The George Bush Blame Game, and Why They Are Wrong

As democrats face a daunting mid-term election season, and Obama with historic low poll ratings, democrats are pulling out their old bag of tricks and playing the Bush blame game.  Everyone from Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of their allies are blaming all the economic woes on Bush, but as usual, they are wrong on many fronts.  Sure, Bush isn’t without blame for our current economic mess.  He expanded government well beyond what it should be, and we can’t forget the terrible spending on TARP, bailouts, and other useless spending.  However, Obama has taken the U.S. into debt that might possibly never be able to be settled.  Bush got us owing billions, Obama has taken us into the trillions. 

But lets dig into what the democrats complain about.

“Today’s report shows our teachers, police officers, firefighters, and nurses are still feeling the worst of the Bush recession — while Republican leaders demean them as ‘special interests’ and try to block legislation that will grow our economy,” Pelosi said. “Democrats will return next week to save or create hundreds of thousands of jobs for our teachers, nurses, firefighters and police officers — and close loopholes that allow corporations to ship American jobs overseas.?"

That was a statement from Nancy Pelosi recently.  As with most of her statement she lies and distorts reality.

Democrats have been in majority control since 2006, something they never seen to bring up when speaking about Bush.  But since Pelosi wants to invoke Bush, what was the jobless rate under Bush compared to Obama?  It has been Obama’s stimulus and spending that was supposed to bring jobs, but it has done just the opposite.  That is not Bush’s fault, that is solely on the democrat majority we have today. 

Democrats also recently rammed another huge financial “reform” bill which did not address the fundamental collapse of the economy, the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the relation to Freddie and Fannie Mae.  Bush actually tried to reign these problem organizations in, but Barney Frank and Chris Dodd opposed.  Democrats were the ones forcing banks to give loans to people who clearly could not afford them. 

Now back to Pelosi for a minute.  Closing loopholes to ship jobs overseas?  Interesting since I wrote about how the Obama administration is spending $22 million on the outsourcing of job U.S. jobs. 

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Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

And special interests, Nancy?  Yep, exactly.  The jobs bill is nothing but a payoff to unions that support democrats.  Just looking through reports from watchdog groups, these unions will get tens of millions of dollars of your tax-dollars at the direction of the democrats.  Tell us again how this relates to Bush? 

The new motto of liberals and democrat supporters is that Obama has to clean up “8 years of mess”.  As I said, some blame can go to Bush, but Obama has continued any wrongdoing by Bush like bigger government and big spending, so Obama is not cleaning up anything – he is extending the mess.