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No but he got us started on the time line to take our troops out plus we never would have been there in the first place had he and his congress not voted YES on going to war in the first place.
Yet Obama could/should have been more open to listen to military advisors warning him not to be so quick and not withdraw so many.
You did not answer the question: Why do you think the House Republicans did not support Bush's proposals to 'take steps to reform' things?
He wanted to take the authority of regulation from Congress and give it to himself (the White House) Do you understand that if he had succeeded, he would have caused even more damage AND now Obama would have that same authority to do whatever he wants when it comes to regulating finance. Not pretty. Luckily both GOP and Dems knew better than to support such measure, as it would have been unconstitutional.
I did certainly answer the question--I answered it with a question. Which house Republicans provided major opposition to Snow? Link? Quote? The only opposition I know of came from House Democrats. I have supplied several links, but here's one more:
we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke[sic]...we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines [a Clinton crony]
Note to Democrats: Normal Americans don't have six years
These are Liberal figures using Ghost Math or Common Core. Most everyone that is not infected with the dreaded Liberal virus knows its at least 12% or above...
I did certainly answer the question--I answered it with a question. Which house Republicans provided major opposition to Snow? Link? Quote? The only opposition I know of came from House Democrats. I have supplied several links, but here's one more
Now it's your turn to back up your claim.
I have not seen an answer yet. Why did House Republicans oppose Bush's proposal? Of course Dems opposed it. Everyone opposed it, except those who did not see what Bush was trying to do (you).
On the contrary GOP created their own bill to regulate Fannie/Freddie, it was called GSE reform bill (Federal Housing Finance Reform Act). Bush admin opposed it. Why? Because Bush didn't want regulation, he wanted to transfer the power of regulation from Congress to himself (or his handlers).
My figures concern the labor participation rate -currently the lowest in many a decade. Millions upon millions who need (not merely want) full time work are locked in part time jobs. My figure includes the U-6 figures. Even if my cited figures are off by a whopping 10%, it still paints a picture of lousy leadership. It's been six years and it's still all Bush's fault to you lot. Obama isn't a president to you; he's a cult figure. The cognitive dissonance is truly disturbing.
So your 90 million figure are those the BLS counts as not in the labor force. How many of those 90 million are retired?
I did certainly answer the question--I answered it with a question. Which house Republicans provided major opposition to Snow? Link? Quote? The only opposition I know of came from House Democrats. I have supplied several links, but here's one more:
What does the link you posted have to do with the housing bubble? The issues with FNMA during the 2007, 2008 housing bubble were not connected to the earlier issue of accounting practices at FNMA.
So why don't you blame congress as well ? So since obama can only do what the gop wants done than shouldn't you be complaining how the gop dropped the ball on this one?
yeah he did until the economy collapsed and we ended up with a near depression at the end, which of course if par for the course when you allow bad policies to be enacted and than the right wing gets their panties in a wad when someone else gets the job and refuses to do much of anything to actually help this country or work with the guy currently in charge.
As in 1994 when Democrats had been given two years to do what they liked, by the time the first midterm rolled around following a complete Democrat take over, the voters in 2010 had endured all they could and sent Republicans to stop the Democrats.
As for those bad policies that nearly caused a depression, Democrats have their finger prints all over them.
Specifically, Clinton championed NAFTA and the 2000 China Trade Act while repealing Glass-Steigal and deliberately leaving derivatives unregulated on the advice of his economic "working group" that included Raines, Summers and Rubin.
Obama only achieved the unemployment rate he has because millions have given up looking for work or are working part time jobs that they can't even survive on. The U6 rate exposes the pathetic-ness of Obama's recovery.
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