Category: President George Bush

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The deuce you say!

To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.

Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical policies to come.

Why, [...]

The Night of the Moderate-Length Knives »

I think the one thing we’ve learned from Republicans in the past three months is that political advisers and career staffers are pretty much self-aggrandizing jerks who feel loyalty only to themselves and don’t have a problem shirking any responsibility whatever for their own dismal failures.
Matthew Dowd buys into the popular MSM narrative of Hurricane [...]

It’s Amazing How Different a Workout Looks Four Years Later. »

Kipling once wrote “Heaven grant us patience with a man in love” and it seems we’re going to need a lot of patience with the MSM for the next four years. The sight of Obama, posing shirtless before the panting brigades of reporters, has given them yet another reason to write yet more embarrassing mash [...]

What the Heck, It’s Only A Few Billion Dollars, Right? »

What are three things guaranteed to happen in any Federal government program? Waste, lack of accountability, and did I mention waste?
One of the reasons I strongly opposed the TARP bailout program is because the general panic from the Secretary of the Treasury and Congressional Democrats reminded me of someone who sees a fire and goes [...]

Compassionate Conservatism Just Means Making Different People Hurt »

Compassion is a fine emotion, right up to the point where it overwhelms your ability to think rationally. Our President has no end of compassion and in our foreign policy it has served him very well. On the domestic front it’s led him to mangle common sense in ways that, were common sense a dog, [...]

President Bush Burns the Economy to Save It. »

This hurts to read.

President George W. Bush, in an interview that aired today on CNN, said he’s “considering all options” for a bailout of General Motors and Chrysler.
“I have abandoned free-market principles to save the free- market system,” Bush said. The U.S. economy is “in a huge recession,” he said.

I seriously have no idea how [...]

Congress Screws Up Its Oversight Role Yet Again »

This is not a promising proof of the ability of Congressional Democrats to oversee the massive financial market bailout plan, like they said they could.

Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms [...]

Iraqi Reporters Make Rookie Mistake, Treat President Bush with Respect »

Helen Thomas and the entire reporting staff of MS-NBC were all accounted for at the time, so I’m pretty sure the identification of this man is correct.

An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his [...]