Since you still haven't responded to this, I'll post again...
Plain and simple, you are attempting to pass off last Fall's Bailout-a-Palooza as a Democratic idea that they somehow forced Bush to go along with (poor weak Bush!). The facts do not bear this out and you have not presented any evidence otherwise.
As I wrote, the bailouts were the design of President Bush and Henry Paulson. Congress didn't create them. That'd be like saying that the decision to invade Iraq was that of the congressional leadership because they passed the resolution for it, and that somehow Bush and Cheney and everyone else just went along.
They passed the bailout bill, yes... but only because Bush and Paulson (you do know that the President sets the agenda, right) told them that if they didn't, it would be economic Armageddon (eeek!) and that they would economic blood on their hands.
The only mistake that Congress made here-- as with invading Iraq, the Patriot Act, the Terri Schiavo stupidity, etc etc-- was going along with another one of Bush's bad ideas.
And unlike your select memory, I even remember the NY Post editorializing against the Democrats last Fall.... for taking too long to get the bill the President asked for to his desk!! Debate bad, just pass Bush's bill you stupid Democrats!
Like them or not, these are the facts of what happened.
Plain and simple, you are attempting to pass off last Fall's Bailout-a-Palooza as a Democratic idea that they somehow forced Bush to go along with (poor weak Bush!). The facts do not bear this out and you have not presented any evidence otherwise.
As I wrote, the bailouts were the design of President Bush and Henry Paulson. Congress didn't create them. That'd be like saying that the decision to invade Iraq was that of the congressional leadership because they passed the resolution for it, and that somehow Bush and Cheney and everyone else just went along.
They passed the bailout bill, yes... but only because Bush and Paulson (you do know that the President sets the agenda, right) told them that if they didn't, it would be economic Armageddon (eeek!) and that they would economic blood on their hands.
The only mistake that Congress made here-- as with invading Iraq, the Patriot Act, the Terri Schiavo stupidity, etc etc-- was going along with another one of Bush's bad ideas.
And unlike your select memory, I even remember the NY Post editorializing against the Democrats last Fall.... for taking too long to get the bill the President asked for to his desk!! Debate bad, just pass Bush's bill you stupid Democrats!
Like them or not, these are the facts of what happened.
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Why can't you just accept that like he has?
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