Drive A Stake Through It
Instead of rethinking a strategy for governing, the failed conservative project seems to be busily working at rewriting the last 8 years of failed government. While we certainly have evidence of the failures all around us — especially in the detrius of the economy broken by their ideology — we need to always be prepared to remind our wingnuts AND their press enablers that revisionism will always get a serious pushback. To wit:
No word yet whether the highlight reel will include the President’s assault on labor or the 6 million fewer Americans that have health insurance since he took office; or the nearly 2 million lost jobs and the more than 2.5 million homes have that been foreclosed on so far this year; or the national debt nearly doubling to over $10 trillion thanks to repeated irresponsible tax cuts for millionaires in a time of war.No word yet whether the talking points on the unnecessary and mismanaged war in Iraq will note the over 4,200 dead Americans soldiers and over 30,000 more wounded; or how we are less safe as a result after yanking critical military resources from the central front on terror in Afghanistan. We can expect some self congratulation on the President’s education program, but not for the millions of children left behind thanks to its underfunded mandate. No word yet whether the systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming will make the list. Or how about all the sweeping deregulations written by and for their biggest supporters from the big drug, financial, insurance and oil companies that delivered record profits for each industry at our expense? And what of the deep recession the nation has struggled through for the last year? The White House memo reportedly proclaims that Bush “responded with bold measures to prevent an economic meltdown.” Indeed, another “Mission Accomplished.” The millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and homes this year or saw their retirement evaporate on Wall Street apparently owe the President a debt of gratitude.
As they say, read the whole thing. And never let anyone forget that they failed at all of it.
Tags: Another Bush Atrocity
Anyone who defends Bush at this point is a dim wit.
Anyone who defends Bush and says that Al Gore and John Kerry would have made the same choices is a moronic dumb ass in the same league as John Feroce.
We twice entrusted our government to a guy who doesn’t believe in government. We were also too distracted to see that he really had no beliefs at all. There is no content either to his Christianity or his conservatism. His only real loyalty was to his class. And he hadn’t even earned that. The only consistent theme of his presidency was his own entitlement to rule.
A few points.
1. States can opt out of NCLB but they do not because they want huge amounts of federal money. NCLB exists because of the outright failure of the states to do their jobs on education.
2. Yes, the debt has increased as a result of runaway government spending. My question is if you take issue with the debt and the amount of spending what would you cut?
3. The biggest deregulation in the financial sector was in 1999 signed by Pres Clinton not Pres Bush.
4. Home prices have gone bust but I know no one in this blog would have supported any actions to slow the price increases and speculation or the fraud done by Franklin Raines.
I am not a Bush apoligist but I don’t buy your unsubstantiated claims.
2. Iraq spending. We employ way too many mercenaries and not enough soldiers. Oh and we shouldn’t even be there.
3. Do you mean the financial services modernization act that was snuck into the 1999 Omnibus spending bill during the conference committee session? The one that had the Republican House and Republican Senate in control? The onmibus spending bill that needed to be signed ASAP, lest the government shut down? That one, Mike?
Hey Mike — the only one here with unsubstantiated claims is you. Franklin Raines certainly did not cause the worldwide collapse of the banking system. By any stretch of the imagination.
And Clinton or no, BushCo was quite certainly asleep at the wheel for oversight on all levels of the financial system.