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The Spectacle Blog
Zac Morgan over at Frum Forum remembers the Bush administration:
The truth is that the Republican Party has not had a conversation about the Bush years and what they mean in 2012.
Like it or not: our party was once led by a self-styled compassionate conservative who spent federal dollars to save people with HIV/AIDS in Africa, bailed out Wall Street, assailed nativism, protectionism, and isolationism, and rightfully said after Saddam Hussein was overthrown “everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
I remember things a bit differently.
ncatty| 9.15.11 @ 4:26PM
Good article at The American Conservative. Although I would trust W to drive my wife home and would be delighted to have he and Laura over for dinner, he was no conservative and ruined the Republican Party. I suppose he is even responsible for electing Obama. What a legacy.
Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 5:42PM
on top of that Bush was a dynasticist peddling a 2nd rate dynasty worthy of the Kennedys.
Bush was not a bad person at all.
WRONG JOB.
Alan Brooks| 9.15.11 @ 5:48PM
...we would only be unfair in dissing Bush if we were trying to scapegoat him for the last decade; but as Carter was partially (to say the least) culpable for the disasters of '77 to '80, so can W be held somewhat responsible for '01- '09.
Bush is a good guy, hope he does well in business-- and STAYS in business, that is where he belongs.
Steve A| 9.16.11 @ 12:24PM
Alan, I'm going to report you to AttackWatch for saying nice things about Bush.
JP| 9.15.11 @ 4:32PM
Perhaps it would be better to remember the Republican Party during the period Nov 2008 to Jan 2009. Bush destroyed the GOP from within (with a big assist coming from such lumaries as Denny Hastert and Bill Frist). After the wreckage of the November elections, people like Frumm, Noonan, and Krauthammer were all ready to jump to the Democrat Party. Frumm himself didn't wait for the train wreck; he was one of the first to jump ship. He thought he could cash in, and now he's just trying to stay relavant by bad mouthing conservatives. The political legacy of none other than The Anointed One himself.
Clint| 9.15.11 @ 4:36PM
Bush's Crew are gonna Bitch Slap Ricky Perry, along with Ricky Santorum, and Our Tea Party Candidates Michele Bachmann and Dr.Ron Paul.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 9.16.11 @ 2:02AM
Bush is a Big Government Republican who gave the GOP its worst defeat since 1964. He's also an idiot who completely failed at every business venture that he ever managed. (No, he did not manage the Texas Rangers baseball team - someone else did. He only contributed his money. The team was run by someone who was actually smart.)
Clint| 9.16.11 @ 7:31AM
"Upon Perry’s inauguration as governor of Texas in the year 2000, the state’s total spending was $49 billion. As of late 2010, the state’s spending totalled $90 billion–an increase of over 17% (after adjusting for inflation and population increase.) "
Big Government Texas Governors.
aware| 9.16.11 @ 5:56AM
And don't forget TARP, which showed once and for all who really is the "government". And it ain't "We the People". Sept. 18,'08 was the last day anyone paying attention could have that illusion.
The bad part it that "conservatives" are on their way to making the same stupid mistake again. That is if we get to Nov. '12.
O Tamandua| 9.16.11 @ 9:34AM
God bless GWB. I hate to think what would have happened had Al Gore been president 10 years and 5 days ago. I also remember that "Bush 43" quietly worked against human trafficking, and opponents of same said he was one of the best friends their/our cause ever had.
He wasn't perfect, but I still admire him and all he did.
rightasrain| 9.16.11 @ 9:41AM
Instead of berating Bush for giving us Obama, the case can be made that we should be thanking him. Instead of America's inching toward oblivion as certainly would have continued under McCain ,we got the most liberal member of the Senate flinging us headlong into the abyss. We woke up, the Tea Party was born and now we have a real chance at reversing course. Had Obama not boiled the water, we frogs would not have jumped out of the pot.
SCM| 9.16.11 @ 12:30PM
Unfortunately, so true!
Kitty| 9.16.11 @ 10:26AM
This has all the warm fuzzies of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"; Act 3. Scene II
martin j smith| 9.16.11 @ 11:52AM
Sadly GWB --perhaps a sincere well meaning guy--
did things that were not so hot along with some things that were OK. His largest mistakes in my view were: Degrading the war on terrorism, not having better security on the border especially with Mexico, not responding to his critics, and dragging out the Iraq and Afgan Wars. He allowed himself to be the World's scapegoat and thus put down not only himself but our nation as well. I have respect for GWB but I would prefer someone who has more courage and self confidence and better able to articulate that he.
CalMark| 9.16.11 @ 1:07PM
George W. Bush spent his entire Presidency making nice with his enemies, foreign and domestic, many of the latter spouting the most amazingly vile things against him on the floors of Congress. Bush also repeatedly and emphatically betrayed his friends and political supporters, in the name of his childish "New Tone."
An overrated Commander in Chief who forced us to fight "nice" wars--so as not to offend the enemy. A politician of rare skill who accomplished a great deal (almost all of it bad) against a vile opposition party and principled objections from his own.
George W. Bush: at best, a hopelessly naive betrayer of friends; at worst, a Machiavellian back-stabber, probably closer to the latter.
Good riddance.