Posted on 08/29/2011 4:57:57 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Pat Buchanan regularly serves as Morning Joe's lone conservative in the show's self-described 10:1 ratio of lib to conservative guests. But Buchanan this morning demonstrated that he is anything but a Republican partisan.
Sounding more like Barney Frank after a bad night's sleep, Buchanan blasted President George W. Bush, claiming 43 "broke the Republican party and frankly he broke the United States as a superpower." View the video here.
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“...but Bush kept you safe..” :)
Pat Buchanen is attempting to give credibility to the Bush Fault strategy that has been #1 in the Obama playbook for 3 years running.
I have no idea why. Maybe he’s running as a reform candidate again. Maybe he’ll have the “floating politician” as his running mate.
Maybe he’ll celebrate KrystallNacht with all his pals.
W. sucked. He just happened to have sucked slightly less than AlGore or Liveshot Kerry would have sucked. Basically, Bush was just slightly to the right of those gasbags.
Unless the United States of America are fully and totally committed to achieving complete and total attitude change of the entire population of civilians, ( that means loss of lots of lives and lots of precious things broken and destroyed) then they should **NOT** get involved.
Personally, I am sick of the interminable Vietnams, Iraqs, and Afganistans.
By the way....I think from now on I will use the expression the United States **are**. At one time this was the proper and unusual way to refer to our republic.
9/11 happened after Bush took office. Terrorism took place because we wanted to avoid going after people like Bin Laden.
While I guess that you are referring to the population implosion, personally I see two threats that are more serious. These two threats are likely a major contribute to the population implosion:
1) Marxist dominate **every** cultural institution in America.
2) Government socialist schools, because they are government owned and compulsory for all whose parents can not ransom them, are godless in their worldview. Merely by attending children learn to be comfortable with using the government to take money from a neighbor for a service their parents want for free. Children who attend godless schools MUST learn to think and reason godlessly if they are to cooperate with the classroom and complete assignments.
Marxism and government schooling are our nation's **MOST** serious threat. I seriously mean this.
Well, we agree about Mark Steyn.
I provided facts, you provide leftist talking points. We had a long period of growth and low unemployment. He ended up making two excellent USSC nominees, and slew of other good judicial nominees.
You are way over-blowing his spending problems. He was not good on the issue, and was not a champion of cutting or limiting government, but your multiplying the problem by many magnitudes. The deficit was shrinking down towards 100 billion in his last couple years with Republican majorities. After the 9/11 years, necessary military action and sputtering economy that resulted, the deficit ballooned, and then came back down.
They still should have done much, much better when we had majorities in both houses. It was a missed opportunity, but not historically out of whack. You seem to ignore that the vast portions of spending are established entitlement spending. We can probably all agree that the prescription drug program was not desirable, but he ran on it and won with the issues. It also was a well constructed program that has come in below budget and at lower costs, and is cited in Ryan’s program as a better model than the rest of Medicare.
Bottom line, spouting leftist talking points about Bush are completely unnecessary and incorrect. Bush’s presidency was a mixed bag, and a lot of us are frustrated with decisions by both the White House and the Congress during that time, but we had a lot of positive results during that time, and historically the first 4-5 years will be seen as very positive. The second term was a political failure first and foremost, and a governing failure in that little to nothing in domestic legislation was accomplished.
Shock and Awe, was about as limp wrested as you can get. Do you know anyone that thinks it was an anything more than an over sold Fourth of July show?
Well, if that's the case, where was Arthur Fiedler?
I'm the opposite of a Leftist, and I don't use "talking points."
The Bush Presidency was a failure. It would have been a failure if he had done everything right except REFUSE to halt illegal immigration.
But he failed at other things as well-notably the economy--reducing entitlements--and restraining, not to mention reducing, the size, reach scope, and appetite of that Frankenstein's Monster known as the Federal Government!
You have merely proved that you are incapable--or unwilling--to think for yourself and that all you intend to do is spout off tired old dogma that the facts have disproven, and you have demonstrated that Leftists are not the only ones who are slaves to groupthink.
(Tongue extended. Sides of mouth stretched by index fingers.)
Yeah, Bush wasn’t perfect - but I still really like the guy. Also agreed with his Justice picks and the fact that he was tough on a lot of things.
Can’t stand Buchanan. I agree - I think he’s a loose cannon. I lump him with McCain - because both of them want to curry favor with both sides of the isle - and I’m totally against that.
“talking points about Bush are completely unnecessary”
Some of us don’t want to see a repeat of Dubya’s reign of error. That means we need to examine the past, air the dirty laundry and pledge to do better. Covering up Bush’s abysmal administration is no way to start.
“Yeah, that Shock And Awe was really limp-wristed, wasn’t it?”
Operation “Together Forward II” certainly was. Epic fail by Dubya and Rummy the Dummy. End result: Rat controlled Congress.
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