PC Bush would never fight back against the Media, but now he fights against the President? He’s a DISGRACE.
FUGB and your little pet, Karl.
He has no loyalties. He’s a puppet.
Didn’t like W’s speech. I thought he misrepresented what is going on.
He left his supporters hanging for 8 years of his presidency, kept quiet through all 8 years of Obama, but after a few months of Trump? He gets on TV and calls us “nativists” and moans about “bigotry”? What next? “Deplorables”? “Racists”?
I guess it’s just too much to want to have borders in the eyes of GWB. We finally found the one thing he cares enough about to speak out on.
That guy can GF himself. I’m sorry I ever voted for him.
I’m ashamed I voted for him. If he was our conservative choice, why have elections?
Globalism = Communism
“For eight long years ... Mr. Bush sat idly by..”
That number is doubled, since Mr. Bush “sad idly by” and totally silent for 16 years. He didn’t even speak up for himself the eight years before Hussein. These Bush people are disgusting!
Burke attributed the 'spirit' largely to religious motivation among the colonists and to the colonists' British roots.
The "spirit" was, however, at the heart of the move for Independence, along with the idea of national sovereignty, and unrelated to international "entanglements" (Washington's Farewell Address)
Every American and every British citizen who loves liberty should take this time and opportunity read, or reread, Edmund Burke's 1775 Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, for it contains such detailed and marvelous documentation of the "spirit of liberty" of 1775 and 1776, which, in 2016, seems to be rekindled among the citizenry of both America and Britain.
Consider these brief excerpts:
"In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth, and this from a great variety of powerful causes; which, to understand the true temper of their minds and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely.
"First, the people of the Colonies are descendants of Englishmen. England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing. Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates; or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise. On this point of taxes the ablest pens, and most eloquent tongues, have been exercised; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered. In order to give the fullest satisfaction concerning the importance of this point, it was not only necessary for those who in argument defended the excellence of the English Constitution to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact, and to prove that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body called a House of Commons. They went much farther; they attempted to prove, and they succeeded, that in theory it ought to be so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty can subsist." - Edmund Burke, 1775 "Speech on Conciliation. . . ."
Of the American colonies, Burke also observed:
" In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke, 1775"Speech on Conciliation. . . ."
<< For those eight long years, Mr. Bush appeared happy and very much unperturbed as his successor worked overtime to tear down this country’s institutions brick by brick >>
Not only was he unperturbed, he was ecstatic.
And now he and his globalist ilk are horrified that that we elected a President who aims to put the bricks back in place.