. And that is quit blaming George Bush. George Bush inherited an economy when he became president back in 2001 that was already beginning to show real signs of the stress from the breaking of the technology bubble. George Bush didn’t go out whining and complaining every day, he stood up like the president of the United States and he worked on trying to get it fixed. Then 2001, 9/11 came, things really went tough, but he worked on the economy and it was in much better shape for most of his presidency. Then the recession started, wasn’t totally his fault for sure and all you hear from Joe Biden and President Obama is how, how terrible it was, what they inherited, how it wasn’t their fault. No, look, you own it now. You got elected, you wanted the job. Stand up and take it and get this thing rolling. But quit spending money.
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Clinton also handed Bush the biggest surplus in U.S. history. A simple thank-you would suffice.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pmYeah, well, *I* wouldn’t complain if *I* had been handed Clinton’s economy either, you moron.
Good grief. You really are just plain stoopid, Schmuckaboob!!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pmThe Flying Spaghetti Monster knows when you’re lying, Huck.
Tsk, tsk…
July 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pmOh look, a republican liar said something mean and false about a dem…
Meanwhile, in progressive news:
Healthcare advocates tell Obama to get bent!
It’s the progressive thing to do. These are the people to send $$ to.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pmBush inherited a huge budget surplus from Clinton, then immediately turned it into deficits that our great-great-grandchildren will still be paying for. Not to mention that almost immediately, Bush started the recession in March, 2001.
Hard to match/beat a record like that. But then, Bush ran EVERY business venture he had into the ground.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pmTo paraphrase Crocodile Dundee – “That’s not a recession – this is a recession.”
July 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm“The president inherited a Clinton recession and turned it into the early stages of Bush prosperity.” — Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, 9/2/04
unfortunately for the nation “Bush prosperity” is just another euphemism for “recession”.
Kinda like “Rocky mountain oyster”.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pmMore wingnut alternate reality, brought to you by FauxNews & friends.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:55 pmHuckabee needs to shut the hell up! The God of the republican party, Ronald Reagan blamed Jimmy Carter every single day he was in office.
President Obama has the right to blame Bush for the mess he inherited. Didn’t the republicans blame Clinton for 9/11 and still do?
It took eight years to get our country in the mess we are in and yet when things aren’t happening fast enough for the republicans approval they get mad when President Obama puts the blame on Bush.
What is the problem with accountability, reality and responsibility with the republican party? They will use this strategy until things get better, but damn it all if things are fixed in six months, it’s all Obama’s fault. Screw the republicans and their corporate masters.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmMore GOP historical revisionism. They must think they are still creating the reality the rest of us get to observe.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pmSchmuckabee must be feeling his oats now that Palin has blown up…Got to admit…the Schmuckabee is certainly a creationist, no-one can create more BS than him
July 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pmGee- Obama doesn’t get to give away trillions of $$$ to his millionaire and billionaire friends and create an economic and fiscal bubble the size of Texas where alot of the money ended up. Huckabee is right about the stop complaining part: Obama should get off the pause button and start prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law those who perpatrated this disaster on the country and call them what they are. They are traitors and murderers whose loyalty is to multi-national corporations and not America.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pmMore proof that Fox Viewers are TOTAL F****** IDIOTS!!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pmNot that he matters, but before the Supreme Court gave GWB the 2000 [s]election, Rush Limbaugh said “As good as the economy is, Al Gore should have won by 10%”.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pmOMG.
Not only did “President” Bush cite being “handed a recession” frequently his first year (or two), but CANDIDATE Bush campaigned on the theme “the economy isn’t really as good as they say” SO FREQUENTLY that it resulted in what many cited as Bush and Cheney “talked the country into a Recession”.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pmI can’t help but wonder what song ole Huckleberry would be singing if he had won the election.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pmWhat the hell is bible-boy even talking about? For crissakes, Bush was still blaming Clinton as he walked out the door. So many of current conservatism’s so-called arguments just demand that you have no memory in order to accept them. And look at the respect they have for their base – they just know their base doesn’t remember and they depend on that.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:10 pm.
