Americans shouldn’t be content to sigh and say “good riddance” when President Bush leaves office, says columnist Bob Herbert. “There should be a great hue and cry – a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches – over the damage he’s done to this country,” Herbert wrote. “This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantanamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold; who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a heckuva job.”
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God dammed right.
Anyone who isn’t outraged over how conservatives ran our country ought be ashamed.
Phillip Brownlee: Are you calling on Wichita liberals to march along the banks of the downtown Arkansas River with flaming torches to repudiate Bush? Perhaps in Lawrence but not in conservative Wichita.
Not even “Political Mama” or “Blue Jay” or “Mr. Conservative” and some of the other noted leftists on the WE Blog would do that!
That would be Bob Herbert calling for that, JWink, not Phil.
Actions speak louder than words. I don’t consider Bush a Conservative, as he and his Administration long ago repudiated the core beliefs of Conservatism.
Among other things, Conservative values include belief in smaller government, the rights of the individual, smaller deficits and debts. That isn’t Bush. While it was busy attracting the Christian Right, the Republican Party’s leadership jettisoned those ideals, making them unacceptable to many Conservative and Moderate Republicans in the last presidential election.
There are in fact “liberals” and “conservatives” in BOTH the major parties.
Oh yeah we would Jwink, have you not paid attention to exactly HOW MUCH we don’t like him? I’d had gone to every single protest of the man if I could have.
Conservatives elected Bush, conservatives voted for Bush’s policies when liberals were crying out against them. You can’t disown him now that all of your policies were enacted and failed.
What a big surprise. The WE posts an editorial critical of a Republican administration from the NYT complete with a picture to make the President look like an idiot.
Sigh. I don’t think these so-called journalists are ever going to figure out why they are loosing money.
. . . and here I thought the picture of Bush was him showing people what he’d look like if he could grow a mustache.
I think some sort of celebrations would be good when Bush leaves office… Very symbolic of the peaceful transition of power…
Or pretending to be Hitler. His mentor. Proudman, Bush IS an idiot. Its a good thing your nic isn’t ’smartman’…that’d be funny.
Now I’d be more than happy to come celebrate Obama’s inauguration in Wichita, but at 150 dollars a pop? That’s an absolute insult to the people who elected him. Someone ought rent a larger, cheaper place to allow all of us to come.
Oh and they’re going to be praying too. Count me out of that one even if it were ten bucks. Why do people insist on mixing religion with flipping politics.
Oh look, a hyper-leftist says Bush is Hitler, that he is an idiot and makes a snide remark about someones name.
You sure do know politics there “Political Mama”. Feel free to post an opinion with substance any time you get around to it.
Raw meat thread for the Libs eh Brownlee?
You mean like your highly substantive post there PM?
I’ll thank you not to presume to speak for me Jwink.
At the moment bush is out of office, I for one will celebrate. I would encourage it in others through the honking of horns, joyful demonstration and otherwise outward demonstration to let that SOB know just how glad we are he is now a part of history. I liken it to the final scene of the Star Wars movies once the evil Emperor is dead.
Gather in groups! Find the still known supporters of bush and taunt and make sport of them!
PM I will disagree with one thing you said, to say its a matter of dislike or hate belittles the issue.
Its a matter of what he did, not his personality or party affiliation. Would you sum up the rabid dog that bites you by saying “ I do not like him!”. Is it as simple a matter of the one who sold out his country “boy I hate him for that!”. This is not such a petty matter what he did that it is a simple human emotion to deal with it. No more then it would be to deal with that rabid dog.
I think at the exact moment Obama finishes the oath of office, I’m going to quietly say, thank you god.
Even tho there are hard times ahead, the long nightmare is over. It isn’t the end, as Churchill said, or even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.
I ain’t a’gonna miss his smirking face one tiny bit.
Pile on if you want to, cons, I’m not hearing you.
