Posted on 12/22/2011 3:18:16 AM PST by markomalley
Since this thread is about GWB, I’ll give a couple of examples for him.
Number one would be a solid stream of conservative judges appointed over eight years, culminating in Roberts and Alito.
He ended federal funding for abortions overseas as one of his first acts.
He rebuilt the military by increasing its funding after Clinton gutted it.
He rebuilt our intelligence services and tore down the wall between the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies that contributed to 9/11.
After Clinton threatening countries, passing on killing Osama, bombing aspirin factories etc, Bush restored our resolve to deal with international threats.
He opened millions of acres of federal land for development, slowed environmental regs to a crawl, ended any chance of us ever joining the Kyoto treaty.
Refused to allow us to be ruled by the International Criminal Court.
Cut income taxes on every single American that pays them.
Added seats in congress for three straight elections (counting his coat tails in 2000) and took control of the Senate in 2002.
Those are just a few highlights....
THere is plenty more, but I don’t have time to give you a complete history lesson.
Its sad to see that Bush Derangement is still with us .....like the cockroaches ...it will always be with us....The last words spoken by mankind will surely be “ GW Bush’s fault”
That gave me a good chuckle on a very dreary day! Thanks!
Rick Santorum is the perfect example of the damage inflicted by Bush era Republicanism.
Why cant Santorum take responsibility for his own actions? I thought that was the heart of conservatism
See my Post #45 please.
Good question. GWB never laid blame on anyone else for anything. He took responsibility whether good or bad.
That is the way a real President should act, and that is another reason this particular article is such BS.
Amen to your posts.
Thank you.
Apparently, the Democrats won’t have a serious candidate for U.S. Senate to succeed KBH. We have a good choice in attorney Ted Cruz, who is more conservative than David Dewhurst.
Spoken like a true leader. Not.
You can assign responsibility to Bush for his neglect of the party as well. His big spending and domestically liberal positions undermined any new blood that otherwise may have been brought along. "See you at the (amnesty) bill signing"( you vigilante racists you).
Blaming the media is accurate but pointless. They are what they are, and everyone knows ahead of time what they are. Like potholes in the road, it is up to the driver to maneuver around them.
Bootless remark. A leader without support is George Armstrong Custer, the Light Brigade, or whom do you like? The Old Guard at Waterloo?
The best outcome one can hope for is Robert McAuliffe's at Bastogne -- he was rescued by Patton -- or the glory of the Spartan Three Hundred.
Only after 9/11. Before 9/11, Rumsfeld came into DoD, ran up a budget request reflective, he thought, of the cost of redeeming Bush's campaign promises to restore the Clinton cuts, shortfalls, and drawdowns (spare parts and "air war" weapon stocks, e.g. Tomahawks), and was promptly slapped down by Bush and told to "stand fast" -- yes, that's right, "stand fast" on budget requests. Then Bush sent him a carve-out demand for SDI amounting to $60 billion, which was a decrement in promise-redemptive DoD spending of $120 billion.
He also forced Rumsfeld to cancel the Army's long-range self-propelled artillery weapon (the "Crusader" system) based on the much-admired South African long-range artillery piece. The "Crusader" had been developed to replace the already long-in-the-tooth M109 SP gun, which is still our mainstay despite having been brought out in the 1950's.
Bush promised restoration of the Clinton DoD deficits, but in office he wanted tax cuts for his Wall Street client/masters (which were they?) instead.
That was before 9/11. He did the same thing at NASA, only after the 2003 Columbia disaster had exposed the folly of the Clinton funding and personnel cuts, thus proving that the impetus to cut, slash, and turn the funding cuts to tax cuts was Bush's own.
Please don't re-write history.
[A.Hun] Good question. GWB never laid blame on anyone else for anything. He took responsibility whether good or bad.
The article's point wasn't whether Bush took responsibility. It was whether what he did was wise, and whether it contributed to the public weal rather than the particular interests of the investors he catered to during his entire eight-year tenure of office.
Furthermore, as regards Santorum, it is not an abrogation of responsibility for one's own actions, to fix responsibility on others for their actions (as in particular Karl Rove's case, in hanging Santorum out to dry), when that is in fact the case, that they were responsible for certain outcomes.
Indeed.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
The only thing you are right about is that they didn’t jump in with a huge request.
Clinton’s budget projection was 310 billion, and Rumsfeld submitted a budget of 328 billion in June of 2001.
The final budget was 344 billion, considerably more than Clintons estimate.
Bush said he would increase DOD funding, and did. For two straight years under Clinton, the DOD budget was cut...literally lower than the year before. (’97 and ‘98 IIRC)
particular interests of the investors he catered to during his entire eight-year tenure of office.
Which ones are those? Big oil or Halliburton?
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