Another notch in Bush's legacy belt
By SilentPatriot Monday Jun 23, 2008 6:30pm
Remember when President Bush made homeownership the centerpiece of his domestic policy? How's that working out for America...
“Owning a home lies at the heart of the American dream.” So declared President Bush in 2002, introducing his “Homeownership Challenge” — a set of policy initiatives that were supposed to sharply increase homeownership, especially for minority groups.
Oops. While homeownership rose as the housing bubble inflated, temporarily giving Mr. Bush something to boast about, it plunged — especially for African-Americans — when the bubble popped. Today, the percentage of American families owning their own homes is no higher than it was six years ago, and it’s a good bet that by the time Mr. Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in.
Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush's presidency?
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A complete and lasting shift to the Democratic party?
The Bush brand is so damaged we might be spared Jeb?
Yup. One thing positive is that the Republican party is finally beginning to look like shitstain to middle America. Adios mutherfuckers.
Oooo Ooooo I know....... the new carpet in the oval office?
It'll be torn down into fire wood
Since no one can afford heating oil either.
boosh has always hated everything, especially his own country.
he's gotten his wish.
Well, Bush did give some hope to the retarded that they too could become President of the United States some day. I suppose that's something.
bandit @ 1:
It certainly appears that way even to many Republicans as we see from these two headlines:
House Medicare bill gets veto-proof majority
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-medicare-bill-gets-veto-proof-...
Senate advances housing bill by veto-proof margin
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senate-advances-housing-bill-by-veto...
He gave up golf in support of the troops?
He's taken some of the social stigma behind getting a DWI?
One positive Legacy? Sure. That he left office.
Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Making comedy writer's jobs easier.
He has successfully made people question the validity of capitalism and religion.
Permanent ruination of the GOP (greedy old perverts) party?
Legacy as THE worst president in American history?
Hatred for the Bush brand so we can tell Jeb to fuck off forever? (Making pappy oh so pissed off.)
Most corrupt administration in recent history? Makes Nixon look like a saint.
Lots-o-achievements. Worst of the worst.
And I'm lovin' it!
Yep, blowing the repthuglicans was a great accomplishment. Hoist on their own petard they were! I still get giggles when I think of all those senators and reps waving purple thumbs in the air during the state of the Union address. All O'bama has to do is air that clip again and again and he'll thump McSame soundly!
Christopher Turkel @ 2:
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Jeb, when's Daisy-Mae gonna snag a husband?
She's all of fourteen
An old maid.
Be careful what you ask for. Waiting in the wings is that boosh college dweeb, who likes to drunkenly party with transvestites, when he's not lecturing us that we're rascist, because we didn't want important American harbors sold to Arabic intererests.
"Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?"
* He didn't kick out/kill all non-citizens, a/o Muslims, a/o arabs after 9/11 (and lets not kid ourselves some riech wingers wanted that).
* He's presidency was so bad the very word republican has become a vulgarity.
* He left office........I hope.
Not sure if this can be conflated into a legacy, but credit where credit is due:
The 'Do Not Call List' rocks.
Scorecard
Positive Legacy:1
Negative Legacy: Total Legacy -1
he's made more people curious about prescott bush and smedley butler?
the best...........
if he or anyone of his administration travel out of the country
several countries in europe are just waiting with crimes against humanity
courts ready to arrest and incarcerate any and all of them.
bush here's the door........leave the country NOW !
Home ownership worked. I'm sure Dubya and Cheney's friends own many properties now.
No third term.
The most positive thing that will happen in the Bush
Crime Spreeuh, Presidential Administration is when he leaves office once and for all. And let's hope he left enough of a stain that we don't have to suffer any more Republicans in that job...or at the very least no more members of the Bush Crime Family.Only one thing I can think of: he didn't mess with Latin America for the Hell of it the way most US Presidents have done. Yes, he threatened Chavez, and yes, his administration has a lot of bigotry against Hispanics, but Bush's Administration hasn't actually done something to mess with Latin America as opposed to just making scary faces and using harsh language.
In the Cold War, Chavez would have suffered the fate of Salvador Allende. In the 19th Century, he would have suffered the fate of Moctehuzoma.
He gave us Ph.D.s in how to completely avoid reality.
foreclosure dot com
Down in sunny Crawford, three of Chimpy's neighbors are on the foreclosure list, will he help them, not a chance.
and you can bet your bottom dollar, wherever McC*nt has one of his mansions, there are foreclosures going on too.
