Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

As the year draws to an end and President Bush enters his final month
in office, there is much commentary about the Administration's record
over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories
assail and distort the President's record and recycle myths and
unfounded allegations that have been leveled for the better part of
his two terms. Historical accuracy requires a response to the litany
of attacks leveled against President Bush, and while there's not
enough space to respond to all of them, here are five of the most
egregious:

Myth 1: The last eight years were awful for most Americans
economically and President Bush's deregulatory policies caused the
current financial crisis.

Reality:

President Bush's time in office is ending as it began, with our
economy under stress. The recession President Bush inherited as he
entered office ran through the attacks of September 11, 2001, but
during the recovery that followed, and due in no small part to the tax
relief President Bush worked with Congress to provide, this country
experienced its longest run of uninterrupted job growth - 52 straight
months, with 8.3 million jobs created.

This reflected six consecutive years of economic growth from the
Fourth Quarter of 2001 until the Fourth Quarter of 2007. From 2000 to
2007, real GDP grew by more than 17 percent, a remarkable gain of
nearly 2.1 trillion dollars. This growth was driven in part by
increased labor productivity gains that have averaged 2.5 percent
annually since 2001, a rate that exceeds the averages of the 1970s,
'80s, and '90s. In the same period, real after-tax income per capita
increased by more than 11 percent, and there was a 4.7 percent
increase in the number of new businesses formed. The current economic
challenges, which the President and his Administration have responded
to aggressively, threaten to reverse some of these gains - but the
gains cannot be denied.

As for the current crisis, the President and his economic team have
taken unprecedented actions to stabilize the financial sector and
avert a collapse. While there are a number of causes of the housing
and credit crises that are at the root of our current economic
troubles, deregulation by the Bush Administration is simply not one of
them. In fact, one of the circumstances that contributed to the crisis
was the failure of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac, which President Bush long tried to subject to
greater regulation. In April 2001, three months after taking office,
the President warned in his first budget that the size of the two GSEs
were a "potential problem" that "could cause strong repercussions in
financial markets, affecting Federally insured entities and economic
activity." In 2003, the Administration began calling for a new GSE
regulator, and over the next five years, the Administration continued
to call for GSE reform only to be accused by Democrats in Congress of
creating artificial fears and advocating for ill-advised proposals. By
the time Congress finally acted in 2008 to provide the oversight the
President requested, it was too late to prevent systemic consequences.
Had the Administration's initial reform proposals been adopted, some
of today's turmoil in our financial markets may have been averted.

Myth 2: President Bush's tax cuts only benefitted the wealthy and were
paid for by sacrificing investments in health care and education.

Reality:

There are not 116 million "wealthy Americans," but that's how many
taxpayers benefited from the President's tax relief. The across-the-
board tax cuts provided tax relief to every American who pays income
taxes, created a new bottom 10 percent bracket rate, doubled the child
tax credit to $1,000, and actually increased the share of the Federal
income tax burden paid by the top 10 percent of individual earners
from 67 percent in 2000 to 70 percent in 2005. Furthermore, this
Administration removed 13 million low-income earners from the income
tax rolls completely.

The economic growth spurred by tax relief also spurred growth in
Federal tax receipts. In fact, the Federal Treasury realized the
largest three-year increase of revenue in 26 years, and tax receipts
grew more than $542 billion between 2000 and 2007. And yes, much of
that money went to investments in health care and education.

President Bush provided more than 40 million Americans with better
access to prescription drugs by creating the market-based Medicare
Prescription Drug Benefit. And it is one of the rare government
programs that actually costs less than expected. Projected overall
program spending between 2004 and 2013 is approximately $240 billion
lower, nearly 38 percent, than originally estimated, thanks to the
market-oriented principles included at President Bush's insistence.

Despite the heated rhetoric over children's health insurance (S-CHIP)
legislation last year, estimates from a 2007 Federal survey show that
the number of uninsured children under the age of 18 actually declined
by 800,000 from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2008, the number of people
covered by affordable and portable Health Savings Account-eligible
plans increased 35 percent. Additionally, since President Bush took
office, more than 1,200 community health centers have opened or
expanded nationwide, which has helped provide treatment to nearly 17
million people.

