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Re: Bush Started It!

By Quin Hillyer on 3.9.09 @ 3:39PM

Philip is absolutely on target on all counts. Of course, Obama doesn't NEED to maintain intellectual consistency, because he is THE ONE chosen by the lefty establishment media.

As for Bush, way back when a certain actress was still hedging about her own level of purity, in either 2004 or early early 2005 -- I'll have to look up the exact date -- I wrote that "Bush is a conservative in the same way Britney Spears is a virgin: only when it suits his marketing."

Credit Don Devine's Conservative Battleline for printing that column of mine, and credit the San Francisco Chronicle, now endangered, for reprinting it shortly thereafter.

But don't blame Bush alone. Blame Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert, and a host of others as well. The 2 a.m.-to-5 a.m. vote on the prescription drug abomination was mostly their work (although Bush did arrive back from abroad and start making calls sometime in that last hour of cheating), as were the pork fests beginning in 1998 and the corporate whoredom that made the tax code so much more of a monstrosity than it already was.

All of which is just to add to Phil's excellent post.

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Interloper| 3.9.09 @ 5:48PM

If the San Francisco Chronicle reprinted the kind of piffle you specialize in Hillyer, its likely demise is justified. I suspect you shopped at Circuit City, too.

As I said in the comments to TWJ's piece, you both are engaging in classic straw man nonsense in regard to President Obama's statement about the processes of bigger government and propping up the economy starting long before he took office. The Obama you say is blaming all our economic problems on the private sector does not exist. That is a figment of your imaginations you've produced to throw darts at.

However, the knee-slappingly funny line in this short piece of piffle is: "But don't blame Bush alone." One of the worse Presidents in our history is back in Texas chasing tumbleweeds and you are still too craven criticize him.

Angel| 3.9.09 @ 6:27PM

Obama's only been in office 6 weeks and he's already stinkin' up the Oval Office. After the stunt he pulled on PM Brown of Great Britain, I can just imagine what his low-class behavior will be toward our other friends and allies.