GW Bush: "There is no [conservative] movement...I redefined the Republican Party"
Posted on 12/22/2009 7:29:27 PM PST by rabscuttle385
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obamacare.
It’s easy to blame the sixty Democrats, as the Wall Street Journal does, for "the worse bill ever." It solemnly declares: "These 60 Democrats are creating a future of epic increases in spending, taxes and command--and control regulation."
True enough. But what's the root cause of this permanent disaster?
Sorry, friends, but it’s not the Democrats, nor the American people who elected them.
The real culprits are two Republicans who ran the show the previous eight years: George W. Bush and his "master political strategist" Karl Rove. If it weren’t for these two in the White House, the Democrats wouldn’t have sixty senators, including a professional comedian from Minnesota, to close off debate and ram down our throats a bill worse than Hillary Care.
The fact is that the Bush & Rove act pushed through a litany of ruinous government policies that led to the lowest approval numbers in history:
the undeclared and costly War in Iraq and its stepchild the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
the monstrous No Child Left Behind Act that dramatically increased federal intervention in private education.
the Prescription Drug Act that gave the American people another benefit-corrupted entitlement and unfunded liability.
large and growing deficits and national debt.
the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, largely due to their failure to reform government-sponsored agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
large and growing deficits and national debt (according to the Cato Institute's latest report, George W. Bush was the biggest spender since LBJ!).
The supply-side tax cuts were probably the only major piece of economic legislation that Bush/Rove deserve credit for, but even then, they blundered in not making the tax cuts permanent. So now even if the Republicans take back Capitol Hill in the 2010 elections, all President Obama has to do is veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts, and voila, taxes will increase automatically.
In short, we are paying a heavy price for the "compassionate conservativism" of Bush/Rove.
Once Obamacare becomes law, like Medicare and other "Great Society" programs, it will never end. We will be stuck with national health care for the rest of our lives.
And how are Bush and Rove rewarded? We aren’t seeing much of George Bush, who is quietly ensconced in his new digs in Texas.
The tragedy is Karl Rove, who ironically has been rewarded by conservatives. He’s treated like a triumphant general on Fox News almost every night and was signed on as a regular columnist in the prestigious Wall Street Journal.
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Okay, let’s keep the pressure on - especially Nelson. The governor and people of Nebraska are really giving it to him. Let’s add fuel to the fire! Let him know we are not only sick of the corruption of which he is chief benefactor, but we will also be cheering for the Cornhuskers to lose big to the Arizona Wildcats in their upcoming bowl game!
Nelson
bennelson.senate.gov
Phone: (402) 441-4600
Fax: (202) 228-0012
Webb
http://webb.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
(202) 224-4843
Fax (202) 228-1371
Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
Fax: (202) 228-1377
Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
I can’t believe Human Events let this one through.
The Conservative example of the Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Really? The author seems to find it hard.
Socialism always fails.
Thank you Mark. I have been begging for Karl Rove to be grilled for his sorry advise - especially the unfunded senior drug mandate!!!
Never know whom BDS might strike.
I blame two Republicans too. Snowe and Collins! Without them, this would have died in committee.
Well, there was more money spent during his term, but Congress actually spends the money. He didn't carp about it. And he was certainly right in there pitching.
On average, I think we ran up the debt about $500 billion plus each year of Bush's term. Ouch!
I have to agree with most of that article. There are some parts I don't agree with it on, like the Iraq war.
Do you think it’s over the top?
Right from the first point I see listed as a means of blaming Bush and republicans this Saddam Hussein defender tells me all I need to know about his backward Ron Paul way of viewing foriegn policy and the Constitution.
If any movement starts to take on talking points the likes of this article then I will be off board.
President Bush was far from perfect but all in all he was a very good president.
Thanks,
Karl Rove made out as great as a star on FNC. But GWB did not make out as well. He is considered one of the worst presidents of our lifetime (with Carter) by most Americans. Who the hell knows what GWB is thinking now with Obama falling?
Skousen places the blame nicely. He misses quite a few sources of contributory negligence but he ties a nice bow around Bush and Rove. I blame Norm Coleman for a lackluster campaign that wasted my money and a legal battle that wasted more. I blame a corrupt Justice Department that permitted career lawyers to hide excupatory evidence. I blame all folks out there that withheld effort and contributions from any defeated “RINO” who may have provided the 41st vote against Stalinism.
I’m stunned this appeared in Human Events. It reads nearly verbatim like a Daily Kos / DU thread.
No. I think it's dead on accurate.
All in all I would say that it is idiots such as the writer of this article who are to blame for Obama care and his entire attack on our Constitution. It is their weak arguments against Bush that are to blame for Obama getting elected.
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