To: TimF who wrote (643840 ) 1/28/2012 3:13:33 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Tim, I am sick to death of you all trying to rewrite history. The recession in 2001 was a mild one Nice straw man, I never said it was severe. I said that you overstate the difference. A mild recession and a severe recession might be more like the difference between a strong gale or tropical storm, and a category 1 or 2 hurricane (with cat 5s being something like the great depression), not like the difference between a spring rain and a monsoon. also said the difference wasn't relevant to the point being discussed. The fact that the later recession was more severe, doesn't change the fact that Sullivan distorted the picture, either carelessly or dishonestly. He talks about adding jobs when there has been a net loss of jobs for Obama. Nothing about the relative severity of the recessions is relative to that point. He assigns both the recession Bush inherited (technically it started the March after he took office, but he hardly caused in in those few months), and the recession Obama inherited to Bush. Really assigning recessions to presidents is somewhat unreasonable to being with, presidents don't have that level of control over the economy, at least not most of the time, but if you do want to make such assignments, you can't reasonably assign both to Bush. Message 27912375