Foreclosures are an opportunity for the Republican money grabbers to buy up cheap properties from distressed people, they love it.
As with the S&Ls, Hedge funds, stock markets, pensions, 401Ks, oil price, all a golden oppo for the Repug crooks to make a killing at our expense.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over DIEBOLD! @ 19:
Wow, good point...and can anyone one the knuckle-headed Right tell me which one is the American Hero and which one was the Nazi Appeaser...sorry he wasn't a Nazi Appeaser...he was actually part of the Nazi Machine.
"... it’s a good bet that by the time Mr. Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in."
Sadly, that's just about meaningless when compared with the damage Bush has done to the dollar,
and the economy.
Billy @ 28:
Not to mention our military and our good name!
Although you will not find someone who likes Bush less than I, his one positive achievement and legacy for Hawaii is declaring the Northwest Hawaiian Islands a national monument, strengthening even Clinton's protections for the region. Of course, the NWHI have no oil under them and no industry with a lot of money(fishing) to put into lobbying...but to give credit where credit is due, he has done something positive.
He cleared brush on his ranch???
Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
That there are only 211 days left in it?
The Do Not Call registry. I think Josh Marshall pointed that out a while back. That is something quite nice that I don't know if they championed, but at least they didn't derail it.
bandit @ 1:
Remember, Wilson thought Creationism was a dying ideology in the 1910s...
and today we have the Creation Museum. Don't ever take a trend for granted.
General_Rennenkampf @ 24:
Its called world opinion, and mutual defense pacts, Bushco only attacks pre isolated countries.
Iraq had to be softened up for twelve years before the 2003 invasion, and subsequent genocide and looting could happen.
Bullies never attack people who can fight back.
Snore @ 31:
Former pig farm, not ranch.
Its working out the same way Bush offered tax credits for those who bought SUV's back a few years ago because the car makers were crying to him on sagging sales. So much for that Stimulast Plan also. Like Bush didnt know we had an oil crisis back then as we do now?
Well now those SUV owners cant afford the gas to run them.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm And he has the nerve to blame US for being dependent on oil. Its like the dope dealer saying, "well if they didnt want it I wouldnt have sold it to them." Bush pushed the SUV's and now is telling us we're horrible people for buying those gas guzzlers.
http://4wheeldrive.about.com/cs/drivingtipssafety/a/aa041603a.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2002-12-18-suv-tax-break_x.htm
Positive Bush legacy: Exxon profits through the roof!!!
An expanded American vocabulary, with words like "misunderestimated."
TerroristFistJab @ 38:
and nukuler.
sharkcellar @ 7:
don't be so rude....the mentally challenge are
leaps above bush......
they won't fuck you over. in fact the mentally challenged
have IQ's 75% higher than bush.
Name Required @ 30:
who made money on that deal?
think about it!
It has worked out about as well as all the other things that shithead has touched. The environment...education...healthcare....and America's international reputation. They've all suffered significantly since Chimpy took the reins.
Amazing that in eight short years, this country has plunged so far, it may never recover.
My guess is that it never will.
Ummm...he has the #1 most corrupt administration in history...that's an accomplishment, we've had some real douches in there.
To take your question literally, he's done a lot for AIDS in Africa, thought the 1/3 of the funding going to abstinence programs is a giant skid mark on these otherwise clean undies.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 35:
Excellent point!
Kevin @ 43:
Nah, second most by a .999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 margin. Ulysses S. Grant's administration has Bush's beat to hell and gone.
Max @ 44:
that's a crock!
look up what he's done, not what he takes credit for!
He took more vacation days than any other president. A record that will be tough for the slackest of slackers to break.
Oh, and I think he did a lot for sales of "My Pet Goat".
To be fair, the economy and foreclosure problem is not all Bush's fault.
Much -- if not most -- of the blame needs to be laid at the feet of the Federal Reserve BOG, specifically Greenspan.
Bernanke, while appointed by Bush, gets an ever-so-small Mulligan, due to the fact that the problems he inherited from Greenie are so massive, and he really is in kind of a policy bind -- too hawkish kills off potential "growth" and accelerates an inevitable crash, too lenient (as we've seen) produces inflation.
