The Recession Began in Bush 43's Term and Ended During the Month that the Spending from the Recovery Act Stimulus was at Its Maximum

Our economic woes are due to Bush 43's policies.
We see Tea Partiers frothing at the mouth over how it ruined our country, yet the Recovery Act stimulus is attributed with saving our country. The GOP and the Tea Party don't have to be truthful. They consider their audience to be stupid as the article "Media Matters: Fox News thinks you're all idiots" indicates. The GOP's greatest hero's greatest accomplishment was "Bonzo goes to College." He parlayed that into becoming a figure revered by right-wing extremists for generations. Ironically for having such a bible thumping constituents both Reagan and O'Donnell aren't strict Christians. Ronnie was superstitious, consulted horoscopes, and believed in clairvoyance and fortune-telling. O'Donnell is infamous for having dabbled in witchcraft. O'Donnell 's resume is even worse than Reagan's. Who knows how far she can go-you betcha!

The information in the article "Economic panel says recession ended in June 2009" makes you wonder how the GOP is blaming this economy on Obama. Obama's heroic actions pulled our country out a disaster!
The article states "The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., said the recession lasted 18 months. It started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009...

To make its determination, the NBER looks at figures that make up the nation's gross domestic product, which measures the total value of goods and services produced within the United States. It also reviews incomes, employment and industrial activity.

The economy lost 7.3 million jobs in the 2007-09 recession, also the most in the post World War II period...
Its determination is of interest to economic historians - and political leaders. In President George W. Bush's eight years in office, the United States fell into two recessions. The first started in March 2001 and ended that November. The second one started in December 2007."

It was Bush's fault and Obama's policies saved us. The party of no fought violently against Obama's policies to such an extent that many of Democrat's Congress passed legislation died because the GOP members of the Senate filibustered them.

The article "Recession's over, economists say to a skeptical public" notes that the Tea Party attacks Obama over policies that saved us!

Rove invented the GOP dirty trick of attacking a Democrat over a strength. Bush 43 was not a war hero. Kerry had medals. Rove's "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" attacked Kerry for being a war hero. Attacking Obama for saving the country is just another application of this tactic.

Regarding when the recession ended the article states "Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said it was noteworthy that the panel settled on June, as it was during that month that the spending from the Recovery Act stimulus was at its maximum.

"One conclusion is that the stimulus played an important role in bringing the recession to an end," said Zandi, who has been an economic advisor to officials and lawmakers in both parties."

The citizens of the US are impatient, but as the article states "President Obama acknowledged the widespread dissatisfaction with the economy during a town-hall-style meeting broadcast on the business news channel CNBC. Alluding to the announcement that the recession had officially ended, he remarked on the public's "understandable" frustration.

"The hole was so deep that a lot of people out there are still hurting, and probably some folks here in the audience are still having a tough time," he said. "So the question then becomes, what can we now put in place to make sure that the trend lines continue in a positive direction, as opposed to going back in the negative direction?"

How then is that the Democrats are in jeopardy of losing the upcoming elections? When you have constituents who have idolized Reagan then every election is a gamble.

The article "Good Gag, Delaware GOP, Less Ready for Prime Time Than Palin-- Think What You've Done - and What the Senate Does" states " I have a new rightwing heroine, displacing the finger-wagging shill from Wasilla - not only in the audacity of her hustle, but grotesqueries, emptiness of resume, instability, and distinctively less life, career and relationship experience. Right, getting fired, your house foreclosed, then sued twice qualifies as an experience, but is it the right prep for politics?

Now, comrades, being distinctively less qualified, plus out-lying Sarah Palin, is no mean fling, but Christine O'Donnell is on a divine mission. Compared to the Wasilla Sex Charmer, O'Donnell only dabbled "with witchcraft" and she is more fluid in speech and reads whole books (okay, kids fantasy). But she also dishes out enough bizarre, cringe-filled media moments (gloriously on tape, forever), they could fill a book, say "The UnCandidate: Unprepared and Incorrect."

For herein stands O'Donnell's ultimate historic importance: by hook or by crook she has managed to reverse every traditional standard for high political office. For centuries, every viable politician at the very minimum presented a veneer of truthiness, worldly feats, pertinent experiences, and talents beyond "look at me" PR stunts. Not any more."

Can't writers in her own party pretend that she is a decent candidate? The article states "O'Donnell looms on the Senate doorstep by offering exactly what Peggy Noonan fears about the Tea Party: the destructive descent into "a corrosive populism that celebrates unknowingness as authenticity, that confuses showiness with seriousness and vulgarity with true conviction."

Peggy Noonan can't because her words will come back to haunt her. Her own party hates her! The article states "Further, what better proves her independence than giving her own party establishment the finger - and getting it returned, deemed only "unelectable as dogcatcher" by the top state Republican."

She has no qualifications and if the right-wing extremists can't support her who can? The article states "An O'Donnell win proves anyone can run for anything: you don't need no stinkin' merit badges or qualified resume, no character references (quite the contrary), only "values movement" sound bites and a solid born-again redemption history. "

She is reminiscent of Bush 43 and we know how that turned out. The article states "Like W. Only recently she merged personal ruthlessness with nothing less than divine will: "During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head." What thoughts are in your head, then? How did God inform you, osmosis?

