Top Five Worst Things George W Bush Left to America
5) The wars,
4) The imperial Presidency,
3) The national debt,
2) The Roberts/Alito court,
and the number 1 worst thing that George Bush gave to America….
Bush’s ultimate triumph was forcing the bleak, GOP worldview on our historically boisterously optimistic country.
Here is the BBC on that topic, but there are plenty of people talking about it. The GOP’s hard-on for a Mad Max outcome to history has always been laughed off by the rest of the country. Not now. We are all empty fin de cycle scarecrows guarding the burned and blasted fields of America’s broken dreams. Thanks Bush!
And while I blame the Bush crowd’s pinched, and rotten taken on the human spirit, I obviously think that President Obama has bought into enough of the GOP’s dystopian vision of our future that it welded the iron mask of weltschmerz onto our national head.
“No we can’t!” get used to it.
I think the Wars and Imperial Presidency have their good points. IP was a good legacy of Reagan and Bush Sr. The Wars were a product of IP. You have to remember that GDubs had a shovel full of horse shit thrown in his lap as soon as he got in office (Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks). These attacks were organized and planned during the Clinton years. He had to retaliate in some military way. At the time I thought that deposing Saddam was not the best way. Still don’t. But they wanted him out just like they want Qadaffi out. Neither were a threat in recent years. The worse thing GDubs did was to continue the relaxation of the Glass-Steagal rules that Clinton began to dismantle during his reign. Hence the bond market crash that has led to our current predicament.
You forgot he left us with Obama. Or I guess he falls under #4 actually.
You realize that Reagan would make a better Obama than Obama would?
I forgot about lazy national defense in favor of terror theater as a part of the GWB legacy.
Thanks!
Uh…what exactly are those good points, Del?
“Bush’s ultimate triumph was forcing the bleak, GOP worldview on our historically boisterously optimistic
countryDemocratic leaders.”We were pretty damned boisterous and optimistic at Obama's inauguration, weren't we? We were sure the bleak Republican policies were about to be overturned. Because he promised.
The country reacted to Bush optimistically by voting in a President that promised to end the wars, invest in America, and tax the rich. We rejected McCain who wanted 100 years of war and voucherized privatized social insurance.
We voted in a Democratic House that delivered legislation for public option health care and taxing the rich. But the people's agenda was deliberately foiled by the White House and a very small handful of Senators.
I agree.
The good points, Geezer, is that the word is out: when you attack the United States, there will be physical retributions. That’s what IP and the Wars and hunting down AlQueda leaders are all about.
In that case, they’re even stupider than I originally thought. That’s the sort of logic that wouldn’t work on any world leader any smarter than, say, you.
The real lesson was that if you attack the United States, it will destroy its own economy looking for someone on whom to take revenge. And they’ll miss the real target for 10 years.
But if you like Toby Keith music, it is all worth it.
or cat scratch fever
Yes, let’s talk about Bush instead of the abysmal unemployment crisis and Obama’s failure to do anything substantial about it.
Ah, Bush bashing. Memba that? Good times.
Bush gave us all those things and got reelected anyway. And then we elected Obama and got more Bush policies. It’s Bush all the way down. Bush policies are just the expression of our own depravity. We have met the Bush, and he is us.
Yeah yeah. Nevertheless, time to get my 2012 game face on. BUUUUUUUUUUSH! Stop sucking so much!!
“The Wars”, Last time I looked, Bush was not flying those planes that ran into the world trade center.
You guys are out of your minds. You guys must be seeing a whole team of phychiatrist. You are strongly bordering on very, very, non patriotic behavior, If you think we should let someone attack us, and not go after them, then you guys all need to move to a different country. That is not what this country is about, you guys are in the very, very, very small minority or people that think when you are attacked you should just sit their and do nothing. I am a fairly opened minded guy, but you guys are wrong this time. You need to either rethink you positions, or move to another country, cause a hate to tell you, all your belling aching in the world is not going to change the fact that the U.S. is never going to retreat from an enemy who attacks us, No matter who is president.
