Bush's New Axis of Evil

Creator's Syndicate ^ | February 10. 2011 | Pat Buchanan

[hcmama]

Creators Syndicate – George W. Bush must have been the despair of the history department of every school his daddy managed to get him into.

Consider his latest excursion into the history of the republic, at Southern Methodist, where the Great Man's papers are to be housed.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Another drone, I was one once in your shoes but I have educated myself I suggest you do the same.

Cheers

If so, you haven't done it very well. You, like many Freepers, seemed to have formed your opinion of Bush based on three things: His seeming refusal to explain himself, his support for the Education Bill and the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and the media's non-stop attacks on him.

His new book, Decision Points, does a fair job of explaining his decision process and the things he had to consider in key situations. A good example was the Hurricane Katrina debacle. He explains his anger and frustration and the hours spent on the phone trying to persuade Governor Kathleen Blanco and her Democrat cronies to request that New Orleans be declared a disaster area. By law that is a necessary first step for the federal government to get involved. Blanco et all would not do that until they could assure that they would get their hands on the allocation of the money. They didn't care about the people, only the money. That is what caused the several days of delay that led to much of the disorder and confusion that followed. Of course the media and the Democrats took full advantage of it and placed all the blame on Bush. Too bad he did not explain that then but a competent media without a political agenda could have uncovered all that with little effort.

The Education Bill put some teeth in the previous bill and actually allowed the cutting off of federal funds for schools that had failed for five years in a row. Previously there was just the threat but never any action. That made it worthwhile all by itself.

The prescription drug bill introduced the free market into that government program allowing the large drug chains to sell both generic and name brand drugs very cheaply. The last I read it had saved Medicare ninety billion dollars. Yet, to find that you would have to really dig. The MSM is not going to tell you.

When he first took office Bush and Karl Rove had great ambitions in reforming government and making it smaller. Their early efforts with Social Security showed them just how vicious the opponents of reform can be. They then decided the best they could do would be improve government by interjecting free market principles into programs when possible and streamlining them when not possible. The Department of Homeland Security was an amalgamation of several other agencies. It also attempted to remove it from the Civil Service protections of the existing agencies which prevent anyone from being fired no matter how egregious their performance. He intended that TSA be private contractors but the Democrats insisted that they be government employees and union members.

For eight years the Democrats and the media blasted Bush non-stop, calling him Hitler, demonizing him, and ridiculing him, just as this article and some Freepers have done. That and their refusal to vet Obama, instead supporting his campaign of lies, is what gave us Obama.

Apparently they did a good job because they convinced many of you.

[anglian]

Abandoned Ramos and Compean, border guards who shot drug dealers.

They got a pardon. I found these links from a FReeper.
“Before you descend into Bush bashing.”
http://www.silicon-valley.com/pardonme/index.shtml

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons3.htm

He also was the one who signed the law to authorize construction of the border fence.

[anglian]

***The Manager’s Amendment*** (SA 4188), offered by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. The Manager’s Amendment made many minor changes to S. 2611, none of have significant numeric impacts on the overall bill. However, the Manager’s Amendment included

a provision that requires consultation with the government of Mexico concerning the construction of additional fencing and related border security structures along the international border between the United States and Mexico. This would virtually guarantee that the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border would never be completed. The Manager’s Amendment passed by a vote of 56 to 41.

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=CA&VIPID=46

[1rudeboy]

Technically, Ramos’ and Compean’s sentences were commuted. Sad, in the case of Ramos . . . but Compean will make a fine mall cop someday, if the employer overlooks his criminal record.

[algernonpj]

Your freeper friend forgot that it was not a pardon, it was a commutation of the sentence on the LAST day of Bush’s term.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=86533

Yet Bush pardoned drug dealers, theives, etc:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=84431
http://www.justice.gov/pardon/bushpardon-grants.htm

While imprisoned Ramos was beaten by Hispanic inmates:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54110

Afterwards Ramos was placed in solitary
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53897

As to the border fence, Bush should have used a fraction of the political cpaital he used pushing amnesty on ensuring a fence that would work was built.

[algernonpj]

Thanks for the link. See my post # 45.

[rmlew]

I agree with a lot of this article. However, Buchanan condemning someone for bad history is rich. Patty blames Poland and Churchill for World War 2 and the Holocaust.

[Roninf5-1]

Pat IS a Nazi.

That's funny because Bush's granddaddy, Prescott Bush, financed the Nazis. Here is an article from the Guardian newspaper explaining that bit of history, How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Prescott and his Skull and Bones brother Averill Harriman also did a lot of business with the Soviet Union, building up their heavy industry and manufacturing around the same time they were starving to death 10,000,000 Ukrainians.

[RoadTest]

But he didn’t break our economy or bow to foreign leaders and apologize for the United States. We had no terrorist attacks after the one. He introduced Democracy to the middle east, the only other besides Israel’s.

He preayed with people. He paid a lot of attention tot he troops and the troopers. He had compassion.

I like him

[USSR Didnt Fall]

Pipe down I said Bush was a disaster.

[1rudeboy]

And George W. is guilty of what, again?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Pipe down I said Bush was a disaster.

And I said you are uninformed. I agree with your screen name, the USSR whore only changed dresses.