Posted on 03/08/2008 5:55:24 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
The problem with this administration it never defended itself.
I read two words and knew this was an asshole......The Bush presidency is going down in history as one of the greatest...he had guts and fough the terrorists and the democrats equally....well they are the same....
I'm going to wait for the movie.
This article is a disgrace. Bush is fit to shine Reagan’s shoes. Real cute on the author’s part when he fails to mention or shifts the blame with regards to the EXPLOSION in the size of govt, Bush’s amnesty proposals, free pills for granny, CFR and all sorts of other measures which Reagan would have found disgusting.
The author makes the Bush Presidency seem like not a failure in some respects, but ignores its biggest failing. I think Bush is as inept at domestic politics as Carter was in foreign policy. His inability to communicate, his rope-a-dope tactics when smeared and betrayed by the Demonrats, his failure to exercise any restraint on spending, his expansion of entitlements, and his globalist stance on immigration and Chinese trade cost the GOP control of Congress and gave all the momentum to the Left. His bad decisions began with selection of the aging Cheney for VP. VP is an opportunity to groom a younger man to lead the party in 8 years, not a place for an “elder statesman.” That choice led to this year’s mess, with aging “maverick” McCain left to pick up the pieces.
This “failed” Presidency has beaten the living hell out of the 2006 Democrat Congress so far. As one DUer in the Funnies observed, “It’s like we didn’t win anything”.
I have been somewhat disappointed in Bush on a number of issues. I understood what “compassionate conservative” meant in 2000, so I wasn’t too surprised with the govt spending. Nor was I surprised, although opposed, the immigration Bill.
The Foreign policy team 180 degree turn after 2005 was to me inexplicable. This administration felt after 2004, that any action against Syria and Iran would not be supported by the United Kingdom. I was also hoping that Rice would be more proactive in getting rid of the traitor in the Dept of State.
9,250 words of BS
“A generation from now, there will be parades in George W. Bush’s honor in Iraq - and perhaps all across the Middle East.”
But there won’t be any here. Our kids will be too busy working and paying taxes to service the debt to bother with parades and such.
I read through about half of it, and then couldn’t stomach reading any more.It's a strategy document. The author is arguing that because the Bush presidency failed to achieve so many of its policy goals McCain and the republicans running for the legislative are going to have to think of a way to spin it. Saying they hate Bush doesn't work(see the angry reaction to this article) it enrages the rank and file. But ignoring the failures of the Bush presidency makes the R's and McCain look dishonest keeping them away from the independent vote.Where’s the beef?
In summary the article is asking "how do we spin the Bush presidency to win in November?".
sub 5% unemployment would be considered a resounding victory for a Clinton presidency. In fact, it was.
Let’s face it, the Republicans from a decade ago, who valued fiscal conservatism, have been mostly kicked out of the party by the so-called “moderates”, and President Bush is one of those moderates responsible. And the voters in this country are more than happy with this trend, as is evidenced by the more centrist Democrats being kicked out of their Party as well. Government spending is the default policy of both parties for the foreseeable future. Bush can hardly be considered a failure in this regard.
First, my eyes began to blur...then my head hurt...then my brain started to shut down...I wil prnt itt ott nd reaaad its win mi brin rebosts. Ey dhink.
“Failed, MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
If this is success, may our worst enemies suffer from such success.
The author makes the Bush Presidency seem like not a failure in some respects, but ignores its biggest failing. I think Bush is as inept at domestic politics as Carter was in foreign policy. His inability to communicate, his rope-a-dope tactics when smeared and betrayed by the Demonrats, his failure to exercise any restraint on spending, his expansion of entitlements, and his globalist stance on immigration and Chinese trade cost the GOP control of Congress and gave all the momentum to the Left. His bad decisions began with selection of the aging Cheney for VP. VP is an opportunity to groom a younger man to lead the party in 8 years, not a place for an “elder statesman.” That choice led to this year’s mess, with aging “maverick” McCain left to pick up the pieces.You have to be elected to do that. For better or for worse, Cheney was a bone to the conservatives that worried about Jorge's inexperience and compassionate conservatism.
The Democrats have to consider *all* Republican Presidencies failures, and they have to call *all* Republican Presidents “fools”, “idiots”, and the like, because unless they tell themselves this, over and over, some ugly truths are going to get out.
First of all, these supposedly “incompetent” men just kicked seven bells out of the Democrat contenders, repeatedly. The Democrat response to that is “they cheated”, or when really hard pressed, “they fooled the ignorant public.”
Second is that, the incredible and lasting successes of the Republicans both *against* the Democrat resistance and against our national enemies, shows up the Democrat program as being naive, confused and inferior.
Republicans run circles around Democrats in both economics and foreign policy. What little platform the Democrats embrace is centered around not just less important things, but only those that are difficult to quantify. And even then, their efforts are to “empathize” instead of solve, proclaiming that “feeling your pain” is *more* important than “ending your pain.”
Bill Clinton, for example, spent all his time in office running for office. Once he had the Presidency, his first concern was getting the entire bureaucracy and judiciary corrupted to his cause, but then continuing to run for office. His philosophy was that the federal government was there to see to his personal needs. In this way, he was no different from a mob boss.
The country, to a great extent, was left on autopilot and run by the Republican congress. Clinton’s term was not “benign neglect”, but just neglect.
If George W. Bush made any mistake, it was thinking that the Republican congress, which had acted so responsibly during Clinton’s term in office, would continue to do so once a Republican was in office.
He was wrong. Left to wisely managed the nation’s internal affairs, the Republican congress behaved atrociously, and were punished by the electorate accordingly. They lost all discipline and self-control, and their leaders let them.
Bush was off, composing a symphony of foreign policy to rival Beethoven, changing the world in ways that will last a hundred years or more, and preventing international disasters, wars and chaos.
Hopefully, in four or eight years, Jeb Bush will not be hesitant in joining the race, but will follow in the footsteps of both his father and his brother.
I was going to write a long post, but this guy used up all the words in the world. I’ll have to wait until they make more.
Yes, I got that much. But then he got so bogged down in excess verbiage that I gave up on it.
Let’s face it, the Republicans from a decade ago, who valued fiscal conservatism, have been mostly kicked out of the party by the so-called “moderates”, and President Bush is one of those moderates responsible. And the voters in this country are more than happy with this trend, as is evidenced by the more centrist Democrats being kicked out of their Party as well. Government spending is the default policy of both parties for the foreseeable future. Bush can hardly be considered a failure in this regard.The main thing is that so few of his policy goals were enacted. Social security reform? No. Amnesty? Whooops! etc...
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