Mary Matalin: Bush inherited a recession and the 9/11 attacks from President Clinton

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Mary Matalin: Bush 'Inherited' 9/11 Attacks (VIDEO)

First Posted: 12-28-09 11:28 AM | Updated: 12-28-09 12:03 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/28/mary-matalin-bush-inherit_n_404949.html

On CNN Sunday, GOP strategist Mary Matalin repeated a strange new Republican talking point -- the idea that the September 11th attacks didn't happen on President Bush's watch.

Arguing that President Obama was complaining too much about the problems he inherited from his predecessor, Matalin (who worked for former Vice President Dick Cheney) said her White House was saddled with problems too. "We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history," she told host John King on "State of the Union."

Last month, former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino proclaimed that there were no terror attacks under President Bush.

As for Matalin's economic claim, Bush did say that he inherited a recession -- but he got his dates wrong about when that recession began. The National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee says it started in March of 2001, during Bush's first term.

[librechik]

1. since media refuse to correct these lies, they will no doubt go down as History

now we know who the winners actually are.

[curiousdemo]

13. I guess Mary wanted to compete against

Sarah "Barracuda" Palin for 2009 "Liar of the Year". Well, they're both running neck and neck. :puke:

[Raster]

20. "Liar of the Year"? Puh-leeze... try "Liar of the Decade"!

Matalin is, in a word, heinous. I can also think of another word that applies, however decorum does not permit its use.

[RayStar]

24. Idiot

I have no idea why she spoke that lie. How embarrassing it must have been for James.

[Raster]

34. I think you forgot your "sarcasm" emoticon. Cajun-man Carville is equally as foul.

They're a good match.

[MrMickeysMom]

47. The man can't be embarrassed...

It speaks for itself.

[rfranklin]

2. this meme is nothing new...they started it on 9/12...

and then reinforced it constantly with distortions and coverups.

[Democrats_win]

3. W.orthless Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Did I do THAT?"

Like Urkel on Family Matters, these two idiots have no clue about what a mess they've created. We the people know. These asshats are the biggest F-ups in American history. Voting Republican today is the equivalent of a dog eating his own vomit.

[checks-n-balances]

22. 'Voting Republican today is the equivalent of a dog eating his own vomit'

:rofl:
That would make such a great bumper sticker!!

[ProgressOnTheMove]

4. That's a big rewrite of history, I wonder why there was a undisclosed bunker then.

[CJCRANE]

5. The Republican Mind Trick

is just like the Jedi Mind Trick.

Except it only works on conservatives.

[liberation]

6. She is as anorexic with the truth, as she seems to be with her food....

And she is married to one of Clinton's top guys. This whole thing is a good cop/bad cop joke on us... and they are all laughing all the way to the bank.

[Bolo Boffin]

7. Mary Matalin's 9/11 conspiracy theory

Funny how it seems to be OK if you're a Republican. Van Jones, call the White House!

[rasputin1952]

8. Mary...Drugs are bad, especially the acid you took to come up...

with that sack of psychotic crap...

[Cleita]

9. Hey Rachel Maddow. Are you reading this?

Get her on your show and make her explain herself. Although I'll betcha she's too chicken to face you.

[girl_interrupted]

11. And for almost 8 yrs bush couldn't catch bin laden

or the anthrax terrorist, or find WMD's. Real "tough guys" those republicans! Instead it cost us billions for 2 wars, over 4,000 dead soldiers & 30,000 wounded soldiers. Not to mention God knows how many innocent Iraqis& Afghanis we killed in the process.

bush wished he had Clinton's economy. bush bled our economy dry and couldn't create jobs, nor could he create surpluses, both of which Clinton did and bush spent.

bush couldn't take the time to meet with Richard Clarke, Clinton's Anti-terrorism Czar, when Clarke was worried about the high level of chatter pre 9/11, nor would any of bush's cabinet.

bush didn't "understand" the meaning of a PDB "Bin Laden determined to attack in the U.S."

despite being told in January 2001, that the CIA & the FBI knew it was bin laden who planned the attack on the USS Cole, bush never followed up on going after bin laden, instead he gave Afghanistan 43 million in April 2001, while bin laden lived there.

How does Maitlin sleep at night?

jerk.

[valerief]

10. Does anyone believe that scarecrow? nt

[Wizard777]

12. Well she couldn't say Bush ALLOWED the most tragic attack upon American soil.

They actually investigated FDR to try to prove that he allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor to get us into WW II. If they would have even found HALF the evidence on FDR that we have on Bush allowing 9/11. FDR would have been dragged from the White House and hanged for treason.

[eagleswing963]

14. Sad thing is

How many millions of people believe this collection of lies!

They have learned well from Mr. Goering!

Remember that so called "non fiction" movie 'Path to 9/11' which spent 5 hours saying it was all Clintons fault?

And made Bush out to be the next Patton?

[AlbertCat]

42. Remember that so called "non fiction" movie 'Path to 9/11'

Not really.

And actually neither does hardly anyone.

Only the few fall for this stuff. WE were there too and we remember.

Her lies will not stick. No majority will fall for them.

[Cary]

15. I don't think there's any disagreement over the fact that Bush. . .

inherited a recession. After all Clinton presided over the longest, deepest recovery in history. A recession was inevitable and this was the only real justification for the tax cuts (as traditional Keynesian stimulus and not as "supply-side" sophistry).

But I was watching this and immediately called her a f***ing bitch when she claimed Bush "inherited" 9/11. This is a vicious lie and I'd say it's worse than Palin's vicious lie.

These "conservatives" shouldn't get away with this.

