Ok, you guys need to give it a break. You totally missed the point of the story. It wasn’t thanking him for raising taxes, the point was when he decided to do it, it was going to cost him personally. At that time he thought it was best for the country so he thought of the country over himself.
Watch the clip if you haven’t before you start mis representing the point of the eulogy.
Like all of you, I think what he did was a mistake, the old increase tax needed to “raise revenue” for other programs. But that wasn’t the point of the story.
Nonsense; GW Bush was always a globalist, he cared far more for the adulation of the press and the Establishment; he gave no more a damn about breaking a no tax pledge than he did abandoning years of Planned Parenthood support to become a foe of abortion as a consequence of Reagan putting him on the ticket. Sorry but I don’t go in for the hagiography every time a mediocre president dies; when I was young, HS Truman, Eisenhower and Hoover died. Each was a more consequential and better president than GHW Bush or Gerry Ford, and apparently sometime in the future, Carter; none of them merited the federal government and Wall Street getting a day off, a funeral train, constant press adulation, or the cawing, crowing media claiming he was the best person that ever existed. they had solid accomplishments not phony adulation.
Thank you for pointing this out. I read some of the posts on boards elsewhere by lefties and am really astonished by some of their rhetoric. Then I come on FR (long time member) and I read the same type of vitriol posted by “conservatives”. Sadly, very sadly, a sign of the times and doesn’t bode well for our Republic.
God, I hate this sh*t argument. The country's money problems have never been on the tax side, they have always been on the *SPENDING* side. Raising taxes *NEVER* solves the problem because spending goes up with taxes. (As it did in this case too.)
The idea that giving the junkie another hit will work out better this time is idiot stupid. It is not "best for the country" to give the junkie another hit. What is "best for the country" is keeping human garbage pieces of sh*t like Bill Clinton out of positions of power. *THAT* is what is best for the country, and Bush blew it in the most collossally stupid way possible.
I don't think there has ever been a worse political blunder in American history than breaking the promise that was the *ONLY* thing that made people want to vote for you.
Who are these people who thought giving the spending junkie another hit was going to be "best for the country"?
What is wrong with their thinking process?
Why isn’t there ever a discussion about cutting spending and how that’d be good for the country?