Posted on 02/05/2011 9:57:52 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
I will never forgive George HW Bush for being totally pawned by George Mitchell over taxes and spending.
Mitchell lied about everything and never cut a dime from the budget.
Also Bush listened to Sununu recommend Breyer for the Court. Stupid,stupid, stupid!
I think it is forgetfulness, rather than sadness. There are many domestic things that separate GHW/GW from Clinton, mong these - SCOTUS appointments (Thomas/Roberts/Alito vs Breyer/Ginsburg), as well as huge tax cuts under GW, and staunch pro-life laws passed under GW.
“huge tax cuts under GW”
Huh? Bush 43 had control of both Houses of Congress for SIX years. He managed to reduce taxes from 39.6% (which is what it was when he took office) to 35%. And the reductions were TEMPORARY that is: to expire by their own terms. so Bush 43 reduced taxes by 4.6% for eight years.
Reagan had control of only one House of Congress, the Senate, for six years. During his tenure, the GOP NEVER controlled the House, which is where spending and tax bills must originate under the Constitution. In spite of these disabilities, during his term of office Regan slashed the top marginal rate from 70% to 28%, a tax cut of 42% and it was PERMANENT.
Permanent, that is, until Bush 41 broke his pledge not to raise taxes and hiked it from 28% to 31%. His betrayal led directly to Clinton who promptly raised the rate to 39.6%.
George W. Bush’s tax cut was not “huge”. It was dinky and temporary. And it only returned 4.6% of the 11% Bush-Clinton tax hikes which his father and Clinton foisted on us. In spite of having a GOP Congress, Bush 43 kept the other 7% of the Bush Clinton tax hike and called the temporary 4.6% rebate a cut. Some huge cut that was! /sarc/
Unfortunately, he didn’t get rid of the (un)earned income tax credit, and he didn’t flatten the tax rates so that the deadbeats on the left could pay something remotely resembling their fair share (whatever that is). So yes, he did some good, but not very doggone much.
She was way too ‘subtle’ last night.
It was easily the least of any of her speeches.
Uh, I thought there would be no Math questions?
“She was way too ‘subtle’ last night.
It was easily the least of any of her speeches.”
You must have seen another speech than I did. It was a fantastic speech. I don’t know what you mean by “too subtle.” It is hard to respond to something as vague as your post.
There were important current events that she sidestepped, in particular Obaba’s deliberate destabilization of Egypt.
She left her most effective guns home.
The Harriet Meyers fiasco was planned. He let everyone blow their stack about her and then he pulled out his real choice.
The only really bad thing GWB did was to not stand up for himself, he let the MSM define him.
“There were important current events that she sidestepped, in particular Obaba’s deliberate destabilization of Egypt.
She left her most effective guns home.”
I usually agree with you, but not this time. The night was about honoring Ronald Reagan, not discussing Hosni Mubarak and the nuances of the Egyptian situation. Had she tried that, she would have wandered off into the weeds and the whole speech would have fallen flat. She only had 30 minutes, not an hour and a half. No one possibly discuss the domestic and foreign scenes in a single 30 minute speech and do so intelligently, while paying proper tribute to an icon of Ronald Reagan’s range and impact.
She speaks when she can influence events in a positive direction, not like McCain and Romney who are busy trying to get ahead of the curve and force Mubarak out, without considering the consequences. She does not have access to the intelligence reports and she knows that popping off without having the information can be destructive. She is wisely watching this from the sidelines because she knows that anything she says at this point is not going to be helpful. And last night was certainly not the time for it.
Likewise, and we will also have to counter their initial reaction of the GOP RINORCS and the Leftist Orcs who go all wizzy-tizzy whenever Governor Palin "enters the room."
Its as if tantrumming has become a convention with them, conduct worthy only of 2 year olds.We need to spank 'em consistently. And we neeed to start now.
No, she could easily have tied it to Reagan’s stalwart defense of El Salvador.
She passed up an H-Bomb that she easily could have dropped on Obama in a few sentences.
>> “not like McCain and Romney who are busy trying to get ahead of the curve and force Mubarak out, without considering the consequences. She does not have access to the intelligence reports...” <<
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There is no reason to push Mubarak out, and all the intelligence that is needed to prove that Obama set this up deliberately is already out there in the open.
I don’t care what opinions you have, mistaken or not.
But kindly don’t be so presumptous as to suggest I’m Not ‘honest with myself.”
I honestly disagree with you but go on with your life.
Great post!
Excellent.
Very well done!
His failure to define himself was part and parcel of his ideological cluelessness. He couldn't fight the good fight because he had no idea how. He punched a few conservative buttons (tax cut, check, aggressive rhetoric, check, conservative judicial nominees) and then went back to being the nice, well brought up boy with no particular direction that he always was.
What you refer to as a failure to define himself was in fact a complete failure to lead the conservative movement which left the GOP drifting rudderless onto the rocks. Clan Bush has been an unmitigated disaster for the USA. Great grandpa sat on Wilson's War Industries Board. Grandpa was a planned parenthood activist and died in the wool progressive. Daddy gave us the ADA and W was the icing on the cake. He lead the way for Obamacare by extending Medicare. He expanded the federal role in education in cooperation with the late, unlamented Senator Kennedy (D Sunken Buick). His feckless faring policy looks tolerable only because the Dems wanted to be still more feckless. Everything we hate about Obama (stimulus, Obamacare) is a natural extension of the Bush administration. Obama even has the same Defense Secretary Bush ended up with. The Secretary of State is only distinguishable from Bush's version because she's shorter, fatter and paler.
Under Bush the conservative movement had a near death experience. Under Obama we're back with a vengeance. Suddenly we have a chance to turn the tide and move America back toward sanity. Nothing could be more misguided than nostalgia for President Bush.
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