Yea he did. He’s also the guy who was sponsoring the immigration bill that would have more than made up for his veto on Part D with a huge increase in the drain on the Treasury by inviting in a huge number of third world medical basket cases. Flip a coin.
There’s only one GOP senator I’ve seen who actually treats the public’s money with anything but contempt: Coburn. After that, I don’t see anything in the GOP in the Senate that doesn’t have his/her nose in the trough alongside the Democrats.
Bush has already spent more than several previous Democratic administrations combined and has cost the GOP any and all credibility in fiscal responsibility, possibly forever. Add on crap like the “Bridge to Nowhere” and we have a party with no credibility whatsoever on fiscal or monetary policy.
We still have yet to see a SINGLE Wall Street figure be prosecuted for their malfeasance and violations of SarbOx, which Bush signed with a great flourish after Enron. What we have here makes Enron look like chump change left in a penny dish by the checkout. We have a SecTreas who is busy pissing money into the air with wild abandon and complete secrecy, a SEC chair who is a Harvard-educated Barney Fife, and malfeasance everywhere we look in DC and Wall Street.
Some people will try to respond “Oh, but they just arrested Madoff!”
No good for the GOP. Madoff confessed to a FBI agent. The SEC was nowhere to be seen.
People here on FR claiming to be scared of the financial consequences of Obama might as well hang it up. Bush has set the stage for socialism to run amok, and is busy socializing the economy before he even leaves office, mostly through administrative fiat.
What conservatives better think about first is purging the party of neo-cons and Bush-lites. Let’s just admit that we’re going to spend at least four years in the minority and clean house. That can start with sending McCain out to pasture and putting someone else in there who isn’t quite so eager to stab his fiscal conservative running mate in the back.
Here’s the deal with McCain. He was for a lot of crap. he deserved what was coming.
but he also opposed a lot of Bush’s nonsense and you didn’t see Republicans give him any credit. Bush could do no wrong so if you voted for his big spending, you were still considered a ‘conservative.’ Hannity would still say nice things about you. And Bush was also for that immigration bill. So why was only mccain bashed when Bush was just as bad if not worse?
All true. Where is Sarbanes-Oxley?
Your entire post makes the right points.
Life is far too pleasant and nice in DC. Idiots flourish. Thieves like Franklin Raines flourish
It was amazing how James Cramer tore into Chris Cox two nights ago
I'm told he does this once or twice a week
I have stuck with Bush even while criticizing him
But this George Bush approved bailout with Paulson as the dictator is a travesty and shows who really controls America no matter whether Democrats or Republicans are nominally in charge
Paulson has bailed out out all his Wall St & banker friends.
He gave more money to those responsible for this derivatives disaster
They refused to loan it out. Paulson knew this in advance. It was a charade put on for the sheeple
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/31/pearlstein/index.html
People here on FR claiming to be scared of the financial consequences of Obama might as well hang it up. Bush has set the stage for socialism to run amok, and is busy socializing the economy before he even leaves office, mostly through administrative fiat.
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This is true!! People are going to have to understand this is not a Republican...Democrat thing. We are ALL Americans and America is being put through the shredder! But that is ok..just keep fighting among yourselves over the petty things while this country is flushed down the toilet. It is ALL of US against a government that is growing more Beast like every day!!
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