Dennis
Firstly, I can imagine the “hue and cry” from the liberal left on here should such a comment be posted about a liberal president’s departure. Secondly, it’s obvious that libs only believe in “respect the office if not the man” only when they’re excuse making for their heroes like Bill Clinton who are giving the country and office a black eye. You libs are so obviously hypocritical and one-sided that when it’s a Republican you apparently feel the rules of respect and decorum no longer apply. Further Bush may have been a junkyard dog when it came to foreign policy in your beliefs, but isnt’ it interesting that we had no terrorist attacks like the USS Cole, Khobar Towers bombing or World Trade Center bombings or airliner attacks since he’s stood up and defended our country against such attackers. And lastly, Political Mama AND Eagle blog monitors, that kind of language is uncalled for in decent discourse and should be immediately removed.
“You libs are so obviously hypocritical and one-sided that when it’s a Republican you apparently feel the rules of respect and decorum no longer apply.”
Respect is earned.
(Checking bush’s balance)
There appears to be a debt.
Hey whatever….
Whatever
Dennis
Little schmooze Barry will probably be content to let bush go. There SHOULD be investigations and prosecution on bush and his gang of crooks.
Chuckle… The libs are gettin’ some red meat heeah.
“Columnist Bob Hebert” is as graceless and divisive as they come.
“What a big surprise. The WE posts an editorial critical of a Republican administration from the NYT complete with a picture to make the President look like an idiot.”
Sometimes it doesn’t take a picture.
“Sigh. I don’t think these so-called journalists are ever going to figure out why they are loosing money.”
Obviously it has little to do with spelling “losing” as “loosing.”
BJ and you have earned no respect.
And what is he afraid of now? Why wait until inauguration?
BJ, you have earned no respect
yellowdog……….truth hurts doesn’t it
BJ, gather in groups? I thought you didn’t care about anything but yourself and have said you would only protect what is yours. What group is going to join you?
“I thought you didn’t care about anything but yourself”
Link?
Bonedig?
I believe you are confusing me with a Republican. Don’t.
hey fire butt (sp.).you are correct, it has nothing to do with “loosing.”
bj. please read your hundreds of post including the one yesterday about “if they came to my neighborhood and tried to take my house, i might dadada” which I didn’t believe. I figure you would hide under the porch asking for help from all those people you didn’t care to help “because it wasn’t your fight”
“Secondly, it’s obvious that libs only believe in “respect the office if not the man” only when they’re excuse making for their heroes like Bill Clinton who are giving the country and office a black eye.”
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Let’s not forget the little things Clinton gave us, like peace, prosperity, and a small budget surplus.
“Further Bush may have been a junkyard dog when it came to foreign policy in your beliefs, but isnt’ it interesting that we had no terrorist attacks like the USS Cole, Khobar Towers bombing or World Trade Center bombings or airliner attacks since he’s stood up and defended our country against such attackers.”
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Um, didn’t 9/11 happen on Bush’s watch?
Uhm.
4,500 Americans have died in Iraq. 10,000 or more are physically, mentally, and/or emotionally scarred for life. 17 sailors died in the USS Cole bombing. (It was the worst naval attack since Iraq attacked the USS Stark, during the Reagan Administration.)
The Cole bombing took place late in Clinton’s term. The culprits weren’t identified ’til after the SCOTUS awarded Shrub the Oval Office. Negotiations with the Clinton and Shrub transition teams shared intelligence and it was decided the incoming president should not be saddled with a lame-duck’s war.
The Bush Administration promptly did nothing in reaction to the USS Cole attack. There was brush to be cleared in Crawford, Texas.
Well, no Senators have been abducted by UFO’s since Obama was elected to the Senate either.
“Chas” notes –
“…no Senators have been abducted by UFO’s since Obama was elected to the Senate either.”
I’m not so sure.
Mitch McConnell frequently looks like he’s been anally probed.
My wife says Bush is still clearing brush in Crawford, because Cheney is still looking for those darned WMD’s…. :-)
You caught me on that one, MH… I forgot about him… LOL
I’m hoping we make it through the next
17 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes
without bushco doing further damage,
and my greater hope is that we’ve learned
our lessons well enough to ensure we
never elect or allow a repeat of bushco.
Bush was only doing what he was told to do. Same with Obama.
