White Helmet @100: The GOP and George Bush lost the mantle of financial responsibility because they abandoned their conservative principles. I think one could make the case that Bush was not a true conservative but only conservative on a few issues. Increased spending and government bailouts are not conservative answers to a financial crisis. However, raising taxes will not increase revenue and deficit spending has never worked. The stimulus bill was not even crafted well but simply a give away to political interest groups and pork projects. You also forgot to mention that Mr. Obama is paying for a lot of these projects by simply printing money. I do think McCain would have been better or at least more responsive to conservative pressure.
How long until Mr. Obama can produce results? He has already failed to meet his own goals. He said the unemployment rate would not reach 9% if we passed the stimulus and we are now at 9.5%. How long? Hopefully it will not take eight years and a world war to bring us out of it like it did FDR.
