Medicare Part D.
Another Big Government production brought to you by Bush and the RINO Party.
Posted on 09/24/2009 2:34:26 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
President Bush favored cap and trade, one of this former speechwriters claims in a new book.
In fact, Matt Latimer writes in "Speechless," the President actually ENDORSED the policy in a speech, but no one in the press could figure out what he meant.
Cap-and-trade, which would put a limit on businesses' carbon emissions, barely passed the House this year but has yet to make headway in the Senate. Most Republicans are vocally opposed to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The last few years of Bush was a pure disaster.
I’m not aware of what hie prescription drug policy was or how it was wrong. Please enlighten me.
Medicare Part D.
Another Big Government production brought to you by Bush and the RINO Party.
The war, both theaters, was enough.
Everything else is as nothing without the security to be able to argue about them.
The pride in ourselves as Americans, even though the left chipped that away from a majority, was gravy.
He never supported carbon taxes, cap and trade, or mandatory carbon limits. He endorsed large investments in nuclear plants, bio fuel subsidies and mandates (a huge policy mistake), and renewable subsidies. I agree with his approach generally. He wanted demonstratable technology developed first before committing to any CO2 reductions. The Chinese and Indian governments are pursuing the same approach although they are stressing massive solar and wind projects, probably boondoggles.
It is little wonder they have much in common: cap-and-trade, open borders, amnesty...
he kept us safe, didn’t raise taxes...can’t complain
“Book: Bush favored cap and trade”
Of course he did. Why wouldn’t he?
See 42. Prescription drug plan for seniors that we could not afford. The government was spending way too much money BEFORE they did it.
Except that we now have Obama, who may very well roll most everything back in less than 4 years.
A shady character like his does not thrive in a vacuum ; Obama was THE most leftwing person in the Congress. Bush set the table with his growing government and spending and bailouts and the rest. He's got a good deal of culpability there, I'm afraid, IMO.
Dana Perino, former White House press secretary said that Matt Latimer was rarely even around Pres. Bush!
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September 15, 2009
A Tall-Tale Tell-All [Dana Perino]
I knew Matt only a little bit. Now that an excerpt of his book is out, I’m reminded of what a veteran of three White Houses told me: Beware of the quiet guy in the room.
For example, he writes that President Bush didn’t know who Sarah Palin was. That’s rubbish — Bush had just met Palin the previous month in Alaska, and he mentioned that to me literally two seconds after McCain made his announcement. So much of what Latimer claims the president said don’t ring true to me. I was with the president for whole days at a time, through thick and thin, and I never heard him say things like that about others. And I don’t think he’s ever even said the word “keister.” C’mon.
I’m pretty sure that almost everyone who worked in the White House could not pick Matt out of a lineup, and I doubt that’ll change much after this book. Speechless should have been called “Shameless.”
Bush’s former spokeswoman, Dana Perino, told Reuters that while she hadn’t read the book, “I think that most people who worked in the White House would be hard pressed to pick this guy out of a line-up.”
She adds: “He wasn’t around the president much, and some of what he says the president said doesn’t ring true to me. For example, I was there outside the Oval when Sarah Palin was announced as the VP candidate and the president said to me, ’so, the Governor of Alaska was the pick? I just saw her a few weeks ago when we were on our way to China’.”
Perino also said she doesn’t recall Bush saying anything about anyone’s keister. “I’m not sure how people who write these books really feel about themselves. Oh well,” she says.
Matt Latimer
Matt Latimer is but another in a long line of former White House staffers who demean the amazing opportunity to work at the highest levels of our republic by trashing it and selling it. And he attempts to justify those actions by implying that he is driven to do so by some self-righteous sense of duty that comes after making the shocking discovery that the White House isn’t exactly as romantic as he had dreamed.
Latimer expects to be given a pass for his gossipy ways by portraying himself as the young, Ronald-Reagan-inspired ideologue (cue ‘Morning in America’) who came to Washington to change the world. On his way to the top however, he made the awful discovery that Washington is actually a place where politics plays a part in decision-making, people make fun of other people and sometimes they, gasp, swear. For someone who purports to be so incredibly sharp, he sure is naïve.
http://townhall.com/columnists/BrianCJones/2009/09/25/an_executive_privilege
Let’s Bush deny it if it’s not true.
Given everything else he supported like TARP and open borders I have no trouble believing this. None at all.
“Let’s Bush deny it if it’s not true.
Given everything else he supported like TARP and open borders I have no trouble believing this. None at all”
I put nothing past the Liberal George with Amnesty the troops in Jail and border agents and calling Americans names.
Since rabscuttle is a RonPaulBot and Matt Latimer most likely a lib, a temp guy who worked a few weeks in the White House, you and your opinions are known by the company you keep.
RE :”Let’s Bush deny it if it’s not true. Given everything else he supported like TARP and open borders I have no trouble believing this. None at all.”
Will we ever get rid of GWB?? Most of this book sounds a bit far fetched (stuff that MSNBC is pushing from it.) I wouldnt wast a character defending him, Cap and Trade never came up till McCain ran. We got enough real stuff against him, dont need unsourced crap.
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