Good luck. I’m glad all of these Obama love letters will be stored up here over the next couple of years. It will be interesting to compare the “thens and nows”.
Here’s a novel idea – Protest a leader when in office whose policies you don’t agree with. Do SOMETHING to help a leader you agree with implement his/her policies.
Ask NOT what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
wichhick
Posted January 3, 2009 at 9:39 am | Permalink
yellowdog……….truth hurts doesn’t it
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Uhhh, are you criticizing me or agreeing with me? I can’t make it out. If it is the former, eh, who cares. If it is the latter, you’re right.
Dennis
Yellowdog Liberal says, “Hey whatever…. Whatever.
Dennis”
Gee, Dennis. What a witty and high-level rebuttal. I tremble at the prospect of debating in face of such intellectual opposition. Heaven forbid you’d “nannynannahbooboo” me.
“nannynannahbooboo” —
You have got to be kidding… How absolutely sophomoric… or is that just moronic??
We’ve been calling for a regime change celebration for months, here on Weblog.
The Iraqis (shiite) took to the streets to celebrate the fall of Saddam, just too bad we don’t have any stature to topple.
Bush isn’t even going to live on his brush ranch, he’s gettin citified, now he doesn’t have to act outdoorsy.
Making bush look like an idiot is easy, someone should try and make him look smart, now that would be a challenge!
Ya got me, partner. Excuse me while I fall groveling in the dirt in humiliation and pain.
Dennis
Thank you, Chas, for so perfectly making my point.
Reading all the emotion and hatespeech about Bush on this blog just proves once again how embittered, disrespectful, INtolerant, emotion-driven and small-minded liberals can be yet all the while accusing their opponents of the same. The hypocracy is so obvious and its display just cracks me up.
“Reading all the emotion and hatespeech about Bush on this blog just proves once again how embittered, disrespectful, INtolerant, emotion-driven and small-minded liberals can be yet all the while accusing their opponents of the same. The hypocracy is so obvious and its display just cracks me up.” — whatever3
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While grovelng, we liberals (who are all capable of multi-tasking) will also recognize there were no accusations in the above post and it isn’t an example of hypocrisy. /sarcasm
While grovelng, we liberals (who are all capable of multi-tasking) will also recognize there were no accusations in the above post and it isn’t an example of hypocrisy. /sarcasm
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Linda is right – yesterday BJ was posting while playing Tomb Raider with his son. And Chas just showed us he can say nannynannybooboo and post at the same time. As for Linda I am sure she does more than one thing at a time because she fails to post anything substantive everyday but…. she know how to watch the clock.
I am impressed.
Great post WEBLOG EDITOR!!!
This one is sure to bring some hits from every nook and cranny whiny crybaby liberals can crawl out from. God knows the newspaper needs some revenue.
No substance, lots of hate, very little truth, and complete ignorance of the fact the democrats in majority in Congress were walking right in step with the president.
Can’t wait for the half breed THE ONE Obama to get on the throne! Boy oh boy, there is gonna be some nasty attacks on Mr NEVER-HAD-EXPERIENCE and MR UNCOMMITAL VOTE “PRESENT” from the crooked democrat run state of Illinois (smellinois).
“Linda I am sure she does more than one thing at a time”
Don’t talk bad about my next wife like that!!!!!
She can multi-task. I read her post New Years Eve.
It was quite touching. The only poster on line and not getting a kiss at midnight.
I think she’s holding out for ME!!!!! I got my roach clip all polished up for her.
Well RoaCH I fully intend to support Obama unless he makes a colossial mistake and then I will pull out my saved lib post from the last few years to shine on the libs here.
Linda was hanging out on the blog at midnight? Doesn’t surprise me. She has been watching the clock for a year now. I wish she could find something better to do. But I am not holding out any hope for her. I fear she has fallen off the left ledge she has been clinging to.
“fallen off the left ledge she has been clinging to”
I think secretly she’s been holding out for me.
Seriously, though this Obama thing is bigger than the resurrection of Jesus Christ for libs. It’s going to be like the rapture and the Macy’s parade all rolled up into One.