Huckabee: “Win one for the gaffer…”
*crack*
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July 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pmHuckleberry et al, just say what they will, no one in the media corrects them (certainly not FOX) but the worst of it is that the DEMOCRATS don’t correct the record.
1. Bush inherited a surplus.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm2. Bush&Co repeatedly claimed that the “recession” started under Clinton and therefore, not his fault.
3. Obama DID inherit a tremendous deficit, huge debts, two wars NOT INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET, and a pathetic opposition party who has obstructed anything and everything Obama has atempted to rectify the disaster he inherited.
hahahHAHAHAHAH-HEHEHEHEHE-cough###
huckabee is just a clown. This is the fun-ish bs I see as of yet!
HAHAHAHAHhehehehehehehe, man my back hurts, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
July 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm.
Dear watchpuppy,
And Bush didn’t?
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July 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pmi thought lying and bearing false witness was a sin for KKKristians?
i guess when the fat squirrel eating elites do it….Jeebus looks the other way.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmAgain, where will the organized push back come from the Democrats to this slander? What action will be taken against FOX that continues to become a larger force since all Neandrathal conservatives view it?
There need to be consequences. Perhaps a few FOX reporters hung out on lamp posts after repeating lies.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pmAnd they say Franken is the clown…
July 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pm.
Dear watchpuppy,
One just misunderestamated and went on vacation.
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July 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pmGeez Louise… Clinton had almost a trillion dollar surplus; he also forcasted at the end of his Presidency and had a projection of 1.5 trillion dollars, by 2010. SOOOOOOO, Huckabee where was that recession, Mmmmm….? I actually do not think that we are in a recession, but a mild depression. Look at the the people who is on and signing up for Unemployment. Go and see the Great Depression and see how many people were out of work…
I remember after 911, I worked at Toys R US and as a full timer, we had to go part time with full time benefits… That was the start of his recession… I went from 37 1/2 hours to about 15 hours a week. I collected a partial unemployment, but that is not the point. It was so fun to just stand around and have maybe one to three customers a day… Boring! I also had an X-Box taken from my hand during inventory, this was in 2002, they caught that person, who was going to sell the video system for drugs. I had to ID him, that was scary. I had to go to Court, but he pleaded out, but not before he dried out.
This is nothing but a diversion from our recent problem…
July 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pmwhen did the word “gross” get added to the VP comment?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pmLet’s make a deal, Mikey. We’ll give President Obama the time needed to work out of this huge hole that GDumbya dug for us before you start pissing and moaning about how unfair it is to blame GDumbya for the recession.
Then, when we are on the other side of this republican-caused crisis, we will still blame it on GDumbya. After all, it’s the truth. I know that republicans are allergic to the truth but fair is fair.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pmBush’s excuse for blowing the Clinton surplus and spending money like a drunken sailor on 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the republicans didn’t care.
President Obama inherits the presidency while our country is stuck in two costly wars, he is stuck with record national debt, record foreign debt, record trade deficits, our economy is in shambles, the financial/banking sector and the housing market are on the brink of collapse, jobs were lost at record pace and now the republicans are mad?
Sure the democrats deserve some of the blame for the mess we are in BUT Bush and the republicans had total control of our government for 6 of the 8 years Bush was president so who should we blame? Hey I know lets blame it all on gay marriage, abortionists and the liberal media. That ought to make the republicans happier.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pmHey, Huck? Is it easy to talk smart from the cheap seats? Or did you figure since the rest of your Republican buddies are going down in various flames you want to keep your hat in the ring?
Off hand, I don’t think a floor stomped tortilla is going to have any better chance than roast moose or the reject from a romance novel.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:33 pmNo, no, no, here’s the Huckabee clip that people should be seeing….
Prepare to laugh your @ss off. (via Hume’s Ghost, via DKos.)
July 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pmChuckleberry is probably just getting nervous that Caribou Barbie is going to take his job so he’s ramping up the rhetoric by saying as much stupid sh#t as he can.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pmWhy is anyone surprised that Huckabee who is positioning himself as a presidential candidate is spewing disinformation on the Fox News?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pmwatchdog Says:
Biden admits: We ‘misread’ economy
Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration “misread how bad the economy was” but stands by its stimulus package to create more jobs as the pace of its spending picks up
I do too. No telling how bad off we would be if President Obama wasn’t elected.
