Posted on 04/23/2013 5:17:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Bush became a RINO. We and I spent hundreds of hours and contributed tens of thousands of dollars for him to defeat Kerry and present to him a Republican House and Senate.
He squandered it all.
And during his reelection campaign he backhanded the Swift Boat Vets who were outing the truth about John Kerry.
Tax Reform? Zilch. A 2-year commission directed by one RINO and one liberal democrat that he appointed and who gave the country nothing.
Wall St. Greed? An all-time high with scam upon scam that culminated in financial collapse and untold travesty upon American families and people worldwide. Regulation was taboo on Bush’s watch. If there is any human behavior that needs the strictest regulation it is banking and Wall St. trading. The SEC was asleep and Bush ensured they stayed asleep. As long as the bankers gave Bush economic news he was happy. And they scammed everyone and anything in sight with a Bush permit to steal.
And then there is the appointment of Roberts who has turned out to be a weakling and conniving jurist.
And if it wasn’t for Fred Thompson GW Bush would have given us Harriet Miers.
Bush was saved by Petraeus but not in time to lose the House in 2006 as a result of his inaction and non-leadership.
He simply was not the best America has to offer. He simply was a kid that got the open door from a President father who in turn inherited the afterglow of America’s greatest President of the 20 Century.
In sum, the Bush presidency was a waste for needed reforms.
The only good thing was his attention to terrorism.
We sorely need a good principled never back down President now. Eyes are on Scott Walker of Wisconsin. We’ll see if he can cut the mustard.
That’s 200bn too much.
When he was elected the budget was nominally balanced (yes using tricks and gimmicks but on paper it was balanced)
Cheney said “deficits dont matter”.
That’s when this gang lost me and I never supported them. They ran the economy into the wall and by the end of his term bailed out the whole of Wall street when he should have let them all go bankrupt.
These guys have NO clue how to run a government.
Paid back with borrowed government (taxpayer) money.
This is true, and just think, people believed those lies even though Bush told the the truth. Oh wait, HE NEVER DID. And of course, when McCain tried to tell the truth about the economy...OH WAIT, HE NEVER DID EITHER. Well, at least Romney Ryan told the truth. OH WAIT, THEY AGREED BUSH caused all this problem.
Are we spotting a trend here? YES WE ARE. Estab Republicans are too weak to face the lies. They just go along to get along.
the pompus sanctimonious selfrighteousists will never accept anyone lacking Christ like conservative purity
Are you talking about the same Bush who finished his presidency at 27 percent approval because he abandoned conservative values?
Well I don’t want to turn this into a TARP debate, but I don’t think that’s true.
But why did the banks go to the wall? Because he presided over the housing bubble... for 8 years he didn’t care. I knew it would end badly and i’m glad it did and ruined his pathetic legacy.
Obama’s will get ruined with an even bigger crisis.
Small consolation.
You could not be more wrong. BDS is when liberals think that the big boogie monster super conservative Bush is the devil incarnate. Here at FR, we realize he was never really a conservative at all. Reality - the opposite of BDS.
My only point was, ONLY POINT WAS, that the impact of that is far less than the impact of allowing a full half generation of zombie voters grow up without the GOP ever defending a damned thing. Not defending anything, just adding some perspective.
I want someone who shrinks government not expands it.
Someone like Coolidge or Eisenhower.
Bush was a bad nightmare for me and many conservatives.
He finished with a 27 percent approval. One of the lowest in history. So, it was not just “some people”. It was a lot of people.
No one is perfect, but it took 0bama to get people to appreciate GWB for who he was & put him in perspective. He grew on me as time went on. Oh hell yes, I miss him. More than I ever imagined I could.
He may have been terribly misguided at times, but he was a *decent* man. I was never embarrassed that he was our president (or Laura our first lady).
We got stuck with Bush... there was really no one else...
McCain was his opponent for gods sake!1
Bad nightmare!!
Now we have a lot of good leaders who actually want to shrink government. That’s why I like Rand =/
No more phonies when we have the real deal.
From July 2012:
(Reuters) - Hundreds of bailed-out banks are still struggling to repay taxpayers and will soon find it even harder to make required dividend payments to the Treasury, according to a report on Wednesday by the watchdog for the government bailout program.
Of the 707 banks that received taxpayer money from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program starting in 2008, also known as TARP, about half have repaid the Treasury.
However, 137 of those banks used a government-loan program to repay their taxpayer debts, according to the watchdog’s quarterly report to Congress.
And of the 325 banks still propped up with taxpayer money, 203 have missed dividend or interest payments, with some missing as many as 13 payments since receiving capital injections at the height of the financial crisis, said the report.
Adding to their woes, the dividend that the bailed-out banks are required to pay to Treasury is set to increase to 9 percent from the current 5 percent as early as 2013.
“Those banks are not able to raise the capital that is required to get out of TARP,” said Christy Romero, the special inspector general for the bailout program.
“We are very concerned about those banks, and want those banks to stand on their own feet without government assistance,” she said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/25/us-usa-banks-idUSBRE86O05Y20120725
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis
Bill Clinton blames Democrats for the mortgage messa href =
I’m aware of their role in the mess but he was the president he could have done something but sadly he didn’t have a clue about the economy. Neither did Cheney. They literally thought nothing was wrong for years... ‘deficits dont matter!’
Well I knew it would end in a disaster and i’m glad everything collapsed on his watch to ruin his legacy.
He made it worse of course by bailing out Wall Street and sending Paulson to Congress to tell us the world would end if a few investment banks went down.
Crazy and infuriating but i’m glad he’s gone and no longer defines ‘conservatism’ because it’s a kind I reject.
And I can find 30 articles that dispute that, like this one here:
http://investorplace.com/2012/05/2008-tarp-funds-where-are-they-now/
All of which ignores my point, which is that the capitulation for 8 years was more damaging in the long run to the country. Bye.
Taft would've known better than to make an assertion like that.
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