Federal spending on education has increased nearly 40 percent under
President Bush. Additionally, Pell Grant funding nearly doubled during
the Administration, which is expected to help more than 5.5 million
students attend college in the 2008-09 school year, 1.2 million more
students than were assisted by Pell Grants in the 2001-02 school year.
This financial aid assistance also helps account for the fact that 66
percent of high school graduates from the class of 2006 enrolled in
colleges, compared to 63 percent in 2000.

Perhaps more importantly, the President's No Child Left Behind Act has
delivered tangible results to students. Since the law was enacted,
fourth-grade students have achieved their highest reading and math
scores on record, eighth-grade students have achieved their highest
math scores on record, and African-American and Hispanic students have
posted all-time high scores in a number of categories, narrowing the
gap between minority students and white students.

Myth 3: The President's "go it alone" foreign policy ruined America's
standing in the world.

Reality:

Rarely can one see revisionist history occurring in the present, but
this charge is nothing short of that. The United States acted with a
multilateral coalition of partner nations to remove Saddam Hussein
from power in Iraq after he failed to comply with the will of the
international community, including numerous United Nations Security
Council Resolutions. To ignore this fact is not only a distortion of
history, but it is also an insult to the service members of our
coalition partners who sacrificed their lives to contribute to the
success we are now witnessing in Iraq. And in Afghanistan,
approximately forty countries are currently deployed with American
forces, including every one of our NATO allies.

The President also created a worldwide coalition of more than 90
nations to combat terrorist networks by sharing information, drying up
their financing, and bringing their leaders to justice. To date, we
have captured or killed hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders and operatives
with the help of partner nations. Furthermore, the Administration
established the Proliferation Security Initiative, which now includes
more than 90 nations, and other multilateral coalitions to stop the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The President successfully pushed for expanding NATO membership,
generated international pressure on Iran to stop it from developing
nuclear weapons, and organized the Six-Party Talks, which have
resulted in North Korea committing to give up its nuclear weapons and
abandon its nuclear programs. Verifying North Korea's commitment will
be a challenge, but at the most recent Six-Party Talks meeting, there
was strong consensus among the five parties that North Korea must
submit to a comprehensive verification regime that accords with
international standards.

U.S. ties in Asia have been strengthened over the past eight years,
and the Administration has built strong relationships with China,
Japan, and South Korea, among others. We have signed an historic
civilian nuclear power agreement with India, reflecting a fundamental
change in our relationship. Pro-American leaders have been elected in
Germany, France, and Italy. Eastern European countries such as
Georgia, Ukraine, and Kosovo treasure their relationships with the
United States, and no president has done more to improve health and
security in the nations of Africa. We have also strengthened
cooperation with Latin America, including initiatives with Brazil on
biofuels and with Mexico and Central America on fighting organized
crime. Finally, when the President took office, America had trade
agreements in force with only three countries, versus 14 today - with
three additional agreements approved by Congress but not yet in force
and agreements with three countries that are awaiting Congressional
approval.

Myth 4: The war in Iraq caused us to "take our eye off the ball" in
Afghanistan and with al Qaeda.

Reality:

Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts in the same war, and while the
success of the surge in Iraq has been visible, we have also had a
quiet surge in Afghanistan. The U.S. has continuously and aggressively
fought side-by-side with Afghans and our allies to defeat the Taliban
and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The United States has provided nearly $32
billion for security, political, and economic development assistance
and the international community has provided more than $55 billion to
Afghanistan since 2001.

An additional U.S. Marine battalion deployed to Afghanistan in
November and they will be followed by an Army combat brigade of about
3,400 troops in early 2009. U.S. forces now total approximately
31,000, and are joined by nearly as many coalition troops. The United
States and our allies are working with Afghanistan to help it nearly
double the size of the Afghan National Army over the next five years,
from 79,000 now trained to 134,000 in 2014.

We have also deployed Provincial Reconstruction Teams to ensure
security gains are followed by real improvements in daily life, and we
have helped local communities strengthen their economies and create
jobs, deliver basic services, improve governance and fight corruption,
and build or repair key infrastructure such as roads, bridges,
hospitals, and schools. More than six million children, approximately
two million of them girls, are now in Afghan schools, compared to
fewer than one million in 2001.

In this Global War on Terror, we do not have the luxury to fight on
one battlefront at a time. To defeat the terrorists, we must fight
them overseas so we don't have to fight them here at home. Since 9/11,
we have successfully captured or killed dozens of al-Qaeda's senior
leadership and hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives in two dozen countries,
removed al-Qaeda's safe-haven in Afghanistan and crippled al-Qaeda in
Iraq, and disrupted numerous al Qaeda terrorist plots against the
U.S., including a 2006 plot to blow up passenger planes traveling from
London.

Myth 5: This Administration has been bad for the environment and
ignored the problem of global warming.

Reality:

Given the liberal media's failure to acknowledge this Administration's
true record on alternative energy, conservation, and climate change,
it's not surprising this charge has stuck. But here are some
irrefutable data points: From 2001 to 2007, air pollution decreased by
12 percent, and fine particulate matter pollution is down 17 percent
since 2001. Ethanol production quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in
2000 to 6.5 billion gallons in 2007, wind energy production has
increased by more than 400 percent, and solar energy capacity has
doubled. In 2007, solar installations increased more than 32 percent
and the U.S. produced 96 percent more biodiesel (490 million gallons)
than in 2006. The Administration also provided nearly $18 billion to
research, develop, and promote alternative and more efficient energy
technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean coal, nuclear, and
hydrogen.

This Administration has improved and protected the health of more than
27 million acres of Federal forest and grasslands, protected,
restored, and improved more than three million acres of wetlands, and
established the Papahânaumokuâkea Marine National Monument, the
world's largest fully protected marine conservation area (nearly
140,000 square miles).

Much of the misperception about the President's environmental record
is born out of the President's withdrawing the United States from the
Kyoto Protocol, which did not include the effective participation of
major developing countries such as India and China. Instead, the
President worked to address climate change by launching the Major
Economies Process, which convened the leaders of the world's major
economies, both developed and developing, to work on ways to further
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security without
harming our economies or giving any nation a free ride. Finally, the
President set the country on course to stop the growth of greenhouse
gas emissions below projected levels by 2025 and invested more than
$44 billion in climate change-related programs.

Some other items that are infrequently mentioned about the real record
of the Bush Administration but are worth noting: Teenage drug use has
declined 25 percent; in 2007, the violent crime rate was 43 percent
lower than the rate in 1998; between 2005 and 2007, the chronically
homeless population decreased approximately 30 percent; funding for
veterans' medical care has increased more than 115 percent; and as of
2005, the most recent abortion rate is at its lowest since 1974.

And one last fact: Our homeland has not suffered another terrorist
attack since September 11, 2001. That, too, is part of the real Bush
record.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...t_the_real.html

wrote:
Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

As the year draws to an end and President Bush enters his final month
in office, there is much commentary about the Administration's record
over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories
assail and distort the President's record and recycle myths and
unfounded allegations that have been leveled for the better part of
his two terms. Historical accuracy requires a response to the litany
of attacks leveled against President Bush, and while there's not
enough space to respond to all of them, here are five of the most
egregious:

Myth 1: The last eight years were awful for most Americans
economically and President Bush's deregulatory policies caused the
current financial crisis.

Reality:

President Bush's time in office is ending as it began, with our
economy under stress. The recession President Bush inherited as he
entered office ran through the attacks of September 11, 2001, but
during the recovery that followed, and due in no small part to the tax
relief President Bush worked with Congress to provide, this country
experienced its longest run of uninterrupted job growth - 52 straight
months, with 8.3 million jobs created.

This reflected six consecutive years of economic growth from the
Fourth Quarter of 2001 until the Fourth Quarter of 2007. From 2000 to
2007, real GDP grew by more than 17 percent, a remarkable gain of
nearly 2.1 trillion dollars. This growth was driven in part by
increased labor productivity gains that have averaged 2.5 percent
annually since 2001, a rate that exceeds the averages of the 1970s,
'80s, and '90s. In the same period, real after-tax income per capita
increased by more than 11 percent, and there was a 4.7 percent
increase in the number of new businesses formed. The current economic
challenges, which the President and his Administration have responded
to aggressively, threaten to reverse some of these gains - but the
gains cannot be denied.

