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   From: Cons@minority#s   
      
   "The Facts"  wrote in message   
   news:QBVH5K2841013.3448263889@reece.net.au...   
   > Get your facts right!   
   >   
   > ·         The day the Democrats took over was NOT January 22nd   
   > 2009  -- it was actually January 3, 2007.   
   >   
   > ·         That’s the day the Democrats took over BOTH the House   
   > of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress.   
   >   
   > ·         The Democratic Party controlled a majority in BOTH   
   > chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress   
   > in 1995.   
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   > For those of you who are listening to Liberals propagating the   
   > fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault"...   
   > think about this:   
   >   
   > January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate   
   > and the Congress (where the REAL power lies)  FROM the   
   > Republicans:   
   >   
   > At that time:   
   >   
   > ·         The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77   
   > ·         The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%   
   > ·         The Unemployment rate was 4.6%   
   >   
   > George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT   
   > MONTHS of JOB CREATION!   
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   > Remember this day.   
   >   
   >   
   > January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the   
   > House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the   
   > Senate Banking Committee.   
   >   
   > The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in which   
   > parts of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!   
   >   
   > THANK YOU DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS for voting to take us from a   
   > 12,600+ DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS in   
   > record time... by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION   
   > Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from Fannie Mae and   
   > Freddie Mac   
   >   
   > All this was done in three short years!   
   >   
   > (BTW: - Beginning in 2001, Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to fix   
   > Fannie & Freddie - because it was financially risky for the US   
   > economy.  (Obviously, the Democrats ignored him every time).   
   >   
   > Who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie   
   > Mac?   OBAMA   
   >   
   > And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?  OBAMA &   
   > the Democratic Congress   
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   >   
   > WHEN YOU VOTE ON NOVEMBER 2 -   REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED ON   
   > JANUARY 3rd, 2007, THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!   
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   >   
   > "It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of   
   > what they “know” isn't so."   
   >   
   >      - Ronald Reagan   
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