Confession Time
I have to confess. I am one of the 6 people left in the nation who still “approve” of George W. Bush. Below, I plan to list and briefly explain my reasoning. Surely, there are lists of grievances against this President as there have been against each of his forebearers but a glimpse into the near future may tell a different story of ther 43rd President than his current 27% approval rating.
1. Thanks to George W. Bush, the Supreme Court has 2 strict conservative justices. The importance of Justices Alito and Roberts cannot be weighed or measured.
2. For 6 years, the American economy has shown incredible strength in every economic indicator including inflation rate, unemployment rate, and stock market strength. Much has been said about the current “recession” trend but this natural ebb of economic fluctuation is only a mild and temporary development. This economic stability came directly on the heels of the attack which could have and perhaps should have crippled our economic prospects for at least a decade.
3. 2 despotic tyrranical regimes have been toppled and replaced with governments with friendly intentions toward the West.
4. Our homeland has been free from attack since that one great tragedy in 2001. This is not coincidence. The Bush administration has been as vigilant as was promised.
5. Taxes are lower than they have been since Reagan. Everyone benefits from lower tax rates. Even the federal treasury.
6. Dignity has been restored to the office of the US Presidency. There is a dress code in the oval office and acts of innapropriate lewdness are a regretable distant memory. There is once again reason to rise to one’s feet when a US President enters a room.
Yep. The President is an employee. Adults should not view the President like the object of fickle, middle school puppy love. Adults should not vilify the President simply because he is from the opposing political party. And adults aren’t as susceptible to 24/7 war-roomish propaganda campaigns, so Alan Gable is probably in the “adult” category.
This President has made mistakes (and unfortunately for him was unable to gloss over those mistakes with the charisma or personality available to people like Bubba or Reagan), but he has been a good president.
This is without question the dumbest bit of nonsense I have read today.
You and Ned are completely deluded. “Good president?” This guy has earned the title “Worst President Ever” — it’s no accident. Bush presided over complete economic breakdown, a “war” based entirely on lies and motivated purely by a personal vendetta, and a loss of international goodwill and respect unprecedented in American history.
And “dignity?” Sorry, but a man who only seldom puts together coherent sentences can hardly be considered to have restored “dignity” to the presidency. Dignity is a hell of a lot more than a dress code and protocol — it’s telling the truth and commanding respect and, oh, yeah, it would help if you didn’t advocate torture and have your puppetmaster — sorry, vice president — demand an apology from the guy HE shot in the face.
I don’t know if taxes really are lower, but if they are, they’re more than countered by the unbelievable rise in gas prices, which is doing nothing more than enriching the Chief Chimp’s oil baron pals and killing the rest of the country.
It’s going to take decades — DECADES — to clean up the mess that this president will have left behind. “Good president?” Only if “good” is defined as “destructive and incompetent on an historic level.”
Oh, I almost forgot:
4. Our homeland has been free from attack since that one great tragedy in 2001.
Yeah, provided you don’t count that nasty little bout with anthrax in 2002 … and the fact that the terrorism against American interests has transferred to Iraq and London and Madrid and all sorts of fun places.
P.S. Your blog uses German as a default language, and you call yourself an American? I’m shocked, simply agog.
Ralphie, looking at your visage there was the dumbest thing I’ve done all day. My eyes!
Of course President Bush is a good man. Finally, we’ve had a politician who stuck to what he believes is right, albeit some tactical ball-drops, and ignored the polls and the fair-weather friends and completed the mission.
Of course simpletons like Sinfonian will rage uselessly, infected with their BDS and hatred of All Things Republican, because they see opportunity to anklebite their betters. And follow the crowds who know no better.
I’ve posted this before; this piece written by Eric Dondero…
I’ll say this again as well: given that the BDS-drenched Main Stream Media has turned nearly all easily-seduced fat, dumb and happy Americans against President Bush, this is a temporary condition.
History will read differently.
And history will record that Clinton had high polling numbers and accomplished, well …. , nothing.
Oh, and history will record that Monica distraction “thing”.
Did I also mention he was very popular?
