40 years ago today: Nixon (R) resigns in disgrace

[Dad2three]

LOL - yeah sure he did.
45% favored his surge. 48% did not. Not a big stretch.

And it appears the anti-surge folks have been proven right. Why waste more lives when long term stability in Iraq is a fantasy.

Yepp.

It was a fucked up war from the get-go and we should NEVER have gone there in the first place. It was Bush's worst mistake. But what has happened since 2009, for good or for bad, is now firmly Pres. Obama's responsibility, not Bush's.

Oh don't you worry Little Fella - he'll stll find a way to Blame Bush

Yeah, Bush /GOP policy wouldn't STILL be hurting US right?

David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country

“(Reagan’s deficit policies) allowed George W. Bush to dive into the deep end, bankrupting the nation through two misbegotten and unfinanced wars, a giant expansion of Medicare and a tax-cutting spree for the wealthy that turned K Street lobbyists into the de facto office of national tax policy,” Stockman wrote.

David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country


Right-wingers Want To Erase How George Bush's "Homeowner Society" Helped Cause The Economic Collapse


"Another form of easing facilitated the rapid rise of mortgages that didn't require borrowers to fully document their incomes. In 2006, these low- or no-doc loans comprised 81 percent of near-prime, 55 percent of jumbo, 50 percent of subprime and 36 percent of prime securitized mortgages."

Q HOLY JESUS! DID YOU JUST PROVE THAT OVER 50 % OF ALL MORTGAGES IN 2006 DIDN’T REQUIRE BORROWERS TO DOCUMENT THEIR INCOME?!?!?!?

A Yes.




Q WHO THE HELL LOANS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT CHECKING THEIR INCOMES?!?!?

A Banks.

Q WHY??!?!!!?!

A Two reasons, greed and Bush's regulators let them.



Bush’s regulators not only let banks do this, they attacked state regulators trying to do their jobs. Bush’s documented policies and statements in timeframe leading up to the start of the Bush Mortgage Bubble include (but not limited to)

Wanting 5.5 million more minority homeowners
Tells congress there is nothing wrong with GSEs
Pledging to use federal policy to increase home ownership
Routinely taking credit for the housing market
Forcing GSEs to buy more low income home loans by raising their Housing Goals
Lowering Invesntment bank’s capital requirements, Net Capital rule
Reversing the Clinton rule that restricted GSEs purchases of subprime loans
Lowering down payment requirements to 0%
Forcing GSEs to spend an additional 440 billion in the secondary markets
Giving away 40,000 free down payments
PREEMPTING ALL STATE LAWS AGAINST PREDATORY LENDING


But the biggest policy was regulators not enforcing lending standards.


http://www.usmessageboard.com/economy/362889-facts-on-dubya-s-great-recession.html

 

[Vandalshandle]

Nixon had no class from the very start of his political career, to the very end. he had no ethical boundaries. He claimed that the woman he ran against for his first political office was, "...as pink as her underwear". He did that ridicules and disgusting Checkers speech. He had that incredibly self-serving pity party when he told the press in the early 60's that, " Just think what you will be missing. You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more". After the National Guard fired on and killed Kent State war protestors, he called them "Bums". I could go on, and on. People who knew him well knew that he had always been unstable, and his personal ambitions towered over his political principles, if he ever had any at all. At the end, he was doing press conferences telling people that he wasn't a crook, and wandering down to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night to ask war protesters why they didn't like him.

Thank God he is gone.

 

[Dad2three]

When the cold war ended is not the point. The point is that had alot to do with the "peace time" in the 90s. Also, morons like shanty who apparently thinks obama is simply innocent of EVERYTHING does not know or care republicans controlled clintons spending in the 90s.

Imagine how utterly fucking moronic one needs to be to think obama is innocent of everything and all of the scandals are trumped up.

How fucking stupid can liberals allow themselves to get?

Republican committee finds no wrongdoing.
Yet another setback for Benghazi conspiracy theorists | MSNBC

Clinton's budget proposals that the Democrats helped to pass, and lowered deficits. Washingtonpost.com: Asking American to 'Face Facts,' Clinton Presents Plan to Raise Taxes, Cut Deficit

And you haven't brought a single fact into the discussion.

