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Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush (Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin ,com ^ | February 9, 2010 | Michelle Malkin

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.


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To: ohioWfan

There are certainly some things I miss about him. And Laura.


21 posted on 02/09/2010 1:52:17 PM PST by DallasSun (i believe in separation of church and hate.)
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To: sickoflibs
Iiii don't know about this one:

7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter

There is freedom of speech, separation of powers... that sort of thing.

22 posted on 02/09/2010 1:52:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (I consume, therefor I am.)
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To: sickoflibs

That only good thing about Obama being elected(on FR anyway), is not having to read the Bush-Bots tie themselves in knots trying to repudiate these obvious facts.


23 posted on 02/09/2010 1:52:38 PM PST by deadrock (Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
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To: sickoflibs
Miss ME yet?


24 posted on 02/09/2010 1:52:40 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: sickoflibs

GWB got a form of partial birth abortion banned. GWB got us Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts both of whom will be with us for 20-30 years.


25 posted on 02/09/2010 1:53:13 PM PST by avacado
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To: cowboyway
To be fair, he did give us tax cuts and he and the Repub congress let the Assault Weapons Ban sunset.

And Justices Roberts and Alito. In that regard, he has a better record of putting Conservatives on the Supreme Court than either his father or Ronald Reagan.

In retrospect, he was better than the guy he replaced and better than the guy who replaced him. Also better than his dad, Jimmy Carter (stating the obvious here), Gerald Ford and Nixon. Could go on and on. Of the eight Presidents in my lifetime, he's in the #2 slot after RR.
26 posted on 02/09/2010 1:53:31 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: sickoflibs

G.W. Bush and his “compassionate conservativism” was horse manure.
G.W. Bush was NO conservative.
He failed to push ANY of the conservative agenda/
BUT he was a truckload better than this marxist “magic nigro” punk.


27 posted on 02/09/2010 1:53:46 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: sickoflibs

George Bush wasn’t a perfect conservative like I am. So, I thought I’d waste a column pointing out how imperfect he is instead of examining something worthwhile.


28 posted on 02/09/2010 1:53:59 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: yarddog
He was better than Obama but I guess that is really not saying much.

That about sums it up.

29 posted on 02/09/2010 1:54:21 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: DEADROCK

Thanks to Bush we never had to suffer a President Gore or Kerry.


30 posted on 02/09/2010 1:55:03 PM PST by csmusaret (Right wing extremists: Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Paine, and me.)
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To: sickoflibs

MM has got guts....


31 posted on 02/09/2010 1:55:15 PM PST by Fred (For Freedom)
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To: nutmeg

Malkin — right, as usual.


32 posted on 02/09/2010 1:55:27 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: sickoflibs

How about the fact that the national debt was $5.7 trillion when Bush was inaugurated and $10.6 trillion the day he left office?


33 posted on 02/09/2010 1:55:55 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: DallasSun
There are certainly some things I miss about him. And Laura.

Agreed. But they become fewer and fewer when we get beyond keeping our nation safe. And even then, DHS was a real bad move.

34 posted on 02/09/2010 1:56:28 PM PST by bcsco (Obama is the navel of his own universe.)
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To: MEGoody

George Bush wasn’t a perfect conservative like I am.


Drop the “perfect” (a nice rhetorical touch) and you’ve got it about right.


35 posted on 02/09/2010 1:56:54 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Personal freedom begins when you tell Old Mrs. Grundy to go to Hell." -Lazarus Long)
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To: csmusaret
Thanks to Bush we never had to suffer a President Gore or Kerry.

Thank you!

Think about it, people.

36 posted on 02/09/2010 1:56:54 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: sickoflibs

While she is certainly correct about these flaws, she left out a few things over that 8 year record.

*2 substantial across the board tax cuts

*2 well qualified conservative SCOTUS nominees

*Promoted and signed ban on partial birth abortion

*Fostered a booming economy

*Tried to partially privatize SS, which his own party torpedoed.

*Did not lift a finger to support the global warmers

*Reigned in the EPA

*Killed Clinton’s workplace ergonomics OSHA job killer

*Signed off on protecting gun manufacturers from the John Edwards of the world.

*Waterboarded enemy combatants.

*Refused US involvement in the ICC

*Killed off the ABM treaty

*And the biggest gift of all - He defeated Algore and John F’n Kerry


37 posted on 02/09/2010 1:56:54 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: yarddog
“better than 0bama” is damning with faint praise.

I prefer to praise with faint damn; as in “he did a better job than Carter”.

;)

38 posted on 02/09/2010 1:56:57 PM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: sickoflibs

She forgot collaborating with the Mexican Government, persecuting American border guards, the Dubai Port scam, and a few other things.

But otherwise, an excellant analysis of Mr. Bush’s flawed legacy.

The last four Presidents - Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama have been progressively terrible. Obama is indisputably the worst of the bunch.

But I do NOT miss Bush - I miss Ronald Reagan.


39 posted on 02/09/2010 1:57:29 PM PST by ZULU (Hey Obama, how DO you pronounce "corpsman"?????)
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To: CSM

self ping for tommorrow read


40 posted on 02/09/2010 1:57:52 PM PST by CSM (The only reason a conservative should reach across the aisle is to slap a little sense into a lib!)
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