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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
7 years of Bush has nothing to do with the best direction going forward. "It's Bush's fault" is certainly not a great rationalization for passing the single largest spending bill in the history of the planet. but its easy right? you don't have to do much critical thinking, doing things your way. hell, now you don't even have to defend Obama when all you have to do is blame Bush. nice!
and this is how the next 4 years will go in your eyes
everything that goes right = Obama is doing a great job
everything that goes wrong = Bush created that problem and Obamas doing a great job
and btw... for the uneducated... "Conservative" does not mean "Bush" or "Republican"
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But didn't Bush and the conservatives and republicans blame much of what went wrong with his 8 years in office on Clinton?
I've seen Clinton blamed for everything from 9/11 to the current economic policies. That said, Clinton blamed Bush and Reagan for many of his problems. That is how it works.
Blaming Bush is not a good enough reason to pass the stimulus bill and honestly I don't think that is why they did it. I think they decided that during the campaign they had promised bold and swift action so when Obama won and the democrats took control of Washington they now had to act. I think they passed the bill because they (well at least some of them) feel it will work. Many agree. Many disagree. Now we wait and see. If it fails and we spend the next 3 years in economic trouble you know exactly what the republican's platform for 2012 will be.