[BlueMTexpat]

27. If it is true, as you say, that Bush did inherit a recession after the Clinton boom

years, all that his misbegotten and short-sighted policies did were to exacerbate it until that recession became the comprehensive global financial disaster that Obama inherited ... which is NOTHING like the recession that "officially" dated from March 2001, whether that recession is actually attributable to Clinton as part of the financial cycle or to Bush as an ... er ... idiot. Most credible authorities concur with the March start date, which clearly occurred during Bush II's early days. Here is an example of one who discusses the WH's interesting actions to "blame it all" on Clinton (and the Dems, of course) as early as 2004, in anticipation of the Presidential election that year: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4264572/
Under Clinton, the US had a budget surplus. http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html
What Bush "inherited" from Clinton was a USD 128 billion budget SURPLUS.
What Obama inherited from Bush was not only a recession, but also a projected budget DEFICIT of USD 482 billion, which worsened as 2009 actually played out. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html

Them's the facts, Mary. Pesky little things, I know.

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For the record, I ceased believing a word Mary Matalin said even before she began working for Darth Cheney. I can't understand why anyone with an IQ above single digits would even give her the time of day.

[Cary]

49. I didn't say Bush was smart or good

Nor did I say the economy was Clinton's fault. It's clear that the one bright spot for Bush, growth, was all flim flam. However do you blame Bush or do you blame the dominant ideology that was in play even under Clinton, albeit to a lesser extreme? The ideology actually began with Carter.

I truly hope and pray that "supply-side economics" (and I use quotes because "supply-side economics" is to economics what "creation science" is to science) is behind us.

[BlueMTexpat]

51. Amen to the burial of "supply side" economics. n/t

[AlbertCat]

43. fact that Bush inherited a recession.

So that's why we had the "tax rebate" thing....because there was a recession!!! :eyes:

[Cary]

50. I didn't say that

Go back and read my post. I was quite clear.

[The Wizard]

16. This is a prime example of why

no one cares what Republicans have to say unless it's under oath, and no one believes what they have to say even if it is under oath. It's pathological with them.
One more face lift and Mary will have a go-tee.

[curiousdemo]

36. Man, they need polygraph wires hooked up,

indefinitely. When they talk, the polygraph machine probably will explode.
:nuke:

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. How does she sleep at night?

Or does she actually believe the shite flowing from her lips?

Is it just a game for these RW pundits? They get paid handsomely to carry the water for the corporate elite. To them, as Colbert so brilliantly spoofs, if it pays well, it must be the truth.

[hisownpetard]

18. Mary Matalin: Beauty is as beauty does. Oh, wait...

Edited for spelling

[burning rain]

19. I suggest she interview Bubba for CNN.

I'm sure she'll have almost as much success attacking him on the terrorism issue as Fox News' Chris Wallace did in September, 2006.

[Ian David]

21. Go easy on her. She has to fuck James Carville. She's been punished enough. n/t

[glitch]

26. They both married up. nt

[onehandle]

23. _ _ _ _

[fascisthunter]

25. this is what party fanatiscism looks like

and the GOP has tons of them, much more so than democrats. If this were turned around, what position do you suppose Matalin would take?

These partisan hacks are so discredited, and yet the media keeps airing them. Why? To maybe normalize this person's POV? One would have to thinks so, because just 10-15 years ago, people like Matalin never got the air time they do now, and that's basically because their POV was never popular.

[pjt7]

28. Matalin is a disgrace to honest women

what a horribe, horrible, horibble person.

[Raoul]

29. Yep, nothing there, move along

Like I've said a million times - trying to talk to a neo con is like explaining Philosophy to a pig. They are nothing more than a bunch of sorry losers who refuse to take responsibility for anything. Poor little Bush inherited everything - he did nothing wrong. Yeah, just like Hitler.

I remember they even had the gall to say Clinton was not responsible for the robust economy he managed because all of it was due to bush sr.

So like I said - screw em. Just make fun of them and discuss nothing that requires any kind of thought.

[LaPera]

30. Trying to change history for republican presidents as they did with Reagan - All lies & blame

pointed at and pushed off to the democrats...republicans NEVER take or accept any responsibility for their sick elitist corporate ideology.

[CLANG]

31. Did John King have any followup to that? The clip ends before I could see.

If he didn't question that, then he is no objective reporter!

[edc]

32. Political Wisdom

A lie is heading down the backstretch before truth is out of the gate.

[ScottLand]

33. Cut away too soon.

Surely they go on to ask her, "do you think before you speak?"

[silenttigersong]

35. Yes Please remind

the tea-baggers of the terrorist attack that took place on Bushies watch,all the warnings ignored,Bush sitting in a elementary school reading, but not really reading,I love it by that logic they will def vote 3rd party.

[pjt7]

37. CNN sucks for putting her on

the boob tube.

[Loudmxr]

38. Obama inherited the bubonic plague that killed off half of Europe.

He did a pretty good job of cleaning that up!! In addition he inherited WWII when FDR died and won it!!

HAHA! Two can play at the false reality game!!:party:

[OttavaKarhu]

39. Pointless distraction. More party politics. More MSM crapola. n/t

[applegrove]

40. Bet you any freeper watching it bought the whole thing. It just never occurs

to the right wing public that anyone could be lying their ass off at them.

[earcandle]

41. WHY DOES THIS PERSON GET AIRTIME WITH HER LYING SPECTATOR CRAP?

[madrchsod]

44. according to the company i worked for from 97-02

the recession started around 98-99. they have tracked the starts of a recession cycle for a hundred years.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

45. Obviously someone should go on CNN and counteract the lies

[scentopine]

46. And CNN will keep treating her like a queen. -nt

[winyanstaz]

48. the bullcrappy is piling higher and deeper......