The vilification of George Bush is complete. I’m sure the left will find more blame in some corner of their mind but I just wish everyone would take some personal responsibility and man-up to the fact that Bush has been gone for 3.5 years and is not coming back.
I was angry with G.W. almost out of the gate when he announced that he wanted to reach out to both sides of Congress and avoid vetoing any bills, even the outrageous spending bills that keeps left-leaning constituents voting liberal. Bush kept his promise. He vetoed only 12 bills in his entire presidential career. That is a 200 year record. He was signing every liberal spending bill like they were his Christmas cards. Of course, these non-vetoed spending bills made him look like the biggest spender in presidential history. And he was, up to that date. Of course, Obama has eclipsed that record in only in 3 years. They were not Bush’s bills! But he signed them anyway because he wanted everyone on both sides of the isle to shake his hand on State of the Union Day.
An easy way to start some liberal nail spitting is to use facts to defend George Bush. Facts have never been a friend of the liberal debater. But, here goes.
The day the Democrats took over the Government was not January 22nd, 2009. It was actually January 3rd 2007 when they began ruling over the House of Representatives and the Senate at the very start of the 110th Congress. Up to that time, Bush's economic policies set a record of 52 straight months of job growth. The Dow Jones closed at 12,621.77. The Gross Domestic Product was at 3.5% and unemployment was at 4.6%!
On that same day, the House Financial Services Committee’s new chairman was a man named Barney Frank. Also, the Senate Banking Committee was taken over by Senator Chris Dodd. And those facts spell out the beginning of the end of our 52 months of job growth. In the next 15 months, 6 trillion dollars of toxic loans were dumped into the economy. The fiasco of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac was in full swing and the economy was in full crisis.
Interestingly, George Bush, from 2001 on until the end of his presidency, warned Americans and asked Congress 17 times to stop the incredibly risky economic policies of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. He also fought so hard to control spending in his last year in office that the liberal Congress had to compromise on their radical spending bills. It was too little, too late. And when George W. Bush left office and Obama stepped up to the plate, it was “Game On!”.
They never looked back.
