Bush aide says housing slump put a burden on economy

... is GW Hoover's economic policies, which have caused the 2nd Great Depression, widespread poverty & lack of job creation.

is now unfairly hurting the perception of the success that isn't.

So, how much is that Potemkin Village worth these days?

The housing bubble has been the only thing propping up this economy. To not acknowledge this was Junior's handy flim-flamming to show that the economy was doing well. Now he thinks he can use it as an excuse.

It's all caving in on these greedy fucks, and their wild thrashing in the water is ridiculous. Still, they may be able to hang on to their ill-gotten gains and sucker or scare people into letting them retain the reins of power.

Nobody could have possibly foreseen that the housing bubble would burst, or that housing prices wouldn't keep going up and up with double-digit annual increases every year forever. So, how could the Bush economic policy advisers have possibly done anything, recommended any changes, or helped to soften this hard landing? I ask you? Arrest my case!

And for some strange reason, I'm not seeing quite so many of those infomercials about how to become a house-flipper--I mean, a real estate speculator--I mean, an investor in fine properties, anymore. Why, people were turning nothing down houses into millions! Millions, I tell you! And it will keep going forever.

Why we aughta bomb them into submission!

just before the election.

have disappeared? That housing slump?

Just like on everything and everyone else.