George Bush was a failed President.
Can Romney blame Bush too?
You see, in my opinion, the President is CEO of the USA. We “hired” a leader, someone who says “I’m in control, I am in charge” and what we got is a whiner. Nothing is his fault, his failed policies are blamed on someone else. If it’s the people - they are racist. If it’s the tanking economy - it’s Bush.
Nevermind that the DEMS have been in charge of Congress before he got in, and had such a deadlock that the Republicans were unable to even Filibuster in opposition.
Remember when Obama told us that the RNC put is in the ditch, and he didn’t want to hear from them as the DNC was pushing the bus out of the ditch?
No mention that reckless spending, forcing banks to give loans to people unfit to get a home loan, no mention of increased dependance upon foreign oil - all made manifest by the DEMS controlling Congress.
Yet, for reasons no one really understands - everything is Bush’s fault. Every campaign promise that Obama made, and has failed to keep - is Bush’s fault.
Bush’s faults ceased to exist the day Obama was sworn into office.
I can argue with that in many ways, but his second term was certainly a disaster. Failed presidents don’t typically win 2 terms. Carter is undoubtedly a failed president. I would call Bush 41 a bigger failure in many ways. one termer, failing to communicate to the people the foreign success and a turnaround to a growing economy.
With 43, we kept congressional majorities and grew it significantly in 2004 because the Republicans did quite well with the public 2001-2004. There were certainly many things I can be critical of in the first time, but it was overall a series of strong policy wins, and an historic response to 9/11 and re-positioning of our foreign affairs to address a new enemy.
The two things Bush and team were terrible with was communication and leadership on spending restraint. Had they done those two things, it would have been an historically strong presidency. Instead they lost control politically in year 5, and completely lost any narrative. The fact is, when Nancy Pelosi took the gavel in 1/07, every economic number was quite good. It wasn’t until the effects of a Democratic liberal majority happened that there was any downturn.
The house-of-cards Clinton economy was built upon tech/housing bubbles and Madoff-like ponzi schemes. America became nothing but a den of thieves, creating shysters on every corner from wall street to main street. The Clintonites were nothing more than grifters, except they set up their operations to steal from everyone...good or bad, unfortunately many outside of the Clinton clan joined in on the greed and selfishness of the 90's.
Every crisis since(nature or man-made)was an opportunity for some shyster(s)to rip off government coffers/innocent bystanders...from Katrina to 911.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"...and the leeches didn't.
It's what happens when a people turn to Gov. for all the answers and take on no responsibilities themselves. If it continues unabated...well, there's a word for it, anarchy.
America's future depends on how much of this cancer has, or will continue to spread...and what will be done to stop it. With so many on the Gov. dole(in one way or the other), I don't see much "hope/change"...just a festering.
Many presidents were failures at one thing or another during their term. However, Obama has failed at everything he has tried except for his attempt to destroy this nation and its credibility worldwide. At that he has been a resounding success.
“George Bush was a failed President.”
The major reason being that in his last 2 years the government was run roughshod by the Democrat majority in both the House and Senate.
Real blame????? “We have met the enemy, and he is us”......for voting in the likes of Pelosi and Reid....Congress sets the economic agenda and the fault rightfully falls in P & R’s laps........
It continues......Even in these economic times Reidf has failed to pass a single Budget in the Senate over the past 4 years.......