In all fairness, the present administration's failure to alter their focus from ramming in all of the social programs they've lusted for since the 70's isn't much different than the last administration's "asleep at the wheel" approach and blatant fiscal irresponsibility.
What's it going to take to wake the American public from their slumber and retrieve our country from the professional politicians and their co-conspirators?
I don't expect voters to get any smarter anytime soon. This decade, on both sides, (which is at least one too few in my opinion), has produced the most hypocrisy ever.
We had a Republican administration decrying the bad economy, and passing many laws designed to make executives accountable after the crap from Enron and Worldcom and many others hit the fan.
While spending like crazy, we had a Republican administration, and Republican Congress, tell us that the deficits didn't matter much, and that tax cuts were paving the way for a robust future of growth.
When people started to talk of a housing bubble, the pitfalls of using house as ATM machine, no doc paperwork, we were told not to worry. Bush lobbied (successfully) in 2004, for FHA loans to individuals with less than stellar credit, with limited or no down payments. Dems were delighted as well.
When many fiscal conservatives started to talk in 2005/2006 about a huge bubble meltdown, regulatory snafus and other problems, the debate was focused on more tax cuts, business and job growth. (the big winner was government, which grew to all time highs). Dems love big government as well.
Repoublicans and CEO's continued to whine about too harsh rules and regs put in place back in 2002, and they should be abolished to pave the way for more growth and jobs. Dems said they were good laws, and they are needed.
When things started to go South in 2007, and especially 2008, Republicans blamed Democrats for passing Bush's initiatives and giving him a blank check . Democrats had no idea how to run the Congress, so they went along with everything, including that which they campaigned against.
Bush was helpful, he said we had a little Speed Bump, and all would be well. Make My Tax Cuts permanent, all will be OK.
Republicans blamed the bad stock market, bank failures, lack of regulatory oversight on the Democratic Congress, which had been in control since 2007. Barney Franks name was dropped frequently, picked up, dropped again.
It was all Pelosi's fault, Reid's fault, Obama's fault. Republicans increasingly distanced themselves from iodiot Bush, so they could focus their anger on newly elected Obama.
Ultimate irony, it's late 2009, and the Dems are leading the charge to get rid of Sarbanes Oxley and all those nasty evil laws implemented in 2002, buy an administration that pushed for them, and later, wanted to repeal them.
About all we've accomplished this decade is building up a huge deficit, nearly bankrupting the entire nation, and creating a spectator sport of one-liners and blogs to feed partisan politics.
The Democrats have proven to be truly inept, something that they've proven from time to time over the past fifty years. The only thing Republicans have proven is that they can generally beat the inept Democrats at politics, regardless of the facts.
Voters have proven themselves to be completely ignorant and lack the requisite common sense to understand what a screw job they have received.
We even have the first black president, perceived by many to be the evil liberal leader they have always feared, ramp up an existing war, support less oversight at the corporate level, lose to liberal ideology in Congress, and get bogged down on economic issues that he is now being blamed for.
I expect the next ten years will be the same, so popcorn is in order, and lots of beer. :lurk5::banghead:
The only winners will be the likes of the Daily Koz, Rush and Fox News, the online and TV pundits, and of course, Wall Street firms. A great time to take a long vacation will be 2010 and 2012. It's pretty apparent that are choices will continue to be dumb and dumber.
