BUMP
Posted on 01/03/2009 3:10:51 PM PST by Welcome2thejungle
As GWB prepares to leave office, I think history will treat him much as it does now Harry Truman: A plain spoken humble man who made the really tough decisions and left office with abysmally low poll ratings. There were four major policy decisions of GWB I personally never liked:
1) No Child Left Behind--Whatever happened to the concept that public education is supposed to be a state and local issue, not a federal issue, at least according to the U.S. Constitution? Besides it was way too costly.
2) Prescriptions Drugs Medicare Part D--How much is this greatest entitlement program since the Great Society going to end up costing?
3) The Kennedy-McCain immigration amnesty bill. Thank God this pig never got off the ground. When are we going to stop rewarding law-breakers for their ILLEGAL behavior?
4) The $700 billion Wall Street Bailout. If policymakers in Washington ever got around to figuring out that THEIR policies caused this mess to begin with, they would understand that the real answer to fixing the problem is for the federal government to stop excessive spending and to get their own house in order. The government could begin by privatizing Fannie and Freddie and by getting out of the housing and mortgage markets altogether--two businesses it should have never gotten into to begin with.
Now, on to what I liked:
1) GWB cut taxes. Yee ha! This kept the economy growing throughout most of his administration even in the wake of the horrendous 9/11 attacks on our soil.
2) Keeping us safe: It is no accident that there have been no further terrorist attacks on our country since 9/11 thanks to GWB going on offense and streamlining government bureaucracy to fight international terrorism. I don't care how many terrorist thugs they water board at Gitmo, I want my country protected. Besides the Geneva Convention protects conventional POWs, not these terrorist bastards who know no rules or boundaries of civilized behavior and norms.
3) Liberating two countries and 50 million people from the yoke of the world's most murderous and savage tyrannies. Saddam Hussein received his just reward on GWB's watch. Thank you Mr. President for removing this thoroughly evil terrorist supporting despot!
4) Appointing conservative judges like Alito and Roberts to the Supreme Court. We will need them now!
5) Pursuing pro-life policies at the federal level.
6) Restoring the dignity, honor, integrity, and decorum of the White House after eight long years of interns, lies, stained dresses, cattle futures,questionable pardons, and pilfering of the Bonnie and Clod administration.
I can think of one president who signed liberal abortion laws (in California), raised taxes, and signed an amnesty granting immigration bill--we now regard him as our patron saint--Ronald Reagan. Hopefully my fellow conservatives will find in it there hearts to cut the current president the same slack as they cut for RR. Some say GWB's greatest fault was his obvious distate for tooting his own horn. I say it was his greatest attribute--contrast this to the egomaniac narcissistic gasbag replacing him. Believe me, it will wear thin!
RR knew more than most that politics is a less than perfect profession, and that the people it attracts even more so. RR once said that politics is the world's second oldest profession. With this thought in mind, let us remember the real GWB the way he really was: A truly kind, warm hearted, honest, plain spoken, simple man, truly humble and low key--Laura too. God bless them. Even though I didn't support all of GWB's policies, I thought he added a sense of dignity and grace to 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue. I will miss him. God Bless you, sir!
Free Ramos and Compean!!!!
Bush gave us the first real federal legislative rollback of abortion.
Bush completely destroyed the regime of Saddam Hussein and gave us a democracy on the borders of Iran and Syria, despite many calls to give up.
Bush finally stopped the gutting of our military, and now we have next generation weapons such as the F-22 and F-35 fighter and MRAP vehicles.
Bush appointed John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court, a constitutional scholar and important counterweight to Ginsburg.
Bush cut taxes and ensured an economic recovery after the tech bubble collapse.
Bush provided our law enforcement agencies with the systems and institutions that they need to keep us safe, such as the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of the Patriot Act.
Bush NATIONALIZED the mortgage industry, the auto industrty, banks and anything else he can think of.
PLUS HE PARDONED A CONVICTED DRUG DEALER CAUGHT WITH 32 pounds of pure cocaine.
Tell me how much did George get paid for that pardon?
(1) refused to enforce U.S. immigration laws, secure the Mexican Border, and halt illegal immigration;Bush should revere Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Warren Harding, U.S. Grant, and perhaps a small number of other presidents. If it were not for them, history might well record that he was the worst president in U.S. history.(2) spent more of the American taxpayers' hard-earned money than any president since Lyndon Johnson;
(3) increased the size, grasp, reach, and appetite of the Frankenstein's monster known as the Federal Government, that sucks the life's blood out of the American people and the United States itself and serves as a cashcow for corrupt politicians and the parasites who keep them in office;
(4) handed Congress to the depraved, parasitic, decadent Democrats on a silver platter in 2004, and the entire United States government to them in 2008.
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All of your points are good but W sat like a sissified idiot while the media dumped all over him about Katrina. He should have scheduled a one hour press conference and blasted the crybabies who did nothing and pointed fingers at fema and him. Also, putting the weakling dork McClellan in as Press Secty and leaving him there failing over and over speaks for itself.
Harry Truman only bombed once; Bush keeps doing it again, and again and again and...
Bush’s absolute refusal to live by and defend conservative principles has created the perfect storm of the red tide which will attempt to spend us into insolvency for at least the next 2 years. It will take decades to recover from what the Democrats are about to do to this country, if recovery is even possible. This is Bush’s legacy.
the crybabies who did nothing and pointed fingers at fema and him
and you guys are any different? how?
He hated admirals and generals and military officers in general was paranoid and a nit picking little turd.
That is insecure instead of unsecured. Sorry about that.
Too bad he screwed up the country in the bottom of the 9th.
I agree with every point you’ve made and then some. He has also thoroughly trashed the Republican brand even worse than Richard Nixon ever did. What do Republicans stand for any more? In the public’s mind, Republicans are now seen as incompetent and wasteful of taxpayers’ money. Bush has completely overturned all of Reagan’s herculean efforts to convince people that government is part of the problem, not the solution. Because of Bush, it is now perceived as acceptable to have Washington do everything from running schools to paying for prescription drugs to bailing out failing private enterprises with taxpayers’ money. How are the Republicans going to stop the Democrats from implementing socialized medicine, and greater government control of the economy and everything else? The party has lost all standing and credibility on these issues largely because of Bush. How are Republicans going to stop the appointment of liberal judges who will further erode our individual liberties? This is a disaster all around.
The successful effort to stop terrorist attacks in the U.S. is probably due more to the dedicated efforts of the FBI and CIA and local law enforcement than anything Bush has done. And why all this obsession with his physical fitness? We get his reports on how he often he has been on his mountain bike or “working out.” Frankly, I’m tired of his accent, his smug self-confidence, and his unwillingness to admit mistakes and change direction until somebody smacks him over the head with a two by four. This cost Republicans control of the Senate for sure.
Pack up fast and leave, Bush. And stay far away from Republican politics. We don’t want you or need you. You’ve done enough damage to last a couple of life times.
We are different because we are conservatives. Which Bush isn’t, and at this point any person supporting that socialist piece of trash is not a conservative, IMHO.
We are different because we are conservatives. Which Bush isn’t, and at this point any person supporting that socialist piece of trash is not a conservative, IMHO.
6) Restoring the dignity, honor, integrity, and decorum of the White House after eight long years of interns, lies, stained dresses, cattle futures,questionable pardons, and pilfering of the Bonnie and Clod administration. “
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Probably going to start seeing this start up all over again.
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