Here We Go Again

8:39 pm EST September 29th, 2008 | Democrats, Republicans | 14 Comments

Republicans drive us into a ditch economically, Democrats bail us out.

Hoover leads to…

Reagan/Bush leads to…

Bush leads to…?

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14 Responses to “Here We Go Again”

  1. Rheinhard says:
    September 29, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    Except can you see Congressional Republicans in FDR’s day having a press conference and saying “We were all in on this whole ‘Lend Lease’ thing, but then Roosevelt made a speech that hurt our feelings, so we’re advocating neutrality toward that Hitler guy, he’s just misunderstood and at least is against the Bolsheviks!”

  2. Mylegacy says:
    September 29, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Oliver, well put.

    All we need now is for our fellow Americans to never vote Rebublican – then the Democrats can reform America rather than just save it now and then.

  3. Parthenon says:
    September 30, 2008 at 1:26 am

    All we need now is for our fellow Americans to never vote Rebublican

    Is it that you fancy a one-party state, or just a different conservative party than the Republicans? Should it be the former, I have some suggestions, though none of them are terribly pleasant places to live. Should it be the latter, I have to ask – how would the new conservative party be different or better than the current one?

  4. Parthenon says:
    September 30, 2008 at 1:29 am

    More on topic, I feel the historical comparison is relevant. Any time our economy gets too in line with one of the two competing ideologies (and America, like nearly all modern countries, tends to consistently have two ideologies), it goes to shit. Balance is key.

  5. El Cid says:
    September 30, 2008 at 5:57 am

    Every time we let the bastard Republicans in charge, at least for the past century, we lose an entire sector of our financial system. Poof. You’d think we might learn.

    But who knows? Maybe Obama will win, there’ll be a great New Green Deal, or Green New New Deal, or whatever, and everything will turn fantastic.

    And then 8 years later or whenever, some stupid, shoot-your-own-foot Democrat scandal will prompt Americans to once more elect some idiot populist Republicans, and then we’ll lose, what, everything?

  6. william says:
    September 30, 2008 at 6:46 am

    Change we can believe in –

    The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

  7. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 30, 2008 at 7:11 am

    The current administration’s done the pushing.

  8. Vanessa says:
    September 30, 2008 at 7:33 am

    No two people are working harder to elect Obama than George W Bush and John McCain.

  9. william says:
    September 30, 2008 at 9:03 am

    95 dems voted against the wall street fat cat bailout. Is Pelosi such a failure as speaker that she can’t “whip” 12 democrats?

    Worst congress EVER!

  10. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 30, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Yes, it is, but not for the reasons you think it is.

  11. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Gosh, willie. Whose bailout plan was that? Mr. Bush’s? How many Republicans was he able to rally to the cause?

    See you in the breadlines, buddy.

  12. Parthenon says:
    September 30, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    William, you… you mean the democrats voted their districts’ interests instead of party lines? Even over the desires of the house leader?

    Crazy talk.

  13. mambochicken23 says:
    September 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    It blows my mind that some con trolls here are claiming that the failure of the bailout bill is all the Dems and Pelosi’s (in particular) fault, because Dems voted 60% FOR the bill, while 2/3 of Repubs voted AGAINST the bill.

    Jesus fucking Christ, do you people listen to yourselves? At the very least, both parties share culpability on this one.

  14. Dave in SoCal says:
    September 30, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    William, you… you mean the democrats voted their districts’ interests instead of party lines? Even over the desires of the house leader?

    Crazy talk.

    If voting against the bill was “in their districts’ interests”, then it looks like more Republicans (132) were for their their districts’ interests than Democrats (95).

    Thanks for the clarification, Parthenon.