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Republicans messed us up by giving us the 2 rounds of taxcuts in the early 2K period which kicked off the start of the rising national debt we are now stuck in
Republicans biggest mistake was convincing the bipartisan Congress to fight terror by sending troops alone into Baghdad and championing the "2003 mission accomplished" when 4,000 US casualties would soon follow.
Republicans messed up 4 decades ago by not uniting behind the Civil Rights Movement in a blind effort to develop the Southern strategy instead, forever losing minority votes.
Republicans messed up by affiliating with some rightwing religious nuts when their moderate agenda was selling very well in the Reagan years.
Republicans messed up in part when backing Bush's "own your own home" speeches that in order to not be rhetoric, called on sub-prime lending that put us into a crisis.
Republicans messed up in "read my lips, no new taxes" and then a tax was in fact signed into law.
Republicans messed up in the scandals of waterboarding, harassment of inmates in Iraq, a very casual attitude towards troop losses after 2003 in Iraq, and greed of oil profits.
Republicans messed up in reaction to 911 where the Binladen family was flown out of the country without an interrogation.
Republicans messed up in passing Medicare Part D without the tax funding to pay for the new program.
Republicans messed up in things that were not revealed to the public inside the Whitehouse during Nixon years.
Republicans did a poor job in monitoring and improving the "Leave no child behind" agenda and enhancing the learning agenda beyond a few standardized tests.
Republicans have not been effective in green policies, protections of national parks, forests, wildlife, and when they did pass something it was about a focus on protecting the marketability of our woodlands, certainly nothing towards habitat restoration.
Republicans looked silly and embarrassing in attempts to forge the defensive marriage act that marriage because of religious dogma should exclude same-sex couples.
There were unnecessary wiretappings under Republican Govt attempting to infiltrate meetings and assemblies held by peaceful citizen groups, targeting Democrat stronghold areas.
John McCain's pick for Vice President in 2008 was also quite embarrassing for the party and I wonder if McCain had a secret plan to help get Obama elected because he could have picked any number of other more qualified VP running mates than Governor Sarah Palin, including Mike Huckabee, The current House majority leader, or a more known figure to the rest of the country.
Employment up? Must be the gov't cooking the numbers.
On and on.
The stock market is not the economy.
Well over 50% of the labor force is not working. The unemployment numbers to do not take into account those who have "given up" looking (yet would take a job if they could find one). These people have been dropped from the governments data which they use in calculating unemployment. The effect of this is that the published unemployment figures are lower than the actual unemployment, which currently stands at around 12-13 percent.
Where are the jobs being created? Can you answer that? Most are government jobs.
The Iraqi War will cost at most 60 billion dollars. How much is it estimated to cost now..3 trillion. They also promised that Iraqi Oil would pay for it all so we could cut taxes during war time. It was the first time in history where we went to war and cut taxes at the same time. We're still waiting for Iraqi oil to pay the Iraqi War debt.
First off, your premise is wrong. Republicans are not some massive blob of endoplasm all sharing one brain and all thinking alike.
Secondly, it is somewhat stunning that someone could hold the belief that there is this long list of things R's have been wrong about, yet can't think of even one on your own. YBOL, LIAMD.
Tax cuts + trickle down + deregulation = the best economy the nation has seen in the past half century.
Very amusing!
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It's interesting how when it comes to Obama's abysmally poor performance the leftists are all for saying how it isn't his fault because he inherited it from Bush. But when it comes to the great economy under Clinton, then it has nothing to do with what he inherited from the Reagan-Bush Sr policies. It's pure hypocrisy.
Clinton inherited a recession from Bush Sr.
Hypocrisy seems to be a subject you're well acquainted with.
It's far better to ask what they have been right about.
I have really enjoyed this thread.
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