@Cmdr:
A) You’re completely off base, Smacktard, but your name says it all and I said I was done with you.
You keep saying that.
[B) The 110th Congress was sworn in during the month of January, however, they did not pass any legislation until April/June. I credit this to their inability to find matching drapes to their sofas, but it could be sheer incompetence on their part as well. So yes, the crash in 2007 can be squarely landed at their feet. They promised to take America in a new direction and they accomplished that mission objective. We went from growing (sluggishly) to shrinking (moderately fast.) [/quote]
I thought you were “done with me”, but anyway what you posted is wrong. On Jan 10th 2007, the 110 congres passed a minimum wage hike. It was approved by the senate on Feb. 1 http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/18/
Youre argument still doesnt make sense: the 110th congress comes in, does nothing (according to you) until May-june, and somehow that causes a Bear market in Oct.? Exactly what pivotal legislation was passed that got us into this mess? Because all I saw congress doing was passing a meaningless minimum wage hike, toothless ethics reform, and some supplmental funding measures for Iraq/Afghan. Everything else they tried was veteoed by Bush.
So exactly how is Congress to blame for the recession we’re almost certainly in?
However, I do think in the last week of August, we’ll not only have to wear rain coats to keep the blood from the feud off of us, but that we will most probably end up with Obama with a margin of two or three delegates - maybe Clinton with the same margin. And, as we have seen from both 2000 and 2004, the Democrats don’t lose graciously, thus, we can expect September to be filled with court cases and recounts.
In the end, Obamas pledged delegate margin will be around 80-120. After Barac wins Missisippi, it will be like March 4th never happened (he’ll actually be further ahead). Hillary will have to win 65% of remaining delegates just to TIE Obama. Aint gonna happen with only 9 contests left.
The real fight will be if she wins the popular vote and Obama has a significant delegate lead.
In that case, they give it to clinton with Obama as VP. Without the popular vote, Hillary has no chance.This means, even if a democrat IS elected, odds are the Congress will switch back to the Republicans.
Hastert’s seat just went Democratic. That was unexpected and doesn’t bode well for repubs in 08.