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Republican economic advisers

fff

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ABC News has learned that two former administration officials for President George W. Bush will appear with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, at an economic meeting today, having signed up to be Obama economic advisers.

More on who they are:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/two-former-bush.html
 

aplusmnt

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fff said:
ABC News has learned that two former administration officials for President George W. Bush will appear with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, at an economic meeting today, having signed up to be Obama economic advisers.

More on who they are:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/two-former-bush.html

There you go, we can now agree not to vote for Obama together for a mutual reason!

We should start calling him Obamasaim!

How does this show any Change?
 

Sandhusker

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They bitch about how Bush bunch mishandled the economy but then think it's a coup when a couple want to work for Obama? That's funny. Liberal logic? :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
They bitch about how Bush bunch mishandled the economy but then think it's a coup when a couple want to work for Obama? That's funny. Liberal logic? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Actually the fact that both clashed with King George and quit the regime probably speaks highly to their capabilities now when you look at how well the country has done under the Kings reign....Thats especially true with O'Neill, that could see what he was doing- but had the audacity to question "his highness"-

A report commissioned in 2002 by O'Neill, while he was Treasury Secretary, suggested the United States faced future federal budget deficits of more than US$ 500 billion. The report also suggested that sharp tax increases, massive spending cuts, or both would be unavoidable if the United States were to meet benefit promises to its future generations. The study estimated that closing the budget gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 percent across-the-board income tax increase. The Bush administration left the findings out of the 2004 annual budget report published in February 2003.

O'Neill's private feuds with Bush's tax cut policies and his push to further investigate alleged al-Qaeda funding from some USA-allied countries, as well as his objection to the invasion of Iraq in the name of the war on terror - that he considered as nothing but an simple excuse for a war decided long before by Neoconservative elements of the first Bush Administration - led to his resignation in 2002 and replacement with John W. Snow.
“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is calling the Bush presidency a total failure. Total failure. I don’t know, I think he’s done okay. I think he’s done okay if you don’t count Iraq, the economy, the environment, Afghanistan, the mortgage crisis. I think he’s done all right…”

“The deficit. Gas prices. Hurricane Katrina. Illegal wire tapping…”

“The national debt. Tainted food. Failure to catch bin Laden. CIA leaks.
Other than that, I think it’s been pretty good” -David Letterman
 

VanC

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Oldtimer said:
“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is calling the Bush presidency a total failure. Total failure. I don’t know, I think he’s done okay. I think he’s done okay if you don’t count Iraq, the economy, the environment, Afghanistan, the mortgage crisis. I think he’s done all right…”

“The deficit. Gas prices. Hurricane Katrina. Illegal wire tapping…”

“The national debt. Tainted food. Failure to catch bin Laden. CIA leaks.
Other than that, I think it’s been pretty good” -David Letterman

I don't know if you noticed or not, but you quoted David Letterman. I'm sure this must have been a mistake. Only a fool would quote David Letterman in a political discussion.

From fff's post:

Bush administration veterans former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and former Securities and Exchange Commissioner William Donaldson will join former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, and more traditionally Democratic economic advisers such as former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, billionaire liberal Warren Buffett, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger.

Boy, there's some fresh new faces, huh? And most of them multi-millionares to boot. Where's that hi-falutin' "change we can believe in"? :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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VanC
I don't know if you noticed or not, but you quoted David Letterman. I'm sure this must have been a mistake. Only a fool would quote David Letterman in a political discussion.

Folks have to laugh at the reign of King George- or else they would cry...
Letterman fits as a perfect commentator on the Bush reign- as his whole Presidency has been a bad joke perpetrated on the world... :wink: :lol: :(
 
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