Bush was not flying those planes that ran into the world trade center.
Neither was Saddam.
The guys who attacked us were Saudis. (That means from Saudi Arabia.) So, what were you saying about retreating from an enemy who attacks us?
I just have to laugh. “bordering on very very non patriotic behavior” they got a computer in the “Kidz Kollege” day care I guess.
Well, let’s see: when President Bush wanted to use military force against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, he went to the Congress and got an authorization. And when President Bush wanted to invade Iraq, he went to Congress — and the Senate was controlled by the Democrats at the time — and got an authorization to use military force.
When President Obama decided to use military force against Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya, did he go to Congress to get authorization?
And y’all want to blame George Bush for the Imperial Presidency? 🙂
Puck wrote:
Yeah, the House passed legislation extending the 2001/2003 tax cuts for everybody but the top producers, but they did it after the 2010 elections! If y’all had actually been serious about that, why didn’t Speaker Nancy Pelosi even attempt to do this before the election? It still might have gotten filibustered in the Senate, but you don’t know that because y’all never even tried.
And as you decry the horrible, draconian spending cuts, I’d remind y’all that, with the Democrats holding a very substantial majority in the House of Representatives, only two of the twelve annual appropriations bills were passed by the House, and the other ten never even made it out of committee. The House never even bothered to pass an overall FY2011 federal budget plan, because the Democratic leaders were afraid that the Republicans would use it to attack incumbent Democrats in the 2010 campaigns.
Instead, we attacked the Democrats for not doing their jobs in passing a budget, and a lot of people figured that the reason you never passed the tax bill was because what y’all really wanted was the tax cuts to expire for everybody.
Translation: the Democrats in the eleventy-first Congress were both stupid and cowardly. Should you really be surprised at the results of the 2010 elections?
“Democrats …were both stupid and cowardly. Should you really be surprised at the results of the 2010 elections?”
I’m filing that under “Blind Squirrel Finds Nut.” The writer does not know why what he wrote is true, but I’m going to go ahead and award credit.
Rusty?
You guys must be seeing a whole team of phychiatrist. You are strongly bordering on very, very, non patriotic behavior,
No offense, but I’ll let Michelle Bachman be the judge of any anti american behavior!
Because the belief that his attempt (fail) at reaching across the aisle to the douche-bag liberals would enhance his legacy, President Bush’s worst act is that he left us with our current President, the most profound failure in American history.
You all know it’s true, but lack the ovaries to admit it.
Bush took plenty of military actions w/o Congressional authorization. He ordered military strikes in the horn of Africa and in Pakistan. He also sent combatant military “advisers” to the Philippines.
6) A door open wide enough for a spineless empty suit unfit to lead a conga line to waltz right through.
But, but, but I inherited this! Waaaaaahhh!
Dom – I am a man who can admit when he was wrong, and I was wrong about Hillary. You were right, so I apologize for all the crap. Especially for saying that you were so strident about it because you were on your period. That was out of line.
Miscreant – There is no way Obama can touch Bush in the worst President category. He may be the biggest Presidential disappointment to liberals, but that is a different thing altogether.
Wait…are you mocking me? Because I was definitely on my period for part of the time. But I was still totally right. 🙂
No mockery. But as I read it now, it probably would have been better manners to leave your period out of the apology. So now I’m apologizing for the apology.
#6 if I may. Reconstituted anthrax.
Doviti is correct i can’t tell the difference between Obama and Bush the wars continue and the TAX BREAKS for the rich continue I could name a lot more thing but space is restricted.
Jason wrote:
Oh, no, Jason, I know exactly why I what I wrote was true: it is true because the congressional Democrats are both stupid and cowardly; no deeper explanation is necessary.
The strange thing is that many of my friends on the left were telling the Democrats what they needed to do, and the congressional Democrats, and President Obama as well, still couldn’t figure it out.
“Last time I looked, Bush was not flying those planes that ran into the world trade center.”
Neither was anyone from Afghanistan or Iraq.