LIE-beral spin on economic gains under Bush

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

This is just typical. The lie-beral Washington False Christian Post, while finally facing up to the incontrovertible fact of economic gains under President Bush, has to put its own spin on things and say that there weren't enough economic gains. I guess the liberals expect everything to be kittens and lollipops, even though Bush had just eight short years to pull us out of the economic wreckage left by the blue-state-based Clinton-Gore "new economy."

Lie-beral twaddle

Economy Made Few Gains in Bush Years
Eight-Year Period Is Weakest in Decades

President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S. economy in decades, according to an analysis of key data, and economists across the ideological spectrum increasingly view his two terms as a time of little progress on the nation's thorniest fiscal challenges.

The number of jobs in the nation increased by about 2 percent during Bush's tenure, the most tepid growth over any eight-year span since data collection began seven decades ago. Gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic output, grew at the slowest pace for a period of that length since the Truman administration. And Americans' incomes grew more slowly than in any presidency since the 1960s, other than that of Bush's father.

Even worse, when they finally get around to admitting one of Bush's many economic success stories, they have to hand-wave it away:

Bush and his aides are quick to point out that they oversaw 52 straight months of job growth in the middle of this decade, and that the economy expanded at a steady clip from 2003 to 2007. But economists, including some former advisers to Bush, say it increasingly looks as if the nation's economic expansion was driven to a large degree by the interrelated booms in the housing market, consumer spending and financial markets. Those booms, which the Bush administration encouraged with the idea of an "ownership society," have proved unsustainable.

They didn't seem to mind the Truman-through-Clinton economic bubble clearly shown by their own graph:



As usual, there's one rule for Republicans like Bush and another one for demon-cretins like Slick Willy.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: LIE-beral spin on economic gains under Bush

If only George W. Bush had been more true to his conservative principles, he would have been more popular. But what are you going to do? His hands were tied because he had to stay busy keeping us safe from terrorist attacks.*

* 9/11 and the anthrax attacks do not count, because they were really Clinton's fault. Hurricane Katrina does not qualify as a terrorist attack, but New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin should be classified as a terrorist. The growth of the insurgency in Iraq and the return of the Taliban in Afganistan do not count as terrorist attacks.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: LIE-beral spin on economic gains under Bush

More LIEbral spin, it's truly disgusting what ends the MSM will go to. There was not any mention that George W. Bush inherited the bust of the Dot Com bubble and the recession from the Clinton years. Indeed, the purported "gains" of the Clinton years were entirely a bubble.

It goes without saying that 9/11 was entirely the fault of Clinton for not capturing Obama bin Laden when he had the chance.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: LIE-beral spin on economic gains under Bush

More LIEbral spin, it's truly disgusting what ends the MSM will go to. There was not any mention that George W. Bush inherited the bust of the Dot Com bubble and the recession from the Clinton years. Indeed, the purported "gains" of the Clinton years were entirely a bubble.

It goes without saying that 9/11 was entirely the fault of Clinton for not capturing Obama bin Laden when he had the chance.

All that information is a FACT that ANYONE can see, Brother WJB. I think that given the terrible condition this country was in when Mr. Bush took office, the mess of an economy he inherited, the terrorist time bomb that was set by the Clintons, the disgusting decline of morals we faced, and the malaise produced by Clintonomics, George W. Bush has been nothing short of HEROIC!!!

And now, many people will associate the current trouble with the economy with President Bush. Obviously, the economy is in trouble today because of the Democrat congress and the election of Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Think about it... how could Americans have confidence in our country when a black man is about to move his brood into the White House? Why should Americans invest in ANYTHING with that disgusting evil witch Nancy Pelosi in charge of congress? I wouldn't trust Nancy Pelosi to do the right thing if her life depended on it.

Although he may not be popular now, once Americans are educated by talk radio and Fox News to look at Mr. Bush in the light of the terrible Democrat-generated crises he faced, they will gradually change their opinions and look back on Mr. Bush's presidency as one of the BEST EVER in American history. Mr. Bush's face should be on Mt. Rushmore, in my opinion. He is one of the most brilliant and far-sighted leaders we've ever had. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, MR. PRESIDENT!!!