Hillary Clinton: We Are Living Through "George Bush's Recession"

Political Radar:

For the first time, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said that she belives the U.S. economy is in a recession. Clinton, vying for her party's presidential nomination, has said in the past that the U.S. is slipping towards or sliding toward a recession - but had never said explicitly that the economy was in one.

Speaking on Sunday in Missoula, Montana, Clinton expalined what she will do as president to help ease economic hardship Wwe are going to come up with, as I have put on my website hillaryclinton.com, $100 billion dollars in middle class tax cuts. Money is going to go back in your pockets. Money you can use to ride through George Bush's Recession."

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[truthskr]

Yes, and I am sure that Hillary voting for an immoral and obscenely expensive war had absolutely nothing to do with our current economic state. This woman touts her experience - 35 years that are really only 6, but we all know math isn't her strong suit - but then refuses to take any responsibility of for any of the fallout. But then she also thinks that we should bring back Alan Greenspan to fix the economy, as if he didn't "fix" it enough while Fed Reserve Chief. Please Hillary, buy a calculator and buy a copy of "Shock Doctrine."

[ErnestineBass]

Yep. We're living through "Bush's Recession", made possible in part by a man who opposed NAFTA just long enough to eek out a win in 1992 before signing the damned thing into law.

Remind you of anybody, Hillary? It should, you're married to him.

You may fool some, Mrs. Clinton, but you don't fool me one bit.

[MoeGreen]

Let us not forget who repealed Glass-Steagall as well.

Ladies and Gentlemen... Welcome to BILL CLINTON'S RECESSION.

[metalpipe]

Right on! So many poeple are stopping at the BushCo idsaster, but the Clinton's really enabled this recession through a series of bad decisions and incompetancy during Bill's reign. The economic 'boom' we experienced during his administration was based on the same falseness as the one we are coming out of now. Bubbles and more bubbles.

[ljsfolly]

Funny how Hillary views the economics we have been having troubles with. While hubby was in the office the dot coms bloomed into huge bubbles that some burst outright and others have slowly deflated. Greenspan, the man she would come into the mix and "fix" the broken enconomy is also the man who built this failure of the economic measure he put in place. He had full open vision of the bubbles the housing market was making all over the country and he did nada to slow it down. He knew the bubbles withthe dot coms and the various other banking/savings and loan failliers coming and did nada. He retired and brought out the book he had been writing and went on few talk shows. Nobody thought too much of him or his book. All of the theories now about how Bernake should fix are all over the place and he has played with the rates, %s and here we are still a mess but not bottoms up...yet. Hillary wants to bring this guy back to fix what is broken and I would guess she has yet to realize he was the one who broke everything badly and left Bernake to fix it. Want that kind of fix?

[ibsteve2u]

lollll...Hillary's full of crap - or, at best, attempting to divert blame through a subterfuge.

Even George W. Bush's inept leadership and transparent attempts at shifting income from everybody else to the wealthy could not have created this economy without Bill Clinton's inequitable free trade treaties.

People have to think of all segments of an economy like they do of a "rainy day fund"; jobs are one such segment. Before Clinton, our nation always had a significant "rainy day fund" of available and newly-created jobs. Before Clinton, if a good-paying job went away you just pounded the pavement and burnt up the phone lines for awhile and got another one in the same or a different industry.

Now, far too many of our service and manufacturing jobs are simply gone - offshore where the labor costs 1/20th as much, "health care" is provided - if at all - by the state, and there are no environmental regulations of any consequence to inhibit profits. Those Clinton trade treaties gutted the "rainy day" buffer of jobs that this nation had.

If you lose a good paying job now, you're just screwed. The United States can no longer absorb significant downturns in any industry.

Meanwhile, of course, you've got Clinton staffers avidly working to put even MORE inequitable free trade treaties into play.

Wonderful people, those Clintons; if only the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Oscars out for dissembling...

[tbone99]

Somehow the tanking economy has floated right over Bush,How does that happen?.Let's don't forget to use it's full name every time we say it, folks.

George Bush's recession

[brooklyncitizen]

What's ths "WE" s*** Mr. & Mrs. $110 Million these last 6 years?

[marblefawn]

"as I have put on my website hillaryclinton.com"...really? hm. maybe ill go check out your website, hillaryclinton.com. wait, what was the address again? oh, yeah, hillaryclinton.com.

[maxdenn]

Oh Hillary. There she goes again.

[Puller58]

With Mark Penn out, she was bound to turn to populism. Rhetorical turn. She gets into the white house and kleptocracy rules! Remember when Georgie got in, he blamed Clinton for problems. When Clinton got in, he blamed Georgie the first for problems. Typical behavior. Obama gets in and he says, I got mines. McCain would say, zzzzzzz.

[riverhouse]

Nothing like imagining how a $109 million dollar candidate relates to the financially besieged. That's good for a laugh.

[rojo7449]

Any idea what Bush was worth in 2000, or 2004? Any idea what Obama will be worth if he gets to ride the wave of speaking for big bucks around the world should he get a shot at being POTUS next? His attention span says he won't ever WANT a second term because he will be too eager to embark on his next plan....much bigger paydays for his books and speeches. Much of what he does looks like he's using Bill Clinton as his role model.

[geosprouter]

fight fire with fire. Looks like he is doing a pretty good job at it to.

[kellygrrrl]

Mark Pig Penn resigns
There goes the Clintons' Rove
Rough 48 hours for Hil

[nellie]

What we're seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to an ill-conceived adventure in Iraq, falling wages, jobs shipped overseas, debt, debt, debt, a crazily recessive tax structure, and a banking industry run amok, we can look forward to the dam breaking—just about the time the Democratic president elect takes office. I hope Obama has a good emergency economic plan handy—and ready to implement on day one.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

I have yet to hear her utter the words "repeal of Glass-Steagall":
http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2007/11/bill-clintons-role-in-mortgage-crisis.html

[myownwings]

George Bush's recession? She should have given credit with a completing sentence such as "to which my husband made a sizable contribution with NAFTA." Keep rewriting that history as you have been busy rewriting so much of the rest of it, Senator.

[JWLANDSCAPES]

B.S!!!! Bill is responsible for this? Seriously, I think your wings have been clipped!

[riverhouse]

myownwings: And let's not forget Hillary's vote to invade Iraq and the huge financial consequences.

[rojo7449]

You don't listen to the true experts on these topics when they are speaking, do you? In fact, if the speaker, guest, strategist who is on a program doesn't trash the Clinton's you just change the channel until you find the more energically hateful, ill-informed, and off-topic programming.

[NelsonR]

Why is Hillary complaining? Her and Bill made 110,000,000 million dollars while the average Americans income went down in spending power during our soverign King Bush's rule. She does have cojones with the idea of power and further enrichment on her plate. If you see her lips move you know a lie is coming.