Posted on 04/18/2009 3:25:43 PM PDT by decimon
The food is enjoyable, as long as you don’t ask what you are eating. Visit local meat markets and you will see they eat anything that moves, including dogs and cats. Westerners who eat there for a couple of weeks have a high risk of taking home parasites in their stomach. Chinese food hygiene is very bad (or at least it was when I was there 20 years ago).
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. If we were to accept your specious reasoning about President Bush, we would also have to conclude that President Reagan was also a failure.
RIDDLE ME THIS:
1.) Who controlled Congress when President Reagan left office (versus most of his tenure in office)?
SENATE (1985-87)— 53 Republicans / 47 Democrats
SENATE (1987-89)— 55 Democrats / 45 Republicans
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm
HOUSE (1981-83) — 242 Democrats / 192 Republicans
HOUSE (1989-91) — 260 Democrats / 175 Republicans
http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/partyDiv.html
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2.) During the 1992 election cycle, on whom did the electorate blame the bad economy — an assessment that delivered the White House to Bill Clinton?
According to Gallup, a majority blamed the economic policies of Ronald Reagan (who at the time had a lower post-presidency JA rating than Jimmy Carter — 47% to 49%). [FYI: The election of Clinton lead directly to the attacks of 9/11/01.]
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3.) Why do ‘conservatives’ ignore President Reagan’s historic spending/deficits, as well as other center-left policies (e.g., amnesty)?
Conservatives ignore Reagan’s deficits/center-left policies because he (Reagan) was fighting and winning a COLD war at the time.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I do believe that during his tenure, President Bush was fighting and winning a HOT war — and a hot war trumps a cold war every time!
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Additional perspective from Karl Rove:
“At home, Mr. Bush cut income taxes for every American who pays taxes. He also cut taxes on capital, investment and savings. The result was 52 months of growth and the strongest economy of any developed country.
Mr. Bush was right to match tax cuts with spending restraint. This is a source of dispute, especially among conservatives, but the record is there to see. Bill Clinton’s last budget increased domestic nonsecurity discretionary spending by 16%. Mr. Bush cut that to 6.2% growth in his first budget, 5.5% in his second, 4.3% in his third, 2.2% in his fourth, and then below inflation, on average, since. That isn’t the sum total of the fiscal record, of course — but it’s a key part of it.”
—Karl Rove
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258532378704477.html
Thank you for the ping and the AWESOME comments (with which I heartily agree)!!
You will find some wonderful photos here — I particularly like the one of President Bush waving from the SUV:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//090418/ids_photos_wl/r1019550173.jpg/
Thank you DrDeb. I’ll check them out!
I hate DUmmies posting as FReepers. “(
Yeah, me too. Just look at the financial mess they've gotten us.
He is a DUmmie?
“If it wasn’t for Bush and his policies Obama would NOT be in office today. “
No. If it weren’t for a corrupt and biased media Obama would not be in office today. (And I think Satan might have had a hand in it too.)
The contrast may make Bush look statesmanlike and Obama look petty.
“I could think of almost any place in the world I’d like to visit but Communist China is not even in the top 100.”
Ditto.
“Three cheers for GWB’
YES!! Didn’t agree with all his positions BUT he is a man of integrity and courage and he loves America and our military! May God always bless President and, our beautiful, classy First Lady Laura Bush.
Look at the top of your news page.
This will show you what a ping is all about.
If you can do without the Wall, Taiwan is better. It’s cleaner, safer, and more authentic in Chinese culture than that toxic waste dump on the other side of the Strait.
I don't expect to see either but the pictures coming out of the mainland support what you say of the ChiCom economy.
When Bush took office he had a republican House and a near split in the Senate. In 2002 the Senate become republican. What did he do? Did he make tax cuts permanent? Did he propose anything the would shif the country to the right? Not that I can remember. In fact, in several of his speeches he promoted more govt. help in getting low income people to buy homes.
It was that kind of schizophrenic governance that threw the nation into a spending frenzy.
Conservatives saw Bush acting like a democrat and they said, "What the heck! If our leader is doing it it must be right."
Bush used the war as tool to get things he wanted. He used it in damn near every speech. He gave too many concessions to the dems to keep the war going.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. If we were to accept your specious reasoning about President Bush, we would also have to conclude that President Reagan was also a failure.
Where did I say Bush was a failure? I said his policies, which were a lot like the dems, led us to Obama.
Remember "I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."? How could he even say that?
Bush's almost complete lack of leadership led us to Obama. People saw very little difference between Obama and the GOP just before the election and since they wanted change they voted for it. Bush NEVER made any kind of case for consevatism. On the one hand he would call for tax cuts and then implement a massive spending program.
He was to inconsistent. So, now we have Barack and Bush to thank for it.
Following your convoluted logic, Reagan’s amnesty bill, federal funding for education, lowering then raising of taxes, growing the federal bureaucracy, withdrawal of troops from Lebanon (empowering OBL), failure to support Judge Bork, and so on, and on, and on, lead to the defeat of Republicans in the House/Senate and the eventual election of Bill Clinton (per Gallup polling) . . . Clinton’s failure to fight Islamic terrorists, who repeatedly attacked the US/US interests during his tenure, lead directly to the attacks of 9/11/01 . . . ergo, Reagan not only enabled the election of Bill Clinton, he also enabled the attacks on 9/11/01 . . . Again, using your convoluted logic.
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BTW: I encourage you to do the research necessary to answer your own rhetorical questions about President Bush’s eight years in office. FYI: A few of your questions illustrate a pathetic illiteracy vis a vis the functioning of our democratic republic, i.e., only the Congress could have made the tax cuts permanent — thank you Senator McCain, et al, for that debacle . . . Oh yes, that’s the same candidate that actually lost the last election!
You can begin your research here:
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/index.html
I am looking at the picture between the two leaders and the body language tells me that they enjoy President Bush’s company to a greater degree. Kind of strange, since one would think that the one has more of an ideological connection with the People’s Republic than President Bush./Just Asking - seoul62......
Bush wasn’t hostile towards the Chinese and he’s not there in an official capacity. There’s not much reason for tension.
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