The rest of the blame for our economic woes falls squarely upon our own collective shoulders.
While times were nominally "good," our savings rate plummeted below zero, as we loaded up on iPods, HDTVs, Monlo Blahniks and Yukons galore.
Yes, Washington policy had something to do with that, too, but if Washington told us all to jump into the Potomac, should we?
But. The democrats shouldn't bail out struggling home owners. It's not right that taxpayers should be bailing out people who knew what they doing when they signed on the dotted line.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080624/D91GO9J80.html
Everyone needs to learn a hard lesson and we shouldn't have to pay for it.
harley @ 39:
Believe it or not, that predated Bush.
At least now OBGYNs can practice their love on their patients, though.
The word 'positive' implies some metric that can be measured. Republicans don't demonstrably believe in basing policy on things that can be shown to be factually effective. If they did, things would surely be different in Iraq. Ask any repug, and he or she will tell you things are going 'great' in Iraq, Afghanistan et al.
'Positive' to a republican means, did it piss-off the left? Have we covered up our closeted homosexuality? Have we passed money to our cronies? Have we rendered government ineffective? Did we pass war crime immunity to protect ourselves? Did we pass telecom immunity to cover up our impeachable offenses? That sort of thing.
General_Rennenkampf @ 46:
I would imagine Grant's administration tried to hide the worst of their sleaze, Bushco became rather blatant and didnotgiveadamn after 03.
Anybody calling for oversight, or antiwar back then were called traitors.
Bush's record in addition to housing and mortgage problems:
1. Increase in gasoline prices..triple the price before Bush took over.
2. Increase in cost of medical care and medicine.
3. Increase of health insurance.
4. Increase of food prices.
5. Increase of education cost.
6. Increase of all travel costs..specially air cost.
7. Increase of defense spending in tens of billions of dollars due wars.
8. Increase of banks fees...
9. Incease of telephone fees...
10. Increase in National Debt to record numbers, over 9 trillion dollars.
Down: Interest paid by banks to depositors.
Down: Exports Vs. Imports with negative 'balance of trade'.
Down: The value of US dollar to other currenceies....
So, Obama should be able to make his case...
Actually, I can name one positive aspect of Bush's legacy:
He managed to unite this country against him in ways never before seen. 80% of this country wants him the hell out. And the remaining 20% that still support him - well, for some people, all hope is GONE.
Bush To Filipino President:
And the beat goes on....
dadams @ 40:
I knew someone would call me on that. Damn. Ok, let's just substitute retard with slime mold then? Wait, slime mold can find it's way out of a maze can't it? Dammit. I got nuthin'.
This is what happens when you elect a retard to be President. The guy does not care about anything other than what is in his idiotic mind. He does not care about what anyybody else thinks. He does not want to know. He believes in Dick Cheney and KKKarl Rove. When he gives a speech or talks in front of the cameras you can just see what they have told him to say. It is so obvious. He is absolutely the worst President ever. This country could not be more fucked up if somebody tried. All because of a mind that never matured beyond the fifth grade.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over DIEBOLD! @ 47:
That does sum up the Republicans, what they actually did and F*&^ed up,
anybody can claim miracles and magic works if the MSM goes along with the charade.
McC*nt is the ultimate proof of the pudding regarding Rtype and MSM incest and criminality.
Manolo Blahniks.[stoopid phat fingaz]
Perception Manager @ 52:
republicans = republicans and the media
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 53:
Actually, Grant's Administration was as open about it as Dubya's administration. The parallels between Grant and Dubya are insanely close.
Bud @ 50:
Oh bollocks! Many many did not know what they were getting into. Don't give me those rethug talking points.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 58:
Who elected Chimpy to be president !
I seem to recall some stolen elections in 00 and 04
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 58:
you are the second person in this thread to slight retarded people. please apologize and select an appropriate lifeform or fictional character os lower intelligence, for example: a sack of hammers or a bag of nails.
Bud @ 50:
and bear stearns should get $300Bil?
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 64:
How did the elections get close enough to steal that the American people ignored it...
twice? Nobody ever goes broke or loses an election underestimating the stupidity of the American people. And considering how Obama's actions compare to his rhetoric, that seems to be just as true for some Democrats as it is for the Bush base.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 64:
Important distinction!
His one accomplishment: The destruction of the repug party.
For what it's worth, I think Bushie managed to piss off yet another world leader:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/bush-to-filipino-presiden_n_108...
He gave Americans a reason not to mix religion and politics together. The Religious Right + Born-Again Alcoholic = Disaster. Hopefully this will be the end of Theocratic America and the influence of his delusional spiritual advisers (Robertson, Falwell (RIP), Haggard, Hagee, Parsley, and all the other TV Evangelical Capitalistic Religion Salesmen.
Forcing the car companies to do, what they should have done in the early 70's and 80's. Concentrate on smaller cars and mpg, instead of the stupid suv's they have been pushing on everybody since that time.
Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Does the new Democratic Majority and fall of the GOP count?
many people have already said it, but i'll elaborate on it by mentioning that the power grab that gave the executive branch such super-constitutional power coupled with the HUGE interest in politics that his monumentally disastrous administration gave to us all, ironically also gives us as a citizenry a tiny window of opportunity to create some key lasting policy changes to propel us into an amazing new age. partisanship however will give us more of the same.
what we need now is smart, lasting and comprehensive lobbying and campaign finance reform - just to begin. that's what i'd start with just to help us pave the way for future public official visionaries to secure nomination. this moment of public outcry will end sooner than we expect and we need to make sure the gains we make over the next few years last.
An energized and more unified liberal/opposition base.
Always a silver lining if you look hard enough...
The Wanderer @ 70:
For what it's worth, I think Dubya has forgotten that the Philippines are no longer a colony of ours anymore.
Not the first time for something like that to happen, either.
"Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?"
I give you the same answer Shrub gave when asked to name a major mistake of his presidency - "Nope, can't think of anything" (paraphrased, of course)
For the record; Dubya was APPOINTED in 2000. And the re-election in 2004 is suspect by many factors.
You will never be able to convince me he was ever elected.
"Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?"
Depends on who you ask. China would say it's that he brought America to it's knees economically at a time when they were a shooting star economically clearing the way for them to be the new global economic power handing them all our debt to hold over us. Al-Queda and bin Laden it's that Bush has put them in Iraq and Afghanistan with access to oil money to finance another terrorist attack against us and that Bush has made it easier for them to recruit. The super rich would say it's handing them more money on the backs of the middle class through upper class tax cuts. Big Oil would say it's their recored profits while we pay $4 bucks at the pump.
The positive legacy of George W. Bush all depends on who you ask, but ask the overwhelming majority of Americans who poll him barely above herpes and Dick Cheney would say that he's gone in November (provided he doesn't suspend the Constitution and declare marshall law)
Yes I can name a single accomplishment, pointed out by someone else a long time ago when the same question was posed. Here it is: Now we all know how to spell "incompetent" correctly.
The Wanderer @ 70:
Bush to Obama: "If you win this November, I hope you'll dance at your inauguration. I just love watching you people dance."
Ruthless People @ 79:
...gone in January 2009 that is..
The warning label on pretzels? Oh that's right..
Another notch in Bush’s legacy belt
I'd like to give boosh a belt.
J.V. @ 33:
Yeah, and I've reported the same goddamned telemarketer at least 1/2 dozen times. They're still calling at least once a month. The do not call list is fine, in theory; however, I don't see much positive result from it when you actually take the time to report a violator.
ysbaddaden @ 16:
Jeb parties with Rudy Giulianni?
If Vietnam destroyed our innocense then the Bush administration obliterated our sanity. This is a good thing eg we know the depths of our darkness. George Carlin said it best : the owners of this country know the truth about the american dream, you have to be asleep to believe in it.
Now it's time to wake up and do what's neccesary to bring these MFs to justice. Thank you GWB. We won't forget you. hehehe........
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over DIEBOLD! @ 56:
And the beat goes on....
Is it possible that he's just that stupid, that he actually thinks this is a nice thing to say?
Well, one group of people are breathing a sigh of relief - the friends and family of Richard Nixon. Bush grabbed the baton from him, and left him in the dust.
SilentPatriot asked a very good question. I have searched my memory banks, and cannot come up with a single redeeming thing in his Presidency. There must be something out there. He was bound to have made, at least, one mistake.
Bush accomplished the destruction of the American Empire.
Yes I distinctly remember him in one of his state of the nation speech bragging that economy is robust and doing very well (eventhough many of us knows differ in his assesments). By deregulating the mortgage industry and lowering the level of oversights; Swindling CEOs were able to personally GAIN profit from its sales operations, bundling risky mortgage to temporary inflate profits of the banking and mortgage industry long enough to obtain, sell, justify and reap millions of dollar of bonus for their deeds; to the unsuspecting stock holders. These are the very people that PAID lots of campaign money to get the CROOKS and INCOMPETENT figure HEADS (such as BUSH and others) to run our nation's citizens and GOVERNMENT into the dark hole for the past decade.
Firing and keeping independent AUDITORS to audit our government and it's operation AND designing legislative provisions to keep the loopholes OPEN and created LAWS to immunized the wrongdoers that have INFILTRATED our GOVERNMENT. Removing OVERSIGHT and eliminating professional AUDIT is not only BAD for GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT; but ALSO eliminate these VITAL PROFESSIONAL from a JOB that could contribute to our UNEMPLOYMENT problems and TAX REVENUE generation. AUDITORS serves a VITAL role in many ways I have yet to describe.
Without AUDITORS and LAWS they can potentially recommend to tighted internal control and close-out loopholes AND keep white colar and government officials from the temptation of participating in CRIMINAL activities or dubious activities encouraged by a FEW CROOKED, GREEDY, CORPORATE CEO. This would POLICE their activities that HURT us ALL. Promoting CHANGE must begin with a tightening oversight and closing the gaps of many of the loopholes.
THE BIGGEST LOOPHOLE is the HOLE we currently seen and witness made by deregulations and the elected official who WE entrusted to close this loophole IS stonewalling that very principles ALREADY intwined into OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION.
IMPEACHMENT......
Nancy Pelosi and her cohort in the 110th Congress IS the enabler of the crimes and abuses committed by the Executive Branch. Therefore those who are involved in this massive stonewalling are complicit and should be held accountable.
They would have to change 200 years of LAWS to be able to scape from the VERDICT the public has already found.
AMERICA must NOT allow this unprecedent crime against our NATION and Common Citizens done by these CROOKS and LIARS get AWAY with it.
Millions of YOU are subjected to foreclosures and many of you will perhaps face it in the future and ALL the HOMEOWNERS are paying for it by the LOSS of VALUE of our REAL ESTATES. This in essense ROBBED us of our personal WEALTH.
It's time to fight or YOU will lose ALL including your RIGHTS to even fight them. Criminals has inflitrated our White House. It is a Coup d' tat.
Citizens ACTION is needed!.......DO YOUR PART.
Umm ... an anti-Republican political climate that made possible the election of a Democratic ticket led by the first black president?
Here's hoping, anyway.
Positive legacy: All but killing the Republican brand, and thank God for that.
Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Answer: Street-level and white-collar criminals have proof-positive that it's possible to remain hidden in plain sight, commit their crimes, and get treated with little but indifference from the general public.
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"Steal a little, they throw you in jail. Steal a lot, they make you King." -Bob Dylan.
Hey, when he and Rove came up with the catchphrase "The Ownership Society" he neglected to mention that he meant "Ownership by Banks and Corporations", not ownership by individual citizens. Sheesh...give the guy a break! He meant what he said! ("I said what I meant, and I meant what I said, an elephant's word is one hundred percent." Does anybody else remember that cartoon, and note the painful irony of a dumb elephant sitting on an egg?)
Tim in Japan @ 10:
And doing blow, as long as you are white.
96 fastfeat Says: Tim in Japan @ 10:
He’s taken some of the social stigma behind getting a DWI?
And doing blow, as long as you are white.
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Now we know blow is good
Blow jobs bad.
No.
Actually, in all fairness and at the risk of being flamed - there are two positive items in Bush's legacy.
The first is the setting up of the worlds largest Marine Reserve around Hawaii - at a time when fish stocks worldwide are under tremendous pressure. I know he probably did it to claim his conversationalist credentials - but the result will be a sanctuary under which stocks will be given a chance to recover.
The second positive was his invasion of Afghanistan. Not Day two, three or beyond - he really screwed that up - but the invasion itself against a government that gave such refuge to a terrorist group and in fact was intertwined was the right thing to do. That's it - everything else has been a disaster.
bajaboy @ 88:
Is it possible that he's just that stupid, that he actually thinks this is a nice thing to say?
he's racist. he was especially blatant in his college days. he hated civil rights. affirmative action and any semblance thereof.
MacDaKnife @ 89:
so subjectively, the noxins can view this as a positive.
Proud American @ 91:
Corporatists must be removed along with the repugs.
I was diagnosed with melanoma in 2007 but had it removed and my lymph nodes were clean. Doesn't that count for something?
Oh wait, that little war criminal in the White House had nothing to do with that.
Pat Ukaleley @ 99:
I meant to say conservationist - not conversationalist (its been a long day). The idea of Bush being a conversationalist is a screaming joke, he makes Ronald Reagan sound like Christopher Hitchens.
Pat Ukaleley @ 99:
OK, who made money off those deals?
Shared Humanity @ 103:
he would have cut your healthcare benefits if he could have.
GWB is the reason that 232 years of white male rule is coming to an end.
Surviving Nazi ex-pats, living in Paraguay, will soon have one of their own come home to pick up their bar tabs, pose for family reunion pictures.
86 liberalbiasboy
I wanna say this nephew's name is Prescott like his great-grandfather, the Nazi lover, but maybe it's Preston.
ysbaddaden @ 109:
They all look alike to me.
Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
America hasn't been attacked since 9/11/2001
trevor-es @ 111:
you mean since he allowed that attack to happen.
Pericles @ 95:
stolen from Margaret Thatcher circa 'August 1949'
Productconsumer @ 107:
DIEBOLD is doing the counting. be diligent.
trevor-es @ 111:
except for the unsolved domestic Anthrax attacks of Oct 2001
W POSITIVELY stunk out the joint!
Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Record number of new potential athletes for future Paralympic Games. For contributing to the growth of the sport of sitting volleyball, the Pride of the Texas and Alabama Air Guard deserves to win the Slobodan Milosevic Lifetime Acheivement Award for giving so many brave young men and women the opportuntity to compete!
The positive day for the Bush Legacy will be the day when America is able to shit bush out of the Offal Orifice.
There will be dancing and parties across the Entire World.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 116:
The whole point of the 911 attack was to strike the US in it Financial Heart (WTC) and ruin the US Economy. Bush fell right into the trap and reacted wrongly on every front, it has cost the US ..... a broken economy. Thanks to the genius sitting in the WH.
One success, an eternity of comedy.
one positive achievement? piece o' cake.
his administration almost single handedly has destroyed the republican party. at this point he's thrown them all under the bus for "his legacy".
the funny thing is they're still using him to campaign while at the sam time trying to divorce themselves from him. it's getting very messy for the republican party to say the least.
Yes! He POSITIVELY destroyed the Republican Party. Thank you, George!
roo @ 121:
yeah...you can be as pissed off as you want at junior (and never lack for a reason), but he's funny as hell...its why ive always said that he wouldve made the greatest vice-president in my lifetime, even outshining the wonder that was Dan Quayle.
unfortunately, he was president
one positive:
There's no where to go but up?
ewww I see I wasn't the only genius with this idea.
The ownership of debt. That is Bush's legacy. Wages are down in real terms for many workers and those lucky enough to have jobs haven't had a decent raise in years. The stock market? Only the wealthy can invest in the stock market. Most people are lucky to invest in the oil market for their 15-year-old cars. The whole point of Iraq was to drive up the price of oil. Anybody else figured that out? But too many Americans don't know that. They will vote for the R because they always have. Because they don't know the facts. Because fear will once again be used as a weapon on the ignorant for the benefit of the corporations.
enough @ 127:
Correct, they will continue to vote against their own self interest.
They even believe they are part of the republican ideal.
On an environmentally friendly note, probably a couple of reams of paper were conserved by not bothering with so many pesky FISA warrants.
I can cite one positive Bush legacy, if only in personal terms.
My parents were rescued by the New Deal, and my family's allegiance to that party (on both sides) extends through decades before FDR.
My disenchantment with reactionary forces within the party has long been pronounced. Still, since casting my first presidential vote in 1976, I had never seriously contemplated ever doing otherwise. Of every city, state, and federal vote I've ever cast, I've voted democratic 95% of the time.
