Ummm, negative. We were LUCKY he was there when he was.
Posted on 11/03/2013 5:45:11 PM PST by Mamzelle
Edited on 11/03/2013 5:52:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
DALLAS — When the executive director of former President George W. Bush’s public policy institute decided to move on recently, he stopped by for an exit interview. Mr. Bush asked if he had anything in particular he wanted to talk about.
Nothing specific, said James K. Glassman, the departing director.
“O.K.,” Mr. Bush replied, “I want to talk about painting.”
After early self-portraits in the shower and then dozens of paintings of dogs and cats, Mr. Bush, it seems, has now moved on to world leaders. He told Mr. Glassman that he wanted to produce portraits of 19 foreign presidents and prime ministers he worked with during his time in the White House.
Nearly five years after leaving office, the nation’s 43rd president lives a life of self-imposed exile in Texas, more interested in painting than politics, recovering from a heart scare, privately worried about the rise of the Tea Party, golfing with fervor, bicycling with wounded veterans and enjoying a modest revival in public opinion. While Bill Clinton criticizes Republicans on the campaign trail and Dick Cheney chastises the current administration on his book tour, Mr. Bush resolutely stays out of the public debate.
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Yeah, because heavens knows that angle, o’donnell, akin, and mourdock were all great freaking ideas. we get those seats back, and it’s a different senate.
Ridiculous. Are you suggesting there are no lightweights in the Dem caucus? The difference is the DNC and Dems fight to win. They pull losers like Rep. Guam Is Sinking across the finish line. OTOH, GOP pantywaists can’t wait to back stab conservatives, cut and run, etc..
Folks like you and the GOP establishment that push progressives would rather lose than govern conservatively. That’s the real problem right there.
When are you writing a new book, Mr. Alinsky?
For me, there were 3 telling moments in 2005 which proved to me that "W's compassionate conservatism" would never evolve into something the conservative GOP base would ever embrace.
1. JAN 2005 - He said in effect that he had earned points and was ready to cash them in. He really cursed himself with that statement.
2. 5/01/2005 - The illegal alien Hispanics out west really started protesting for amnesty on May Day.
3. AUG 2005 - Hurricane Katrina was an absolute public relations disaster for "W" from which he never recovered.
But he won't stay out because after W himself and Juan McCain, Lindsey is the biggest amnesty pusher among prominent Republicans. And amnesty pushing is the issue W cares about more than any other as he has proven time and again.
Ummm, negative. We were LUCKY he was there when he was.
No, anyone that would write that spineless, unprovable sentence is the problem. as soon as you admit a purity test, I can rub you out with the same eraser you want to dismiss other conservatives that don't meet your personal approval.
don't be fooled. There's nothing special abut you. you help set off a feeding frenzy, it will just as easily devour you.
Worried about the tea party and not the country headed to ruin. Stay classy bush.
And double lucky that it wasn't Algore.
Hell, even the Democrats were privately happy that it was GWB who had to deal with 9/11 and not their guy...
I think it's because most Americans feel a little guilty about hiring people to wait on them...so they become paternalistic. Rather than acknowledge their lazy ways, they start thinking that they're performing some kind of charity by hiring people to make their beds and swab their toilets.
I don't mind people having servants unless they have to open up the borders and let in the cartel and terrorists.
So, Laura, why can't you just make your own bed? Buy a Roomba?
Keep in mind this is the New York Times.
Fantastic. Waiting for you to post about the Bush compound in Uruguay, next.
That was exactly my first thought. Whatever opinion anyone has of him, he prevented us from the abuse of BOTH Algore and Kerry. For that reason alone, I will always defend him.
So just because he did something right 10 years ago, means he’s immune from criticism?
Were we? Politically, 9/11 was the best thing to happen for W. It drew the nation's attention to the terrorism issue for several years and drew its attention away from many other things W was doing. It also made him much safer and comfortable in 2004 compared to John Kerry or any Dim.
Without 9/11, I don't think W would have been reelected. He won only by a close contest in Ohio. During his second term he mostly insulted the base and frittered away Republican majorities in Congress, resulting in the disasters of 2006 and 2012 which put Obama in the WH.
And the bottom line is, 9/11 still occurred on his watch, even though Clinton certainly deserved the Lion’s share of the blame.
Nah, he’s not immune. I did not like his Part D entitlement. And I hated his bailout. But to say he was a complete disaster is crazy when you think of what President Gore would have done, or President Kerry.
Like saying that life under Hitler was better than life under Stalin would have been.
“It also made him much safer and comfortable in 2004 “
That was the first election I ever voted in, and I remember everyone being a nervous wreck. Everyone had forgotten about 9/11 by Nov ‘04.
I have observed more than my share of affluent Texas women who don't like spending their money on legitimate cleaning services or legally available nannies and maids. They like paying low wages to subservient and sometimes desperate illegals who work harder and make few demands. This used to be despised, and the nice Anglo ladies didn't like the stigma. So they set about changing the stigma of semi-slavery by lobbying for open borders.
Social justice and somebody to clean the bathroom. And you can do a search on the Bush dog walker.
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