I do hope they are not going to be too disappointed.
For all our sakes.
Looks like it’s down to :
17 days, 17 hours, 25 minutes
…and counting.
God help us all when this long nightmare known as the reign of Augustus Stupidus is finally finished.
lol
whatever3
Posted January 3, 2009 at 11:35 am | Permalink
Thank you, Chas, for so perfectly making my point.
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Gee, you’re welcome, I guess… although I didnt realize your point was to prove to all of us that you are indeed a moron!!
Keep on tryin, Troll….. but you’ve had enough New Year soup for one day!!
And if you ask me, there should be dancin’ in the streets!
Music, venues, and refreshments to be paid for by a special “Marie Antoinette” tax on those who earn in the top 1% income bracket!
lol
RoaCH
Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink
I do hope they are not going to be too disappointed.
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They will be. And it will probably be that he has done a good job.
“They will be. And it will probably be that he has done a good job.” — Mr. Kia
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I’m going into the Obama presidency with expectations that we will move closer to being the one America he spoke about during his campaign. In fact, he began that premise with his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. That will take a lot of working together, many compromises.
I’ll be disappointed if we can’t achieve some of that coming together.
Okie —
“And Chas just showed us he can say nannynannybooboo and post at the same time.”
You’re wrong again… I might well do a copy/paste of “nannynannybooboo” — But I would NEVEER say such a thing!!! Try again, wench!! i do note, however, that your new year resolution hasnt even lasted a week!!
Go ahead and dance in the streets, I’ve got work to do. You collect your wellfare payments from the government as long as it’s around. I’ll still achieve for my family and protect what I earn.
okobserver
Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:20 pm | Permalink
I fully intend to support Obama unless he makes a colossial mistake and then I will pull out my saved lib post from the last few years to shine on the libs here.
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I think this knife will cut both ways. After all, there were a ton of populist redneck “conservatives” posting here all last summer and fall tellin’ us that Obama was a terrorist, a closet Muslim, a traitor, a communist, feeble minded, you get the drift.
I’m sure there are lots of those posts sacked away in more than a few home-made databases around here. They’ll shine up just fine, too.
:-)
“…there should be dancin’ in the streets!” — Pedant
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I will be one of those dancing in the streets!
I’ll dance like no one is watching and it won’t cost a cent. Well, unless someone is watching and injures themselves in their laughing. ;-)
lindainks55
Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
“They will be. And it will probably be that he has done a good job.” — Mr. Kia
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I’m going into the Obama presidency with expectations that we will move closer to being the one America he spoke about during his campaign. In fact, he began that premise with his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. That will take a lot of working together, many compromises.
I’ll be disappointed if we can’t achieve some of that coming together.
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That’s good Linda.
Unfortunately liberals also have their own “28%-ers” that won’t be satisfied unless Bush, Cheney and the top 1% are hanging from a service station somewhere in the DC area, all churches in America have been burned to the ground and any person of dissenting opinion caged in an interment camp in the desert somewhere.
I know there are crazies at each end of the spectrum. There can’t be any person who abhors bushco more than I do, but I don’t wish any of them harm. It will sufficient for me if they are out of power and America gets back on a better track moving forward. I don’t agree with the author of the lead-in on this thread.
Maybe those numbers at each end will be reduced too? That would be good for America!
This is what Bob Herbert should have wrote eight years ago.
Americans shouldn’t be content to sigh and say “good riddance” when President Clinton leaves office, says columnist Bob Herbert. “There should be a great hue and cry – a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches – over the damage he’s done to this country,”
This is the man who debauched the Oval Office and the office of the President with his tawdry sexual escapades and lying, who sold America’s military secrets to the Chinese for illegal campaign contributions, who failed to respond adequately (except when he needed a distraction from one of his numerous scandals) to numerous Islamic terrorist attacks against this Country and her interests abroad, who gutted the magnificent military that Ronald Reagan built in the eighties just when we needed it the most. and who pardoned Marc Rich and the FAL terrorists to aid his wife’s Senate run.
Or maybe, Bob Herbert should recognize his own irrelevance and find a job selling shoes or used cars which is much more suited to a man of his abilities.
