Why shouldn't BUSH take responsibility for the INCREDIBLY STRONG Economy?

I have no problem with Bush taking credit for when the economy is good, so long as he also takes the blame for when it sucks. I haven't seen much of the latter though. When it sucks, it's just Clinton's fault.

Why shouldn't BUSH take responsibility for the INCREDIBLY STRONG Economy?

No problem if he takes responsability for the WHOLE economy.

blow it out your ass basharov ..asswipe

One of the more frustrating aspects of politics is Bush is still making progress towards achieving his average life expectancy.

It's good to see Commander Empty Flight Suit still strutting his stuff. When will he give himself a Medal of Freedom?

Let's not forget that these jobs are purchased with massive Debt. This economy is not sustainable, and the longer it continues the higher the eventual fall. We're like a bunch of drunk kids in daddy's shiny car, heading for a cliff. Whoopee!

On a still scarier note, I think the administration knows that starting the disengagement from Iraq is inevitable in '06. The remaining troops are surrounded by a hostile population. Surveys indicate that almost 50% of Iraqi's think it's OK to kill Americans. Given the Bush administration's pathetic inability to plan and execute, this withdrawal could become chaotic and deadly. Hence, the need to prepare to blame a bad outcome on the democrats.

With more body bags coming home next summer, the Bush rallying cry may be similar to that of the 2002 election: The Democrats STILL don't care about security, and they care even less for the lives of our brave soldiers.

Will this fly? If the US public doesn't wise up, it might.

Ten more marines die? After Shitface gave his Iraq is doing fine speech? We'll withdraw in 2030. It's no use blaming Bush. We should all feel ILL that we still live in this country. Kinda gives a new perspective on what German non-Jews had to go through under Hitler? The feeling of UTTER UTTER helplessness?

If Bush wants to take credit for the economy...which I agree is simply not sustainable since it is built on debt...then he needs to take responsibility for the soldiers who have died in Iraq. Plain and simple. If the bucks stops with him when the news is positive, it also stops with him when it is negative.

Its not Bush's fault the economy is doing so well.

Its Clintons Fault!!!!!

How many more American deaths will it take for people like Kerry and Clinton and McCain to agree with what Burt Lancaster said in the classic Western, The Professionals, when he said that war is "a lost cause"? When will Kerry remember that what he said of Vietnam- "Who will tell a man that he is to be the last man to die for a mistake?"- is also relevant to Iraq? Whenever Democrats and liberals hear Republicans say those banal phrases, stay the course, cannot cut and run, they should reply that the Administration's policy, especially in light of those 10 Marines who died, should instead be entitled "Stay and Die."

In an effort to demonstrate presidential authority, Bonzo walks straight into the pillar, which he ordered to move.

Just another week or so until the Iraqis have their big election. So every attack until then will be excused away as the "anticipated acceleration in attacks before the election". Just like they accelerated before the first election, and the so call Constitution vote. As far as I can tell, Bush has these litte elections lined up for years..one simply authorizing another. That way the unabated violence can always be excused as trying to "prevent democracy". Lets see exacly how much is subsides after this election. My money is on "not much". It is clear Bush has no intention of really leaving..oh maybe a fake pullout for the 06 elections, followed by immediate re-deployment. The question is whether the public will grow complacent or continue to increase their anger? Uh, I mean the US public, not the Iraq public..on the other hand...maybe it goes for both?

This expansion - begun in 2003 - is not even three years old yet, and already it is in the middle of a fed tightening cycle. If it survives this, it will have a great deal of debt and cause the next expansion to be even worse about job creation than this one was.

It doesn't help that NBER screwed with the defintion of recession just to help out Bush. Using previous standards there should have been a recession that ended in early 2002, and then another that began in late 2002 and ended in early 2003 - with the expansion finally getting going middle of 2003 with a real (war time spending induced) boom. This pattern, of rapid economic cycles, is typical of the 1950's - which people remember fondly because it was better than the war, and many of the people who didn't share in the prosperity were swept under the carpet.

But as for post-war expansions, in payroll growth, real wage gains, net household wealth, savings rate and debt/income ratio, this is a terrible recovery.

The average person feels less secure economically than ever. They will remember that in 2006. You heard it here first.

A little psycho-analytical study here.

Deep Down Inside, ask yourselves these questions:

Do you libs cringe when "GOOD" economic news is reported?

Do you become awash in depression, everytime GOOD news from Iraq makes it through the liberal MAIN STREAM MEDIA's template of America Hating?

Do you rejoice when 10 American Soldiers are killed by terrorists who have nothing but disdain for anyone who wants freedom to be brought to their country. Who wants nothing more than to find some means to help kill by whatever means, millions and millions of American civilians.

Do you rejoice when any news agency somehow-and to their own prejudices-comparies Iraq to Vietnam?

If you answer yes to any of these, then maybe, just maybe, you should re-examine who and what you are. Once again, Hate is a strong motivator, but its not a way to live a life happily.

Remember 1972, George McGovern and the complete take over the Democratic Party by the anti-war establishment. Will 2008 be any different?

The fanatical rampaging by your hard core-Kerry, Clinton, Carter, Dean-(remember Wellstone funeral) is perhaps exciting to most of you that read this left wing website, but, and this is important, it disgusts many more Americans than those that it encourages.

Its a matter of numbers. Sure keep drinking the Kool-aid of polls that put Bush in the 30's of approval ratings. Add stronge economic news, add more success in Iraq, add more truthful news coming out about everthing, unfiltered by the LIBS and you get a different outcome to your wild dreams.

Keep on underestimating George Bush. Keep hoping, praying and dreaming of disastersous news so as to hurt him. Cheer on the insurgents, continue to try and demoralize our soldiers. Because deep down in side, you are all John Kerrys, chanting your mantras, as he did in the Senate when he returned from vietnam, that America is nothing more than a Criminal, killing, torturing machine that should be destroyed.

Keep it up, it worked so well in 1972, the same game plan will do well in 2008. Say where is the convention for the Dems in 2008. Lets do it again in Chicago...

crappy, what's the color of the sky on your planet?

Dear "I am a coyote"-
The color of my sky is typically very blue.
The color of your sky apparently changes, but primarily is very dark, cloudy. The chance of storm clouds lurk over the horizon. The gloominess of the weather reflects directly of your pessimistic opinion about mankind. i.e. he is a trespasser of this earth. He, especially, the white man, can not be trusted. Individual rights should be trounced, except for criminals, by the goals of the United Nations, by the PLO, by GAYs, by pregnant women, by UNIONS, by public schools, and by NATIONAL HEALTHCARE.

The rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few or the one.

So yeah, my sky is blue, because I see my future being controlled primarily by me. I see my future whether good or bad, is my repsonsibilty. I must look into the sky and make it blue or be forever plagued by the horrible guilt of being born and living as a white american man.

Arrgh, the travesty. . .

Bush's physiognomy looks brittle and pickled, and he walks hard down on the heel as if he had cowboy boots on.

The angle makes one wonder what else was cropped out of the photo.

Meera R.

You know, crappy, that's got to be a record for the most RNC talking points of the smear variety in one single thread. Is there a contest going on?

Carpe-May your chidren be albinos(after all,you can never be too white).