Posted on 09/17/2020 9:18:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
he George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened seven years ago and anchors the southeastern corner of campus at Southern Methodist University, where I teach history. In late November 2016, I took a tour of the facility with five college friends who were visiting from the East Coast. The recent presidential election was much on our minds as we wandered through the building, contemplating various artifacts from Bush’s two terms in office. Although we were hardly fans of his presidency, one of my pals—fearful, like everyone in our group, of a Trump administration—got misty-eyed when reflecting upon Bush’s obvious love of country. After an hour or so, with a requisite stop for photos in the museum’s full-sized and perfectly appointed replica of the Oval Office, we left in glum moods.
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One word: NO!
Oh, it’s not just a one-way street. Epic Demonrat mismanagement, which is inevitable, generally leads to Republican victories. Wilson led to Harding, Truman led to Ike, LBJ led to Nixon, Carter led to Reagan, Bubba the Rapist led to Shrub, Zero led to Trump.
But this was not supposed to be an 8 years and then the opposition in 2016. El Jebbe Arbusto was supposed to get the nomination and gracefully lose to the first female dictator, assuring a minimum of 16 years straight of corrupt Stalinazi control. By 2024, the GOP would’ve been destroyed had that occurred (that, and WW3 under the Butcheress of Benghazi). The Bushes family cancer always seemed to be present when the country’s future was at stake, and going the wrong way. El Jebbe was to deliver the death blow as the turd and final nominee as the Derp State designated loser (as Willard and McQueeg was before them).
That an Alito is all one can say kindly about Bush. He ran one way and governed like his daddy. I have never been so disappointed in a president as Bush43. I defended him for a long time but watched him work against the average American and for the globalist more and more. Huge disappointment.
I couldn’t make it through this horsesh!t!!!!!
No.... This guy was worse than Clinton....may he rot in hell
Where’s the barf warning.
Oh, well. To be expected from Texas Monthly.
Well, it didn’t happen, and Dubya and Jeb et al., are out on their asses. What does Dubya need his reputation rehabilitated for? And why should he be rehabilitated. Mittens, another designated loser, turned on his erstwhile benefactor, Trump, after he helped him keep his Senate seat. He’s not getting rehabilitated ever. So 1. why should Dubya be allowed back in our good graces, and 2. what does he need it for? He can make a fortune on lecturing tours and sitting on boards of directors, with or without the GOP’s forgiveness. So let him go do that, and STFU.
As for Jeb, he got to play governor for a while, but a three-time dynasty is not happening. Adams got one son as POTUS. Roosevelt got one cousin as POTUS. The Bushes have had two POTUSes, too. More than the Lincolns ever got; just a thank-you-very-much and a bullet to the back of his head, then his wife declared insane. Let the rest of the Bush tribe go f@#$ themselves. They got off easy.
...and to think of all the crap I took here on FR back when we were voting for this guy because I refused to think he was actually a “conservative” despite all of the evidence he was a RINO at best...
Also, we have already had a preview of how they will rehabilitate Trump’s image during the next Republican administration: just look at all the articles and comments about how a President Pence would be “even worse” because of his social conservatism.
Once it is convenient to do so, liberals will suddenly discover the obvious fact that Trump is not a conservative ideologue, and they will contrast his centrism with the “right wing extremism” of whatever Republican happens to be President.
Back then, the Bush-bots were like today's Q-bots. That would be more emotional than logical, pliable, juvenile and dogmatic to the point of being sometimes rabid. Not the kind of folks you'd want to take advice from.
What I did NOT realize was that Bush was only skin-deep. That he WAS a Washington insider no better than Dole, his father, or McCain - who I already did not trust even in 2000. I did NOT anticipate that his appointments and his staff would be so deeply loyal to their Globalist Deep State/Deep Bureaucracy, and not loyal to American interests.
I did NOT anticipate how deeply he would twist towards unlimited illegal immigration, towards Mexico and Mexican and Muslim influence in policies.
But that is WHY he lost the Senate to Reid, lost the House to Pelosi in 2006. Bush had DONE NOTHING to show he should be supported.
Even more egregious, Bush fired top aide Larry Lindsey after Lindsey disputed the projected cost of the Iraq invasion.
Lindsey estimated the cost of the Iraq War could reach $200 billion.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Bush he estimated that it would cost less than $50 billion.
NOTE: the Iraq invasion is now pegged at some $2 trillion dollars.....and counting.
The war profiteering was unimaginable. Neocon godfather, Richard Perle,
was safely ensconced in Paris as his neocon pals duped Bush from their WH offices.
Perle actually started an oil company ..... the war profiteering was that profitable for insiders.
God only knows how much the neocon agitators walked away with.
What’s the best part of Dubya for you?
Trying to ram through another amnesty?
Siding with illegals in California’s Prop 187 fight?
“Islam is a Religion of Peace”?
Outlawing the profiling of airline passengers?
Sending BP Agents Ramos and Compean to prison for shooting a drug smuggler?
Labelling border patriots “nativists” and “xenophobes”?
