The State of Bush:
Last night G. W. informed the nation that he would no longer tolerate pork born in congress. After seven years of never encountering a spending bill that he couldn't love, Bush pronounced his anguish at the profligate spending the government has been doing throughout his tenure as the country's most unwise of all leaders.
G. W. has run this country like the CEO he is, a failed one. His only business success was to convince a bunch of Texas tax payers to give him hundreds of millions of dollars—tax money—to build a baseball park for a mediocre team. The promise was that the taxpayers' town would benefit economically. It didn't. Only G. W. and his handful of henchmen walked away with money in their pockets. Taxpayers' money. That's G. W. for you, a fine graduate of the Business School of Enron, his close friends in Texas.
Oh, by the way, G. W. now hates pork because the Republican party no longer controls either house of congress. Just in case you missed that connection.
It's worth noting that the "earmarks" Bush decried in last night's State of the Union Address actually "make up less than 1 percent of the federal budget," as David Kirkpatrick points out in today's New York Times. This has been a steady Republican ploy for decades. Bemoan social spending, which is always a small percentage of the budget, while throwing billions at the military-industrial complex.
G. W. four years ago: "My views are one that speaks to freedom." — George W. Bush, Washington, D. C., January 2004.
And now for some historical perspective: If the impeachment against Bill Clinton had succeeded and he had been removed from office, Al Gore would have been president, with a considerable advantage in the 2000 election, which he probably would have won handily. The nation would have entered the new millennium with a massive economic surplus. We would never have gone to war in Iraq. Serious advances would have been made in our efforts to control global warming.
If only Bill Clinton would have had the foresight of Richard Nixon … the world is full of these what if's.
And then Bush said this, "The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself." — George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 29, 2003.
Last night G. W. informed the nation that he would no longer tolerate pork born in congress. After seven years of never encountering a spending bill that he couldn't love, Bush pronounced his anguish at the profligate spending the government has been doing throughout his tenure as the country's most unwise of all leaders.
G. W. has run this country like the CEO he is, a failed one. His only business success was to convince a bunch of Texas tax payers to give him hundreds of millions of dollars—tax money—to build a baseball park for a mediocre team. The promise was that the taxpayers' town would benefit economically. It didn't. Only G. W. and his handful of henchmen walked away with money in their pockets. Taxpayers' money. That's G. W. for you, a fine graduate of the Business School of Enron, his close friends in Texas.
Oh, by the way, G. W. now hates pork because the Republican party no longer controls either house of congress. Just in case you missed that connection.
It's worth noting that the "earmarks" Bush decried in last night's State of the Union Address actually "make up less than 1 percent of the federal budget," as David Kirkpatrick points out in today's New York Times. This has been a steady Republican ploy for decades. Bemoan social spending, which is always a small percentage of the budget, while throwing billions at the military-industrial complex.
G. W. four years ago: "My views are one that speaks to freedom." — George W. Bush, Washington, D. C., January 2004.
And now for some historical perspective: If the impeachment against Bill Clinton had succeeded and he had been removed from office, Al Gore would have been president, with a considerable advantage in the 2000 election, which he probably would have won handily. The nation would have entered the new millennium with a massive economic surplus. We would never have gone to war in Iraq. Serious advances would have been made in our efforts to control global warming.
If only Bill Clinton would have had the foresight of Richard Nixon … the world is full of these what if's.
And then Bush said this, "The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself." — George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 29, 2003.
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