Vice President Joe Biden, who has become a national joke as an aging veep, has stuck his foot in his mouth again. Well, not actually since he spoke the truth. Today, he told an audience in Charlotte that the middle class has been buried the last 4 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/02/biden-says-middle-class-buried-last-4-years-republicans-pounce/
"Vice President Joe Biden, who has become a national joke as an aging veep, has stuck his foot in his mouth again."
ReplyDeleteRemember, Obama voters arfe not only voting for the POTUS, but also Biden. This Veep is a heartbeat away from the Oval office. Scary!
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Biden's four-year "burial" of the middle class essentially coincides with Obama's first term, during the first two years of which, as I have previously observed, Democrats had a mortal lock on both houses of Congress AND the White House, and of the Senate and White House thereafter.
ReplyDeletePredictably, the White House (and others) immediately blamed the burial on Bush. Sadly, this appears to resonate (hate that word)/persuade a lot of people (more accurately dummies??) out there.
Biden would do a lot less damage than Ryan. At least Biden would trip over his own feet before he destroyed anything important.
ReplyDeleteYup, I blamed the burial on Bush in 2004, and by 2008, it was pathetically obvious. If President Obama can undo the damage, by 2016, done by Bush's cute-boy-in-the-candy-store approach to governance, 2000-2008, that alone would be a Herculean accomplishment worthy of great honor and credit.
Siarlys--gotta remember that as I recall it, the Dems actually won both houses of Congress in Jan. 2007. Not coincidentally, that was when Barney Frank took over the
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Banking Committee. I believe that at the time, the DOW Jones was at about 12,621.77, the GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%, and the unemployment rate was 4.6%. Bush’s economic policies had resulted in 52 straight months of job growth.
The economic meltdown which occurred 15 months later was in what part
of the economy? Yes, that would banking and finance/financial services. While Bush was indeed still president, both Frank and Dodd indeed still held their respective chairs..
In addition, Dems continued to control both houses through not only the last two years of Bush but the first two years of Obama with, at the risk of repeating myself, A MORTAL LOCK ON BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS AS WELL AS THE WHITE HOUSE.
Budget/spending bills do not come from the White house, but instead from the Congress. The president either signs or vetoes them. The party that controlled Congress from January 2007 through January 2011 is which one?? Yes, that would be the Democratic party. Obviously then, the Democrats necessarily and essentially controlled the budget process from 2007 through at least 2010.
And if Bush is to blame for what went down on his watch, why is Obama not similarly responsible for his actions/inactions in the same areas??
During the first part of this process, Obama was a Democratic member of the Democratic Congress which passed all of the budgets/spending bills during this period. Later, as president, he actually signed the Democratic omnibus bill to complete the 2009 spending cycle, and the deficits/debt have continued to increase at an alarming rate.
And if Obama Himself is indeed the Messiah, he should have been able to resolve all this stuff. He has not. It appears to me, then, that to blame only Bush for the mess is either disingenuity (did I just invent a word??) or agenda flogging, or maybe both.