Don’t mistake “partly responsible” for “primarily responsible.” Republicans have controlled the White House for the past 8 years, 20 of the past 28 years, and have controlled Congress for 12 of the last 14, (and held enough seats in the last two years to uphold Bush vetos) but of course the mess we are in now is the Democrats fault. Republican propagandists truly have no shame. I love the citation to Republican efforts to regulate Fannie and Freddie. Those efforts occurred while the Republicans controlled Congress, but of course, its the Democrats fault. Most of the Republican claims are similarly laughable, if it weren’t that so many in our dumbed down soociety fall for them. One of my favorites is that because Fannie and Freddie bought up the better sub prime mortgage backed securities fromWall Street investment bankers, e.g. the Lehman Bros. of the world, it freed up more money for the private sector to invest in the really bad mortgages. That is the kind of “excuse” your mother woundn’t buy, “Fannie and Freddie made me do it.”

As for Canadian health care, try asking some Canadians how they like it, some will complain but the vast majority in poll after poll do not want to see a system like the US has, and why in the world would they want the most expensive system with one of the worst “outcomes” records of industrialized nations. I would think for the 47 million or so U.S. uninsured that George Bush said can just go to the emergency room would be damn glad to get “Canadian quality health care.” Don’t you think the Candians would have abandoned theirs if it was so bad.

You need to find a way to differentiate between propaganda and fact. You will see some distortion without question from the Democrats, but lets face, ever since the days of Lee Atwater’s dirty tricks brigade, through the “independent” Swift Boat ads, the Republicans have made it an art form; and after all, what else can they do, run on their real adgenda, “we want to take care of CEO’s and the top 1%, and the rest of you can go to hell.” They have to smear and propagandize to have any chance at all, and they get plenty of money for their top 1% patrons to run their appeals to the worst in all of us, selfishness, intoleance , and fear. Don’t worry though, as long as the Republicans keep appealling to the worst in human nature, they will always be able win some, if not most of the elections.

The other cohorts are Congress, The Executive Branch and of course the Banks.

I have one criticism.

Facts…you had way to many of them…

Sorry…couldn’t resist.

Seriously, impressive post.