Ex-President George W. Bush tells auto dealers he'd bail out automakers again

Detroit Free Press - LINK ONLY | 02/07/2012 | Alisa Priddle

[Responsibility2nd]

Ex-President George W. Bush tells auto dealers he'd bail out automakers again

[SoConPubbie]

Do you think Mitt Romney won’t do the same thing?

Only when Mitt Romney does it, it will look like it is on steriods.

[Afronaut]

In many lifetimes people will never figure it out. It is not the two parties, one better than the next, it's the whole pie folks. They are all scum.

When and if that light goes off in your head, you might help make a difference in the future. Not as much fun as throwing mud, but not being a tool for criminals is clean living.

[GlockThe Vote]

in retrospect - GWB’s second term was probably the worst 4 years of a presidency I can ever imagine aside from obama.

[dfwgator]

Screw our grandkids, let’s party!

[SoConPubbie]

I want to see a comparison with what Reagan did with the S&l bailout

I don't care who did it or when or for what.

It was just plain wrong.

This is what bankruptcy is for, otherwise, Congress needs to pass laws forcing the Feds to loan zero-interest money to the common taxpayer when they are in financial trouble, can't pay their taxes, or their bills.

[pgkdan]

Good Grief George! haven’t you done enough damage to the party and the country??? Just go the hell away. Please. I’m sorry I ever supported you.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Ex-President George W. Bush tells auto dealers he’d bail out automakers again”

Which is why we are so glad there is an “Ex-” in front of your title, Jorge.

[hcmama]

Statements like these are the reason Goofy was sitting at 32% approval when he left....and the reason we have Obama today.

[poobear]

Well how the hell else were they going to nationalize everything!? Next, tax the energy suppliers into oblivion and cry “crisis”. Bet you’ll see the drilling start then.

[MinuteGal]

OMG....if GW comes out of his shell between now and election WE"LL LOSE!

All we need is for him to be a huge target for Obama and the Dems during the pre-election campaign. His very presence in the public eye will trigger a reprise of these past years where Bush was the whipping boy for everything from Gitmo to Hurricane Katrina to the Battle of Waterloo.

What a rallying point he will present to the enemy if he treads the political boards again.

Will his ego push him front and center during these critical months leading up to November?

What will he do now that there's no trees to chop and underbrush to clear away to keep him busy?

I don't even want to think about this.....gloom.

Leni

[kcvl]

"Friends in Brazil say politics is “same pile of shite, different flys”."

Exactly!

[thesharkboy]

He had no such right under the Constitution. You remember that document, right? The one that’s supposed to tell the federal government what it can and cannot do? Ring a bell?

[sand88]

I would rather see a discusion of real facts than the Jr High stuff we now see on these threads where we learn what? That so and so really hated/ hates Bush and thinks all politicians are the same

I smell some arrogant elitism creeping through your words. Should interact like, "all things considered"? It is healthy for Freepers to vent and express their frustrations. Most postings are conversational in a way that would be similar to a group sitting in a bar chatting back and forth.

What Bush did was wholly unconstitutional. Please read what Mark Levin has written about Bush violating the Constitution when he carried out the bailout. Levin is a Constitutional expert. He was quite informative in describing how Bush was wrong.

Freepers have a good reason to be pi**ed at Bush for never fighting back against attacks and vastly expanding the power of the State (Medicare Part-D, No Child Left Behind, Bailouts, hardly ever vetoing any bills) He signed the CFR bill painfully knowing it was unconstitutional.

Bush's best achievements were taking the War to the enemy. Domestically he had strong Statist tendencies.

[Son-Joshua]

How quickly we forget that Reagan did the same for Chrysler in the 80’s. The diff. was that the loan went to jump start the company that had new models coming on line. The loan was NOT to replenish union coffers like obama did to get campaign money come this election. Further, president Bush would not have told the preferred bond holders, who were the first creditors in line, to fly a kite like obama did. Finally, when obama took office he closed the dealerships who had a track record of supporting Republican presidents. Again, I doubt that President Bush would have done this against dealers who support dems.

[MaxMax]

Like an old marriage, You’ve had it, tried it, and don’t want it anymore.

[SoConPubbie]

Yours is the kind of juvenile response I am sick of .....Can you name a source for your contention that it was not paid back and Obama has not and will not ever get my vote unlike the many freepers who will vote for him by not voting for whoever is his opposition

Count me as one of those who refuses to vote for Obama's Opposition if it is another liberal like Mitt Romney.

AND you can stuff your assertion that I will be the reason Obama get's elected.

No, it will be faux conservatives and conservatives who willingly give up their principles at the first stiff win and the propaganda that only a moderate Liberal like Mitt Romney can win.

You can blame yourself and others like you for cowardly giving up and not holding the line if Romney is the nominee and Obama wins.

[fortheDeclaration]

Do I miss Bush-NO!

[dfwgator]

How quickly we forget that Reagan did the same for Chrysler in the 80’s.

That was wrong, too. Government should not save companies from their own bad decisions.

[Responsibility2nd]

And there is a big difference betwen the S&L bailout and the Automaker balouts.

2 big differences actually.

1. Billions of dollars were spent by Bush and Obama.
2. The S&L industry was allowed to FAIL.

[hcmama]

Well that context is just as bad.