So many people have no clue how the budget process works. First, only congress can propose and until they've passed one, the President can't sign it. Secondly, you have to look at the policies that were passed during the admin to see what actually affects the budget long term.


Most Democrats obediently regurgitate the dogmatic party line that the Clintons had "passed along" a balanced budget to Bush, but they always avoid mentioning the fact that that balancing act was performed by a Republican-controlled congress, and was only made possible because of the unsustainable increase in tax revenues resulting from the soon-to-burst dot-com tech bubble. Also they carefully disregard the fact that Federal budgets are only created by Congress, and that Clinton’s role was simply to sign his name to it.


After Bush took office the inevitable happened with the failure of the overheated, tech-inflated, false economy which had been developing during the previous decade. That failure removed the temporary increase in tax proceeds, leaving the pre-existing level of budget expenditures to again exceed the available revenue.

In the November 2006 elections, Democrats won back the majority in both the House and Senate, and in the three fiscal years that have started since then (2008, 2009, 2010), they have run record deficits of $458.6 billion, $1.41 trillion and $1.55 trillion.

The estimated deficit for the fiscal year (2010) of $1.55 trillion is more than three times as large as the $458.6 billion deficit that President George W. Bush presided over with a Democratic Congress in fiscal 2008. In fiscal 2010, of course, Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress as well as the White House.

Articles: What Republican Senate Control Means for America

Sen. Whitehouse says Democrats controlled Congress at end of Clinton presidency | PolitiFact Rhode Island

"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 in a Senate floor speech

lol

'Clinton’s role was simply to sign his name to it.'

WEIRD, AFTER CLINTON'S FIRST SURPLUS (THANKS TO CLINTON'S/DEMS 1993 BUDGET BILL NOIT A SINGLE GOPER VOTED FOR) THE GOP PASSED A $700+ BILLION TAX CUT CLINTON HAD TO VETO TO GET 3 MORE SURPLUSES, THEN DUBYA/GOP HAD CONTROL


CBO_ Tax cuts accounted for nearly 1/3rd of deficits 2001-2010


David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country


“(Reagan’s deficit policies) allowed George W. Bush to dive into the deep end, bankrupting the nation through two misbegotten and unfinanced wars, a giant expansion of Medicare and a tax-cutting spree for the wealthy that turned K Street lobbyists into the de facto office of national tax policy,” Stockman wrote.

David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country

WEIRD, CLINTON TOOK US FROM 17%+ OF GDP IN REVENUES TO 20% AND DUBYA TOOK US DOWN TO 15% OF GDP, KOREAN WAR LEVELS, BUT IT WAS GOP WHO IS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE?

DUBYA'S LAST F/Y 2009 (STARTED OCT 1, 23008) DEFICIT WAS $1.2+ TRILLION JAN 8, 2009, 12 DAYS PRE OBAMA?

CBO Projects $1.2 Trillion Deficit for 2009 - Memphis Daily News

 

[Dad2three]

And yet every achievement he had is reviled by Democrats today. NAFTA, lower spending, welfare reform. Obama has undone half of it.

Not really true.

NAFTA does suck.

The spending is largely the result of dealing with the largest recession since the Great Depression. And Obama has lowered deficits more than any President in over 50 years. If you don't want deficits like that, then you don't enact deregulation of financial and banking institutions.

And there's no evidence of Obama gutting welfare reforms of 1996.
Does Obama?s Plan ?Gut Welfare Reform??

The recession was over years ago. Revenue has been soaring.
We can add repeal of Glass Steagal to Clinton's accomplishments. You know, the measure that liberals today swear is responsible for the recession.
Obama gutted the work requirement. That is undoubted.

"We can add repeal of Glass Steagal to Clinton's accomplishments. You know, the measure that liberals today swear is responsible for the recession."


Nah, that GOP bill didn't cause Dubya's regulator failure as he cheered on the Banksters

http://www.usmessageboard.com/economy/362889-facts-on-dubya-s-great-recession.html

 

[Dad2three]

. And he rejected racism when he switched parties.

