Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush Inauguration: 10,587.59
Second Bush Inauguration: 10,471.47
Today: 10,609
Net change: +21.41
Clinton Inauguration: 3,241.95
Second Clinton Inauguration: 6,843.87
End of Clinton presidency: 10,587.59
Net change: +7,345.64
Historical
Bush I Inauguration: 2,235.36
End of Bush I presidency: 3,241.95
Reagan Inauguration: 950.69
Second Reagan Inauguration: 1,227.36
End of Reagan presidency: 2,235.36
Carter Inauguration: 1,029.12
End of Carter presidency: 950.69
Ford assumes presidency: 814.12
End of Ford presidency: 1,029.12
Heading into Jimmy Carter territory. That’s not an auspicious closing of this chapter. What about The Legacy? Will Dub give us a Jimmy Carter Malaise? Carter only had an Embassy in Iran problem. Dub has … well y’all know what’s up in Iraq. Of course, it’ll help make the next act look pretty good, if there’s still any stage left to perform upon. Maybe Dub is really the fluffer for McCain/Palin, then we’re going to see the real action, reform style. Would Dub be OK with fluffer status in The Legacy Book? Doubtit.
No matter how bad things get the Cavuto and Kudlow types say republicans are “pro-growth”
Facts have a notoriously liberal bias.