Houston....

[ellie-kay.livejournal.com]

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[coolstring.livejournal.com]

Of course they had a problem, they were using DieHard batteries! Everyone knows you should buy MegaTron!


Thank goodness Pelosi and Reid were there to change out the parts.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Putting Decepticons in your economy doesn't sound like such a good idea.

[coolstring.livejournal.com]

You just want the AllSpark. When will you understand that you'll never get it!

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

If only we'd had a Republican administration in charge for the last eight years, the economy wouldn't have tanked... oh, wait.

[navygrlf14.livejournal.com]

And the Congress was....

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

Republican for 10 years.

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

Right, when the economy was fine. Thanks for the lesson.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

^
What 'edgar_suit' said.

Blaming the fact that Dems controlled Congress since 2007-- when the collapse was already slowly beginning (http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2005/08/krugman-housing-bubble-will-burst.html), and had been under the radar for some time-- is something I doubt even most conservatives really believe in private. Especially as the GOP laughingly bragged (http://politics4geekz.blogspot.com/2007/03/ladies-and-gentlemen-your-republican_10.html) about blocking the Democratic agenda (with filibusters, vetoes, etc) over the past 2 years, it's now weird to see them insisting the Dems brought down the entire economy in less than one year by... well, who knows. And also amusing is conservatives, after cheerleading a massive Bush-era expansion of executive power and reach, acting as if the President of the United States was/is irrelevant to what has happened to the country. Yes, it's alll quite amusing.

Intellectual honesty, you need it (http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=14290).

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Obviously when the Democrats where blocking solutions to the coming problems (and bragging about it) it was a glorious thing.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Shhhhhhhhhhhh! You're not allowed to point that out.

[ellie-kay.livejournal.com]

I'll say it again, just for you (feel special):

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c0de7db153ef933a0575ac0a96f958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all)

Oh, wait.

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

I'm so thankful the Republican Congress fixed it. Now everyone will have a Cadillac in the driveway and two in the garage!

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

And what were the dims doing the entire time?

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

They tried and the Democrats in Congress called them racists.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Please read this (http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/blaming_fannie_mae.php). Thank you.

[ellie-kay.livejournal.com]

that's a nice article and all, but it doesn't really have anything to do with my point that, in 1999, some new york times columnist predicted this whole thing happening in the future; thus, couldn't it have been avoided if the clinton administration didn't start the ball rolling?

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

Yeah, their government was the problem, but your government is the solution. Got it.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Someone explain the metaphor to me:

The U.S. economy is an intricate piece of advanced technology that circles the earth due to a properly calculated planetary orbit and is only servicable by regular space shuttle missions?

...Or did the cartoonist just want to quote the Apollo 13 crew?

[ellie-kay.livejournal.com]

so now we're taking political cartoons literally. gotcha.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

No, now we're saying that political cartoons use metaphors to make their point -- if the space station is supposed to be the U.S. economy then a GOOD cartoonist would have chosen that for a reason.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

yes, because Pelosi and Reid have been the ones formulating economic policy for the Bush Admini--- oh, wait.

Fail.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Because the Executive branch is in charge of legislation...oh, wait.

Epic fail.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

The EXECUTIVE BRANCH is in charge of ECONOMIC POLICY. The Secretary of the Treasury is part of the EXECUTIVE Branch. The Chairman of the Fed works for the PRESIDENT. The economic policies that have led to this disaster is the fault of the BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

Epic fail indeed.

[desidono.livejournal.com]

Does the executive submit a budget to the legislature or is it the other way around? Because it seems to me that the one submitting the budget would be the one in charge of the economic policy of the nation.

The buck stops here and all that.

P.S> Your cheerleaders are cute!

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Well, the names on those space suits could just as easily be ANY two other names - Bernanke and Paulson spring readily to mind.