Posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:40 AM PST by STARWISE
Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush.
The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
According to recent Gallup polls, the president's average approval rating is below 30% -- down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.
This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."
Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.
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Mr. Shapiro is an investigative reporter and lawyer who previously interned with John F. Kerry's legal team during the presidential election in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Don’t forget: Now we can ladle out healthy servings of “Chickenhawk!” every time some leftwing twit calls for the use of our military to address one of their pet causes.
Think about this: Does israel now attack Iran before Bush is out of office? They can’t be assured Obama would back them up, but Bush will.
If they are not obliged to be gracious in victory, then we are not obliged to be gracious in defeat. How is that reaching across the aisle working? NO MORE. They have the power to accomplish all they want without any Republican votes. Let them do it and take ALL the responsibility for the bad stuff - no blame sharing later on. It is all on them.
“But Bush did a great and noble thing in overthrowing Saddam and his attempt to bring democracy to a Mideast tyranny is one of the finest acts of US foreign policy ever. And despite the false starts and wasted months before the arrival of Petraus, Bush has won his Iraq war with a historically low number of US casualties.”
The country did not agree with your appraisal. History shows that the majority of Americans do NOT like to have to go to war.
Leading up to our entry into WWII the GOP opposed our entry. The majority of Americans opposed entry, until Pearl Harbor.
Vietnam was unpopular, and hurt both parties-Johnson, and then Ford.
Taken in that light, Bush made a blunder. There were alternatives.
The blunder opened the door for the dems who recognize America’s dislike of wars.
What I just wrote will not go down well here, but “here” is not at all representative of the whole country.
Plus going to unpopular war peels off the Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel factions of the GOP.
Iraq and the economic meltdown doomed any GOP candidates this time. On the economy: Bush and the GOP led budget busting, failed to head off the mortgage excesses, and therefore get blamed.
While the mortgage housing bubble had seeds going back decades, Bush people did nothing, even when any sane person could see the writing on the wall.
Bush took credit for his administration attaining record levels of home ownership, when his advisors knew or should have known it was built on a pending crisis.
Bush is a good man, but left his party with a lot of repair to be done. I disagree with those who predict history will one day judge him well.
Exactly my mindset. I feel like the Church Lady... "How conveeeeenient."
Fault? Or grace? A petty man says an insult to you and thinks because you do not lower yourself to being petty back, he has won the argument. Would you respect President Bush more that when he is in a television interview and is interupted by some jobless scumbag flipping him off and yelling FU, that the President of the Nation jumps up and says "Oh yeah?! FU TOO!"
NOT! Bush saved America from a complete terrorist takeover, and WE, the electorate, handed the Nation to them on a silver platter. Bush, failed because he compromised too much, not too little.
Hopefully, the BDSers, single issue posters and whiners will be just as free with their gratitude and praise for the improvements Pres. Bush has brought in his time in office as they are with their criticisms.
How many will rue the day under the rule of the president-elect Jan. 20, 2009, and afterward?
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As any rational objective observer can see Bush has done FAR more for the Conservative movement then all the various 100%ers with their continual whining have, or ever will, do.
On Judges alone Bush has been FAR more good for Conservative then the “Bush is not a Conservative” squealers will ever do.
HERE is a partial list of what Bush has done.
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**Abortion & Traditional Values
1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
2. Reversed Clinton’s move to strike Reagan’s anti-abortion Mexico Policy.
3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton’s policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.
4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.
5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.
6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.
9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools.
10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms).
11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline.
12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.
**Budget, Taxes & Economy
1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.
5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
8. Killed Clinton’s “ergonomic” rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
11. Signed trade promotion authority.
12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.
13. Fight Europe’s ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.
16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.
17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA’s from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.
**Character & Conduct as President
1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency.
2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse.
3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:
* Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: “War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.”
* On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him.
Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” The crowd roared with cheers and chants of “USA! USA! USA!” Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation.
**Education & Employment Training
1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations).
The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act.
2. Announced “Jobs for the 21st Century,” a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education.
3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.)
4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight.
5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance.
6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards.
7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems.
8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers.
**Environment & Energy
1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.
3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.
4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.
6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
7. Killed Clinton’s CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.
**Defense & Foreign Policy
1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom.
2. Saddam Hussein is now dead. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime’s senior members were killed or captured.
3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed.
The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD’s without bribes or bloodshed.
5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists’ funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network.
6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency.
9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian “Roadmap to Peace,” along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU.
10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia.
12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs.
15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry.
16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006.
17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy.
18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments.
19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year.
20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports.
21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.
22. Pushed thru Congress the 1st Military Death benefit raise in decades. Rasied the grant for survivors of military personal killed in the line of duty from a pitful $10,000 to over $100,000.
**Globalization & Internationalism
1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant).
2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court.
3. Told the United Nations we weren’t interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).
* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: “The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance.
All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?” We all know the outcome and the answer.
5. Told the Congress and the world, “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.”
**Government Reform
1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises.
2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs.
3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.
* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers.
5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.
**Health
1. Strengthened the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free.
2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health.
3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: * A 10-year privatization option. * Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient.
Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.
* More health care choices: As President Bush stated, “…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost].
For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What’s good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.
* New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you’ll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA.
These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness.
At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.
**Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration
1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush’s leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security.
2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004.
3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield).
4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create “one face at the border.”
This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders.
5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.
6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals.
7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones.
8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America’s ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested.
9. The US-VISIT program has begun to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies.
10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization.
12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.
13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications.
14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry.
Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.
**Judiciary & Tort Reform
1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits.
2. Killed the liberal ABA’s unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA.
3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.
5. Nominated and got Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito confirmed on the Supreme Court.
**Politics
1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.
2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court’s Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual’s wishes.
