And thus the problem with the Bush admin. Raising the flag was the first step but he and his admin did not do the next bigger and more important step of demanding reform and using his bully pulpit to expose the fraud. Maybe one day we’ll find out why Bush was so nonchalant about certain things key to conservative ideology and so gung ho about being a big government Rino like his Daddy.
I think 'big tent' republicanism got so big there were no distinguishing features between republicans and liberals. Liberals knew republican moderates through that seniority system would allowed self interested, get mine while the getting is good individuals filled the GOP leadership positions. Liberals did their part in research and with their MSM 24/7 painted, deservedly so Republicans the image of power, greed, and corruption, knowing full well the majority of Americans would turn these people out come election.
The GOP did not 'regulate' itself and hence we got lord McCained, Foleyized and Cunninghamed right out of the majority. When the opportunity to send Brawny Frank packing back to the land of Mass the GOP went 'compassionate' and covered over his nakedness. And not even a whisper is to be heard from elected Republicans about who knew what and when they knew it when Brawney Frank stuck his pin in his over inflated balloon.
IF Brawney was a Republican we all would know every dime he had collected in his private bank account since the day he was elected.
By the time he and the GOP did anything it was too late. In 2002 W was pushing risky home loans just like everybody else.
Exactly. Bush did exactly what what the democrats did vis-a-vis housing. He pushed for expansion of Fannie and Freddie's puchasing of mortgages. He appointed two minority cronies to head HUD with the purpose of being politically correct and expanding ownership among hispanics and "poor".
Bush's legacy will turn out to be one of a president that unlocked and opened the door for the socialist Obama.
It’s quite simple, really: congress had him by the short hairs in the U.S. Senate where, even when the GOP had the slim majority, the squishy moderate GOP senators could never be trusted. Why is this fact important? Well, because President Bush needed the Left to continue to authorize the funding for two conflicts in the Middle East. He knew that he had to leave certain things alone because he didn’t have the votes to continue the fight that was neccessary.
That right there is the point. He should have continually screamed those facts from the mountain tops until congress relented from public pressure. Not doing so gave the democrats a reason to "blame Bush" and it was his fault. When dealing with democrats, it has to be in their face type of contact 24/7 as Rush does.
That is easier said than done. This needed to be stopped by no later than 2004. This stuff wasn't on many peoples radar screen back then. One was labeled as a tin foil hatted old crank if you brought up on FR..
The man was screwed from the git go. You can use the bully pulpit all you want. If the majority does not want to go along with it they won’t.
Perhaps, Bush needed congress to support the War effort.
The price paid was the Democratic boondoggle of Freedie and Fannie, among other Democratic boondoggles
How many time do you have to tell someone your on fire before they start to look for water?