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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:27 AM, DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

> I fully believe that neither party is clean in this, the Dems are as  
> bad as the republicans, you can correct if you will but I recall all  
> the promises the Reps made 8 years ago,and the promises the Dems  
> made the last 6 years as we gave them control of both congress and  
> senate. Two of the worst periods I can recall in politics are when  
> the Dems had full control under Carter, and the Reps the first two  
> years under Bush. I don't want a repeat.

Drew, you are as always entitled to your opinions but you are not  
entitled to rewrite history.

You wrote:

> The way I see it, The Dems are at least as much to blame for the
> last 8 years. Bush has never signed a single bill that 530 other
> politicians, mostly
> Democrats, didn't sign off on first.

Bush was supported by a Republican majority in Congress for his first  
six years. The Democrats came to slim majority less than two years  
ago. So, it was mostly Republicans who signed off on what Bush  
proposals, not Democrats.