kentuck (63,774 posts)
How much damage has the Republican Party done to our country??
I would say a tremendous amount.
We would not have the debt we presently have if not for the policies of the Republican Party. I think that is a fair and honest statement to make.
This is absolutely true. If the Republicans hadn't done so much to limit borrowing, the debt would be far higher.
We would not have the unemployment we presently have if not for the policies of the Republicans.
Again, absolutely true. If the Democrats had kept their free hand, the unemployment rate would have skyrocketed along with the debt, and Taxmageddon would have already hit.
We would not have had the terrible economic crash if not for the ideas and policies of the Republicans.
Again, true. We would have had a far worse crash, and far earlier, without the Republicans doing what was possible to reduce it.
We would not have spent a fortune on the wars.
Um, War on Poverty, anyone?
We would not have had a "war on terrorism". That was a creation of the Republican Party.
Again, absolutely true. The Democrats would have fallen all over themselves to see who could kiss more terrorist butt if the Republicans hadn't been in charge when the results of Clinton's failure hit.
We would not have had the present division we now have if the Republicans had not filibustered everything passed in the House and if they had not held the budget hostage to the continuation of the Bush taxcuts and causing our credit rating to go down.
Now that is just funny!! It wasn't the extreme rate of borrowing that did it (as we've seen happen to European countries), it was the Republicans fighting the extreme borrowing!!

Just how much damage have the Republicans done to our country?
Far, far less than your heroes, DUmpMonkey.
