Yep. Clinton helped to create the policy but it was Bush that abused it.

I consider Bush II and Biden similar in terms of their deferring their power to underlings with destructive philosophies. Their sins of omission are at least, if not more damaging than other administration's sins of commission.

I'm almost to the point of being a Bernie guy but I think Bernie always looks good midway through another president's term.

I don't know where the dems will turn for a candidate. They will get slaughtered if Biden or any of the underlings from this administration is the candidate.

All presidents delegate. My reading of your political posts over the past few years tells me that you are more likely to wear a MAGA hat or vote for DeSantis than you are to support Bernie or any uncompromising "progressive". Besides, unlike your college draft predictions, your political predictions have sucked. Counting out Biden isn't smart.

Biden's #1 priority is inflation and his policies are inflationary. He's counted out and knocked out. Put a fork in him.

If that's solely it, he didn't stand a chance before taking office. When the Trump administration was running up the annual deficit, printing money in unprecedented ways, and shutting down the economy, MANY knew inflation was coming, and there wasn't anything you could do about it that wasn't going to harm the economy. If I recall correctly, you weren't opposed to the inflation that you saw coming.

I wouldn't count out Scranton Joe. MANY have been proven wrong by doing so.

I got a couple high limit credit cards today from two of the major banks.

You know, for just in case inflation goes apeshit in 6 months.

They are the easiest to default on.

That's my investment advice for right now. Sad as that is.

There's too much history to be made between now and November. Corona probably won't even be much of a story. It might be the 18% unemployment and the 11% inflation rate.

Who knows.

It's going up now. People aren't paying attention because gas is down. Production on everything is down so scarcity plus prices go up. Inflation is self sustaining. It's why it's so scary. Many people weren't even born yet the last time it was a problem. It's why JORR is Mr Bitcoin

Yup, Life is better than ever. Plus, we've kick started inflation. Something that has been dead for 35 years. Yay, us.

Mortgage delinquencies, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, and the stock market. I'd like to follow the science of economics. I want to follow what the experts say. Can we have an hour by hour unemployment tracker?

Father time or Article 24 will know out Scranton Joe.

At his inaugural address Biden should have said he was a one term president. It would have freed him up to completely ignore the extreme spectrum of his party and just relentlessly cut deals with moderate/pragmatic Republicans.

Some president is going to do it at some point, I just thought it might have been Biden.

Intentionally making yourself a lame duck president isn't wise.

Why would any president run for a second term?

I don't know. The country was pretty unified after 9/11, President unifier is not at all unifier. GW never tried to make me or anybody else go get a shot we don't want and afaik didn't want to take guns away from people. What Biden did in Afghanistan is probably as bad as Iraq, we'll see how Ukraine plays out. Food didn't cost a billion dollars, my grocery shelves were stocked, there was formula available to feed my kids, people could express opinions without a disinformation board deciding if that was okay, we could acknowledge there were men and women and there were differences between them, gas was not $6 and the green new deal was not a thing.

I don't know what the next 5 years will hold but I don't think it's good. It could literally be a total collapse of society. Money might be completely worthless. And this administration is telling me I'm just not getting the message. The economy is great, so many jobs, and whatever else they put out. I've never felt like this.

are you daft?

2008 was an existential crises for almost all of us. Older people had no ability to recover their retirement. It was our Great Depression and I think it has affected our habits to this day.

and we are still living in a post 9/11 world

You can make an argument the Bush II administration has had the most lasting impact on this country since FDR or Kennedy/Johnson.