You gotta stop confusing alleged conservatives with facts DS. LOL

Bush -  got us more in debt than the previous 42 Presidents combined

Bush - biggest government in history

Bush - don't let the door hit ya on the way out

Anti: I think Bush fell short of that mark by just a little and especially if you look at inflation.  And calling him the worst President depends on where you sit and what you think his goals were.

TomW: I don't know what you're responding to... was there a deleted post or something?

I think calling Bush 43 the worst ever is rightly based on an utter lack of unfettered success in ANY area.

It is truly mind-numbing the depth and breadth of his failures.

The interesting thing about all this, IMO, is that it is opening the population's eyes to a lot of failures by the Republicans, such as is outlined with this data.

Bush - biggest government in history

With luck he'll be #2 soon, though.

I hope there is a gauntlet of 'shoe throwers' for Bush when he leaves...don't tell me with the MILLIONS that's going to show that 'something' isn't already planned for the Savior of the universe--maybe it'll be waiting for him when he gets to Texas

Well, he got egged at his first inauguration...

My first guess is Republicans subscribe in some form or other to the "trickle-down" policy. Tickle-down does not work, has never worked. Yet, it is an article of faith for conservatives. Deregulation. incentives, and tax breaks to corporations do not tickle down to middle class wage earners.

 Tickle-down does not work, has never work.

Down tickles me.  YMMV. 

(Actually, trickle-down works just fine for those at the top.)

It's not just the economy that does better under Democratic presidents.

The Democratic Dividend
The stock market prefers Democratic presidents to Republicans.

http://www.slate.com/id/207...

Thanks for the excellent link, TSM.

I wonder: now that we have the data on the economic front, what will the Republican Party claim as their raison d'-etre?

There is nothing left to excuse them for their numerous excesses and the choices that have divided this country.

Trickle Down sounds like a bladder control problem--maybe thats where the Republicans got it from... 

I hope there is a gaunlet of 'shoe throwers' for Bush when he leaves

There will be.

Mostly from his former employees.

Word is they're chomping at the bit to write tell-all books about Bush's WH.

Dirtyshirt, thanks for the grab from the Washington Post with this blog post! It is startling to see such a difference over this period of time. For honesty's sake, the lower scores in per capita personal disposable income for both Truman and Eisenhower should be tossed because price and and wage controls were in effect after World War II, which greatly impacted disposable earnings for all economic class groups. 

Thanks again.

Thanks for the excellent link, TSM

You're welcome. I always use it when the rightwingers start their nonsense about the stock market.

what will the Republican Party claim as their raison d'-etre

We already saw it at the Palin rallies during the election.

All they have left are the racists and dominionists as supporters. Both groups were soundly rejected by the mainstream.

What's a gaunlet? 

A small gaun. 

Alicen,

A Gauntlet : http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...)

as opposed to running the gauntlet:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

--virgil

Well, VirgilAnderson, thank you so much for clearing that up for me.  Here I thought there was another new word  -- gaunlet -- that just hadn't made it to my trusty dictionaries.  So it's not "gaunlet" after all.  I see now.  Thanks again.  I had thought it might be "gauntlet" but I surely did not want to be intuiting the message. 

Alicen: all that for a misspelling?

Here is the little gaun Random is talking about Alice. Must be French.

Oh, it's small gaun and not small gaunt.  I have a small gaun, but we keep a couple of large gauns on hand, too.  I know my Second Amendment rights, you see, and I think it's a good idea to keep gauns around.  That's to keep the gaunts away.  You know how those gaunts can get.  Ornery as all get-out. 

Sorry about that---I made the necessary changes in spelling--didn't know I was getting graded....

Remember the old Superman series with George Reeves Alice?

I used to get a kick out of the fact that the bad guy would squeeze off a few rounds off Superman's chest, and he would just stand their with his arms on his hips until the guy ran outta ammo. But when the bad guy ran out of bullets, and threw his gun at Supe, he'd duck!

This is... odd?

Nice pic of Superman. The point of the post, however, is flying past me like a speeding bullet out of a gaun.

And then, sadly and ironically, Reeves took his own life with a gun.

I think it's called "hijacking the thread"

Oh c'mon, when have I ever gone off on a wild tangent?

U.S. mortgage meltdown linked to 2005 bankruptcy law
http://www.kansascity.com/b... 

Thank you Republicans. Scumbags.

The 2005 bankruptcy bill was actually first drafted in 1997 and first introduced in 1998. The United States House of Representatives approved a version titled the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999" and the Senate approved a slightly different version in 2000.^[9] After the differences in the bills were reconciled, Congress passed the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2000". President Clinton, however, employed what is known as a "pocket veto" by waiting for the lame-duck congressional session to adjourn without signing the bill, a legislative maneuver tantamount to a veto.^{[10] [11]}

In the years since 2000, the bill was introduced in each Congress, but was repeatedly shelved due to threats of a filibuster from its opponents and because of disagreements over various amendments, including one backed by Senate Democrats that would have made it harder for anti-abortion groups to discharge court fines related to felony convictions.^[12]

The increase in Republican majorities in the Senate and House after the 2004 elections breathed new life into the bill, which was introduced in its current form by the chairman of the Finance Committee, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.^[13] The bill was supported by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. Tom DeLay also championed the controversial legislation. The bill passed by large margins, 302-126 in the House^[14] and 74-25 in the Senate^[15], and was signed into law by President Bush.

That "large margins" line is the key.  The reason the congress has had low performance polling in recent years is the Democrats' failure to *STOP* things like this, and the tendency for too many Democrats (lookin' at *YOU*, Biden) to be on the wrong side.   Sure, the Republicans in concert with the sociopath-in-chief could've pushed it through anyway.  But 74-25 should never have happened.

That said, the "mortgage meltdown" is a tiny part of the overall economic problem (which was actually caused by financial institutions kiting checks) but it still might not have been so bad if a provision in the bankruptcy bill had allowed bankruptcy court judges to rewrite mortgages as well as other debt contracts.  Looks like we'll get such a provision--too late to do any good.

Of course, the performance scores for Republicans in Congress are much lower than for Democrats--but that fact is rarely broken out in reporting.

the performance scores for Republicans in Congress are much lower than for Democrats--but that fact is rarely broken out in reporting.

Damn that "Liberal" media.

Congressional Democrat Approval Rating: 37%
Congressional Republican Approval Rating: 25%

http://pollingreport.com/co...