| Aiemond said:
So why didn't the republicans fix this? They had congress and a pres. Why didnt they want to raise interest rates? Why didn't they try to regulate it more? Face it, they got cought with their pants down too, bush even trumpeted house ownership. They didn't think there would be a bust either and now both sides are trying to point fingers. Americans are smarter, they know that both sides screwed up. Trying to blame only one party is such a foolish and partisan position it is laughable. |
This is what everyone who is blaming the Democrats is ignoring, that the Republicans had more than enough power to get this passed if they really wanted it.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
