MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show August 17, 2012
in 2008, he passed a stimulus. when ronald reagan had an economic downturn to deal with in 1981, he passed a stimulus. when this new democratic administration took over in the middle of a huge economic downturn in 2009, they did the same thing. they passed a stimulus. even though a stimulus had been a noncontroversial bipartisan tool of economic policy in the past. in 2009, with the new president, barack obama, in office, republicans decided they were going to be against anything this new president put forward. even if it was the kind of thing that they had supported in the past unde...