“Somebody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town;
Somebody OD’d, somebody burned another building down;
Somebody fired a shot in anger;
Somebody had to die in vain —
Sure could use a little good news, today”
– from an Anne Murray song –
The good news is on its way — Jan. 20, 2009!
Hey after looking at the picture again I have a caption for it:
“Ahh no I just checked again and neither my head or Dick Cheney up my …..!”.
The good news is on its way — Jan. 20, 2009!
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Some people used to call Jesus Christ the Good News.
That’s what I was taught in church a million years ago by my preacher.
“looking at the picture again ”
Last week was a photo of Bush at the urinal.
This week he’s catching a sneeze.
Can’t wait to see how the “fair and balanced” media will display negative photo’s of Obama. (like that’s gonna happen)
Waiting for the photo of Obama standing with his arms over his head, looking to his heavenly equal for inspiration. Or did I miss it already?
Face it. Bush has earned his disrepute. He was arrogant, refused to consult the opposition party, fostered one party rule, surrounded himself with radicals and deferred to their decisions since he is incurious not a thinker.
He was a male Sarah Palin to begin with eight years ago. Everyone knew it. But they had Cheney and Rummey to run things.
I throw my shoe.
DavidB
Posted January 3, 2009 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
I throw my shoe.
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Here ya go, a little practice. Enjoy!
http://www.sockandawe.com/
thin = thinking
RoaCH —
I see you arent READING well today….
I clearly posted “good news” and NOT “Good News” — You would be correct about “Good News” — dimwit
Chas you are so full of sh-t I’ll bet you head squeeks when you walk.
Good New is good news. Any preacher boy would know that. Now, I suppose you are going to LIE your way out of it sorta like STFU and posting all caps. Maybe an obituary or two too.
You are so predictable. No character.
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whatever3
Posted January 3, 2009 at 9:08 am | Permalink
Firstly, I can imagine the “hue and cry” from the liberal left on here should such a comment be posted about a liberal president’s departure. Secondly, it’s obvious that libs only believe in “respect the office if not the man” only when they’re excuse making for their heroes like Bill Clinton who are giving the country and office a black eye. You libs are so obviously hypocritical and one-sided that when it’s a Republican you apparently feel the rules of respect and decorum no longer apply. Further Bush may have been a junkyard dog when it came to foreign policy in your beliefs, but isnt’ it interesting that we had no terrorist attacks like the USS Cole, Khobar Towers bombing or World Trade Center bombings or airliner attacks since he’s stood up and defended our country against such attackers. And lastly, Political Mama AND Eagle blog monitors, that kind of language is uncalled for in decent discourse and should be immediately removed.”
Because I said ‘dammed’? Hey, its in the bible!
So….WHATEVER!
RoaCH —-
Anybody with half a brain knows what my post was about… YOU of course, have to hide behind I dont know how many nics, to even post here…. Maybe if you stuck with just one, you might get somewhere… On the other hand, probably not… YOU, RoaCH, are the LYING TROLL….
I guess, according to RoaCH, if your favorite team wins, it’s JESUS… and not just good news!! ROFLMAO!!! What a moron!!
The good news is now Obama?
From the mouths of phony preachers…
RoaCH you have to understand that Chas is a combination of several posters and as such still doesn’t have half a mind. I have tried to give him the opportunity to own them but he persists in denying who he is. That is why when you expect him to act like a preacher man – well you have to catch him in the right body and so far I haven’t decided which one that is. He never acts the part as far as I can tell.
You also hit the nail on the head when you said the left is waiting for the messiah. Sad but true.
You also hit the nail on the head when you said the left is waiting for the messiah. Sad but true.
Unfortunately, they cannot even fathom what they are setting as a new low for respect of our office holders. To post and promote disrespectful, hateful, and dangerously close to anarchy when the outgoing POTUS leaves office, will become the expected conduct toward the next president.
And then they will post, “I’m shocked, I tell you” when everyone starts calling Obama a freak and half-breed.
They won’t understand that they took our nation to the new level. Bush is no saint, and not our brightest star – but what goes around will come around.
