| TheRealMafoo said: Funny how you seem to forget that the Republicans have not run our economy for 2 years now. The Democrats had a chance to end the war (by not passing the bill to fund it). They didn't, but it's not there fault. The Democrats could have regulated Fanny and Freddy two years ago when this issue was brought to congress. They didn't, but it's not there fault. This whole "we can make shit decisions because they made shit decisions before us" is getting old. Yes, Republicans screwed up. That does not make it OK for Democrats to screw up even more.
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Those 49 Democrats in the Senate just had so much power didn't they. They could have pushed anything through they would have wanted, and could have easily gotten enough votes to override any of the President's vetos. And obviously people like Lieberman would have jumped right on board to cutting funding for the war.
You seem to think that having a slim majority in the Senate means that the Democrats are "running the economy" our that Republicans have no responsibility for the economy. Our that the President couldn't just veto anything the Democrats actually got through, our that the Republicans in the Senate couldn't just filibuster anything since the Democrats don't have enough votes to reach cloture.
You can throw around a lot more blame in the next two years once the Democrats start botching things, but expecting them to be able to run the government at a surplus is next to impossible. Hell, Bush and the Republicans in Congress (who are supposed to be fiscally conservative) couldn't even do it while the economy WAS functioning.
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