Ask yourself, RE 9/11 and the totality of the Bush

Ask yourself, RE 9/11 and the totality of the Bush economic record, would you consider it an 'unjust beat down' if all if had occurred under and been attributed to, a President Gore?

I'll spell you the 'pondering'. Every righty on this board, if not yourself, would hang ALL of that shit around Gore and the Dem's necks.

And Libruls wouldn't have shit to credibly say about any of it.

Accountability and responsibility, we are often lectured by the most sanctimonious and most hypocritical on this board, are 'conservative values'.

Well, neither are on backorder from the GOP Accountability and Responsibility big box stores.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the...nings.html

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A Look Back at Bush's Economic Missteps

Two terms, eight years — and eight significant economic mistakes

Bush's Economic Mistakes
Bush's Budget Blunders

By Justin FoxMonday, Jan. 19, 2009

George Bush is leaving the White House with a dismal economic record. By almost every measure — GDP growth, jobs, median incomes, financial-market performance — he stacks up as probably the least-successful President on the economic front since Herbert Hoover.

It's not all Bush's fault. He inherited an inevitable recession in 2001, and even last year's financial collapse was to some extent the result of unsustainable trends in place long before he moved to Washington.

Also, we generally give Presidents both more credit and more blame for economic outcomes than they probably deserve. As Bush mock-moaned in his final White House press conference, "Why did the financial collapse have to happen on my watch?"

His next words, though, were, "It's just pathetic, isn't it, self-pity?" So let's spare him the pity. As the decider in the White House for the past eight years, George Bush made some economic calls that don't look smart today. Here are eight of them.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/package...30,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rank...ted_States

FiveThirtyEight analysis[edit]

In January 2013, New York Times journalist and statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight composed a composite list of previous presidential rankings by scholars for the purpose of predicting President Barack Obama's ranking among presidents.[44]

1.Abraham Lincoln
2.Franklin D. Roosevelt
3.George Washington
4.Theodore Roosevelt
5.Thomas Jefferson
6.Harry S. Truman
7.Woodrow Wilson
8.Dwight D. Eisenhower
9.John F. Kennedy
10.Ronald Reagan
11.James K. Polk
12.Lyndon B. Johnson
13.Andrew Jackson
14.James Monroe
15.James Madison
16.John Adams
17.Barack Obama
18.Bill Clinton
19.William McKinley
20.John Quincy Adams
21.Grover Cleveland
22.George H. W. Bush
23.Ulysses S. Grant
24.Gerald Ford
25.William Howard Taft
26.Jimmy Carter
27.Calvin Coolidge
28.Chester A. Arthur
29.Richard Nixon
30.James A. Garfield
31.Martin Van Buren
32.Rutherford B. Hayes
33.Zachary Taylor
34.Benjamin Harrison
35.Herbert Hoover
36.John Tyler
37.Millard Fillmore
38.George W. Bush
39.Andrew Johnson
40.William Henry Harrison
41.Warren G. Harding
42.Franklin Pierce
43.James Buchanan

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