If this worthless drivel represents the prevailing attitude in DC, well I guess that explains a lot.

is there nothing that the fools on the extreme radical left won’t blame on Iraq?

Bud appears cheap to foreign investors because the dollar is low. The dollar is low because interest rates in the US are lower than in other places, notably Europe. Our interest rates are lower because the Fed lowered interest rates to combat the fallout from the housing bubble bursting.

Oil prices are high for several reasons, mainly because of high demand from China and India. China has used as much energy in the last 2 years as it has in the prior 8 years. Plus, the intransigence of the Democratic Party in refusing to allow even the most reasonable compromise on offshore drilling has kept supplies artifically low.

George Bush is the President, Dick Cheney is the Vice President. They are not oilmen nor war profiteers. Their financial assets are held in blind trusts. The only war profiteers are the Democrats who seek political advantage from the war in Iraq, a position that even The Obamamessiah is abandoning as even he can no longer deny the sucess of the surge. Just today we dind that The Obamamessiah has removed all of his critisims of the surge from his website. Orwell would be proud!!

So keep it up Howie and Democrats, keep making yourself look like fools by trying to connect dots where they don’t exist.

Dont we have enough left wing moonbats in St Louis with out having to print letters from Washington DC?

God almighty, now Bush is responsible for the AB sale. I’m curious if he was ever spotted on the grassy knoll, or Amelia Aerharts plane. Maybe he shot Vince Foster too.

Right-wingers seem to think that fighting two simultaneous billion dollar wars on two fronts for six years is a mere bagatelle. Why not fight a couple more? it won’t affect the domestic economy, right?

“God almighty, now Bush is responsible for the AB sale.” That’s bulls***! We all know it’s Clinton’s fault. Wait a minute, maybe Al Qaida is behind all this. A suicide bombing of the Clydesdale barn? Muslims do not allow the drinking of alcohol right? Their trying to turn us all into Muslims by depriving us of our local brew. Bug the brewery! Bug Belgium! Bug a Brito! Somebody, bug sombebody…anybody…we must save America.

Can’t wait until I start drinking my icy cold budweiser from a shorter green bottle.

Well, maybe it’s not directly associated with the Iraq war more then the overall fiscal policies of the Bush administration have caused the current economic crisis we’re in. Unbridled spending at rates that would make Ted Kennedy blush certainly doesn’t help. No effort to strengthen the US Dollar….ummm, excuse me…the Chinese Dollar. The letter writer does have a valid point. With the weakened dollar, all things US are cheaper for foreigners to buy. This includes real estate and the world’s most famous brewrey.

Bush’s economic policies have failed, it’s that easy to see out there. Ask anyone who has to put gas in the tank, food on the table, pay a mortgage, find a job…whatever. The entire middle class has felt the effects of this recession, depression, correction, slump…whatever it is you want to call it…at some point the stock market will fall below 10,000 points again. Can you really say that Bush’s economic policies are successful?

Constance, at some point the Dow will rise above 14,000 again as well. What’s your point?

What do you think wise investors are doing right this moment? Snatching up bargains? You betcha.

the President does not run the economy. the economy runs itself. This is Capitalism 101. The government does not tell GM how many cars to make, GM figures this out on its own. GM has done a lousy job of this, therefore they are at risk of going out of business. C-a-p-i-t-a-l-i-s-m.

100th time-oil/gas prices are high largely because of Chinese/Indian demand. Food prices are rising because of demand for corn, beans, and grain in China and India, as well as other emerging markets. these populations are growing and becoming more affluent. Hence, they want more meat in their diet, which means more animals to feed.

Howard Park:

“… middle-class Americans are paying dearly for the failed war in Iraq. Simply put, the result of the war is sky high oil prices, a major inflationary pressure, and the worst economy in a generation. In the process the dollar has dropped like a stone.”

Simply put, you don’t possess the faculty to keep your fingers out of the fire. Oil is “sky high” in Continental Europe, Japan, China and Zimbabwe, none of which lifted a finger to help the effort in Iraq. “The worst economy in a generation” was plagiarized from a garter thrown at a same sex wedding celebration and “the dollar has dropped like a stone” is idiotic on it’s face. A low dollar makes our exports more desirable even though a few pampered dolts at a local brewery are afraid they may have to get a real job.

The major inflationary pressure other than oil is certainly not housing, but food and was caused by a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress mandating Ethanol be added to gasoline to “purify the air” in 1994. That happened while Bush was still a baseball executive in Texas, hardly the prime mover position to control inflation. Ethanol demands have skyrocketed corn production, causing grain foods to be planted on fewer acres while demand was constant or growing for table and animal food.