We have to look at the Administration’s policies in the context of the Great Recession and financial collapse, and compare them to the ideas of the opposition which would have been to do nothing.
I’m saying that Republicans would have done nothing judging from the fact that the stimulus bill passed along party lines. Zero out of 178 Republicans supported the bill. The stimulus bill included $300 billion in tax cuts.
What were the Republican ideas for getting us out of recession? None.
Of the ideas advanced by each side, which ones are preferable? That’s the question.[/quote]
No, that’s not the question.
I don’t really care what the Republicans would have done. You said that the current administration has done a “great job” with their economic policy during the recession. I said that this is horribly misguided. To disagree with this, in my opinion, is to completely misunderstand the nature of what got us here, and of what could eventually get us out. What the Republicans would have done is irrelevant.
That said, it is also totally wrong to say that the Reps would have done nothing. Look what they did under Bush — they threw even more money at the financial industry than the Obama administration did. They are all appeasers for the incompetent and corrupt financial industry.
Now look. If you like one side better than the other, that’s fine. But you conflate being better than the Republicans (in your opinion) with being great. Those aren’t the same things. And I feel the same way for all the right wingers who give the Republicans a free pass for all their sins, despite the fact that (in their opinion) the Republicans are better than the Democrats.
They both suck. Sorry. That is incontrovertible, in my opinion. So when someone says that the current administration has done a “great job” with economic economy, I’m going to call it out as being the misguided partisan cheerleading that it is.