Sorry Serr8d, I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about Bush. It’s not BDS when one is basing evaluations on evidence. You need to re-read Krauthammer’s to refresh your understanding of the concept.
I really don’t think he is a “bad guy”, though. But I think he got used by some wretched scum leftover from the nixon administration, with some help from other scum like Karl Rove, etc.
Regardless of foreign policy views, that is clearly the dumbest bit of nonsense I have read today, the second dumbest of course being this post.
Yep, good president. Thanks Dubya!!! Ha!
HBK, it’s President Bush.
Asshole.
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Of course simpletons like Sinfonian will rage uselessly, infected with their BDS and hatred of All Things Republican, because they see opportunity to anklebite their betters. And follow the crowds who know no better.
Oh, please, call me names, criticize my opinions, whatever you like, but please don’t call me a “simpleton.” I’ll happily match my educational accomplishments with anyone here if you insist; I’ll even brag about my wins on Jeopardy! if I have to (although, honestly, I’d rather not). You’re welcome to disagree with me or call me anything you like, but I’m no simpleton.
The simpletons are those who say things like “7 years of solid [economic] growth” under George W. Bush, which so flies in the face of truth and fact that it’s astonishing that one can say that without spontaneously combusting. It’s almost as though they’ve been living under a rock since 2001. Of course, that’s entirely possible.
Moreover, citing, for example, Ann Coulter to support your position that Drunky McStagger is a good president is like citing Mein Kampf to support your belief that Aryans are the master race. I mean, sure, some certifiably insane people like Coulter or Hitler might believe what they say, but that hardly makes it true or right or even on the same planet as truth.
And history will record that Clinton had high polling numbers and accomplished, well …. , nothing.
Oh, and history will record that Monica distraction “thing”.
Please, for the love of all that is holy and decent, Give Up the Monica Thing. Not only is that ancient history, but a blow job under the desk hardly compares with sending millions to their deaths for the sake of avenging one’s father. As for accomplishments under the Clinton administration, of course you’d miss out on the unprecedented economic growth, the years of peace and prosperity, and the popularity not of Clinton himself, but of America worldwide — all of which have been decimated by the Bush crime syndicate.
Even the mouth-breathing Neanderthals on Free Republic and RedState have largely given up on Dubya. So, indeed, this blog probably houses the Last Few Sycophants who still like the guy. You’re like the Japanese soldiers discovered on some remote island decades after World War II still fighting it … you’re the last to know that your guy is a complete idiot.
Democrats read books, Republicans burn them
Yes, the dress code
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Yep. Republicans burn books.
Democrats freeze to death, but have kept the book safe from harm.
Democrats freeze to death
So many have, in fact, that McCalledHisWifeACunt is a shoo-in!
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Fabulous. Can’t wait for that new amnesty package!
Wow, is Jeopardy! still on the air? I’m impressed. Did you read the Coulter article, Sinfonian? Or should I say, What would be “no”?
Despite wars, natural disasters, bursting bubbles, the economy is certifiably okay. If you take away those extraordinary hindrances, it would likely have been splendid. If you take away the Liberal spendthriftyness of this president (see, I said I didn’t think he was perfect . . .) the economy would be even splendid-er. You can characterize some things Bush has done as criminal/inept/dishonorable, but economic data are what they are.
Yep. Dubya has done pretty well.
And feel free not to waste your time visiting the blog.
Serr8d:
Fine,
You’re wrong about President Bush, then.
Of course, I’m sure you’ll be referring to 42 strictly as “President Clinton” from now on.
After all he was acquitted on impeachment.
Right?
6. Dignity has been restored to the office of the US Presidency. There is a dress code in the oval office and acts of innapropriate lewdness are a regretable distant memory. There is once again reason to rise to one’s feet when a US President enters a room.
Ha HA ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha Ha HA HA HA ha ha
u cant b serious
dignity restored to the white house by a needless war, torture and all the lying it took/takes to get the American people to go along w/ it.
Dignity???
only reason i’d rise to my feet when that SOB enters the room is to stick my boot up his lying no-good ass!
All you have to do is use common sense and read the next post to debunk everything that Coulter says with logic and facts. Sorry but I can’t help but notice that nearly all of them are loyal members of the white KKKhristian party. Maybe some day the Jews will be perfected so they can be as valid as Ann.
