The question is rather rhetorical, based on historical evidence, but if you answer "Democrat Congress" you will need to explain your answer.
Since January, 2007 our economy has gone into a death spiral.

Tan Buff Hung wrote:

The question is rather rhetorical, based on historical evidence, but if you answer "Democrat Congress" you will need to explain your answer.
Since January, 2007 our economy has gone into a death spiral.

Imagine Ronald Reagan having a fiscally conservative Congress in the 80's instead of a tax and spend liberal democrat Congress.

If the government spends less, then they lower taxes, which gives the opportunity for people to invest into companies, which in point should offer more jobs. What a insulting state on the fourth of July that congress is filled with self-interested trader socialism trying to bring back tyranny of GB.

Paul wrote:

If the government spends less, then they lower taxes, which gives the opportunity for people to invest into companies, which in point should offer more jobs. What a insulting state on the fourth of July that congress is filled with self-interested trader socialism trying to bring back tyranny of GB.

I believe that's called, "change you can believe in"!!!!!!!!!!

Tan Buff Hung wrote:

The question is rather rhetorical, based on historical evidence, but if you answer "Democrat Congress" you will need to explain your answer.
Since January, 2007 our economy has gone into a death spiral.

I will take more then a couple of years to clean up the damage the Bush/ Cheney/ and rich buddies
did to our country

mrkihn wrote:

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I will take more then a couple of years to clean up the damage the Bush/ Cheney/ and rich buddies
did to our country

I agree with you, but the problem is Obama isn't cleaning anything. He's making the problem worse than it already was. He has rich cronies that he's taking care of too. Do I even need to go there with the czars? The continued bailouts that haven't benefitted us one bit?

We need to completely clean house and start over with some real people in office--fresh faces, fresh ideas.

No matter what party,they're all crooks!

Things haven't been this bad in my lifetime. Seems Democrats do more harm than Republicans. I just wish any of them no matter the party, would do something for our benefit for a change. Bring back our jobs from overseas and kick out the scum who are here illegally and it matters not what country they came from, illegal is illegal.

angelstar701 wrote:

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I agree with you, but the problem is Obama isn't cleaning anything. He's making the problem worse than it already was. He has rich cronies that he's taking care of too. Do I even need to go there with the czars? The continued bailouts that haven't benefitted us one bit?
We need to completely clean house and start over with some real people in office--fresh faces, fresh ideas.

Better yet, bring in some HONEST people for a change. Are there any honest people in politics?

Can we be sure that the Congress has any significant influence on the economy? More importantly, is it really safe for us to assume that what the ecnoomy does today is the result of what the current Congress has done, and not the result of actions and decisions made in the past (possibly greatly past)? Can we really be sure that what the economy is doing is not the result of an economic cycle?

Gee I guess this poll kinda blew up in your face

tim leary wrote:

Gee I guess this poll kinda blew up in your face

Gee, I guess this poll kinda' blew up in your face.(tim leary correction)

Incredible how this poll, and about 3-4 others just like it on Topix, changed by about 80-100 votes overnight.

Somebody has WAY too much time on their hands!

Themis wrote:

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Gee, I guess this poll kinda' blew up in your face.(tim leary correction)

thanks, Beavis. Unlike GWB I can admit a mistake.

tim leary wrote:

<quoted text>thanks, Beavis. Unlike GWB I can admit a mistake.

Sorry I jumped you - Everybody in here fat fingers the keyboard sometimes - Becky acting so self righteous just pissed me off - Accept my mea culpa

Bradley wrote:

Incredible how this poll, and about 3-4 others just like it on Topix, changed by about 80-100 votes overnight.
Somebody has WAY too much time on their hands!

Kind of like how Adrian Ewing was way up front in the "Who will be elected to city council" Poll, even though he actually finished dead last.

Hmmm. I wonder who would try to change those polls.

Themis wrote:

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Sorry I jumped you - Everybody in here fat fingers the keyboard sometimes - Becky acting so self righteous just pissed me off - Accept my mea culpa

Acceptted!

Are you people blind AND stupid??? Since democrats controlled congress, things have gone to he ll. One thing you mor ons are forgetting is that the pres. cannot do whatever he wants, it has to go through congress, AND the house. Bush had alot of good ideas, BUT, they were shot down by congress. He was told by other people that Iraq had wmd's. Obama has doubled Bush's spending of 8 yrs. in only a few months, and is expected to quadruple it in 4 yrs. with the spending he has planned. McCain wasn't great but he wanted to cut spending, as palin DID a HUGE amount of in Alaska, not quadruple it, on things like frog research, and research on urban wetlands... as Obama is doing. FOOLS.

mjm wrote:

Are you people blind AND stupid??? Since democrats controlled congress, things have gone to he ll. One thing you mor ons are forgetting is that the pres. cannot do whatever he wants, it has to go through congress, AND the house. Bush had alot of good ideas, BUT, they were shot down by congress. He was told by other people that Iraq had wmd's. Obama has doubled Bush's spending of 8 yrs. in only a few months, and is expected to quadruple it in 4 yrs. with the spending he has planned. McCain wasn't great but he wanted to cut spending, as palin DID a HUGE amount of in Alaska, not quadruple it, on things like frog research, and research on urban wetlands... as Obama is doing. FOOLS.

What were some of the good ideas that Bush proposed? Dems had a slight majority and couldn't get anything through with the threat of a veto. You have no business calling anybody a fool, you know nothing about politics except what Rush and Hannity tell you, fool.

Captain Beefheart wrote:

<quoted text>What were some of the good ideas that Bush proposed? Dems had a slight majority and couldn't get anything through with the threat of a veto. You have no business calling anybody a fool, you know nothing about politics except what Rush and Hannity tell you, fool.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bush-calls-o...

Apparrently, Bush had some idea that actions was needed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/ne...