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    The American Sheeple are so easily manipulated. For the life of me I'll never understand how so many Americans can have such short memories and live in such denial. The GOP was in charge of Congress and the Presidency for 6 of Bush's 8 years. They have no excuse for the state they left our country in. The big bad Democratic 110th Congress of 2007-2009 had 49 Dems, 49 Rep, 2 Ind (one of them Lieberman who campaigned for McCain less than a year after this senate was in session. Thats not a majority! The House had about a 30 seat Dem majority and we all know Dems can't pass anything without at least 60 seats extra in the House. The housing industry was already DOA by the time this Congress was in session. The GOP will try and blame everyone under the sun including poor people for their shorcomings, but will never man up and accept responsibility for anything! Would you give Madoff money now that you know what he did? Why are YOU listening to the GOP after their miserable excuse for leadership and the fact that they left a legacy of massive job loss that continues today?

     

    The Sheeple are angry because the economy has robbed many of them of their jobs. Easily angered dummies can't seem to grasp the concept that this is the worst recession EVER. Only the Great Depression was worse, so far. This disaster is unique because OUR irresponsibility nearly collapsed the world economy and the world is pissed at us. The complexity and magnitude of what Bush caused is likely to keep effecting our country for years to come. It is clear now that our economy is in far better shape today than it was in Jan 09, but the Sheeple only see jobs. You know the jobs that they still deny were outsourced by the millions leaving us with a huge hole in the manufacturing industry. Insourcing Mexicans to take over the construction industry left labor wages at less than half of what they were in the 90s. Did the Sheeple just fall asleep while all this was happening? I don't recall the outrage as our job markets were being systematically dismantled by Bush while he said the outsourcing will improve our economy by growing jobs for the 21st century. Growing from where, his @$$? How does a nation just snap it's fingers and replace entire chunks of industry that the GOP destroyed so the company owners can exploit low wages for more profits? This is nothing new. Why do you think unions, minimum wage, and unemployment benefits exist? Perhaps the hatred the GOP has always had of working class Americans??? Keep denying it sheeple, while the GOP leads you to the slaughter house. Mmmmmm Lamb shank.

     

    Sheeple don't understand that Reagan and Clinton spent the first 2-3 years of their presidencies overcoming recessions that were of a lesser magnitude than this one and jobs were the last sign of recovery. The Sheeple just want to be angry, so they ignore common sense and listen to fantasies that agree with their hurt feelings. The hurt feelings of their brand of politics once again leading to failure. Are they mad at Obama or just taking their anger out on him because deep down inside they realize the Republicans are not out to help the regular guy after all? It's so much easier for a hill billy to get mad at the Liberal Black Guy. Reagan may have overcome a bad situation with Carter (who inherited it from Nixon-Ford), but he and his VP, Bush, left us in terrible shape with another nasty recession and a record breaking deficit. Their solutions were short term and not sustainable. Clinton rescued us from that situation while balancing the budget 6 years in a row and leaving a surplus. The GOP hasn't balanced a budget since 1956, yet they call themselves the fiscal conservatives. What a joke! Three trillion dollar dine and dashes in a row from NeoCONs. They keep repeating the same behavior and yielding the same results, yet the Sheeple keep expecting different results from the same behavior. Don't you realize that is the very definition of insanity?

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