Did I say Monica? I meant to say President Clinton LIED under oath, thinking that he was above the law, and got caught.
The Clinton apologists can “spin” all they want, and attempt to re-direct the crime as “a blow job, or sex between two consenting adults, or whatever”, but at the end of the day, you and the American people know he committed a felony.
Actually Bush[wack] is just the pretendsident. Dick[wad] Cheney is your Prez.
He said so himself.
I read the post, William. Lefty, BDS agitprop.
It is not evil or criminal or pathological simply to disagree with a Liberal.
It is not evil or criminal or pathological simply to disagree with a Liberal. No, but it’s pschycopathic patholgogical denial to dismiss facts as BDS. You are truly amazing Ned, Sinfonian got it right:
Regarding Bush v Clinton …
[What] George W. Bush has done to the fabric of our constitutional government, to Separation of Powers, to a government of limited powers, to destroy the notion that we are a nation of laws, not of men, is something that is absolutely unforgiveable, irresponsible and terribly, terribly destructive of our notion of government. President Clinton, certainly had my problems with him, but what he did in terms of perjury and obstruction was bad, but it was not destructive of the very systemic foundations of our country. — Bob Barr, Former Republican Camgressman
Sinfonian,
You are just an angry stupid Liberal who thinks the government can fix everything and is blind to fact that most of our domestic problems come from failed liberal policies.
Bullshit. FDR put this country on his back after the Great Depression, which most certainly was not caused by “failed liberal policies”, nor is the current economic meltdown. There are no perfect solutions, we muddle through the best we can, but if it weren’t for “liberal policies” this country would not have made it this long without collapsing under the weight of arrogant assholes, the type that think there is a such thing as “safe nuclear weapons.”
Hubris and greed are the cause of our domestic problems.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
HBK talking with people like you is a fruitless venture but here we go
Lets move forward past FDR and look at some “failed Liberal polices”
Healthcare - This has been brewing for years. Medicare and Medicaid are choking healthcare systems. The reimbursement rates are a joke and still going down.
Energy - Liberals in the name of environmentalism and the global warming hoax prevent oil and gas exploration and refining. Democrats are urging OPEC to increase production but refuse to use our own.
Economy - 86% of all Federal Income Taxes are paid by the Top 25% of income earners. 96% of F.I. T are paid by the Top 50%. How will increasing the takes for top 25% help. The poor in the country don’t pay taxes. Tax and spend liberals will do nothing but slow us down. Don’t tell me about Clinton either. He was the benefit of the internet economic boom.
Gun control - By restricting ownership of firearms in metropolitan cities to law abiding citizens the have successfully allow criminals, who will ALWAYS have guns, to have a hay day. Crime rates have skyrocketed.
The love of POWER and CONTROL is what fuels the Liberal
“People like me”? Not sure what you mean, other than I obviously don’t swallow spew from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. I certainly hope you don’t either.
I never claimed that liberals do not make mistakes. I merely assert that those mistakes are not necessarily the cause of “most of our domestic problems”. You are “blind to some facts” as well.
The deficits have to be dealt with. It wasn’t “liberal policies” that started the trade deficit and gutted our industrial base.
Clinton may have benefited from technology growth, but he also wasn’t a total dumbass. For example, he chose not to bankrupt the country by invading Iraq, and instead balanced the federal budget. Not perfect, like I said, but all-in-all he left things in fairly decent shape.
But if you’ve got some idea how we can balance the budget without taxes, you should expand on that. There might be a Nobel Prize with your name on it.
Power does not corrupt only liberals.
Exactly when would be a good time to get off oil-sometime before world war III, or just when you’re done with it?
#1 Raising taxes doesn’t mean more money to the government but it almost always slows the economy. We can’t balance the budget until we eliminate some wasteful spending. Shaving down our welfare state and getting out of Iraq and finishing the job there is a good start.
Every politician thinks they can keep getting re-elected by creating new legislation and restricting individual and economic freedoms in the process.
Lower the taxes to boost the economy will create more money for the treasury. We also need term limits for Congress. Nothing changes with the same people running the same committees year after year.