Obama is next up.
A new low level from our media, and ignorance of editors at the WEBLOG. Or they simply don’t give a sh-t what they print, as long as it’s cheap tabloid material and sells print (hits in this case).
An effigy of Bush was once burned in Wichita. There were also numerous protests. Did the Eagle care? Not a bit. I suppose we are again expected to do something they should have been doing for the past 7 years.
Maggotpunk
Posted January 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
An effigy of Bush was once burned in Wichita. There were also numerous protests. Did the Eagle care? Not a bit. I suppose we are again expected to do something they should have been doing for the past 7 years.
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Well, when you are dealing with sickos and nutcases, the last thing you want to do is give them publicity.
JimJohnson
Posted January 3, 2009 at 3:52 pm | Permalink
The good news is now Obama?
From the mouths of phony preachers…
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The good news of Jan. 29, 2009, is that this great nation will have a NEW administration…. I have not posted anything to the contrary!!
PLEASE NOTICE everybody, Johnson cant tell the difference between upper and lower case…
Johnson??? Why dont you and GRANNY good witch prove me phony??? I KNOW you cant, but do have fun trying….
RoaCH
Posted January 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm | Permalink
They won’t understand that they took our nation to the new level. Bush is no saint, and not our brightest star – but what goes around will come around.
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lol, “the” new level. The problems with your analysis are these:
1) Nobody has disrespected the office of POTUS. All disrespect has been directed at Augustus Stupidus.
2) Bush has asked for it, asked for everything he’s gotten PLUS some. He’s staged every public appearance, every press conference, controlled the ground game in literally every situation he’s been in as POTUS. He’s gotten off remarkably easy.
3) Most Obama supporters were around when the whacko right was gettin’ its butt kicked by Clinton. I believe they’re not going to profess any shock when the same whacko right cranks up their cuckoo caliope again for Obama.
Other than that, though, spot on. ;-)
Pedant all I’m saying is treating Bush as a “devil” “hitler” “crook” just because you disagree with his policy is not right thinking.
He is none of the above. I personally don’t think he is the sharpest pen in the pocket, but he was not trying to be “evil” or sinister. He wanted the best for America, as I’m sure all presidents want.
I think 911 affected him much more than the rest of Americans can imagine. He was at the drivers seat. It happened under his lead. It was shocking as we all remember. But imagine from a presidents perspective – his JOB was/is to protect Americans.
I will not fault him for going overboard in his zest for that. But I think it did pre-occupy his mind and took his focus off domestic items.
The war in Afghan was top notch. It was a quick success, but as in any war, he ran into problems with whatever “THE END” is supposed to be. And hindsight being 20-20, I’ll bet he wished he had pushed his chicken military leaders into putting more troops on the ground before Tora Bora and the great escape.
Yep, Bush made mistakes. But he is not a public enemy as some liberals have made him out to be – AND the radical media. Same media will usher in THE ONE OBAMA as a prophet from God.
Just don’t be shocked when he becomes the Satan and Hitler. Don’t wonder WHY conservatives and independents will call him disgusting things.
We learned from the best.
No way Obama will be the f*ck up that Bush was, no president has done a worse job than Dubya.
Oh Mary, don’t you think people said the same thing about Bushy before HE took office?
BTW, check the rating of the democrats congress – worst in history, and lower than President Bush.
Did you think the democrats in Congress would be
so f*cked up?
(shaking my head)
I don’t think Bush inherited the mess Obama will. You can spin it anyway you want..the fact is that Bush has been the worst president we ever had. Consoling yourself by saying Obama will be no better doesn’t make it so.
As far as Congress, if Bush was an effective leader, maybe they wouldn’t be so divided. Remember he was the one who stated “If you aren’t with us, then you’re against us”. What a moron he was.
Well the liberals will have the congress, senate and whitehouse for the next four years. let’s see what you do with it.
The conservatives had the hammer under Bill Clinton.
We had a bloody war in the Congress for the last 6 years under the liberals. We’ll see.