Nominating Harriet Miers?
So many examples of Dubya excellence. Maybe you have your own favorite.
Bush would have destroyed the country letting in millions of illegals and building the trans highway up from mexico thru the middle of the country.
Globalist blue-blood tool- and left the economy in shambles to boot. The Bush family has caused horrific damage to our nation. Jeb is responsible for a lot of the enviro-whack trash that has infected Florida, where I live. I thank God that he got nowhere near the presidency.
I wonder if GWB is still painting (lousy) watercolors of the service members who were killed in his wars.
You forgot the pirate Roberts. Bushie put that lying a-hole at the top of the SCOTUS bench. Georgie jackal did as he was commanded to do, and the American Sovereigns (we the people) be damned.
I agree, I forgot Roberts. It sure wasn’t on purpose.
Some of my personal favorites:
Attacking the taliban and terrorists around the world
Removing Saddam
Keeping the nation safe after attacks
Appointing alito.
Reducing the deficit.
Passing tax cuts
Putting payback with interest requirements on the bailouts
Growing govt less than govt revenue
Opposing and defeating gore and Kerry
Leading the first off year congressional control surge for republicans.
Forming a powerful alliance with India
Here is a more complete list of 40 items I made
. President Bush has demonstrated excellent leadership and I strongly admire him.
The successes of President Bush:
1. Protected the nation from further terrorist attacks after 911.
2. Removed the Taliban government from power in 2001.
3. Removed the government of Saddam Hussein from power in 2003
3. Removed Charles Taylor from power in 2003.
4. Enacted tax cuts in 2001 that ended the Clinton recession that began when the dot.com bubble burst and 911 damaged the US economy.
5. Ended the stalemate with China over a spy plane shot down. Got the plane and the pilots back to the US with diplomacy.
6. Diplomatically obtained the end of Libya’s chemical weapons program.
7. Diplomatically ended the genocidal policies of Bashir in Southern Sudan which had killed more than 2 million people during the 1990s.
8. Nominated and saw to confirmation chief justice John Roberts.
9. Nominated and saw to confirmation justice Samuel Alito.
10. Signed into law sweeping educational reform known as No Child Left Behind requiring public schools to disclose for the first time the quality and results of their educational practices to parents.
11. Signed a ban on partial birth abortion.
12. Signed a ban on federal funding of research using fetal stem cells.
13. Pressed for the surge in Iraq in 2007 that lead to the defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
14. Killed Al Qaeda mastermind Musab Al Zarqawi in Iraq.
15. Solidified and increased the American diplomatic and economic relationship with India— the world’s second largest country.
16. Diplomatically contained North Korea with six party talks agreed upon by Japan, the United States, South Korea, Russia, and China.
17. Won re-election in 2004 despite the ascendancy of a profoundly partisan and biased press that actively campaigned for the opposing candidate.
18. Won repeated legal and congressional battles aimed at limiting America’s successful conduct of the war on terror.
19. Led more than 60 nations in cooperative anti terrorism initiatives such as naval interdictions of illegal weapons trade.
20. Led more than 32 nations in combat roles regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, and the Phillipines.
21. Led the world to closer alignment with his goals in various foreign capitals including: France, South Korea, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy and Poland.
22. Secured more than four democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq and a Constitution.
23. Defeated the ABM treaty with Russia and implemented further improvements to American missile defense at home and abroad.
24. Derailed the Kyoto protocol designed to hamper economic growth and increase poverty worldwide.
25. Dramatically increased the Congressional majority of his party in 2002 which is an unprecedented achievement.
26. Diplomatically resolved major tensions between India and Pakistan during 2002 and 2003.
27. Oversaw the advance of democracy in numerous nations including: Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Georgia, Lebanon and Ukraine.
28. Prevented the erasure of the Jewish state of Israel from the map of the world by the radical shia terror state of Iran.
29. Conducted his administration with professionalism and grace.
30 Killed or detained hundreds of major Al Qaeda operatives responsible for the 911 attacks on the United States.
31. Implemented drug abuse programs that reduced drug abuse by about one million users.
32. Implemented housing policies which reduced homelessness by 30%.
33. Reversed the Mexico city policy promoting abortion globally.
34. Supported and coordinated Ethiopia’s military defeat of radical Islamists in Somalia.
35. Supported and coordinated Philippine’s military defeat of radical Islamists in the south of the island.
36. Provided more aid and successful policies for the continent of Africa than any previous President.
37. Thwarted one of the world’s most dangerous diseases— Malaria— with policies and funding to reduce it.
38. Implemented TARP with three key principals of fiscal conservatism: 1) the funds had to be paid back, 2) the funds had to be paid back with interest, 3) those funds have been paid back.
39. Advocated and obtained the increase of African Union forces for Darfur from 7,000 to 21,000.
40. Transformed the United States from the “paper tiger” described by Osama Bin Laden to the deterrent capable fighting force that overcame Al Qaeda, Iraqi Baathists, Taylor loyalists, Abu Sayaaf, Somali warlords, and the anti-American War Movement.
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