The Bush Recession

[Ironman3476]

I was reading in another forum and came across the term "Bush recession" and got to wondering, why don't all progressives refer to it that way?

The right has, for some time now, held an advantage over us in how they frame things, hang labels on ideas and people they disagree with, and make them stick, regardless of how untrue or absurd.

Already, for months now I have been hearing reporters and commentators posing the question: How long before this becomes Obama's economy?" This infuriates me, because no matter how long it takes, Obama is dealing with BUSH'S recession.

If the economy were a jetliner, Obama took over the controls with the thing in a nose dive, and three engines ON FIRE! This recession should be hanging around W's neck forever.

Whenever a Dem is interviewed about the economy, every reference to it should be termed "Bushes recession". Especially on MSNBC, hang it on Bush, make HIM wear it.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but framing, and labels DO make a difference, not so much to the readers here, but to the little informed masses who vote based upon ten second sound bites, name recognition, and "I like the way he/she looks". It just seems to me that truth ought to be involved somehow.

[Kurovski]

1. the results of the BushCheney takeover will be felt for years to come.

Damn right it's the Bush recession.

[Swamp Rat]

2. I Prefer 'Republican Recession' ... or a variant 'Repiglicon Regression'

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Ironman3476]

3. Yeah, they all bear some responsibility, But W should wear the scarlet letter.

Thanks for the welcome,Swamp Rat, glad to be here.
I just feel certain that if Obama presided over such a cataclysmic meltdown after being handed a robust economy turning a federal surplus, the clown-shoes over at Faux News would never mention the economy without making sure it was placed squarely on Obama's doorstep.

[Paula Sims]

4. Frankly, I'd call it the Bush/Greenspan recession

I blame Greenspan as much as anyone because he really held the bully pulpit for all those years and it was his non-regulation and playing that caused this.

[doc03]

5. I said that months ago, every time Obama or any Democrat

says anything about the economy they should call it the Bush Recession. Bush labeled his first recession the Clinton Recession a thousand times. I don't understand Democrats, they win the election by a landslide and still act like they lost. :shrug: