The man has virtually guaranteed the financial destruction of our country.
I despise the man. Ronald Reagan doubled goverment spending in his 8 years and also doubled the national debt. Do you hate him too?
Reagan promised to cut the size of the federal goverment and reduce the number of departments. He never cut one department in his entire 8 years and doubled government spending.
At least for the extra money, Reagan rebuilt the military, and defeated the Soviet Union without firing a shot. He also gave us Star Wars. He also put into effect the first law limiting immigration, which then was not enforced by Congress or succeeding Presidents, including Bush the elder.
After seven years, we still don’t have Obama. We are year eight of the war in Afghanistan and soon will have completed six years in Iraq. Plus we had virtually unlimited immigration in the last eight years.
One accomplishment: no large scale terror attacks on US soil since 9/11/01. Notice I said large scale, because we had the anthrax attacks in 2001—still not solved—and the DC snipers in 2002.
We have a bloated Federal bureaucracy, the Fed has put into circulation anywhere from 600 million to over 1 trillion dollars, we pissed away 350 billion of the TARP money to date.
Bush also, with his brand of compassionate conservatism, completely gutted conservatives from the GOP party even though we were responsible for his victories in 2000 and 2004. He couldn’t be bothered to defend himself or the GOP from eight years of scurrilous attacks that completely branded the GOP as a bunch of horrible people, and destroyed the GOP brand in politics. He could not even defend himself against Valerie Plame, being blamed for Katrina, yellow cake, or be bothered to even use the bully pulpit to communicate with the American people, except to say: “See you at the signing.”
The GOP has been so assimiliated with RINOs that we got the idiot McCain as our candidate. We are now seeing just how insane that whole campaign was, and now we also see what we are facing with Obama and the damage to our country that will result, because the damn GOP couldn’t even beat a candidate with no accomplishments.
I’ll give Bush credit for the response after 9/11/01, for taking out Saddam, for stopping Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, and for protecting the country since 9/11/01.
But I won’t miss his incompetent administration as executive, his ability to spend like there is no tomorrow, for not getting his tax cuts put into law without sunsetting, for telling me that Islam is a Religion of Peace—piss be on Allah—and for dissing the SwiftBoat Vets who almost singlehandedly turned the election in 2004 to his favor. His constant playing kissyface with Dem leaders who were out to destroy him, for all the bloated highway and agriculural bills, for the insane prescription drug bill, for the ridiculous Education bill sop to the drunk Ted Kennedy, for his love of all things Mexican and immigrant instead of taking care of citizens first and stopping the Mexican and Central American invasion, for his refusal to free Ramos and Compean and to exonerate Scooter Libby—no, for those things, I won’t be sorry to see him go.
For the last four years, I wondered what the hell side he was really on.
So please, don’t compare him to Reagan.
Because there is no comparison.