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.
There are certainly some things I miss about him. And Laura.
7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter
There is freedom of speech, separation of powers... that sort of thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That about sums it up.
Thanks to Bush we never had to suffer a President Gore or Kerry.
MM has got guts....
Malkin — right, as usual.
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?
Agreed. But they become fewer and fewer when we get beyond keeping our nation safe. And even then, DHS was a real bad move.
George Bush wasn’t a perfect conservative like I am.
Thank you!
Think about it, people.
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
I prefer to praise with faint damn; as in “he did a better job than Carter”.
;)
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.
self ping for tommorrow read
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