What would Bushies say if Iraq, Katrina, 3x higher gas prices, etc.--happened under a Democratic president?

Question

What would their take on those issues be then?

Answer 1

I think we can all guess correctly by saying they would be screaming bloody murder.

Answer 2

If by Bushies you mean the rabid, name-calling, rumor mongering, "guilty until proved innocent" crowd that hounded President Clinton, then I'd have to say they would do the same thing against the new Democratic President.

If by Bushies you mean republicans, or even conservatives, most would cut the President a break, fight for what they believe, treat the President with respect and accord him the kind of treatment they would want for a Republican President.

A few would be sedition, and act like they'd regained all the bad habits they thought they'd left behind on elementary school playgrounds.

Fortunately, there are a lot more patriotic and unbigoted (politically-speaking) Republicans and Conservatives than there are unpatriotic and politically-bigoted Republicans and Conservatives.

Same is true for Democrats, my party.

Answer 3

I would strongly advise you to read the answers to this 'question'. The answers that wrote in plain sentences, with facts and figures show that the world supply and demand determine it's price, irrespective of the small increase that offshore permits may change. To put it in simple terms, imagine that people are buying and selling oil in the entire world. Only if world quantities change significantly do we have any change in prices. This is, of course, a simple matter of high school level economics. What I find very compelling about this argument, is that this is precisely what Bush's own Interior department says. It is also what John McCain admitted when he started saying something 'straight talk' and basically admitted that the only thing that might happen is some odd psychological effect that may change prices. But how or why this would happen is up to McCain and his psychologist I suppose.

Answer 4

It's an interesting hypothetical situation.. But I doubt anything would have been much different.

Each party keeps promising "that would never have happened if we ruled" or "we would do things so far different we'd become Heaven on Earth." Yet, even when the various factions take control.. I don't see any large scale, sweeping changes, much less keeping any of the promises made.

Of course, they say they genuinely tried, but the other party blocked them. That's a silly argument in itself--If the other side has that much power, then they also have to power to enact the promised sweeping changes, regardless of who is in "control." It's just a mess of pointing fingers, placing blame, and refusing to take any responsibility or truly make any real effort.

And that would not change if there were a democratic president, nor would it have changed the conflict with Iraq, Katrina, gas prices, etc. All of those events are either beyond human control, or existed long before, and after, a single our double four-year term in office.

Specifically..

Iraq: Given the attitudes, fears, prejudices, politics and many others factors at play, just within our own borders and ignoring any international concerns or even our own continually deteriorating relations with Iraq, it seems just as likely we would still have gone to war with them. If not for the WMD reason, then for some other reason.

Katrina: Unless you want to claim nature plays favoritism in politics, it seems silly to blame that on any one person, faction, or even the government. Sure, we could have responded better, and all.. But I did not see the government setting up road blocks and denying any American from lending their own hand to help. Why didn't more people--of any political party--rush to help out more, instead of just sitting at home watching it all on T.V. and pointing fingers?

Gas prices: Think - Free market, with government regulation only in extreme causes for the public welfare. Honestly, what CAN we do about gas prices? Shall we have the government throw aside the free market and dictate to us what to buy, how much it costs, etc? Want to wait in line for a loaf of bread, like we'd heard they did in Communist Russia? Or like we did in our own past with the Depression, gas rationing, etc? Can they dictate to other countries the price per barrel of oil used to refine gasoline?

I have a suggestion.. Let's all stop pointing fingers and blaming everyone else, while we do nothing to help change it--And START taking responsibility for ourselves and doing what we can to MAKE those changes.

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Answer 5

Katrina 3x

Answer 6

They would understand, as the dems should, that some things can't be controlled with the wave of a wand. The Democrat style is to bad-mouth and pull down everyone and everything that might serve to lift up their relative stature, and the liberals who own and operate the media are their henchmen.

Answer 7

It was FEMA's director in particular that screwed up. He admitted that the blame should be placed on him and he resigned soon after, but as usual, the President gets blamed because he is the head of the country and it is easier to blame him rather than being less lazy and looking up who actually should be blamed for certain things. FEMA's director directed the disaster relief and housing of Katrina refugees. Bush's decisions would hardly have effected disaster relief even if he made really good decisions.

And Bush is also not responsible for the high gas prices. We are in a more global world and we are competing with the likes of China, so we need to get our money from somewhere.

Answer 8

For Iraq, I'd say "good job" and be amazed that a democrat could topple a dictator with such a huge anti-war sentiment from their supporters.
For Katrina, I'd say "its not the democrats fault that a hurricane damaged a city that was next to the ocean, but below sea level.
For gas prices, I'd say "thanks for not taking us back to the Jimmy Carter days of the government setting prices and rationing out gas.

Answer 9

1: Good job- you're fighting the terrorists and preventing further US attack. (though clinton could have helped prevent iraq)
2: How is Katrina Bush's fault?
3: That's too bad since we don't have welfare guess we'll have to use the money WE EARNED.

Answer 10

They would be saying the following:

Iraq: They never attacked us or threatened to do so, we should be focusing on bin laden!

Katrina: An invisible man in the sky is pissed off that people are gay and listen to rock music!

Gas Prices: We're okay with the gas prices, our friends are getting richer!

Answer 11

We had trouble with Iraq while Clinton was in office, we would say stand-up for freedom. We probably would not blame a natural disaster on the Dems. Democrat congress has done nothing to help gas prices, in fact they have gone up.