I Sure Hope Obama Doesn't Give Up On Hope
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I hope Barack Obama isn't wishing he never took up this whole president thing-- I have a feeling I would be if I was in his shoes. All that talk about Bush being the worst president in history? It was all true-- and more. And what he's leaving in his wake is the worst situation any president has faced that pretty much any of us alive today-- even John McCain-- has ever seen. When we warned you that everything Bush had ever touched in his life had turned to shit, we meant it-- and when we warned you that there was no reason to believe that that trend would reverse itself when he took over the White House... well that turned out to be true too.
Everything is screwed up, every single thing-- from the economy (have you heard the Asshole-in-Chief say the basics are solid lately?-- to the wars of choice he started and handled so ineptly to the most basic precepts that have bound the nation together. Can you think of anything that is going right that Bush has had anything to do with? I can't.
I'm glad Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have suspended foreclosures for a few weeks and I'm glad Citibank is renegotiating mortgages (for which the markets are destroying their stock). But what Bush and the GOP have done to the economy-- and to the basics-- for the past 8 years is so profound that there is virtually nothing that is going to hold back and equal and opposite reaction. No paddle and you know the creek we're up.
Last night I was reading that even one of the few enlightened Republican officials anywhere in the country, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, is-- as push comes to shove-- reverting to the most brutal and primal form of barbaric Republicanism. Yesterday he urged the Legislature "to allow double-digit tuition increases at all of Florida’s 11 public universities as a way of blunting the impact of state-ordered budget cuts imposed over the last two years." The GOP is always screaming how the worst thing you can do in a recession is to raise taxes. Is the best thing you can do is raise tuition?Labels: Charlie Crist, Florida, Hope, tuition, worst president in history
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 9:30 AM
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Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous. why is it that all the solutions that people come up with are only things that exacerbate the problems they are trying to fix.
We need a hard left shift in this country... QUICK !!!!!
Hope may be the only thing we have left. Every where you look you see evidence of what Bush has done to our country and the world. The really sad thing is our elected officials enabled him the same way papa bush has saved his sorry ass every time he screwed up.
And anonymous I agree.We need creative solutions to our problems.
Especially in making college more affordable
Without sounding too naive, I have to agree with Lee.
I am hopeful. I also want the naysayers on the fringy left who have already started, just to quietly go away and take up knitting or something for awhile.
"Citibank is renegotiating mortgages (for which the markets are destroying their stock)"
That's just a knee-jerk reaction, like the market is so fond of doing. Citi is acting in their own interest of course, and if they didn't do it, the stock would fall even farther when all those mortgages became worthless.
That's not to say it won't drop even more though. What do you expect to happen when even renegotiated mortgages start to fail?
I don't blame Bush for all our problems. Yes, he's a hopeless, evil, dumbass Midas in reverse.
But the Democrats could have stopped him, and chose not to.
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