Someone in Minnesota is running the billboard pictured above.
Umm, I think it’s pretty clear the answer is no.
This is the same guy who increased non-defense discretionary spending at a faster pace than Lyndon Johnson, gave us the biggest increase in the welfare state in 40 years, increased federal intrusion into local decision making, and bailed out two auto companies that eventually went bankrupt against the will of Congress and the American people.
And that’s just the start:
The president who
* expanded federal spending by more than a trillion dollars a year, before his disastrous last hundred days
* federalized education
* laid out “a smorgasbord of handouts and subsidies for virtually every energy lobby in Washington.”
* protected the steel, agriculture, and textile industries from foreign competition
* backed farm bills with lavish subsidies for producers
* created the biggest new entitlement since Lyndon Johnson
* bailed out Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and dozens of other banks
* provided government support for mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and other consumer debt, and
* bailed out Chrysler and General Motors in direct defiance of Congress’s refusal to do so
You’re asking us if we miss that guy ?
Not only no, but hell no.
Don’t tell the Tea Partiers that Bush did all those bailouts, they seem to think Obama did that.
It’s getting harder and harder to miss G.W. because Pres. Obama is becoming more and more like him every day.
My partner is asking about the “in direct defiance of Congress’s refusal to do so” line. How did Bush accomplish that bailout if Congress refused to do it?
He used money originally allocated for the TARP bailouts and gave it to GM and Chrylser
The difference is between a disaster, and a catastrophe.
Bush may have been a disaster, but President Barry is a catastrophe.
And, the disaster led to the catastrophe
Let’s hope the disaster that led to the catastrophe doesn’t end up being Palingeddon.
Actually, but for President Barry’s effort to find out who is paying for these, I would think it possible that they’re being put up by Democrats, much in the same way that Herbert Hoover was (unfairly) their whipping boy for decades after his term ended in 1933.
Two mediocre Presidents in a row. Can’t we do better???
While I don’t miss President Bush at all, I do feel I need to at least correct one factual statement above. The debt increased by 4.7 trillion in 8 years, not 1 trillion per year. That would be an average deficit of about 600 billion a year, hardly a small figure, but let’s don’t try to pretend only Repubs spend money. Obama has increased it as much in one year as Bush did in two years. What will the debt be when he leaves office. What worries me is, by 2012 we may look back at the Bush presidency as the “good old days”.
LI,
Actually, we’re on the verge of having two really shitty Presidents in a row.
I’d be fine with mediocre.
I guess the only good thing coming out of Bush followed by Obama: The next simply adequate president we elect will look amazing by comparison, since the current mediocrity (9 years straight) has set the bar very low.
I was trying to be kind!
Miss Bush? LOL