I’m watching Senator Cornyn, R-Texas on Meet the Press, complain about how the Democrats blame Bush for everything that’s wrong in a country the Democrats are running.
It would be a viable complaint if it held water but it doesn’t. Yes, the Democrats are running the country now, because for eight years the Republicans did nothing to run it efficiently. If anyone out there really thinks this country would have elected a black president against a functioning rival they just aren’t paying attention. Obama was elected because the Bush administration was the largest accumulation of liars and incompetents ever to run our government.
Obama has been in office about eighteen months. When he entered the White House he was greeted by two unfunded wars, reduced taxes that had changed a zero deficit into a trillion dollar debt and a failing economy that was the result of unregulated big business managing to screw up the entire economy. We were losing jobs at a rate of seven hundred fifty thousand a month.
The only thing Bush did right in eight years was Tarp, a belated attempt to shore up the failing economy. Yes it cost money and now Republican’s like Cornyn are trying to blame the deficit caused by things like Tarp on Obama.
Now only eighteen months into Obama’s administration things are turning around. For the first time since the last six months of the Bush administration we are adding jobs. Still, the right wing in a desperate attempt to salvage some of their own jobs in the congress continue to propagate the big lie, claiming that the Obama administration has done nothing and is blaming all the problems of the country on the Bush administration. Well, truthfully the Democrats do blame many of the problems of the country on the Bush administration. Why? Because that’s where the blame lies. Let’s look at the record.
Bush administration in eight years:
Allowed the 911 attack despite any number of warnings that it was about to happen.
Lied us into two unnecessary wars.
Reduced taxes to get votes, thereby turning a zero deficit into a trillion dollar deficit.
Sat back and watched as Katrina destroyed New Orleans and left the city to die.
Spied on US citizens in violation of the Constitution.
Allowed, or encouraged big business to run rampant over all regulation and precipitated the crash of 2008 that almost put this country out of business.
Obama administration in one and 1/2 years:
Added to the deficit in a successful attempt to pull the country out of an impending depression.
Turned the depression around and has currently added about 300,000 jobs.
Passed a health care bill.
Passed an economic regulation bill. Neither of these bills are perfect but at least they are a start in the right direction.
These are facts. Who do you think is doing a better job and why shouldn’t the Democrats blame the Bush administration for making their job a 100% harder than it should have been. If Obama hadn’t had to deal with two wars, a trillion dollar deficit and a destroyed economy he could already be working on a solution of our dependence on oil and other serious ecological problems that the nation and the world are facing and maybe if the Republicans faced the reality of their previous failure and stopped sulking about losing an election they deserved to lose, they’d get on board and help Obama help the country to recover from the various disasters they caused.