Flashback - Bush's First 100 Days - Trillion Dolllar Tax Cuts and Repudiating Kyoto - 62% Approval!

[Median Democrat]

Here is the irony. Dubya did not do much in his first 100 days. Worse, what he did do set the stage for the current crises that Obama is dealing with. The Bush tax cuts lead to an explosion in the current deficit. Also, Bush's backing out of Kyoto lead to an eight year effort to deny the effects of climate change. Yet, Bush has a 62% approval rating as the media gave him a relative free pass.

Compare that with Obama who not only has inherited a terible economy and two wars from Bush, but is dealing with behavior from Republicans that borders upon treason. Yet, I am sure the mainstream media will start running stories next month about how much more successful Bush was by virtue of his high approval ratings.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/bush.100/


/snip

George W. Bush had to fight to become president. After he took office, thanks to lingering questions over the election and his predecessor's slow withdrawal from the spotlight, he had to fight to be considered presidential.

But at the 100-day mark of his tenure, that issue seems to be fading. Bush enjoys high job approval ratings -- higher than Bill Clinton at a similar juncture in his presidency -- and even the question of vision that plagued Bush's father does not appear to be an issue.

/snip

[BOSSHOG]

1. "Vision does not seem to be an issue???"

That was true concerning those who could see right thru the coke snotrinh, military deserting, fake cowboy, fake christian soon to become the worst president ever.

[uponit7771]

2. They're are sloppy and no on calls them on their duplicitous questions

[Jennicut]

3. Ahh, the infamous tax cuts. That really helped the economy in the long run.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Bushies Country First my friggen ASS

[Name removed]

5. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Jennicut]

6. LMAO. Okay, so if you move the rate up on wealthier Americans

by a tiny bit that will cause companies to lay off workers and therefore for us to stop buying things. Like that is not happening already. Guess what? The tax cuts are still there and we are losing jobs still. Duh. Go back to Freeperland where you can live with such lies as stupidity is welcome there. Oh, and the stock market got to 14k and is now crashing precisely because the wealthy were allowed to play with our hard earned money. Its not a Dem or Repub issue, its common sense. The stock market should NEVER be allowed to get up that high again. You like high growth and crashing lows? Not me, I prefer overall stability. But then Repubs only care about the free market and little else.

[joeglow3]

9. What does this mean?

you had me until "The stock market should NEVER be allowed to get up that high again."

[Jennicut]

10. Well, speculators drove it up to unnatural highs at 14,000

That means the crashes will be worse. I just think we need more regulations on the market in general.

[joeglow3]

12. Fair enough.

Given that I am 30, I hope (and think it would be reasonable) for the market to pass 14,000 in my lifetime (inflation alone should drive the prices up that much in 40 years).

[Jennicut]

13. True. I am 33 , we know it will get higher in our lifetime but hopefully it will stay within

a good range, not too high or too low. I hope we learn from this.

[Median Democrat]

11. Helped Like A Ponzi Scheme You Mean - What About DOW During Clinton Years?

Bush's tax cuts, of course, fed the huge deficit we now have. Of course, you will say that the Republican President and Congress should have cut spending. However, if they had cut spending, then the economy would have stalled out. Also, Bush's appointee's failed to regulate financial institutions and actively encouraged the over heated housing market. So, deregulation coupled with lax regulators set up the current collapse in asset prices that is fueling the current depression.

In other words, we are now paying for the costs of Bush's war spending and tax cuts now.

In contrast, despite increasing taxes on upper income Americans during the Clinton era, the DOW soared during the 90s. In contrast, looking at the entire eight years of the Bush era, he had TWO separate recessions! Yup, tax cuts are the cure all!

[Arugula Latte]

7. Funny, my white wine consumption began its upward trajectory then.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. You knew Bush was in over his head the second the whole Chinese plane incident happened.

When was that? I thought for sure at that point we were looking at a lame duck.

Then 9/11 happened.

[Median Democrat]

14. Bush Set The Stage For The Current Trillion Dollar Deficits

And Republicans still have the chutzpah to attack Obama's economic plan when Republicans are loudly demanding that Obama simply implement the Bush 2001 tax plan?

Amazing.