Alright lets go through the idiotic claims 1 at a time
1.)First off, the war with Saddam was going to happen sooner or later. What do you think he would have used the money from 150 a barrel oil for? And if you go back and look, Saddam himself was telling everyone he had the weapons, he had used the weapons on enemies in the not too distant past and would not tell anyone how, when and where he had destroyed them. Come down on either side of the war debate that you want too but it was going to happen, like it or not, eventually and it may not have been at a time we could have reponded to it. Remember this man had already invaded a sovereign nation once and followed none of the Geneva Convetion, raping and murdering civilians really is not allowed. Why does anyone believe he was going to be a model citizen ever again?
And think about this, after Pearl Harbor, we went to war with Japan and Germany. Germany did not attack us either, but it was the right thing to do. Congress had for a number of years to demanded we not get involved in that war either, calling it a European problem. How do you think the world would look today if that had not been changed.
2.) The easing of the mortgage credit rules started under Clinton, period. Mr Franks and Dodd prodded the banks to start doing it and for an encore 1999 they wroye and Clinton signed an act which repealed parts of the Banking Act of 1933 and again allowed banks to become involved in securities ie mortgage backed securities, which began the sub prime mortgage craze. The act repealed a law that was put in by FDR after the depression to keep banks from playing both sides of the fence and to be more concerned with the safety of their loans as opposed to getting involved in speculative nature of the stock and bond market using the bank depositors money as collateral. So how did Bush start the mortgage crisis at least 2 years before he was president.
3.) Who named him the worst president ever, the news media? Gee they are all hard core conservative aren't they? And as Sab3r states in his reply, can you say Jimmy Carter. So please spare me. We still have single digit mortgage interest rates today, under Jimmy you were lucky to be under 20%.
4) Again Sab3r lays out a whole bunch of those fact things that were researched that you don't like gwester. I will be awaiting your proof that they are wrong.
5) Yes we are looking for the next Leader of the Republican party. Because this last election was a perverse situation where the news media bent over backwards reporting who John Mc Cain was the moderate America needed during the primaries and then pummeled him during the general election. He should never have been the nominee, period. So the challenge for the party is to go back to its roots as a CONSERVATIVE, limited government party. Otherwise they will have problems. If we as a country don't start moving that way, somebody better start figuring out how we are going to pay off all of the debt that is piling up. You know that whole tax the rich has a real big flaw in it. The geniuses that walk the halls of Congress keep telling us that the consumer will spend and bring us out of the current recession. The rich spend way more than Joe Six Pack can. He or she buys a boat, people go to work, electricians, carpenters etc. So if the government keeps taking money out of the retail side for taxes, and we all know how well they work on carefule efficient spending, who exactly is supposed to spend money to restart the economy. You can't have it both ways.
Re: This must be inherited
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