tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post6928302583173877430..comments2024-03-01T00:27:42.852-08:00Comments on Hammer Of The Blogs: LessonsHeywood J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-76987501335890417442009-02-03T14:02:00.000-08:002009-02-03T14:02:00.000-08:00BECAUSE Bush II screwed it up way way worsn Bill d...BECAUSE Bush II screwed it up way way worsn Bill did.<BR/><BR/>yes even though there was some pushing to give loans to minorities and fair housing efforts, none of that mattered until Bush's "ownership" society went pathological and the CDO boys really really needed $50 billion in loans to package up every month...and that didn't happen until the Treasuary cut the capital ratio requirements for investment banks....<BR/><BR/>THe Penis has been looking like a dream president since Cheney took over the country.....not that the scaredy cat demos in congress have anything to be proud about for the last 8 years....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-29090589148741504922009-02-03T09:58:00.000-08:002009-02-03T09:58:00.000-08:00This stuff is sooo, sooo obvious to me, and you bo...This stuff is sooo, sooo obvious to me, and you both (including Scribbler) write like it was very obvious to you when you examined the facts. We reached the same conclusions independently. Why is it that we can show these same facts to 95% of Democrats and they'll respond, "Hey he had his flaws, but Bill Clinton was the greatest President of the 20th century and the Democrats Will Save Us All. Real soon now. Just watch." When Republicans said this about George Bush and Iraq, we called it the "Tinkerbell Theory".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-46785124290966667882009-02-01T13:37:00.000-08:002009-02-01T13:37:00.000-08:00which repealed most of the meaningful protections ...<I>which repealed most of the meaningful protections of the Glass-Steagall Act, and which passed the Senate 90-8, at a time when the Republicans had fifty-three seats in that august body.</I><BR/><BR/>I read Thomas Frank's <I>One Market Under God</I> late last year, published in 2001, about those halcyon dot-com days of the mid-to-late '90s, and it was incredible reading his despairing description of what was coming years before it hit. But more to your point, just goes to show you how much the "Big Dog" and his fellow DLC motherfuckers did to grease the skids to our current situation.Strix Cratylushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944094996890358351noreply@blogger.com