re: Do you really think anyone other than the Bush-Derangement-Syndrome left and Krugman here are going to pin a recession/depression on Bush and Republicans after W is out of power???

In case you missed it, the recession/depression started last December. As in, 2007. It's official, everyone knows it, and only the usual crackpots on the right are trying to spin it otherwise.

re: Americans have a very short memory

I doubt that the majority of Americans will forget who left them an economy in meltdown -- and two failed wars, to boot.

I'm sure, however, that the right wing gas bags who pervade the public airwaves will be doing their best to rewrite history.

re: The Americans will forget and always forget with the exception of the "left wing gas bags" such as yourself

I'll take that as a complement, as I fart in your general direction.

re: OK..we can forget that now

Yes, we can.

http://tinyurl.com/5jev8a

Pass the ketchup, please.

:)

re: No dates, no authorship. Credibility zero.

* December 2nd, 2008 6:18 pm

* They warned us, but US eased loan rules

* By Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press

Now, which part of this don't you quite grasp?

Just so you don't lose it, here's another link to the same article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_ignored_warnings

Nighty-nite.

re: Still just an AP post

As though ipso facto that rendered it worthless. Sorry, bonehead, but that tactic won't work.

Besides, if you go back and look, my original post linked to two articles, the second one (echoing the first) by By Robert Berner and Brian Grow from Business Week, here:

http://tinyurl.com/422gtg

Now, re: Got look up the NYTimes article yourself. You need to so some honest research.

YOU are the one who cites a phantom Times article. YOU provide the link. I've done the research, and posted links to the sources. They're unbiased and unimpeachable.

What I notice about you right wing goofballs is that you always cite "stories" from this or that paper, but you never link to the article. Undoubtedly because they don't exist, and if they actually do, they do not bear out your (or Limbaugh's) recollection of them.

BTW, don't call me "Dear".

The most interesting part of an article covering this event in today's New York Times was this:

"Mr. Blagojevich said he was approached by an associate of “Candidate 5” with an offer of $500,000 in exchange for the Senate seat."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/politics/10Illinois.html

Which just proves (as if we needed proof) that the Senate -- indeed the entire U.S. Government -- is run not by a group of public-spirited citizens, but by a bunch of wealthy crooks.

It's all nothing but a real-life version of 'Bulworth'. They pay millions of $ to get elected, then line their own pockets and that of their rich friends with public money.

It kinda casts the whole phony $700bn TARP ripoff in a new light, doesn't it?

re: innocent Republicans; Scooter Libby

BWAHAHAHA!

Libby was convicted by a jury for lying and obstructing the CIA leak. Perhaps you missed it.

re: this country's fucked

I'm starting to feel like Ned Beatty in Deliverance

http://tinyurl.com/69fgv2

It would be more clever if you rhymed something with 'Blagojevich'.

Blagojevich

The sonofabitch

In his empty palm

He felt an itch...

re: Republican blowhards will undoubtedly try to tie Blagojevich to Obama, as well as try to portray him as symptomatic of endemic corruption rotting the core of the entire Democratic party.

Yeah, they'll try. It'll last about one or two news cycles, then be quickly forgotten as the Bush depression throws millions more into homelessness and poverty.

Starvation will trump corruption, hands down.

...he'll withdraw his current nomination for AG and submit Patrtick Fitzgerald for nomination instead.

What better way to quash the incipient accusations of corruption-by-association from the right-wing gasbags?

re: I think the jury was nuts to have convicted Libby

Fortunately, our system of justice ignores your opinion in reaching verdicts in criminal trials.

I'm sure it's all quite mystifying to you.