Bush Supporters' Aftermath Thread V

... and where the Bush line begins to increase was when the Republican Congress began to affect the budget also.

Advocate, this is from personal memory, I would have to look it up, but I believe Reagan proposed eliminating a number of bureaucracies, and I believe one was the Department of Energy, and his ideas were laughed at and quickly put to death. Remember the group that did a study on wasteful spending around that time, I forgot the name?

I've mentioned this one before. This is something for which Bush deserves notice and praise...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/washington/05aids.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

plz keep in mind that the OMB projections all take into account the expiration of Bush's tax cuts. That's why you see the graph flattening out near the end; a projected end to Bush.

That really says something about how terrible his policies have been...

CYcloptichorn

The NYT piece seems to give Bush credit for his tax and education policies. What a joke!

blatham, According to your chart, Bush did create jobs - after he destroyed more than he ever created.

Bush's current message is that our economy is still strong; he just doesn't understand what's happening to many of the middle-class and poor in this country.

His tax cuts in 2003 that promised more jobs just didn't materialize, and he wants to make his tax cuts permanent. All while he mortgages our children's future.

His legacy will be a doozy; Iraq war, recession, millions losing their health insurance and their homes, and increasing the federal deficit as if there's no tomorrow.

Note the earlier justifications/excuses for what the previous graph demonstrated. These guys are incapable of taking responsibility for the incompetence and destruction of the recent extremist ideologies of republican governance.

Their time is over. The smarter ones on the right know it and talk about it. These guys here aren't among the smarter ones, it seems.

I'm sure even the ones left here don't believe some of the stuff they write.

I believe what they're doing is called "whistlin' Dixie".

At least whistling Dixie has a tune; their rhetoric has no tone.

Rama, It's been common knowledge to people who understands that the national GDP growth has not helped the middle-class and the poor in this country. Most income earners lost buying power while they produced more for their companies.

Republicans continue to push the fiction that our country continues to grow under Bush. They don't bother to understand the simple facts that seven million more Americans are without health insurance, millions are losing their homes, and more middle-class are falling into poverty.

Being blind to the realities must be a great benefit; it's probably close to being a masochist.

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Thanks Ramafuchs, and good for George McGovern.

Shame it's taken six or seven years for this stuff to be openly said.

Unfortunately, most Americans are still immune from those facts that Rama's last article lists so clearly.

If they were understood by most Americans, the Bush republican party in the US would disappear from our landscape.

You can always do a swap for Taiwan c.i.

Great List of Scandalized Administration Officials

Since a complete catalog of administration officials who've been accused of some form of corruption or abuse of power would be endless, we tried to maintain a high standard for inclusion. Most of those below were the subjects of criminal probes, but we also included officials who were credibly accused of acts that, if not criminal, were a corruption of office (like the U.S. attorney scandal). And even then, such officials were only included if their accusers had them dead to rights (which is why Karl Rove didn't make the cut). We also limited ourselves to officials who were either political appointees or whose actions were so political that they were effectively political appointees (like John Tanner).

Enjoy:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004951.php

When a leader doesn't take responsibility for anything such as appointing losers and crooks, it's bound to inflect some wounds to the top honcho. Bush never apologized for anything he did wrong; he gets his message from god.

C I
And the God who is constantly in touch with this Guy is anything other than decent Humanbeing.

god acts in mysterious ways - most of the time.