To my trolls:
Who can wade through all of chimpy’s shredded rightwing goop.
Misread…literally. This was an admin with a “leader” with a admitted war mentality, a drunkard greedy decider who gleefully promoted/rewarded unqualified people.
YA DAMN RIGHT IT’S HIS FREAKIN FAULT!
July 6th, 2009 at 1:39 pmJMOHR Says:
Again, where will the organized push back come from the Democrats to this slander? What action will be taken against FOX that continues to become a larger force since all Neandrathal conservatives view it?
There need to be consequences. Perhaps a few FOX reporters hung out on lamp posts after repeating lies.
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Have you forgotten? The democrats are spineless wimps! Until Reid, Dodd, Pelsoi and Hoyer are replaced by true progressives the democrats will always be wimps.
As for Fox news, they serve a purpose for the puppet masters. They continue to distract their ignorant viewers from the truth, dumb them down ever more, keep the hateful right wing rhetoric fueled.
It all serves it’s purpose, to divide our country, to keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the wealthy and the powerful who run our country continue to rape all of us. Could you imagine what would happen if 300 million Americans united and stood up to our government and their corporate overlords?
They know what would happen which is why we are continually bombarded with divisive and moronic news stories and television programs, it keeps the masses in their slumber and fighting against each other.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall….
July 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pmAren’t we all tired of this crap by now!
July 6th, 2009 at 1:42 pmNext time a conservative, right-winger etc starts blubbering about the billions Obama is spending remind them of ol George W’s tax cuts for the the rich which cost this country roughly 170 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Add that up folks, it makes Obama look like a tight-wad..LOL at these jerks. THe only think that isn’t funny is that their stradegy seems to be working, as more and more people believe in their falsehoods!
Doodlebug Shayne Says:
Chuckleberry is probably just getting nervous that Caribou Barbie is going to take his job so he’s ramping up the rhetoric by saying as much stupid sh#t as he can.
Oh yea, you are probably right. I forgot that teabaggers take mooseyak seriously. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
July 6th, 2009 at 1:42 pmSo Huchabee admits that the Bush economics were a disaster, and that is all we have to do is stop complaining about it?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pmMy quote at the end should be updated to:
United We The People Stand, Divided We The People Fall…
The United Corporations Of America has been doing a pretty good job of keeping we the people divided and down while they make obscene profits and through THEIR elected officials keep their interests protected while distracting us threw the media.
A friend of mine recorded this song with a friend that pretty much sums up what is going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bVtITCHCw
July 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pmRevisionist good ol’ dumb boy Mike Huckabee at it again repeating the same stupid shyt Hannity said geez, still trying to blame Clinton.
Hucukbee how much did you loot from the middle-class and the poor you racist pig?
Obama got these GOP by the their balls, he’s thrown the whole party upside down and is flushing them down the toilet ;-)
July 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pmA Republic Fascist Party Member lying? I’m shocked.
They are all told what to say and think by Rush, the abuser of underage male Dominican Republic prostitutes and drug addict.
They don’t have to tell the truth, just spew what Rush tells them.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pmEvery day I’m simply astounded by the GOP and it’s ilk. Obama was handed a “shit” sandwich to say the least. I’m also astounded by people thinking that this mess can be solved in just months. I’m still just thankful we elected a grown up this time around. Can you imagine if McCain/Palin were handling all these matters? Oy vey!
PS I love the term schmuckaboob.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:07 pmActually, Bush was bad-mouthing the American economy back in the summer of 2000. I remember well that he made several complaining comments about the economy going south. Some critics of Bush pointed out that he in effect, was cheerleading for a recession. Eight years later, Limbaugh and many in the GOP are again cheerleading for Bush economic depression. It would seem that Republican perfidy and treachery are constants in American politics.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:11 pmHuckabee is no different than the rest of the right wing. He drapes himself in the flag and thumps the Bible because these theatrics work for a lot of people. In reality, he does what other right wing politicians do; they cast urban America as being unpatriotic and anti-religious. Then he complains about the liberal bias of the media as the culprit when his poll numbers are bad.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pmMore words of wisdom from the squirrel eater.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWhy isn’t Huckabee back in the pulpit?
Not enough money in it for him?
Not enough prestige?
I’ve had it with these phonus balonus holier-than-thous.
There is a total absence of any sort of intelligent thought and policy making within the repiggie ranks these days. It’s all sugar-coated racist drivel for the stupid, all wrapped up in faux-Southern jingoistic nonsense.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:20 pmProud Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Bush, Republicans, and all trolls in general blamed Clinton for everything. That’s why we taunted YOU and your kind with “Clinton did it, too!” for so long.
President Obama (doesn’t it just burn when you read that?) resigned his Senate seat after he was elected as President.
There are several Republicans currently serving who should resign — we’d think more highly of their character and integrity if they did. But Republicans like Sarah Palin only quit when it will get them more money, or serves their own purposes, or literally quit a job they figuratively quit months ago.
Keep trying!
July 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pmProud Says:
We can only hope that he decides to quit mid term the same way he abandoned his constituents in Illinois by quitting the Senate. But of course only Republicans are considered “quitters” when they resign their elected position.
You mean like bush did when he was selected president in 2000? Or like when bush took so many vacation days he may as well have quit a year and a half early…?
Or like mccain would have quit if he had stolen the election in 08?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pmProud Says:
We can only hope that he decides to quit mid term the same way he abandoned his constituents in Illinois by quitting the Senate. But of course only Republicans are considered “quitters” when they resign their elected position.
You know who are considered “quitters” when they resign? Those who QUIT.
Obama resigned because he aspired to a higher post. I do hate to say it, but so did Palin.
What post is he going to accept higher than the Presidency?
The President will not quit.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pm1.5. Bush’s apologists have spent the entirety of his Presidency blaming everything that went wrong on Clinton.
2. Clinton left the U.S. with a government surplus. Bush left it with massive debt in addition to poor economic performance.
3. The post-Clinton economy didn’t actually tank until the day after the SCOTUS elected Bush. The Bush economy did the full swan dive in early September, before the election of the next President had even been determined.
4. Bush’s response to the bursting of the tech bubble was to go clear brush. Almost 2/3 of his time in office up until 9/11 had been spent in Crawford. Obama’s response to it has been to get more legislative and executive work done than any President in their first few months in office.
5. Obama had been saying we were facing an impending financial crisis in back in Spring ‘08, while Bush was still refusing to admit there was even a recession. As such, he’s only being consistent in pointing out what he predicted is exactly what happened.
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watchdog Says:
Biden admits: We ‘misread’ economy
Yes, they misunderestimated just how much of a screw-up Republicans had created and handed off to them. Are you proud of that or something?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pmProud Says:
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Obama has to blame Pres Bush for everything, it is the entire premise of his administration. He is hoping that blaming Pres Bush for his own failures will pacify his wing nut base. In reality he will fail because he is unqualified for the position of POTUS. We can only hope that he decides to quit mid term the same way he abandoned his constituents in Illinois by quitting the Senate. But of course only Republicans are considered “quitters” when they resign their elected position.
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Clinton left Bush a surplus which Bush immediately gave to the cronies.
The deficit was not zero on January, 2009.
TARP happened with Bush Paulson September 18, 2008.
The reality is that Obama has to clean up the mess he inherited from the most corrupt and most incompetent bunch of thugs to ever darken the doors of the White House.
Get a life, troll, you are an idiot.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pmProud Says:
Obama has to blame Pres Bush for everything, it is the entire premise of his administration. He is hoping that blaming Pres Bush for his own failures will pacify his wing nut base
Are you saying that Obama tanked the economy last September?
FYI, “wing-nut” refers to right-wing wackjobs specifically. The left-wing equivalent is “moonbat.”
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Proud Says:
In reality he will fail because he is unqualified for the position of POTUS.
