But how the hell can any sane, rational person hold both views simultaneously?
:smack:
Guess I answered my own question, huh?
Tax cuts. If there is one thing that this president did, it was tax cuts.
Even though he spent like a democrat, he gave $600 back to everyone and that money got spent and proves a siple point. Reaganomics.
The only job of the federal government should be national defence. He tried. I don’t like the terrorist world view as much as the next guy and I’m not sure I would have done better. Bombing the Islams up 500 or 1000 years into the stone age isn’t a bad idea.
Other than that… I am the conservative base and that man doesn’t represent me.
The jury is still out, you know, on the net effect of W’s tax cuts on the domestic economy. WRT to its effect on the federal budget deficit, the picture is much clearer.
Errmm . . . yes, it is, bob. The more primitive they are, the more dangerous they are. (It’s “Muslims,” BTW, not “Islams.”)
Yes, the president certainly did that. Of all the things that have been done, tax cuts are a thing that belongs under the “Bush Did It” column. But the question is, what are the good things the president did. Cutting taxes in the middle of a war is not a good thing. It is, in fact, a staggeringly stupid thing to do, and our military is dying for it right now. Good job, Mr. Bush.
Okay, “Reaganomics” isn’t a point. What did he prove about Reaganomics? Nothing that we didn’t already know: it leads to short term prosperity at the cost of staggering long term debt.
No, he didn’t. He invaded a sovereign nation that posed absolutely no threat to us, and the bill has added up to more lives and money lost than 9/11, without accomplishing a single damned thing in Iraq, except to make everything that was bad about that country a hundred times worse. Oh, and he managed to turn a contained, crippled, ineffective nation into a breeding ground for terrorists with a suddenly justified mad hate-on for our country. National security my fat ass.
“The Islams?” What the fuck is wrong with you?
Well, it’s good to see that he’s done such a wholly incompetent job in the White House that he’s losing support even among the tardcore right. I mean, you’re a jingoistic psychopath with the apparent education of a third grader, and he doesn’t represent you? If not you, who does he represent anymore?
ExxonMobil, Halliburton, etc.
And this just in…
39% Favor Impeaching Bush
Imagine that! 39% of the nation is comprised of dirty fucking hippies!
I’ll have you know I took a shower this morning!
Good point! It’s not just sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, there’s also tofu!
Tofu?
I think I just turned into a neo-con.
Oh, good God, Miller, you don’t have to eat the stuff! Just urge others to!
Hey, the more they fuck, the more of them there are, ya know.
Shhhh! Ixnay on the anplay!
Fuck Olbermann, grandstanding wanker.
I didn’t know I had a middle name.
DirtFuckingHippy
Wasn’t the original $600 rebate actually Congress’s doing? As I recall, Bush’s tax cuts weren’t going to go into effect until the next time people paid their taxes, and Congress went the extra step of giving refunds for the previous time. Of course, Bush would have had to sign the plan into law.
I’m guessing nuance isn’t exactly bob_co’s strong suit, though.
FTR, I believe power of the presidency/executive vis-a-vis Congress has grown dangerously and should be curtailed, regardless of who the next POTUS may be. Yes, even if it’s Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader.
The conservative base is composed of ignorant, bloodthirsty barbarians? Explains rather a lot, really. Thanks for enlightening us.
You can’t be a credible asshole psychopath if you can’t get the fucking basics right. One conducts American-style genocide by bombing enemies back to the stone age, not up to it. Plus the stone age was a lot more than 1000 years ago. All your pissant suggestion is going to do is bomb them back to, well, the High Middle Ages, I guess. Plus they’re not “Islams”, they’re towelheads.
Really? I thought the correct term was “dunecoons.”
Sure, torture was made official policy, but we had HUAC then too, it was a more backward time, then, and unfortunately, some of the people that were around for that war, are still around for this one, and are willing to give the idea a second life.
Still…
Torture has been both an official and unofficial means of interrogation since the beginning of interrogations. There will never be a clear intersection between action and policy when it comes to torture, because like it or not, in some cases, torture works. I don’t agree with it. I don’t like that fact, but there’s no other way to explain why CIA spooks are trained to withstand torture.
I know, I know, the warrantless wiretap thing was/is a giant ball of bullshit, and the crooks in charge used every measure at their disposal to make it happen, but honestly, that’s how they got into power in the first place, so as outrageous as it is, it’s by no means a suprise. I’ll even go so far as to say that the first “election” of George W. Bush was the harbinger of what will be the eventual downfall of the American political system.
It’s only starting to change because the pubbies are in fear for their political lives, but it’s been 8 years, we’ve had this same pair of republican pants on for too long now, and we’re starting to chafe. The democrats are going to win this, especially if they put Obama (or God forbid Hillary) on the block.
8 Years from now though, we’ll be right back here chewing up the same cud from a different bucket about the failings of healthcare, or social programs or whatever.
Same shit, different flies.