3.Has prosecuted 527 corrupt Union bosses in an effort to reform the rampant corruption in the Labor Unions.
**Second Amendment
1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined “collective” right.
2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit.
3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers.
4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.
**Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism
1. Endorses and promotes “The Responsibility Era.” President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism.
He said, “In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you’re responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you’re responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you’re responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you’re responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself.”
2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world.
3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations.
The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families.
4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration’s belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved.
5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible.
6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them.
7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year’s worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states.
8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere.
On January 29, 2002, he said, “No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity.” As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:
* Equal Justice
* Freedom of Speech
* Limited Government Power
* Private Property Rights
* Religious Tolerance
* Respect for Women
* Rule of Law
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Thanks to his relentless pursuit of our safety, we have not suffered another terrorist attack, against the best prognostications of our intel agencies; and there is MUCH, MUCH more he instituted to bring sense and conservative values to our government and agencies.
I guarantee that, the first attack on the USA under the new administration, which I do expect, God help us, the American people will be wishing Pres. George Bush was still in the White House.
Kill the Jews, there is no end of people to hate when hate justifys your lifestyle.
Oh yeah, people will look back on these days and say, Damn, I wish I could change back.
“Earlier tonight FOX had David Axelrod on air.
My wife said he looked like Hitler. I must have missed him earlier in the campaign, but with his hair parted to the side, and a smallish mustache, he bore a resemblance, in both our minds.”
OMG, my mom said the same thing. She said he changed his look. He didn’t look like that before. More psyops to mess with real Americans, I suppose.
“Politics does not cease even during wartime. In addition to some bad choices (the Miers nomination, out of control spending, failure to effectively enforce the immigration laws, lack of a coherent domestic program, and so on), Bush has a passive nature with a dislike of confrontation. These traits may speak well of him as a person but are ill suited for a chief executive.”
GOP lost because of:
Economic meltdown under Bush watch
Unpopular discretionary war on Bush watch
Weak President, followed by weak candidate
Probably no GOP candidate could overcome the bag of crap Bush left for him/her. Bush has been the so called leader of the GOP.
His goodness doesn’t spare him the responsibility for results produced under his term.
To win, a Republican needs more votes than the conservatives in the GOP bring to the election. In light of what I have said, McCain did as well as could be expected from any GOP candidate.
Best post of the night. Especially on "You poisoned the well."
Watch, the Messiah's cheering section (the media) will openly say "Let's all come together now, forget about how we treated Bush like Joseph Mengele, and move on!" They can shove that where the sun doesn't shine.
They only love Bush now that he has less than 3 months in office. They only want unity now that they have all three branches. Get stuffed, leftards. We owe you NOTHING.
I'm convinced if there had been anyone else but John "The Snake" Kerry running against him in 04, chances are pretty good he would NOT had been re-elected.
I know that I am not alone in admitting that I voted AGAINST Kerry as opposed to FOR Bush.
While he continues to use the excuse that he will not sully the majesty of the Office of the Presidency to defend himself (OR we conservatives)--PROBABLY BECAUSE HE IS NOT ONE OF US TO BEGIN WITH--he defeats his own argument.
The Office of POTUS is NOT a magisterial position. It was meant to be occupied by ordinary Americans.
Thus by elevating "it" to such a high status, W is has in fact, made it so, by his unwillingness to not only defend himself, but his Party.
I love him as a man, but can't stand [most] of what he has done over the past 7 1/2 years.
He certainly has NOT been a leader for Conservatives, much less Republicans.
His continued (McCain-like) tendencies to get hit up side the head by DemoRats (OVER AN OVER AND OVER) and turn the other cheek and offer them a place at the table and reach out and work hand-in-hand with them, leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Absolutely. Chickenhawk that’s right. What else can we call him? Nazi, murderer, fascist, chickenhawk...what else?
No, that is the very reason the Democrats got control of the House and bankrupted the economy to get Obama in place.
How does protest voting feel now, you won!
Don't feel so bad, I learned this lesson the hard way when I watched this take place in Israel. They knew the conservative vote was being cheated and ignored so in mass, Israel conservatives protest voted. The result was in effect just was the US just got, a liberal super majority.
Liberals got drunk with power and it is Amazing how much damage drunken liberals can do behind the wheel. It will take a generation to repair what it took two years to do, and they are only gaining speed!
Now I get to watch it happen in America too. :(
What must our enemies think?
Probably the same thing the North Vietnamese did as they realized our defeat is to be had on our streets, courts and in our legislature, thanks to Socialist Democrats.
While the mortgage housing bubble had seeds going back decades, Bush people did nothing, even when any sane person could see the writing on the wall.
Bush took credit for his administration attaining record levels of home ownership, when his advisors knew or should have known it was built on a pending crisis.
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***OUTRIGHT LIES!***
PLEASE .. do your due diligence, and STOP spreading more garbage that’s untrue.
Pres. Bush tried multiple times since 2003 to rein in Fannie Mae/Freddie. He made seventeen attempts alone in 2008. Every time, Dodd, Frank, et all squashed his attempts.
Yes, he wanted sensible home ownership for folks, but saw
the the risks they were taking on several years ago, and strongly recommended stiffer regulation..
The President proposes ... Congress disposes. Remember that?
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone... Dems Ignored Warnings
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae.html
Want to apologize now or temper your words?
Starwise, I agree with everything you say about our President Bush. I hope he and his beautiful family have a wonderful life after he leaves office. He can lay his head down on his pillow everynight, in peace, knowing he did the best that he could for us. Yes, there are things I wish he did differently, but that doesn’t take away the goodness that is President Bush.
I will never forgive the media and the Dems for what they did to him, NEVER!
Karma will come to them. Everyone gets their comeuppance, somehow, someway, SOMEDAY.
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