The George W. Bush Institute: Free Markets, Small Government... Since When

Publius Forum ^ | 11/13/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Get ready because I am going to slap George W. Bush around a little bit. Now, don't get me wrong, it isn't like I hated him. After all I voted for him twice. There was a lot that Bush did that I supported, mostly on the security and war fronts. But, I really stood against his domestic agenda almost completely. I was against no child's behind left alone -- er, I mean no child left behind -- I was against the bailouts and against the drug benefit for seniors program. I disagreed with his "compassionate conservatism" narrative because it really was just an excuse for a little less big government than what the Democrats full-blown socialism would have been. About the only thing he wanted to do that I supported, the privatization of Social Security, he never pushed hard enough to implement.

With that in mind, George W. Bush made his first major appearance before the general public today in a speech announcing the George W. Bush Institute, a new public policy think tank to be housed in the Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Bush wants his new institute to foster free market policies, small government thinking, education, global health and "human freedom"... to which I have to ask, so where were you for eight years on these things Mr. Bush?

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Chi-townChief]

Oh, I enjoy the hell out of seeing Barry going from Messiah to mope as well but, in the long run, 0bama and his minions and masters will wreak a lot of damage.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m just trying to be fair ;-)

[Mobile Vulgus]

Take your stupidity for not reading the link and... well, and prove to everyone you are an uniformed moron. Nice going, dipwit.

[Mobile Vulgus]

No kidding. “Bush-bots” and their knee-jerk reactions.

[nicollo]

Hoover redux. That’s okay — the Hoover Institute has been a bastion of conservativism. Took a while to beat back the damage done by Hoover as President (namely, losing to FDR...), but he did the nation tremendous service during the Thirties as critic of the New Deal and onward with the institute.

[Impy]

You’d think the Bush Institute would be a think tank on how to sell out conservatives and elect more democrats since that’s what Bush was best at.

BTW yes Obama makes Bush “look good” in the same way the fire is hotter than the frying pan.

To take that analogy further I’d rather be chilling in the fridge with Coolidge and Reagan than on the stove with communists and RINOs. ;)

[woofie]

I read it again ....I repeat, take your BDS and shove it,

ever hear of a capital gain tax cut ? idiot

[mysterio]

The George W. Bush Institute: Free Markets, Small Government

lol

[Mobile Vulgus]

You are a liar. You neither read it nor understood it.

[djsherin]

“ever hear of a capital gain tax cut ? idiot”

****

Ever heard of TARP?

[woofie]

ever hear of S&L bailouts under Reagan?

[Landru]

"I’m just trying to be fair"

Killin' me with kindness. LOL