I even let the party slide after enough democrats supported the Iraq War resolution to insure that war was unleashed. In the aftermath of that treachery, by way of payback, I was content to withhold support from Tom Lantos and Dianne Feinstein. With genuine reservations, I voted for Kerry in 2004. As recently as 2006 (having moved), I voted to re-elect congressman Mike Thompson, who opposed the War Resolution in 2002, as he currently opposes the pending FISA legislation. I think him a good man, and regret that conscience now forbids me from supporting any member of that party, ever again.
But it has come to that. I vowed months ago that if the democratic party acquiesced in passing the FISA betrayal it would be the final straw. When Obama clinched the nomination (having followed Dodd's lead during the primaries), I assumed it would never happen- not even close. Obviously, I assumed wrong. I no longer believe the democratic party is capable of being reformed from within. The only chance this nation now has to pull out its nose dive will be in the creation of a 3rd party.
Which is to say, it took the high crimes and treason of GW Bush- aided and abetted every step of the way by a tragically corrupted democratic party- for me to grasp that nettle, and take it from there. For the first and last time in my life, I can say with genuine sincerity, "Thanks, George".
fastfeat @ 95:
"What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?"
the bottom of the housing market hasn't hit bottom yet in las vegas........sounds like it could another year. people got over there head's with the mortgage payment and cooling 2500sq ft home for 6+ months is expensive......later part 2009-2010 there will be deals if you handle las vegas
Jo @ 64, and they wouldn't have been able to get those shakey mortgages except for the bush administrations deregulation.
Bush's "ownership society" , we got owned alright .
Energy's so expensive we'll be seeing "Made America" at Wallmarts soon!
One positive legacy of GWB? Ask me on January 20, 2009 about 12:30 p.m.
Nate @ 22:
Hear, hear.
ysbaddaden @ 16:
The Bushies are cooked! Forever!
They are lucky the people in this country didn't go Romanov on them. This dumb, stupid, clueless little aristocratic bastard really screwed the pooch! The Bush name will be synonomous with Benedict Arnold once this little idiot is out of office!
Randy @ 55:
And the real coup de' fuckover: Down: Real wages for 90% of American workers, and fewer benefits for 60%! A Bush family specialty!
As a civil service writer, I was kind of intrigued when a few months ago, I saw a public affairs type job listed on USAjobs for a writer at the bush presidential library.
My knee-jerk reaction was I'd rather smoke a fresh turd than work there but the more I thought about it, I saw it for an opportunity like none other.
Any writer that could make that guy look even somewhat respectable is on the fast track to a fiction writing career that would put Stephen King to shame.
In the end, my soul won out and I didn't apply.
He showed the effects of drugs! I always point him and tell my children: "You see? That's what happens when you do drugs. You become an absolute moron." Thank you, Mr. President!
I'm thinking it will be Barack Obama. I'm thinking January 20, 2009 may be remembered as a significant turning point in world history. Bush helped make Obama's nomination possible. He helped make the record primary turnouts, the record voter registration efforts, the record rise in the "hope" index all possible.
upside that you can't trust a idealogy that hates what it wants to run (government) 28 years of conservative/librartian deconstructing of the new deal and bringing back a new gilded age has more people falling through the cracks now it's up to the american people to see what is right in front of them I don't think even vegas would take the odds that they will
Well, he did set aside a nature preserve near Hawaii. Only thing I can think of.
we now know who are closet rethugs in the democratic party also who doesn't have a spine to fight for those who they serve
Wow I am going to get roasted for this...but he has done a decent job with Aids in Africa...ducks
I like the schedule change for Daylight Savings Time. Beyond that, I have only grievances...
How about Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Keith Olbermann?
You still don't get it , our democrats have backed Bush and Cheney corruption all the way. Starting from the Iraq war -- treason - torture - spying - tax breaks & outsourcing of our jobs/manufacturing plants , social programs - privatizing the military including blackwater's private mercenary army which answers to no ones law and the deletion of our constitution and freedom.
Tell me where in the he.. is there any more a difference in the two party's actions except for the BS and propaganda coming from our democratic leaders.
The democrats could have stopped BUSH and CHENEY'S criminal crimes and the destruction of our country , but they are behind close doors making secret deals with the republicans thinking our ways to help them certainly not us. It has been said that they have been secret meeting with the republicans again behind close doors to cut social security benefits "after the elections......
I trust a rattler snake before I trust a democrat anymore.
We have a very clear picture to hand to our children of what evil looks like.
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