Brooks: Bring back Bush years (H'ville Times headline)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. "The economy started going south when the Democrats took over House and Senate"

is Brooks smoking?

Bush signed almost nothing the Democratic-controlled Congress passed from 2007-2009 and vetoed anything that somehow managed to elude Republican-led Filibusters in the Senate (a prototype for 2009-2011), so how could they be even marginally responsible for what happened?



Republican logic would be fascinating if it didn't lead to such horrendous consequences.

I also don't recall the Bush (P)residency as necessarily being "halcyon days" for the economy either. The economy went into recession almost as soon as he stole office, the tax cuts he got passed in 2001 and 2003 have done virtually nothing to help the economy, and I just don't remember things being that great. Maybe we weren't sliding off the cliff (yet) but the economy wasn't growing like gangbusters either from what I remember. I remember it being fairly stagnant for most people.

Anybody remember how his (mis-)administration (and McConnell's wife) tried to get fast-food jobs reclassified as "manufacturing" jobs?