Translation: he is a black person.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pmWingnuts and trolls like Proud should soon step into their role of loser, bench player. You are irrelevant and the minority. We do not care what you failures say. Do some homework and come back and tell us when the wingnuts of the GOP have ever been fiscally conservative and in the majority. Reagan ran a deficit, daddy bush ran a deficit, and you know what the shrub did. Where on your resume do you qualify to give fiscal advise, morons?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pmHi Proud
“blaming Pres Bush for his own failures will pacify his wing nut base.”
Could you please provide a bulletedlist of “his own failures”. That might give us a place to startour chat. Thanks
July 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pmLooks like The Huckster has been drinkin’ the kool-aid that Kkkarl brings to work. It makes you accuse your enemies of all the nasty things YOU have done, and it must be in all the water coolers at Faux Noise. These clowns think ALL Americans are stoopid enough to believe them….No, Mikey, just the brain-dead Rethuglicans are.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pmrepublicans are incapable of seperating beliefs from facts so we get:
American’s don’t torture-so whatever we did to those people in gitmo wasn’t torture
American’s don’t kill innnocent people-so everyone who is killed by indescrimate bombing are terrorists.
republicans are fiscally responsible-so whatever bush did to the econonmy was right and good
Democrats are tax and spend liberals-so whatever democrats do with the economy is bad.
It must be nice to live in such a well ordered world. It never rains there, even when water is falling from the sky…
July 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pmIt appears that proud has “quit” posting on this thread. Maybe he’s getting ready to run for president in 2012…
July 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pmProud Says:
Obama has to blame Pres Bush for everything, it is the entire premise of his administration. He is hoping that blaming Pres Bush for his own failures will pacify his wing nut base. In reality he will fail because he is unqualified for the position of POTUS. We can only hope that he decides to quit mid term the same way he abandoned his constituents in Illinois by quitting the Senate. But of course only Republicans are considered “quitters” when they resign their elected position.
The people realized McCain lacked intelligence to pick a qualified VP. That decision alone makes McCain unqualified.
Obama has done more the people in the 6 months than Bush ever did in 8 years.
Obama did not quit his Senate seat until he won the election. Contrast that with Palin who quit when she had no new job waiting.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pmAfter Wall Street banks and financial multi-nat’ls poured 100s of millions of dollars into elections and the pockets of politicians they changed the rules of the game to loot the treasury and avoid prosecution. Then they used their ill-gotten gains to open businesses and tax havens overseas outside the prosecutorial control of our judicial system These thieves are not creating one job in America now and our being awarded for their chicanery with huge bailouts. We are broke and the MSM are enabling the thieves to continue their looting. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead to the economic collapse of our country. Viva la revolucion!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pmThis is my policy when dealng with nuts like Huckabee and the trolls: Listen to what they say and immediately DISCARD the soundbites into the nearest available trash receptacle. I don’t waste my time debating/talking with them because they are totally clueless, and I have to watch my blood pressure.
My thinking is that if they are such formidable opponents, why aren’t McCain and Palin in the WH? Why have the republicans not come up with a single policy that will solve some of our problems? Why are they subject to herd behavior, with not one of them capable of independent thought? Why are they so tone-deaf to America’s needs?
I say fu(k them! They never say anything that makes sense, and I detest their hypocrisy, lying, hiding behind Christianity, attempts to legislate religion, their shuttling of money to their already rich friends, prejudice, discrimination, and anti-gay diatribes, etc.
I don’t believe a thing they say. They’ll do anything for power and control. There’s only one thing they can do for me, and that’s sit down and STFU.
The republicans have really brought me close to hating them, something I have never felt against a group of people before in my 50+ years.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pm“Huckabee: Obama Needs To Stop Blaming Bush Because Bush Didn’t Complain About Inheriting Clinton’s Economy”
lol Man, idiots are still idiots. Memo to Huckabuck: Step away from the koolaid. Bush inherited a surplus from Clinton not debt, remember? Oh, and let’s not forget Clinton had to clean up Poppy Bush’s debt that he left from his one term President. How quickly we forget. It took one Clinton (Bill) to clean up a year year mess left by the first Bush and now we have another Clinton (Sec. of State Hillary Clinton) to clean up after 8 years of the second Bush’s mess. Get out of denial, Rev. Huck. Obama inherited Bush’s financial mess.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pmBush was also out on the campaign trail in 2000 talking down the economy with his constant “dashboard lights” speech. Also, the recession ended in September 2001 meaning the 9/11 attack had little impact on the economy outside of travel, especially air travel. Lastly, if i’m not mistaken, more Americans were in the workforce when Bush came into office than when he left office. That would be the worst record since Herbert Hoover. Huckabee better go back and check out the government statistics and issue a correction because what he said doesn’t hold water.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:11 pmHey Huck! Did it ever occur to you that when they’re done powdering your shiny slimy forehead and making you look like you’re among the living on the set of a FOX noise TV stage and you see yourself on the TV machine there?…don’t you know they are making a COPY of that? Yeah! It’s frickin amazing! It’s called VIDEO TAPE and we can PLAY BACK what you and other GOP ignoramuses actually said! Any time we want.
I’m just sayin’you moronic sanctimonious lying sack of hateful crap.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:33 pmThere needs to be an another sect of Christianity for these t.v. right-wingers like Huckabee. A sect of Christianity where greed is a virtue and America is the new Jerusalem. CEOs are saints and the amount of wealth you have determines your level of spirituality.(Warren Buffet would be considered a spiritual giant). Poor Joe Blow down the block is a pathetic Christian because he works for $6.50 an hour.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pmFor Huckabee and many other evangelical ministers, religion is big business. They are parasites on society because they suck up everything in society while giving back nothing. These evangelicals ignore all of the scandals with their ministers. They continue to buy into guns, God and gays agenda when the true enemy of their faith are the ministers. If you look at any of the televangelists, you will note that they are their families are dressed in expensive clothing and I don’t mean Sears. They drive big expensive cars and have large homes. These evangelicals are not smart enough to figure out they are being fleeced so they deserve the people like Huckabee.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pmThe current recession began in December 2007, over a year before Obama took over. The stock market lost 40% of its value last summer. Obama inherited an economy that had been failing for over a year and was in full out free fall by January. Less than six months in, he’s supposed to have fixed it all. Did they really think he was magic?
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July 6th, 2009 at 7:08 pmLook if Bush said Clinton left him a recession is must be true because Bush wouldn’t lie. Most Americans believe what the Media says and only those who remember the jobs, college for their kids, saving accounts and vacations know this is Bull. But it could work as Bush said Saddam had WMD’s while a memo dated before the invasion showed he didn’t and the White House knew about it but kept lying.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pmHeres what the left doesn’t understand…and I’m a lefty. Media Matters doesn’t matter. The right wing pundits know full well they can make any allegation, any allegation and get away with it. Their base does not critically think and WILL NOT go to, or, trust any website/person/paper that has been deemed “liberal” by them. They, and us, will not remember random quotes, so they have gotten away with another “drive by allegation” that’s patently false, while every righty listening is screaming “Damn right” at the TV.
July 6th, 2009 at 8:23 pmWe are doomed…Harry Reid is the pathetic plastic butter knife at a gunfight. Obama will be a great success at foreign policy, he can mend fences and create alliances like no other, and doesn’t need the democratic congress to help him. He will be a domestic policy failure because he does need the congress…we will get a health care bill so loaded down with “poisen pill” amendments that it will fail and Obama will be blamed when in reality it will bare no resemblace to what Obama would have wanted. He needs bust some noses…that won’t happen
Huckster, your nose is getting longer.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:15 amLIAR LIAR LIAR
July 7th, 2009 at 11:34 amThere was a surplus when bush took office. When he left we were so far under the bus it was not even funny and the deficit did NOT include the wars being fought because bush borrowed money to wage these wars instead of having them put in the budget.
When Bush took office he was very unpopular no one wanted him to be President. He needed something to turn his presidency around. Another Pearl Harbor. 9/11. Planned and carried out by the Bush-BinLaden partnership. A second wave of planned terrorism involving the economy took place during the last months of the worst presidency ever. Obama took over an economy deliberately terrorized by Bush and his cronies.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm