If anyone wants to explain the Peter Principle, they need go no further than the man that was sworn into office in January of 2001.
His last name was Bush. That’s all it took.
If people had looked at his record in Texas, they would have seen one very troubling fact. His repair of the Texas education system, consisted of him throwing tens of millions of dollars at the problem. That should have scared any voter to death. Instead it was overlooked.
By the end of his second term in office, the implications early on, were fully realized. Our national debt grew around 92% during the Bush administration.
And lest anyone get the bright idea to blame the trillions of additional debt on the two wars, the cost of those wars was less than 25% of the increase in debt under Bush.
That my friends, is why Obama could come in a spend like there was no tomorrow. Bush had done it. Specifically Bush had done it in the year and months before Obama being sworn in.
Obama merely continued the spike in spending that Bush handed off.
That is why we got Obama. We couldn’t attack him on his plans to spend massive amounts of printed money, because our own guy spent massive amounts of printed money.
There’s much more we could address pro and con with regard to Bush, but this is the only real issue that counts. Bush cut the legs off our ability to expose Obama for who he was.
That is what his legacy should always start with. This man essentially destroyed our nation. Anyone who looks back fondly reminiscing about his character, should understand that men with character avoid problems.
Men without it don’t defend themselves, because they can’t defend what they have done.
George Bush didn’t hate our nation. No, he didn’t. There’s one old adage I’ve come up with over time. It fits here. It goes like this. If you want to destroy an effort, place an incompetent in charge of it.
Placing George Bush at the helm of Conservatism, destroyed it.
He is what people think of when they think of Conservative leaders. Ruminate over that friends...
Well after throwing out the sacrificial lamb that was Bob Dole in 96, in 2000, the Republicans wanted to “win at all costs.”
Reviewing some of Lady Thatcher’s speeches during her tenure as PM and seeing her brilliant, impassioned defense of her policies drove home the fact that we have had 12 years of governance by utter mediocrities—and with disastrous results.