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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:08 PM
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Why is it that recessions have a nasty habit of timing themselves to embarrass the GOP?

Anybody ever wonder that?

9 of the 11 post-World-War-II recessions have occurred during Republican administrations.



Republican economists always tell us that recessions are part of the economic cycle and are inevitable....


I guess it is just a coincidence that they seem to always occur when the Republicans are in charge.
:sarcasm:
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riqster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:11 PM
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1. We just need to be more patient with those all-knowing Elephants
...they'll trickle the wealth down to us, eventually. Meanwhile, pass the gruel, willya?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:11 PM
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2. Truth has a liberal bias?
(h/t to Rob Corddry)
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:08 PM
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9. I thought it was Colbert and "The facts have a well know liberal bias."
or something like that.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:29 PM
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11. whatever.
;-)
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:12 PM
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3. Your kidding? Right? n/t
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:15 PM
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4. It's crazy but all the fruits of their conservative economic policies
always seem to bare out during times of democratic rule. It's uncanny. Democrats are so lucky.
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amdezurik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:19 PM
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7. and despite history and common sense
they always seem to think they can control it and are always caught by "surprise" how that never seems to work...
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:29 PM
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8. Just like all those lucky poor people who skate by without paying taxes
(that was sarcasm, btw)
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:09 PM
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10. According to that flawless logic Reagan totally took Carter's credit.
n.t.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:18 PM
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5. Bush is the only post-World-War-II President to preside over two separate recessions

Think about that.


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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 01:18 PM
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6. Facts are known to have a Liberal Bias
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:30 PM
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12. Recessions are just mean. But not mean enough to impoverish Republican
Edited on Mon Dec-01-08 02:36 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
leaders. In fact, I have a nagging suspicion that they actually prosper amazingly right before those mean ole depressions. Funny thing is, in the UK right now, NuLab(c)'s finest seem to be living high on the hog.

Apparently, there's a marked reluctance among our whole polity, all effectively of a right-wing right wing, to have their expenses scrutinised. Who'd ever a thunk!
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Acadia Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:33 PM
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13. Because their flow up economics causes recessions.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-08 02:34 PM
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14. Um.....Because They Cause Them
I'm just guessing! No i'm not!
The Professor
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