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To: Brumar89 who wrote (571616)	6/14/2010 4:57:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578288

Thanks for catching my mistake .. that makes my question even more valid .... if Bush was such a catastrophe, why did it take more than 8 years and a new President in office for things to go to hell? Things were going to hell well before Bush left. Katrina had happened. Economic growth was flaccid. The rich were getting richer at the expense of the poor. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were flagging badly. And the CDOs and other phony derivatives which had been invented during his second term were working their magic. It didn't take a genius to see the way things were going.......I was screaming my bloody head off for years.....but the Rs who were in control until 2006 kept a lid on things and the American media was in collusion with them. However, if you read the foreign press, you knew the truth. In all seriousness, things were run so badly for 8 years we are lucky to be where we are today as a bad a place as it is.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (571616)	6/14/2010 5:12:21 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1578288

Beacon of the Dems thesmokinggun.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (571616)	6/14/2010 5:35:20 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578288

WH Takes Cues from Liberal Think Tank on Spill June 14, 2010, 10:26 AM ET. By Jonathan Weisman blogs.wsj.com If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress. The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers. On May 4, for instance, the CAP’s energy and environment expert, Daniel Weiss, called on the president to name an independent commission to look at the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. On May 22, he did just that. On May 21, CAP president, John Podesta, privately implored White House officials to name someone to be the public point person for the spill response. A week later, the White House announced that Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen would hold daily briefings on the spill, wherever he would be on any given day. On May 26, Weiss said the White House needed to demand that BP immediately set up an escrow account with billions of dollars from which claims for Gulf state residents would be paid out. Monday’s headlines proclaimed the president’s latest get-tough stand: BP needs to set up a billion-dollar escrow account. What’s next, Mr. Podesta?