A friend send me this…What do you think?
Remember the Day, January 3, 2007
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009. It was actually January 3rd 2007 – the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals’ propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault,” think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:
At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
Remember the day…
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!!!
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment . . . to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOS! (BTW: George Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy).
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac???? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie???
OBAMA and the Democratic Congress
So, when someone tries to blame Bush . . .
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007. . . THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER! Bush may have been in the car, but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel — they were driving.
I think this is partisan wishful-thinking that obfuscates the full truth by only illuminating half of it. The D’s get to play this game by pointing to things like Clinton being the only recent president to preside over a budget surplus, and such makes just as little overall sense.
Take Barney Frank’s responsibility for taking the brakes off Fannie and Freddie–are we supposed to then forget that John McCain (remember the Keating 5?) spearheaded the coincident effort to deregulate the Wall Street banks so they were excused from Depression-era restrictions that still would have prohibited them from trading in the bogus paper?
It took BOTH parties to give us the shaft. Bush started the bailout insanity ($850 billion to the banks without even the rights to know what they did with it) and just because Obama and the Democrats continued the folly doesn’t excuse anyone from their hand in it.
The two parties love this–the more they can keep both sides against the other, the more their continued hegemony is guaranteed. The only solution is to stop forwarding tripe like this, and looking at the COMPLETE story, which is that party politicians have more in common with each other as racketeers than they have differences.
The bad news is that, if you can’t see it, you yourself become part of the problem. (Remember how Orrin Hatch eulogized Ted Kennedy by complimenting him on being his most reliable source of campaign contributions–all he had to do was say to his Republican backers that he was running for Senate in order to oppose TK? That works both ways, and RIGHT NOW there’s a Democrat showing this email to a potential donor and exhorting them to give money to make sure the D’s get elected to oppose that–it’s insane).
Sapere aude.
LOL. My god you are too funny and apparently w/out your recent memory…