How simple, delightful, how convenient. How scary. Electing this empty vessel, replenished by the audible voice of God (in stereo?), fulfills historian Nancy L. Cohen's dread: "If you liked Rovian anti-gay marriage referendums, the Terry Schiavo saga, anti-abortion litmus tests for diplomatic service in a war zone, and creationism in the Grand Canyon bookstore, you'll love this season's Tea Party candidates."
If she gets in then other Tea Partiers will also. Their leader, a former House Majority Leader, has a plan to ruin your retirement for you.

The article "Tea Party Leader Dick Armey: Social Security Is A Corrupt 'Ponzi Scheme'" states "This past weekend, conservative activists and Tea Party groups gathered in Chicago for the Right Nation 2010 convention. Among those who attended was former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the chairman of one of the original Tea Party groups, FreedomWorks.

During the event, ThinkProgress sat down with Armey at a blogger's roundtable. No sooner than we took our seats did Armey come out guns-blazing against Social Security. He called it a "corrupt government practice" that steals people's money "under false pretenses." He went on to call Social Security a "Ponzi scheme".

The GOP only cares that the rich gets richer. If the country had followed Bush 43's plan to privatize Social Security the fat cat stock brokers would have siphoned off more money from the bottom 98% and we'd all be living on cat food in our retirement.

The article notes that "However, the American public remains adamantly opposed to this plan, with two of every three Americans uncomfortable with the idea of privatizing Social Security." That doesn't scare off the GOP as the article notes "Joan McCarter at Daily Kos points out that the Republican Senate nominee in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, is airing TV ads calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme."

Armey must have polling data that Tea Partiers have been brainwashed into believing that even Social Security is an evil plan foisted onto the US by Democrats so GOP operatives will exploit it.

With Clear Channel and FOX Tea Partiers feel invincible. The article "DeMint Credits Fox News With Recent Tea Party Victories"notes "Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is often described as the "kingmaker" of the tea party movement for his efforts to remake the Senate in his ultraconservative image, having already spent $3.3 million this year supporting tea party candidates through his Senate Conservatives Fund.

But appearing on Fox News host Andrew Napolitano's show "Freedom Watch" this weekend, DeMint acknowledged that he's had some help promoting what Napolitano described as the "tea party tidal wave" that has recently handed far-right candidates the GOP Senate nominations from Delaware, Alaska, and elsewhere.
Namely, DeMint thanked Fox News."

DeMint said "This is all about the people, and people standing up and speaking out and getting informed. And I think in the media, we're seeing what Fox is doing, and radio talk shows and blogs. People are more informed and engaged, and I think they're feeling the power shift back to their hands."

The article "DeMint: Businesses Tell Me 'The Best Thing' Would Be 'Complete Gridlock.'" DeMint doesn't care about our country just political power.

The article notes "Last summer, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered a quote that symbolized the GOP's strategy of reflexive opposition to the President. "If we're able to stop Obama on this [health reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said. DeMint was clear that his strategy was purely political. "If we stop him on health care," he said, "then I think we have the opportunity to maybe realign the whole political system in our country."

DeMint thinks that he is the face of the future as the article notes "DeMint's potentially powerful new bloc of supporters may pose a leadership challenge for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Tellingly, this morning on the Today Show, DeMint couldn't even remember his leader's name. "Well, I like our current leadership," he said. "Mitch - um, um [pause]. Um - Mitch is doing a great job."

McConnell has cooperated with DeMint with every obstruction of the US government throughout Obama's term, but he isn't as radical as DeMint. These Tea Partiers don't care what happens to the US. They just want Obama to fail and to get power back again. To do it they disseminate propaganda to the lost and weary red state population.

Elections in the US always are about the economy. We have lived through this before in Reagan's term. Can't our red staters remember Bush 41's pledge of "Read my lips: no more taxes"? He had to raise them because the deficit was so high.

Bush 43's tax cut for the richest ran up our debt and ruined our economy, just as Reagan's did in the 1980s. The GOP learned one lesson--to govern so terribly that they would leave traps behind to ensnare Democrats. Do you think it was a coincidence that the Bush 43 tax cuts expired after his term was up? Rove made sure they would expire on a future president's term-Rove knew it would be a Democrat with how awfully he and 43 ran the country, so that the GOP could argue that allowing them to expire as designed would be a tax increase.

The GOP leaders knew that the federal government had to expand to take up the vacuum that the current recession is causing. Again we have gone through this just 30 odd years ago. In the late seventies, the label "Supply Side Economics" was applied to the argument that lower tax rates would improve private sector incentives, leading to higher employment, productivity, and output in the US economy. George Bush, in the days when he was an opponent of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 primaries, referred to an extreme version of this theory espoused by Reagan as "voodoo economics."

The names have changed but the sinister plot hasn't. The GOP want to rape the bottom 98% for the benefit of the fat cats. They depend on apathetic red staters to believe this propaganda. That they are so greedily swallowing the lies of Palin, DeMint and O'Donnell is a bad omen.