when bu$h* was in office republicants didn't care about jobs or deficits

[spanone]

it was 24/7 homeland security

how does one party, even one in the minority, set the agenda?

[eleny]

1. yeah, "you know who" said that deficits don't matter

the repubs can set the agenda because the dems allow it.

[emulatorloo]

9. Media promotes Republicans 24/7. They never get fact-checked by anyone except Rachel Maddow

Democrats get edited into little snippets, Republicans are allowed to say whatever they want for as long as they want.

[gratuitous]

2. In fact, it was unpatriotic to mention such things

Because it was deemed insufficiently supportive of the troops.

But as the media are quick to point out (in case any of them are gauche enough to notice it), that was then, and this is indisputably now.

[spanone]

3. bu$h* created 3 million jobs in EIGHT YEARS...Clinton = 23 milion

Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record


President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting, and is preparing to leave in the middle of a long one. That’s almost 22 months of recession during his 96 months in office.

His job-creation record won’t look much better. The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton’s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.

Here’s a look at job creation under each president since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939. The counts are based on total payrolls between the start of the month the president took office (using the final payroll count for the end of the prior December) and his final December in office.

Because the size of the economy and labor force varies, we also calculate in percentage terms how much the total payroll count expanded under each president. The current President Bush, once taking account how long he’s been in office, shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records. –Sudeep Reddy

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

[mediaman007]

4. Bush* was in office for a long time, before the economy

began hiring again. Of course, no one really noticed that most of the new jobs in the Bush* economy were low paying, service jobs.

[spanone]

5. bu$h* had the worse jobs creation record of any president on record

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

[Dappleganger]

6. Well that's what happens when you've Osama bin Laden releasing threats

so conveniently just before elections.

[spanone]

7. yea, what happened to that guy? did cheney stop the checks?

[Bitwit1234]

8. Oh they cared about jobs all right

they cared about how many their buddies, the corporations, could ship overseas, so they could get all those tax breaks.

[malaise]

10. Do you think they care now?

They don't give a flying fuck - it's all gimmicks.