It certainly can’t be any worse than it was for 8 years under Bush…but it isn’t going to get better overnight..the damage done by the Bush administration has been too great.
Bob Herbert . . . you’ll never see him on the OP ED page of The Eagle.
There’s only room for effing Cal Thomas.
The aptly named Roach says, “check the rating of the democrats congress – worst in history, and lower than President Bush.”
Congress always gets low marks. Clinton left office higher than St. Ronald in the polls.
Mary_Caruso
Posted January 3, 2009 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
It certainly can’t be any worse than it was for 8 years under Bush…but it isn’t going to get better overnight..the damage done by the Bush administration has been too great.
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Mary I know you are a smart person. You have shown it over and over. But when you make statements like this I have to doubt you ability to reason. You have to know that the economic situation we are currently in didn’t start under Bush and it won’t end under Obama. We all own it. Two years ago on this very blog I started talking about the housing bubble that was ready to burst. It did. When did it start to go bad? What was the history behind the bubble? What happened to the tech bubble under Clinton? How did that impact the economy?
Lots of questions and not enough answers. Bush wasn’t the culprit the left would like to think and he wasn’t the prez I thought he was when I voted for him. Somewhere in the middle is the answer.
My comments all seem to be awaiting moderation these days . . .
“Bush wanted the best for America, as I’m sure all presidents want.”
Yeah . . . and Hitler sincerely wanted the best for his concept of Germany.
Sincerity for evil ideas is no virtue.
CONs seem to think that “intention” is more important than results. Look at how they attacked us libs when everything we predicted in Iraq came true–”you want us to lose!”
As if wishing Americans soldiers to not get blown up by roadside bombs would make them stop.
Mary said the f word.
Oko: “Two years ago on this very blog I started talking about the housing bubble that was ready to burst. It did.”
Right, Germ . . . why was BushCo. asleep at the wheel when even YOU could see the coming implosion?
Answer: they were too busy worshipping at the altar of the Church of the Holy Marketplace that says gov’t interference (i.e., regulation) is always bad.
Granny you’ve lost your mind woman to try to salvage anything of Bush and what he has done.
It still shocks me the extreme denial of your side.
the damage done by the Bush administration has been too great.
Mary you have already made a ready excuse for your the ONE…..
Therefore, nothing he can ever do can be wrong.
Can you see the effect the koolaide has had on you?
Damn libs wished for the invasion to be less than a success, and thus it was, the wished for the bush economic disaster, and thus it was.
It’s all in the power of positive thinking, don’t ya know?
I’d concede the republicans have dragged the congress rating to their lowest in history, there do you feel vindicated?
Brownlee is so full of hate. He’ll be trashing Bush for the rest of his life.
Correction, Brownlee will be trashing Bush even after Bush dies.
Brownlee will p*ss on Bush’s grave if he gets the chance.
(Unless of course, Bush outlives Brownlee, which will p*ss off Brownlee even more.)
JimJ will be defending Bu$h even when the inevitable truth finally comes out.
“Brownlee will p*ss on Bush’s grave if he gets the chance.”
So will I.
And it’s not just about the economy, OKob. Bush has fallen down on the job by doing nothing to stop jobs from going overseas, nothing to stop the illegals from getting in, nothing to control spending, he approved all the pork barrell spending that came across his desk, masterminded the disaster invasion of Iraq that has cost us 3 billion a month ever since it started and will easily cost us trillions before it’s all said and done. He went on vacation while New Orleans drowned and thought the horse judge was doing a “heckofa” job. He spent more time on vacation than any other president while our country went to hell in a handbasket. I could go on and on and on about his incompetance, but you get my drift. How can anyone be so dumb as to still make excuses for the worst president we ever had?
Even if Obama doesn’t do anything he promised..he’ll still be a better president than Dubya was.
“Brownlee is so full of hate. He’ll be trashing Bush for the rest of his life.”
You don’t have to hate Bush to know he’s the worst president we ever had…hate is declaring Obama a failure before he’s even taken office.
Why are the Bu$h’$ selling their lovely campaign prop in Crawford and moving to big-city Dallas?
Gee, I wonder . . .