No. That is a bald-faced lie. Strom Thurmond, who was the "States' Rights" nominee for President in 1948, went from being a Dixiecrat to an Independent to a Republican and to his dying day, he was a vile, ugly racist.

I love it when Righties like you lie right out their asses. It's fun to watch.

Strom Thurmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1948, Thurmond stated:
"all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights in the context of Southern society at the time. He never fully renounced his earlier viewpoints.

The fucking liberals call everyone who didn't vote for Obama a racist, so it's no surprise you'd call Strom a racist too. Face it, the democrats started the KKK and do anything to keep blacks on their liberal plantation. There is nothing racist about states rights. Your article is full of shit.

SOUTHERN conservatives, todays GOP base started the KKK, the same group who listen to Rushblo

 

[Dad2three]

Strom Thurmond's daughter was black.
So much for Statistheilhitler and his vast pool of (mis)information.

You mean the one he didn't acknowledge and resulted from the rape of his housekeeper in 1925?

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, now 78 and a retired school teacher in Los Angeles, publicly revealed her relationship to the former segregationist after a lifetime of silence.

According to reports, her attorney, Frank Wheaton, said Williams came forward at the urging of her children and had no plans to ask the Thurmond estate for any money.

Monday's statement from the Thurmond family reads: "As J. Strom Thurmond has passed away and cannot speak for himself, the Thurmond family acknowledges Ms. Essie Mae Washington-Williams' claim to her heritage. We hope this acknowledgment will bring closure for Ms. Williams."

 

[Dad2three]

8 years of peacetime under Bill Clinton (D)

a budget surplus under Bill Clinton (D)

Clinton committed no crime against the consitutition. He lied about getting blowjobs in the Oval Office.

Every day, Conservatives find new way to show their collective asses and my, it is funny.

You are truly a fucking moron. Almost as though he ignored the facts I presented.

Clinton lied under oath and in case you did not fucking know it, that is a crime you unreal ignorant ass.

Who left a surplus you fucking moron? Republicans controlled spending for most of clintons presidency you ignorant ass.

Why didnt Clinton deal with a cold war you fuckface?

Did al qaeda rise in power under clinton? You stupid stat asshole.

Um, to be fair, the Cold War was over before Clinton took office.

But the duplicity of Democratic Partisans like Stat cannot be better illustrated than when the same morons that are still blaming BOOOOSH for every one of Obama's mis-steps during the past 6 years, will absolve Clinton of any responsibility for the rise of Al Queda and their attack on the American Homeland months after Billy departed Washington.

"will absolve Clinton of any responsibility for the rise of Al Queda and their attack on the American Homeland months after Billy departed Washington."


The Bush Administration Deliberately Ignored 9 11 Warnings


Bush/Rice ignored 40 Bin Laden attack warnings.

These are a few of the titles of the PDB's that are from page 152 of the new book "The Commission".

April 20, 2001. Bin Laden plans multiple terrorist operations.

May 3, 2001. Bin Laden's public profile may presage attacks.

May 23, 2001. Terrorist group said cooperating on US Hostage plot.

May 26, 2001. Bin Laden's networks' plan advancing.

June 23, 2001. bin Laden attacks may be imminent.

June 25, 2001. Bin Laden & associates making near-term threats.

June 30, 2001. bin Laden planning high-profile attacks.

July 2, 2001. Planning for bin Laden attacks continue.

These 8 warnings and 32 other warnings were all ignored.

The infamous August 6, 2001 PDB "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S. was 12 paragraphs long. The final two paragraphs name New York City as a likely target!

On September 4, 2001 Richard Clarke, terrorism czar, wrote an infamous memo to Dr. Condoleezza Rice. It asked ‘when are we going to get serious about the al Qaeda threat. Decision makers need to imagine a future day when hundreds of Americans lying dead in several countries including the United States. That future day may happen anytime’. It happened seven days later.


VP Rice? Bush/Rice ignored 40 Bin Laden attack warnings.

 

[HenryBHough]

It seems the problem always comes back to "the president".

So to make life all peaceful and gooshie calm all we need to do is eliminate that office entirely.

Tomorrow would be a good day to start.

 

[longknife]

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