dbackjon wrote:The Democrats need to forcefully remind the American public that is was the Republicans FAILED economic policies that created this mess. More of the same from the Republicans will only make things worse.
The problem with that, however, is that the Dems were all too happy to go along with those economic policies. I didn't see a lot of opposition to them in the '02-'06 timeframe when the GOP held both Houses (I haven't fact checked, just trying to remember when the GOP did hold control of both Houses of Congress). So for 4 years, when the GOP majority was razor thin, the Dems couldn't stop anything. Yet somehow, even with a super majority for all of '08, the Dems couldn't get by a Republican minority that could so No all they want, but they had no power to stop anything. What gives?
And ultimately, too, the problem with that position is that from '06 onward, when the Dems won control in Congress, is that they've simply repeated the same mistakes the GOP made - excessive government spending. That's where the real rub is - the Republican failed economic policies at the time (i.e. large government spending) have just been repeated and in many ways made worse by the current Dems in power. How do you say what they did was wrong when you're doing the same thing?
