economic troubles

It just amazes me hearing Republicans, like Bob Corker, say that Bush caused our economic troubles. So much has helped lead to it and Bush is at fault on most of it, but so our the Republicans. For example, the Republicans couldn’t spend a whopping $14 billion on the auto industry, yet the Pentagon has totally wasted $100 billion on Iraq’s reconstruction. Every time someone would question these wastes and frauds, they were painted as unpatriotic or as some kind of troop hater by the administration and Republicans.

Of course Iraq isn’t the only thing that helped lead to our economic turmoil, but think if we had that money to use on stimulating the economy, instead of just wasting away in Iraq, and becoming a free ride for contractors. The Republicans have every bit as much blame in this as George W. Bush. Now we need the Democrats to show leadership and remind the Republicans, as well as the American people, about this simple fact.

Interesting argument and mostly true, but wasn't it McCain's party that was responsible for most of that spending?

John McCain blamed overspending by the federal government in part for the nation's economic troubles as South Carolina voters Friday received the sobering news that the state unemployment rate had hit 6.6 percent, the largest one-month increase in nearly 20 years.

"As a Republican, I stand before you embarrassed. Embarrassed that we let that spending get out of control," the presidential candidate told voters on the eve of the state's GOP primary.

"The economy is not good. The stock market continues down. And the indicators are not good. I'm not too astonished. ... We let spending get totally out of control, and it continues today, and I'm sorry to tell you this," McCain said at a town-hall style meeting at the Carolina Hospital East Campus in Florence.