Posted on 04/29/2013 7:05:44 PM PDT by smoothsailing
There's a great deal of truth in that.
Can’t be so: GWB also said right before the Iraqi invasion of 2003 that this definitely would not be “another Vietnam”. I heard him say it.
Reagan had his O’Connor and Kennedy, and Ike had his Warren and Brennan. A wash on Supreme Court picks; both set back conservatism in that regard. Reagan also signed King Day, the forerunner of Obama.
I was just pointing out that Ike was a conservative president. I’d be very happy to have Ike in office today.
Ike gave us Earl Warren and William Brennan, two of the most loathesome, left wing Supreme Court justices in history.
thetallguy24
Since Apr 30, 2013
Insults? Where? Where did I personally attack YOU? Didn’t happen. I see from your link that you are now admitting that Bush isn’t the fault for Obozo not being properly vetted. So, I ask again. Why, on THIS thread, are you posting blame for Obozo being POTUS on only one man?
Nobodys’ perfect.
Does nothing to change the fact that Bush and Rove did us all a huge dis-service by never using the bully pulpit. In fact, they should have mentioned just what you did to blunt some of the "illegitimate President" meme.
Welcome to FR.
The fantasy of the Bush haters is slipping away.
Bush is already as popular as President Obama.
His critics concede he saved more human lives than any president in history.
I’ve refuted your notion that he never defended himself. He defended himself by defending his policies.
His policies have proven true and correct.
The real cowardice lies with faux conservatives who refuse to pin blame on Reid and Pelosi for exploding the debt and crashing the economy 2007 and forward.
President Bush is emerging as one of the greatest presidents ever. Reagan does not meet any of the standards offered by faux conservatives. And Reagan was excellent.
At least they save us from “The Day in the Life of A Formerly Great President”!
“EIGHT MORE YEARS, ELECT JEB! “
Yeah! Let’s get it OVER with!
” ‘see you at the signing’”
and “vigilantes”....up goes the blood pressure ONE MORE TIME!
Thanks.
Succint and to the point.
You can drink your lone star kool aid all you want, and get drunk and hung over on it far as I'm concerned, because you are too stubborn to see that BUSH HIMSELF IS ONE OF THE MAIN FAUX CONSERVATIVES WHO NEVER UTTERED A DAMNED EFFEN PEEP ABOUT REID AND PELOSI.......
History is pretty clear.
Putting the alternatives in ALL CAPS WILL NOT CHANGE IT.
In the fall of 2006, faux conservatives, taught Bush a lesson by staying home for the congressional elections.
Democrats were overwhelmingly elected to the House and Senate.
Immigration reform did NOT pass. Remember— it did not pass— as it did under the glorious reign of Ronaldus Maximus Reagan.
However, ignoring previous warnings from President Bush [roughly ten such warnings] the democrats denoted the mortgage industry as without risk. Barney Frank essentially deregulated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac creating an explosive housing bubble. Fiscal restraint ended in January of 2007.
Insert constitutional clue here: The Constitution charges the Congress with role of regulating the government’s purse strings.
Bush’s leadership on fiscal matters lead the nation to declining deficits that dropped as low as $156 billion dollars. They dropped from a peak of half a trillion dollars. Bush leadership had reasonable prospects of reducing the deficit to zero within 2-3 years.
Bush’s spending compromises on stopping economic hemorrhaging contained the following conservative constraints:
1. Bush spent less than half of the congressionally authorized $800 billion in TARP.
2. Bush required the authorized funds to be paid back to taxpayers— which they were.
3. Bush required the authorized funds to be paid back to taxpayers with interest. The bank loans were and a large portion of the car loans have been paid back.
Once Obama and the Democrats gained complete control in January 2009, those aspects of legislative adoption ended. Democrats refuse to even pass budgets anymore. Democrats do not require spending to be paid back. They do not require interest on payback. The annual deficit is ten times larger than what it was when Democrats came to power.
Pretending that American politics is a debate club rather misses the point of policy making. Bush argued with democrats and won as indicated by these differences in policy we can now plainly see. The democrats do not want any spending limits. Do you really still need persuading on that point?
Saying Bush should be harsher or someone else would be more effective is plainly ridiculous. That is not what happened. Electing Republicans in 2010 has proven significantly helpful but failing to elect republican senators in 2012 was a real problem.
One can literally lay out the deficit grid based on Republican control of Congress and it is clear.
Do you really think Clinton reduced the deficits rather than the republicans in Congress.
Bush defended conservative policies and won— far more than Reagan did.
Glad I skipped your entire absurd post and just read the last line....validated that the rest of it would certainly be a fantasy, and a waste of time. I would be utterly ashamed to have the above comment attributed to me. Enjoy your "coming out" crush on Bush.
Good post..
I get a kick out of the lonestar Bush fan club folks suggesting Bush was a winner and great leader, while Reagan never achieved the level of success and leadership Bush did....Or whatever the hell they allege.
Reagan’s horse had more class than the entire Bush family.
sounds insulting to me.
I answered in full everything you asked about in my post number 66. I backed it up concerning the Congressional blame with the link to the detailed argument. If you can't see that Bush was nothing more than Vaseline for the cramming of Obama up your butt, I can't help you.
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