What Republicans Like: Recessions
Recession of 1902, 23 months, Republican, Roosevelt
Recession fo 1907, 13 months, Republican, Roosevelt
Recession of 1910, 24 months, Republican, Taft
Recession of 1913, 23 months, Republican, Taft (1)
Recession of 1918, 07 months, Democrat, Wilson
Recession of 1920, 18 months, Democrat, Wilson
Recession of 1923, 14 months, Republican, Harding
Recession of 1926, 13 months, Republican, Coolidge
Depression fo 1929, 43 months, Republican, Hoover
Recession of 1937, 13 months, Democrat, Roosevelt
Recession of 1945, 08 months, Democrat, Truman
Recession of 1948, 11 months, Democrat Truman
Recession of 1953, 10 months, Republican, Eisenhower
Recession of 1957, 08 months, Republican, Eisenhower
Recession of 1960, 10 months, Republican, Eisenhower
No Recessions under the Democratic Administration of Kennedy
No Recessions under the Democratic Administration of Johnson
Recession of 1969, 11 months, Republican, Nixon
Recession of 1973, 16 months, Republican, Ford
Recession of 1980, 06 months, Democrat, Carter
Recession of 1981, 16 months, Republican, Reagan
Recession of 1990, 08 months, Republican, Bush
No Recessions under the Democratic Administration of Clinton
Recession of 2001, 08 months, Republican, Bush
Recession of 2008, 11 months and continuing, Republican, Bush
1. The Recession of 1913 started in a Republican Administration but lasted another 20 months under a Democratic Administration
UPDATE by Delaware Dem: It is “Democratic!!!!”
Thanks man.
LOL. Just a pet peeve of mine. I had to edit it.
I say you round him up and shoot him next time he f’s that up
Roosevelt (the good one) – R
Taft – R
Wilson – D
Harding – R
Coolidge – R
Hoover – R
Roosevelt (the other one) – D
Truman – D
Eisenhower – R
Kennedy – D
Johnson – D
Nixon – R
Ford – R
Carter – D
Reagan – R
Bush I – R
Clinton – D
Bush II – R
With 11 Rs to 7 Ds do you know what America likes? Republicans.
Of course Republicans have seen more recessions than Democrats, they have spent more time leading the country.
Of course Republicans have seen more recessions than Democrats, they have spent more time leading the country.
Your logic is mind-numbing.
they are better at getting elected. I will give Tom that
leading the country into recessions…
Tom S reveals he is not smarter than a fifth grader. From 1900, the Republicans will have governed for 60 of those 108 years, while Democrats have governed for 48. Add Barack Obama’s eight years into the mix, and that 48 rises to 56.
60-56. What a dominating advantage. One term more than us. Jackass.
“Add Barack Obama’s eight years into the mix”
Well aren’t you just the cocky one…
I don’t think there’s any doubt that we’re exiting the era of Republican dominance – so what?
Nemski,
There’s some great charts out there showing job creation under Republicans and Democrats, as well as recessions. The bottom line was that Republican presidents, no matter which party controlled Congress, were much worse for the economy. It surprised the economists who made the charts. I’ll see if I can find them.
Sarah Palin may make you hot, but she ain’t beating Obama
Ummmm. It is horse first, then cart.
“Tom S reveals he is not smarter than a fifth grader. From 1900, the Republicans will have governed for 60 of those 108 years, while Democrats have governed for 48. Add Barack Obama’s eight years into the mix, and that 48 rises to 56.
60-56. What a dominating advantage. One term more than us. Jackass.”
Only because I arbitrarily started at 1900 and because FDR was a bastard. If you want to throw the Republican party’s McKinley, Harrison, Aurthur, Garfield, Hayes, Grant, and Lincoln against the Democratic party’s Grover Cleveland the figure jumps to 89-60.
Per obama; firstly I would not be so sure to assume a second term, secondly, oh just wait until those recession numbers come out!
Starting at 1900 is not arbitrary. The Parties have realigned and in fact have switched since the 1880’s. The Republicans of the Reconstruction Era would be Democrats today, and vice versa.
In fact, you really should count from 1912, because that was when the parties really began to take their current ideological shape. Indeed, Teddy Roosevelt was a diehard progressive.
So if we count from 1912, we are actually tied at 48-48.
Yet again a wingnut spinning us off topic. We are talking 11 presidents to 7 which is a considerable margin.
Or as Nemski wrote 16 (17) to 6 actual recessions occured under R vs. D.
so sure go ahead and argue they spent more years governing. It only proves the point that what they do doesn’t work.
