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I have to suspect that "MAY be entering a 'recession'" must at some point give way to "ARE in a 'depression'. Maybe a BIG one. And I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to blame it on President Obama.
"The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." -- Edward Teller
by lgmcp on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 12:39:23 PM PDT
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well. The fucking Republicans are so grand at screwing things up, leaving enormous messes behind and then pointing the fingers at Democrats who try to exercise responsibility in cleaning things up.
It still infuriates me to hear Republicans blame Democrats for losing the War in Vietnam. Just like the current Republican asshole in the White House, Nixon had six years to bring the war to a close and finally was forced against his will to do so by a Congress with more balls than the current one.
Not once did Nixon or the Republicans ever question our being in Vietnam, and they were indifferent to the costs in terms of human lives, national treasure, and America's reputation. Iraq is a replay of that scenario, and you can bet that Republicans will be moaning for years about how Democrats lost the war in Iraq.
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." JFK - January 20, 1961
by rontun on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 12:56:05 PM PDT
I hate to say this, but Nixon did inherit that war (it was started by JFK and then escalated greatly by LBJ). While Nixon did in fact keep us in it from 1969-1975, it was hardly his war.
by SilverOz on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:06:14 PM PDT
There is plenty of blame to go around.
by lgcap on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:17:45 PM PDT
Or troops?
This was primarily LBJ's war. And it cost him his Presidency. Nixon faced the same dilemma that the next President will face. And it won't be a pretty sight!
by in the Trees on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:41:18 PM PDT
What I said is that he had six years to bring the war to a close and failed to do so until Congress cut off funding.
When he ran for office in 1968 he promised "peace with honor" and that "new leadership will end the war", hinting of a secret plan to do so. Once elected he immediately began the process of "Vietnamization", which allegedly was meant to turn over the responsibility for combat operations to the Vietnamese people.
Nixon reportedly offered Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle an assurance that the war would be over within six months of his assumption of office.
According to Wikipedia, as this six month deadline approached, in May 1969, Henry Kissinger asked a group of Quakers to give the administration six more months. "Give us six months, and if we haven't ended the war by then, you can come back and tear down the White House fence."
Anyone for another Friedman unit?
by rontun on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:41:48 PM PDT
Wait a couyple of months. They don't announce a recession until we have two successive quarters of negative growth. And then not until the figures have come out. That will be late July or August.
"I'm not opposed to all wars; I'm opposed to dumb wars." -- Obama in 2002
by Frank Palmer on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:20:17 PM PDT
but they find ways to hide it, by jiggering the formulas.
by lgmcp on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:25:11 PM PDT
don't be so alarmist! president bush says it's a "slowdown".
he is so stupid it hurts my brain
by jemjo on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 01:59:10 PM PDT
wide narrow
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