President Bush and a Republican Congress had the deficit on a nice path until 2007. Gee, I wonder what happened in 2006 and 2008?
Posted on 02/09/2010 1:44:33 PM PST by sickoflibs
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but someone has to do it.
The “Miss Me Yet?” billboard (inspired by Jonathan Maney’s t-shirts) is cute. But let’s not get carried away with nostalgia.
President Bush put America on the proper war footing after 9/11 and deserves much credit for doing so, but he also:
1) joined with open-borders progressives McCain and Kennedy to try to force shamnesty down our throats;
2) massively expanded the federal role in education;
3) championed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement using phony math;
4) kowtowed to the jihadi-enabling Saudis;
5) stocked DHS with incompetents and cronies;
6) pushed Hillarycare for housing;
7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter;
8. nominated crony Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court;
9) pre-socialized the economy for Obama by embracing TARP, the auto bailouts, the AIG bailout, and in his own words:
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.” – George W. Bush
No, I don’t miss having a corporate socialist Republican in the White House any more than I like having a corporate socialist Democrat in the White House now.
President Bush's stellar role as CinC cannot be overstated. His troops would step in front of a bullet for him. They respected and loved him, as he did them.
That important fact cannot be overstated.
Ditto for me. I admire the man and he did his best to keep us safe but his domestic policies were a nightmare.
As I have been saying on all these threads, it’s like asking a terminal cancer patient if he misses having heartburn. I don’t miss either one, although one is a helluva lot worse than the other.
Thank you P;)
As Sarah Palin said: “There is no such thing as a perfect candidate”.
George Bush did not have the luxury of a conservative GOP majority in Congress - only a GOP majority for a limited time. There is a difference.
I like Dubya.
Reagan named 3 to the Supreme Court, which resulted in one solid conservative, Antonin Scalia. The other two, O’Connor and Kennedy, were mostly “swing” votes and more often to the Left. O’Connor’s tenure was pretty much a disaster. Kennedy, at least, re-joined the right side the week before last.
Anthony Kennedy, I found out, was recommended by none other than James Baker... over the objections of Ken Starr and Michael Luttig.
Alito and Roberts are proving out more reliable.
Bush is and always will be an incredibly frustrating mixed bag. He did great, for the most part, on issues of war and terrorism and foreign policy for that matter too.
He was a complete disaster on domestic fiscal policy. He didn’t spend as much as Comrade Obama but he set the stage and primed the pump from Day 1 in office. He could care less about spending restraint and he cynically paid lip service to fiscal conservatives around election time with no intention of following through. And to rub salt in the wounds, he was portrayed and largely viewed by the ignorant public as a nasty conservative who was cutting programs. And don’t even get me started on immigration.
He will always have my respect for being a decent, honorable and humble man who did what was right on war, terrorism and foreign policy issues. He was deeply flawed, a failure, on government spending and expansion of the welfare state.
It is actually quite popular, and GWB does get credit for it. Ask anyone thats on it....it was a Godsend for many. Of course, it is run by private insurance, successful, and under budget!
That doesn't hurt.
Did anyone mention his set up of missile defense in eastern Europe? If Jeffords had not swithced parties in his first term we might ahve seen a little better list of judges too.
You’re welcome. Thank you for your posts. I’ve only now reviewed the many other posts. Clearly, there are FReepers making the point to balance the positives against these flaws of his record. On balance, I think history will be kinder (if not gentler) than the knee-jerk reactions occurring here whenever the Bush name appears. Do folks not recognize how they sound exactly like 0bama, Axelrod, Emmanuel, Carville ... when they do this?
That's why it's so hard to distinguish the Bush haters here from the leftist trolls. They sound the same way and say the same things as each other. They cheer the same anti-Bush rhetoric whether it comes from an attention hound like Malkin or a leftist source like the NYTimes.
It would bother me, as a conservative, to be so much on the same page as the BDS infested left, but it doesn't bother these guys at all.
Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
George W. Bush was a real zero.
Thank you.
You'd think that if she was a pro-lifer she would once in awhile appreciate the incredible way Pres. Bush stood up for the unborn UNRELENTINGLY for 8 years.
But, no, instead she gets off on trashing him continually. Not classy at all.
President Bush and a Republican Congress had the deficit on a nice path until 2007. Gee, I wonder what happened in 2006 and 2008?
Must make you feel real good about yourself, doesn't it?
You put no value on integrity, on saving the unborn, on protecting the country, on supporting our military, on standing strong for America abroad, on appointing strong conservative federal judges and incredible SC Justices.
Yes, indeed. All of those things mean nothing to a leftist.........or to you.
Good job, Mark. (You must have gone to public school).
/Bump
I remember him trying to take over a State issue with Terry Schaivo and trying to handle it on the federal level. I got the impression that Bush was a fanatic on the issue. He also tried to put pro-choice Harriet Myers on the Court.
In either case, that makes President Bush more conservative than she is on that issue.
To me, the most important issue of our generation....... and the next.
You are correct however in the pointing out that Michelle is displaying signs of BDS by not pointing out the long list of good things that President Bush accomplished.
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