Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush (Michelle Malkin)

Michelle Malkin ,com ^ | February 9, 2010 | Michelle Malkin

[DallasSun]

There are certainly some things I miss about him. And Laura.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Iiii don't know about this one:

7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter

There is freedom of speech, separation of powers... that sort of thing.

[deadrock]

That only good thing about Obama being elected(on FR anyway), is not having to read the Bush-Bots tie themselves in knots trying to repudiate these obvious facts.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Miss ME yet?

[avacado]

GWB got a form of partial birth abortion banned. GWB got us Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts both of whom will be with us for 20-30 years.

[tanknetter]

To be fair, he did give us tax cuts and he and the Repub congress let the Assault Weapons Ban sunset.

And Justices Roberts and Alito. In that regard, he has a better record of putting Conservatives on the Supreme Court than either his father or Ronald Reagan.

In retrospect, he was better than the guy he replaced and better than the guy who replaced him. Also better than his dad, Jimmy Carter (stating the obvious here), Gerald Ford and Nixon. Could go on and on. Of the eight Presidents in my lifetime, he's in the #2 slot after RR.

[Joe Boucher]

G.W. Bush and his “compassionate conservativism” was horse manure.
G.W. Bush was NO conservative.
He failed to push ANY of the conservative agenda/
BUT he was a truckload better than this marxist “magic nigro” punk.

[MEGoody]

George Bush wasn’t a perfect conservative like I am. So, I thought I’d waste a column pointing out how imperfect he is instead of examining something worthwhile.

[Nonstatist]

He was better than Obama but I guess that is really not saying much.

That about sums it up.

[csmusaret]

Thanks to Bush we never had to suffer a President Gore or Kerry.

[Fred]

MM has got guts....

[Bigg Red]

Malkin — right, as usual.

[Non-Sequitur]

How about the fact that the national debt was $5.7 trillion when Bush was inaugurated and $10.6 trillion the day he left office?

[bcsco]

There are certainly some things I miss about him. And Laura.

Agreed. But they become fewer and fewer when we get beyond keeping our nation safe. And even then, DHS was a real bad move.

[Atlas Sneezed]

George Bush wasn’t a perfect conservative like I am.

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Drop the “perfect” (a nice rhetorical touch) and you’ve got it about right.

[TChris]

Thanks to Bush we never had to suffer a President Gore or Kerry.

Thank you!

Think about it, people.

[pissant]

While she is certainly correct about these flaws, she left out a few things over that 8 year record.

*2 substantial across the board tax cuts

*2 well qualified conservative SCOTUS nominees

*Promoted and signed ban on partial birth abortion

*Fostered a booming economy

*Tried to partially privatize SS, which his own party torpedoed.

*Did not lift a finger to support the global warmers

*Reigned in the EPA

*Killed Clinton’s workplace ergonomics OSHA job killer

*Signed off on protecting gun manufacturers from the John Edwards of the world.

*Waterboarded enemy combatants.

*Refused US involvement in the ICC

*Killed off the ABM treaty

*And the biggest gift of all - He defeated Algore and John F’n Kerry

[allmendream]

“better than 0bama” is damning with faint praise.

I prefer to praise with faint damn; as in “he did a better job than Carter”.

;)

[ZULU]

She forgot collaborating with the Mexican Government, persecuting American border guards, the Dubai Port scam, and a few other things.

But otherwise, an excellant analysis of Mr. Bush’s flawed legacy.

The last four Presidents - Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama have been progressively terrible. Obama is indisputably the worst of the bunch.

But I do NOT miss Bush - I miss Ronald Reagan.

[CSM]

self ping for tommorrow read