[ejdrapes]

Sad to say it, but I agree with this. Republicans squandered the 8 years they had with Bush in office. Now we're stuck with Zero, Pelosi and Reid. And no doubt in my mind the media will do everything in their power to make sure the dems keep control of the house and senate this November. We're soooo screwed. :-(

[MHT]

Blaming Bush is juvenile. It's like blaming McCain for being a lousy candidate, which he was. But in the end, what difference did it make? Obama won and would have beat any Republican after eight years of pistol-whipping by the media and financial debacle created by Fannie and Freddie.

Bush was the most electable Republican at the time and he was better than either Gore or Kerry. He was not a nation builder and had no international agenda but, as he always said, 9-11 changed everything. He wasn't a perfect conservative but neither was he the stupid lout that the press made him out to be.

His term is over and so are its lost opportunities. Blaming him makes the media right and I, perhaps alone, refuse to buy anything the press declares about George W. Bush.

W. Bush has said that the people who will write about him and judge him have yet to be born. Wonder how they will look back upon tonight?

[Dallas59]

Just be very afraid of the next terror attack. Bush went and licked arse...Obammy will blame the victims.

[Jedidah]

Balderdash.

Here we go: conservatives throwing rocks at the good guys instead of uniting to take the country back.

[Indy Pendance]

What a bunch of bull. Bush didn’t do this, this started way back. This was the dems wet dream for 60-70 or more years. They’ve been working for this day for decades. Is this writer in high school and his history only started in 2000? Ignoramus.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Blame Governor Romney for RomneyCare, the “demonstration project” for ObamaCare.

[AmusedBystander]

I’d vote for W again.

[April Lexington]

Democrats and Al Quida play hardball... We don’t so we lose...

[Mr. Mojo]

While they were in power, Republicans squandered an opportunity to push free market health care solutions. When they did use their power to pass major legislation, it was for policies like the big government Medicare prescription drug plan, which was (until today) the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society. They took earmarks and doled out farm and energy subsidies. They earned a reputation for fiscal recklessness and corruption and incompetent governance.

Difficult to disagree with the above. HW's and W's "compassionate conservatism" was/is virtually indistinguishable from "progressivism." The direction the GOP has taken since Reagan left office has proved to be disastrous, and has paved the way for an Arabist/socialist like Obama to become President.

[April Lexington]

The GOP pandered to the Left and moved to the center to “stay in power.” It didn't work. It never works. We need a conservative party that will fight for power by sticking to its principles. The Left does this. The Taliban does this Al Quaida does this. But McCain, and the GOP panders to its enemies and gets its head handed to it every time.

[Jim Noble]

I agree with every word.

[A message]

Baloney. I blame stupid American voters who vote for Socialists and Communists because they always vote Democrat and will vote Democrat even if their eating stone soup every night.

I blame voters who would prefer to be slaves than freemen.

I blame apathy and laziness as the choice too many Americans make every election rather than seek information that would allow them to make an intelligent choice.

[SmokingJoe]

Was Bush partly resposnsiblke for Republian loses in 2006 and 2008? Sure.
And did Bush's(and Rove’s) backing of Arlene Specter lead directly to the the Democrats having a filibuster proof majority in the US Senate in order to pass 0bamcare ? You bet.
But this is no time for looking back to 2008. This is a time for action to take the Democrats down in November and crush 0bama in 2012, then repeal 0bamacare. I am not going to waste time on Bush right now.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>> ... none of this would have been possible without George W. Bush -- or more broadly speaking, Bush era Republicanism. ... it should also be remembered as the day that Bush cemented his legacy as one of the most destructive presidents for advocates of limited government.

Agreed!

[Cold Heat]

Republicans squandered the 8 years they had with Bush in office. Now we're stuck with Zero

Yeah.....so all these angry repubs voted for Obama?

What happened was the the party fractured and we ended up with a lousy primary. Bush did not cause that. He was leaving. It was the fight for his replacement where we formed a circular firing squad and killed our own asses.

Bush did nothing to cause that. Greed and political stupidity did. "If I can't have my way I'll screw you!" was the motto.

We got what we deserved and asked for.

[coconut47]

I blame every dumbass that voted for Obama and I hope the Democrats choke on their votes!

[SoCal Pubbie]

Is this a joke? The seeds of our current situation were planted long before Bush ever went to Washington. The ability to label George W Bush as a buffoon, simpleton, and lying Nazi were sown in the 1960’s, when academia refused to respond to campus takeovers with the proper response that was due those red diaper doper babies. Failure to hold the line ever since, in the media, newspapers, and TV news was instrumental in creating a class of people dedicated to convincing the American public that the original sin of white guilt had to be exorcised by the election of Barack Obama. Blaming Bush, who was an uneven President to be sure, is like blaming a riveter in Belfast for the sinking of the Titanic

[montag813]

Sad to say it, but I agree with this. Republicans squandered the 8 years they had with Bush in office.

Bush made this decision by being the "war president". But he didn't even communicate his approach towards the wars directly to the American people. He just kept quiet for 18 months, while his numbers went down the rathole, and I had to listen to Veterans in the grocery store bash him, when I saw those same folks with Bush/Cheney 04 stickers just a few years earlier.

It all started downhill right after the re-election, when he said he was going to use some of his political capital...on Social Security reform that had ZERO chance of passing the Senate? Then he had his AG appoint Fitzgerald as a spec prosecutor in the ridiculous "Plame affair". More self-inflicted wounds.

He passed bankruptcy reform--but let Tom Delay block a key amendment which would have exempted those provably caused by medical bills--a HUGE blunder that left an issue open to the Dems for this very debate now.

He refused to pursue drilling in ANWR with a 90% post-9/11 approval rating! Oil from ANWR would be flowing next year if he had put his capital behind a major issue like that. And it could have opened up huge offshore drilling momentum--again taking away a big issue for the Dems as oil prices exploded.

And he did not propose ANYTHING to reform health care. NADA. Well, speaking of "Nada", he did try to push illegal amnesty, but let's please not raise my blood pressure and further...

[surfer]

Absolutely spot on. If it weren’t for the idiot Bush we wouldn’t have idiot part deux today.

The most famous line he ever spoke...

I had to abandon the principles of the free market to save the free market...

AYE YI YI!!! spoken like a true progressive!

[usmcobra]

George Soros and Moveon.org have engineered this since before George W. Bush was even sworn in the first time.

It was an act of God that put Bush in the White House and prevent Al Gore from doing what Obama has done to this country.

Blaming Bush is childish and disingenuous.

[cva66snipe]

I agree. Bush is the POTUS who made Obama possible and the GOP house and senate during Bush's term helped create the Executive Office Dictatorship. May the name Bush from that wretched liberal elitist family never hold another national public office.

A lot of GOP names created this crisis including Dole, Lott, Frist, & Newt, to name a few.