Yes we should get off oil but the technology for doing that isn’t even a reality in our dreams yet. We can put money and incentives for new technology BUT it will take many years and we have to offset the global oil demand with our own supply to keep our economy strong while we foster this new technology.
Do you think If we pull our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan everything will be fine and we won’t get attacked again? If you do then the media has accomplished its mission of minimizing the threat of extremist Muslims.
Dignity.
#1 Raising taxes doesn’t mean more money to the government but it almost always slows the economy.
There’s simply no evidence to support that statement. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Even over the last three decades, there’s simply no correlation between changes in tax rates and the rate of economic growth. And when you correct for inflation, lowering taxes doesn’t increase revenue, either.
Yes we should get off oil but the technology for doing that isn’t even a reality in our dreams yet.
No, but the technology to dramatically increase fuel economy in cars, for example, has existed for at least a decade, probably more like two. We just haven’t yet made it a priority.
Do you think If we pull our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan everything will be fine and we won’t get attacked again?
No, but there are two problems with this statement. First, I don’t accept your implied premise that Iraq and Afghanistan are in any way related. Second, do you think if we stay in Iraq and Afghanistan, we won’t get attacked again?
we continue to pursue terrorist rather than treat each incident/attachk like a criminal case, like the Clinton administration, then we will see less attacks. We haven’t been attacked since we brought the fight to them.
When it comes to taxes I can sight a NBC democratic presidential debate when Brokaw asked Obama about his stance of raising the Capital Gains tax from 15% to 25-28%. Brokaw said the history has shown that when the CGT is raised the amount of money brought into the treasury goes down and when its lowered more funds are collected by the govt. Obama said its not about economic sense but about “fairness”, some rich folks are making too much money.
Why is it that you want to give more money to the government rather than make them trim some fat.
Socialism doesn’t work. Obama is sounding more and more like a one.
More failed liberal policies…….
The only meaningful “fat” you could trim is from social security, medicare, and defense. Any candidate who advocates for significant cuts to any one of these is virtually guaranteed to lose, no matter what party that candidate is from.
Did ROR say FDR?
Ha! The only thing that pulled us out of the 1st Great Depression was WWII. Something about the entirety of this country coming together during a war and taking care of each other. Something most spoiled, rotten, stinkin’ liberal asshats (the leftist wing of the Democratic party’; the nutroots) can’t do today.
You will deserve exactly what happens to you. What gonna happen to you in the next few decades? Well, for starters, your constitution will be discarded; your lifestyle will drop to a fraction of what you enjoy today; and you’ll get you chance to discover ‘third-world’ up real close. This ‘Change’ starts when Obonga takes office.
It’s coming whoever takes office. But a strong Republican will slow the fall.
The Age of Oil, the period that we live in today, the times that gave us such marvels as automobiles and air conditioning, is coming to an end, and with it, the American way of life. We might see some periods of respite, but not for very long. Give it 30-40 years, tops. There’s some unimaginably grim scenarios that might unfold if we aren’t so careful. Obama won’t know how to act; he’s a child. We need a strong man in the White House. Not a babe-in-arms. Maybe Obama can live up to his ‘messiahness’; the 666 man.
With luck, you leftist weaklings can become chattel of a regional warlord or a city-state.
After all, we’ll need mules.
Or, should I say, donkeys?
;D
I didn’t say FDR “pulled us out of the depression.”
Without his leadership, however, it is possible the whole experiment would have failed before WW II. FDR was no weakling, I assure you.
So I am a weakling because I refuse to support a corporate energy war?
In your doomsday secenario, you will be just as weak as everyone else staring down the barrel of a tank, and just as deserving, unless you happen to be part of the uber-elite. At that point, I don’t think they’ll be saying, “Serr8d’s a good ole boy, lets cut him in.” They’ll be happy to take everything you have and leave you for shit, even after your years of weak-minded subserviance to their cause.
The only thing a “strong Republican” is likely to do is spur a nuclear escalation out of the percieved necessity to conquer the rest of the Middle East.
I’ll think I’d rather take my chances with the liberal peace-loving hippie weaklings.