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

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Mo Brooks recalls stronger economy during George W. Bush presidency
Published: Monday, August 27, 2012, 6:00 AM
By Paul Gattis, The Huntsville Times

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The absence of former President George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention this week won't be lost on Mo Brooks.

"I wish he would be there, and I wish he were a speaker," said Brooks, the Republican Congressman from Huntsville who represents the state's 5th District.

Bush announced weeks ago he wouldn't be attending the convention in Tampa, where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will be formally nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

For Brooks, though, Bush's presidency represented better times for America's economy. Bush had seen unemployment drop from a high during his term of 6 percent in 2003 to 4.5 percent in November 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, when the Democratic Party won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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"The economy started going south when the Democrats took over House and Senate," Brooks said in an interview with The Times last week.
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more: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/08/mo_brooks_recalls_stronger_eco.html




This would be so if it weren't so

PLEEEEEASE let this guy be the keynote speaker for the convention !! Nothing would scare voters farther away from the GOP than reminding them what a fine job their last pick for Dear Leader did for the economy.

[Jennicut]

1. The economy went south when Wall St. blew it up.

And W. was Prez at that time or am I mistaken?

[MatthewStLouis]

3. You forget, Obama was starting to magically control things about then.

Remember, everything bad is Obama's fault.

[blm]

2. Economy started its decline in earnest after Bush changed labor laws that effected 13 million

middle class workers. Those workers started out 2005 knowing they would be earning $10,000 - $20,000 LESS by the end of the year. That money was taken out of the middle class and working class and it just got worse by the end of 2006 and became apparent by 2008. The deceits of the financial industry hit the middle and working classes hardest because of the hit they had already taken in the years earlier.

[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?

[progressivebydesign]

5. Regressionists. I went back to look at unemployment data.. and Bush OWNS that.

It hit at the end of his term, and carried over for the first months of President Obama's term. It's clearly not a function of the President's policy, it was an everlasting gift from that economic stud, Bush. sheesh.

Is there something in the water in the South that makes these guys so fucking clueless? Do the Blue STates need to donate even more of their tax dollars to the Red States for education?

[GallopingGhost]

6. No thanks, Mr. Brooks.

Eight is Enough.