Many more disturbing facts in the article -- especially concerning government spending and regulations.
Many more disturbing facts in the article -- especially concerning government spending and regulations.
Big Government Republicanism. This is something that all who are pushing Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana need to know about. I live here and know the man well. He too is a Big Government Republican.
He’s been in office only a year and we conservatives have already had a couple of run-ins with him. Tax cuts and a legislative pay raise.
Would a Libertarian such as Gillespe run the country any better? We would be suffering terrorist attacks every week, but I guess we wouldn't notice it as we will all be able to take legalized heroin and marijuana.
How could anyone have understood Compassionate Conservatism to mean anything but more government intrusion in the lives of the citizenry? Bush was for big government and relaxed immigration in 2000. Those were my two biggest fears about the man then and they were born out during his terms.
Jorge pretty much destroyed the republicrat party.
There is truth to this.
And yet, anyone who has studied business should know that bureaucracies are very difficult power structures to break down. They feed off cash, and are incentivized to grow.
They are like AIDS - no one has every thought of a cure for bureaucracy. The conservative solution is to not make more of it. GREAT. And yet doesn’t that just doom us to be dominated by the lib structures that cannot be torn down?
hmmm...sounds like something I and a few others have been SCREAMING about back stabbing Bush. But it doesn’t matter. The RINO loving Freepers will still cling to Bush and defend this big gov blue dog DEMOCRAT as a success even though he thoroughly ripped up and crapped on conservatives. The Republican Party is responsible for what we have today because they jettisoned their principles to cater to the the Bush.
good job of summarizing Bush presidency without a reference to the single biggest historical event, (guess what?) Plus the moldy left wing blather about Katrina. An article that you can run over and post on KOS to high applause and acclaim.
If you wondered what the US would have been like under gore or kerry, just watch, we now have zero. Even plugs said something big would happen.
C’mon you BushBots, not a one of you has screamed that ‘BDS’ mee-mee and we’re already past a dozen posts in this thread.
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To be fair, Bush did not want these people to be goobermint employees. That was the price 'rats extracted for approving the Homeland Security bill. The screeners before 9/11 were doing just fine and needed no replacement. But they weren't union y'see.
A small point, but if this guy is misleading on small points who knows what error he introduces on larger points.
My wish is, that rather than Dallas, Bush should move to Mexico City to live among “his people”.
I have been a big supporter of President Bush. I still do support him. I think he is a very decent man and has been a great President in many ways.
My two biggest disappointments in his Presidency have been:
1.) that he seemed to have given up on defending his foreign policy half way through his second term and many times was way too appeasing to democrats and the far left overall.
2.) his big government domestic politics. Though I supported some of it (Homeland Security for one) He barely ever vetoed spending and/or expansions of government. The fact that he ended his Presidency with the TARP expansion of government influence into the free market leaves a great stain upon his legacy, imo.
The things mentioned in your post are certainly factual. Another interesting account of some of Bush’s leadership failures and lack of any true conservative convictions is given in Bill Gertz’s new book, “The Failure Factory.” This book can’t be dismissed as the usual Bush-bashing because Gertz is a genuine and long-time conservative who really wished that Bush had not failed to advance a conservative agenda.
wasn't the remainder mostly due to 9/11?
1. increased military spending - men, equipment, and material,
2. costs related to Iraq and Afghanistan training locals and reconstruction costs
3. Homeland Security - very large expenses involved, including the TSA - men and material
All unanticipated on his election day, but necessary for the survival of the nation.
These policies certainly didn't help teh Republican Party, whose strength in Congress declined during the 1950's. After the GOP was routed in the 1958 elections, it was practically moribund. The Republican Party rebounded during the 1960's when it came under more conservative leadership--and the same could happen to the post-Bush GOP.
Bush’s problems were many, but they all boil down to two things.
1) He let the media set the tone for his entire Presidency. Bush did plenty of good things, but failed miserably highlighting those things. He could’ve and should’ve used alternate resources in the media - blogs, forums like Free Republic, conservative news outlets - but didn’t.
2) In eight years he never learned that the opposition doesn’t give, they only take. In a rational world, if you give someone what they want you can expect something back. Washington isn’t part of the rational world. He got rolled by Democrats on multiple occasions.
Of course, I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt here. There is always the possiblitiy that Bush actually believed that profilagate Federal spending will cure society’s ills.
President Bush apparently was not aware of who the liberal left really is as they made 'compassion' his Achilles heel. He told US he worked well with democrats in Texas and he would do the same in WDC.
Anyone remember what was going on in Congress after the liberal left tried to steal an election? Trash the White House? Before 9/11? Why I remember Rummy being the biggest object of HATE because he had the nerve to come and take on a 'bottom - up' review of our military.
It is all to easy and dishonest to mark guilty President Bush for the actions of the Supremes and the Congress as we do have a three branch government. And liberals know full well the RHINOs among US have their same egos and lusts and desires.
How about the American people... are they not responsible for returning the same fill to the brim egotistic liberals who are part and party to what is now going to be forever branded the Bush legacy?
I remember Clintonism, wall builders, liars, cheats, and thieves whose stated policy was equalization of all nations. Oh and the media how they were diligent in their daily deceptions of all things evil lead to President Bush.
It is as if 9/11 never happened, and where we stand today is all because of President Bush... sorry I lived it and I won't participate in deception.
Somewhere (over the rainbow?) surely there is a world for all the Bush haters,a place to cuss and moan till your dying days