Posted on 12/22/2009 7:29:27 PM PST by rabscuttle385
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obamacare.
It’s easy to blame the sixty Democrats, as the Wall Street Journal does, for "the worse bill ever." It solemnly declares: "These 60 Democrats are creating a future of epic increases in spending, taxes and command--and control regulation."
True enough. But what's the root cause of this permanent disaster?
Sorry, friends, but it’s not the Democrats, nor the American people who elected them.
The real culprits are two Republicans who ran the show the previous eight years: George W. Bush and his "master political strategist" Karl Rove. If it weren’t for these two in the White House, the Democrats wouldn’t have sixty senators, including a professional comedian from Minnesota, to close off debate and ram down our throats a bill worse than Hillary Care.
The fact is that the Bush & Rove act pushed through a litany of ruinous government policies that led to the lowest approval numbers in history:
the undeclared and costly War in Iraq and its stepchild the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
the monstrous No Child Left Behind Act that dramatically increased federal intervention in private education.
the Prescription Drug Act that gave the American people another benefit-corrupted entitlement and unfunded liability.
large and growing deficits and national debt.
the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, largely due to their failure to reform government-sponsored agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
large and growing deficits and national debt (according to the Cato Institute's latest report, George W. Bush was the biggest spender since LBJ!).
The supply-side tax cuts were probably the only major piece of economic legislation that Bush/Rove deserve credit for, but even then, they blundered in not making the tax cuts permanent. So now even if the Republicans take back Capitol Hill in the 2010 elections, all President Obama has to do is veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts, and voila, taxes will increase automatically.
In short, we are paying a heavy price for the "compassionate conservativism" of Bush/Rove.
Once Obamacare becomes law, like Medicare and other "Great Society" programs, it will never end. We will be stuck with national health care for the rest of our lives.
And how are Bush and Rove rewarded? We aren’t seeing much of George Bush, who is quietly ensconced in his new digs in Texas.
The tragedy is Karl Rove, who ironically has been rewarded by conservatives. He’s treated like a triumphant general on Fox News almost every night and was signed on as a regular columnist in the prestigious Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Skousen is a renowned financial economist, author and university professor. He has been the editor of the financial advice newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, for 28 years. Two of his books highlight Milton Friedman's career: "The Making of Modern Economics" and "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?." Check out his latest book "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes" or "Investing in One Lesson" and "EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World." He is the producer of FreedomFest, the world's largest gathering of free minds, in Las Vegas every July (www.freedomfest.com).
He was the scammer. LOL
Welcome to the party, mk. LOL
Bump that one... you have it pegged correctly. This article is a load of BDS cr@p. (...and I am no fan of Rove).
Agree. Skousen just wants to stay busy-busy happy-happy making money in his offices, and never mind if Al Q'aeda is dropping office towers half a mile away. Response not justified! No foreign wars!
Not until they drop the building he's in, that is.
Try this, how about let's break up the liberal media conspiracy, and then let GOP administrations try to carry forward a foreign policy based on Americans not dying in their thousands in their own cities, under clandestine enemy attacks?
Instead of blaming Bush for having made Obama possible, why not blame Clinton/Nader for having made Bush possible?
And then blame Bush I/Perot for making Clinton possible?
And then blame Reagan for making Bush I possible?
And then you get to Carter.
IT’S JIMMY’S FAULT!!
Ah yes, I knew it would somehow end up Bush’s fault. What weak minded people.
And former Pres. Bush had very little to do with passage of socialized medicine. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain who did his best to ensure the victory of the Arab kid, Barack Hussein Obama (I'm suspending my campaign to vote for the bailout).
McCain was the worst possible candidate to field against the young Marxist. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter in vain tried to persuade Republicans not to have McCain as their candidate, but it appears they didn't listen to them. Perhaps they were brainwashed by the drive by media. Perhaps the author of the piece was brainwashed by the drive by media, too. He sure sounds like it in making former Pres. Bush the equivalent of Goldstein in George Orwell's "1984."
bttt
Also, we should listen to the Libertarians on electoral advice because they are the child molestation party /sarcasm
That said, I do believe that the conflict in Afghanistan was unquestionably legitimate but terribly mismanaged.
Just like every Democrat I've known for the past six years.
You're not fooling anybody rabscuttle.
Medicare Part D.
You're silly.
“In all aspects, George W. Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, even over and above the record spending set by LBJ as he attempted and failed to build his ‘Great Society’. Bush expanded the role of the federal government at nearly every level, perhaps you or some other Bush devotee could point out an area, ANY area where GWB cut BACK the size and growth of the federal government?
I’m sure everyone would enjoy hearing about it. “
I certainly would enjoy hearing about it........before the New Years Eve parties.
He sounds like B. Hussein Obama during the election contest.
No wonder he blames former Pres. Bush; "the Messiah" does, also.
Talk radio listeners certainly hang onto these quotes but they couldnt help republicans in 2006 and 2008, contrary to what they were told by the hosts who daily read these qoutes.
RE” You're wrong again. The Democrats voted for the war. Then they campaigned against the war after the troops had already been deployed. ”
Every so often someone defends Bush by claiming that it was really Democrats that pushed us into Iraq. The reality is that Bush demanded a vote be made prior to 2002 election. The truth is that Cheney and Rice went out on show after show and warned about Mushroom clouds over America. That is what people will remember forever. Democrats followed the polls and used it politically.
Bush did something special with Iraq, he got Democrats polled higher than republicans on National security. This is a huge accomplishment after Carter-Reagan national security history.
This is what I notice from Mark Levin listeners. An imaginary world where all media but talk radio is eliminated. Really constitution. "The single message empire." It goes : "GWB was a big success but the media fooled the public". Except that same media helped Bush invade, but afterward the Bush failure was a better story.
Even FNC was reporting the bad news in Iraq. Republicans wont go near talking about invading and reconstructing another country. Bush and supporters turned the country isolationist
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