How do you explain stagflation?
how do you explain you support the Iraq war and are a devout catholic?
wierd huh
Devout catholic.. hehehe 😉
“how do you explain you support the Iraq war and are a devout catholic?”
Now, then or both?
you’re a fraud, stop embarrassing yourself
I think that the amusement would be in asking Tom how he accounts for stagflation. That is gonna be comedy gold.
And since the current recession started a year ago, no one is going to blame Obama for this mess.
Republicans cause depression, start wars wreck the economy. Then the filthy rich go in up and buy up the homes foreclosed on, the business’s gone bankrupt for cheap. China wants to buy up the Big 3.
Today on the radio, they were announcing all the foreclosed homes you can buy for a song, if you have the cash and great credit. Same thing happened in the Great Depression…its spreading the wealth around repuke style.
2001 recession started in March…less than 3 months after Bush took office. Hard to point the finger at him for that one, but 2008 is a different story.
Republicans want staflagation thats how they will paint Obama in 2012. Course none of these hypocrits care the bankster/gangsters walked away with $700 billion and NO plan for repaying the american people…Class warfare is the name of the game.
Bankers get a bailout…tax free no paybacks. Workers get a loan and a plan to pay it all back. What logic.
maria,
nah, Bush had a transition team and teh country was begging him to take office for like 3 months before the supreme court elected him. Clinton was lame duck, all Bush as far as I’m concerned
it’s totally his ball to fumble.
Bush talked the nation into the first recession. The second he worked at. BTW: 1929 was a depression, caused by republican economic theory and practice. The democratic party rebuilt the nation after the great depression with government as the economic stimulus. Ironically, history is repeating itself.
Here’s the raw data for job creation/loss by president. It’s in order of best to worst. Source
“you’re a fraud, stop embarrassing yourself”
After you, dear.
“I think that the amusement would be in asking Tom how he accounts for stagflation.”
Supply shocks and a poor monetary policy?
“Republicans cause depression, start wars wreck the economy.”
You folks have been know to do that too.
“Then the filthy rich go in up and buy up the homes foreclosed on,”
I don’t think they want our homes.
“China wants to buy up the Big 3.”
Unless its for the real estate, I doubt it.
“Republicans want staflagation thats how they will paint Obama in 2012.”
No we don’t, we use the same money you do – stagflation would hit us just as hard.
“Course none of these hypocrits care the bankster/gangsters walked away with $700 billion and NO plan for repaying the american people…Class warfare is the name of the game.”
Awwww man – really? How could that Republican congress do that? If only the Democrats had won the 2006 elections, then we’d have someone to stand up for us.
“nah, Bush had a transition team and teh country was begging him to take office for like 3 months before the supreme court elected him. Clinton was lame duck, all Bush as far as I’m concerned
it’s totally his ball to fumble.”
You honestly blame George Bush for the tech bubble? You must put a lot of faith in that fellow.
“BTW: 1929 was a depression, caused by republican economic theory and practice.”
……..Or irresponsible borrowing on margin.
“The democratic party rebuilt the nation after the great depression with government as the economic stimulus.”
Says who? Their failed socialist principles kept us in the depression for years after Europe had emerged.
“Ironically, history is repeating itself.”
Lets hope not.
Their failed socialist principles kept us in the depression for years after Europe had emerged.
Please check your history as you are sooo wrong on this one.
“Please check your history as you are sooo wrong on this one.”
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
Oh I have.
And, yet, the National Bureau of Economic Research says the opposite. And since one of their jobs is to decide when recessions and depressions end, I’ll take their word for it.
Squishy actually there was less transition time since the Supreme Court took so long to appoint Bush.
It’s just not logical to pin a recession on a guy who was in office for less than 3 months.
Maria is just continuing the meme that Republicans used for 9/11 — “Bush was only in office for 9 months, what could he have done.”
I was joking he didn’t do shit before he got into office…sort of like what happened when he got in 🙂
“And, yet, the National Bureau of Economic Research says the opposite. And since one of their jobs is to decide when recessions and depressions end, I’ll take their word for it.”
Sorry, that link didn’t work for me. Could you repost it?
http://www.nber.org/” rel=”nofollow
Thanks DV. Tom S, you want to look at this specifically, http://wwwdev.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html
nemski do you blame Clinton for the 1993 terrorist attack against the WTC? I certainly don’t. And I don’t blame Bush for a recession that started less than 3 months after he took office.
I do, however, blame him for the recession we’re suffering through now.
Funny, but what I do remember is Republicans saying (right after 9/11) “Thank God, Al Gore wasn’t President.” This phrase, and variations of it, was spewed constantly. Just sayin’.