As for the current crisis, the President and his economic team have
taken unprecedented actions to stabilize the financial sector and
avert a collapse. While there are a number of causes of the housing
and credit crises that are at the root of our current economic
troubles, deregulation by the Bush Administration is simply not one of
them. In fact, one of the circumstances that contributed to the crisis
was the failure of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac, which President Bush long tried to subject to
greater regulation. In April 2001, three months after taking office,
the President warned in his first budget that the size of the two GSEs
were a "potential problem" that "could cause strong repercussions in
financial markets, affecting Federally insured entities and economic
activity." In 2003, the Administration began calling for a new GSE
regulator, and over the next five years, the Administration continued
to call for GSE reform only to be accused by Democrats in Congress of
creating artificial fears and advocating for ill-advised proposals. By
the time Congress finally acted in 2008 to provide the oversight the
President requested, it was too late to prevent systemic consequences.
Had the Administration's initial reform proposals been adopted, some
of today's turmoil in our financial markets may have been averted.

Myth 2: President Bush's tax cuts only benefitted the wealthy and were
paid for by sacrificing investments in health care and education.

Reality:

There are not 116 million "wealthy Americans," but that's how many
taxpayers benefited from the President's tax relief. The across-the-
board tax cuts provided tax relief to every American who pays income
taxes, created a new bottom 10 percent bracket rate, doubled the child
tax credit to $1,000, and actually increased the share of the Federal
income tax burden paid by the top 10 percent of individual earners
from 67 percent in 2000 to 70 percent in 2005. Furthermore, this
Administration removed 13 million low-income earners from the income
tax rolls completely.

The economic growth spurred by tax relief also spurred growth in
Federal tax receipts. In fact, the Federal Treasury realized the
largest three-year increase of revenue in 26 years, and tax receipts
grew more than $542 billion between 2000 and 2007. And yes, much of
that money went to investments in health care and education.

President Bush provided more than 40 million Americans with better
access to prescription drugs by creating the market-based Medicare
Prescription Drug Benefit. And it is one of the rare government
programs that actually costs less than expected. Projected overall
program spending between 2004 and 2013 is approximately $240 billion
lower, nearly 38 percent, than originally estimated, thanks to the
market-oriented principles included at President Bush's insistence.

Despite the heated rhetoric over children's health insurance (S-CHIP)
legislation last year, estimates from a 2007 Federal survey show that
the number of uninsured children under the age of 18 actually declined
by 800,000 from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2008, the number of people
covered by affordable and portable Health Savings Account-eligible
plans increased 35 percent. Additionally, since President Bush took
office, more than 1,200 community health centers have opened or
expanded nationwide, which has helped provide treatment to nearly 17
million people.

Federal spending on education has increased nearly 40 percent under
President Bush. Additionally, Pell Grant funding nearly doubled during
the Administration, which is expected to help more than 5.5 million
students attend college in the 2008-09 school year, 1.2 million more
students than were assisted by Pell Grants in the 2001-02 school year.
This financial aid assistance also helps account for the fact that 66
percent of high school graduates from the class of 2006 enrolled in
colleges, compared to 63 percent in 2000.

Perhaps more importantly, the President's No Child Left Behind Act has
delivered tangible results to students. Since the law was enacted,
fourth-grade students have achieved their highest reading and math
scores on record, eighth-grade students have achieved their highest
math scores on record, and African-American and Hispanic students have
posted all-time high scores in a number of categories, narrowing the
gap between minority students and white students.

Myth 3: The President's "go it alone" foreign policy ruined America's
standing in the world.

Reality:

Rarely can one see revisionist history occurring in the present, but
this charge is nothing short of that. The United States acted with a
multilateral coalition of partner nations to remove Saddam Hussein
from power in Iraq after he failed to comply with the will of the
international community, including numerous United Nations Security
Council Resolutions. To ignore this fact is not only a distortion of
history, but it is also an insult to the service members of our
coalition partners who sacrificed their lives to contribute to the
success we are now witnessing in Iraq. And in Afghanistan,
approximately forty countries are currently deployed with American
forces, including every one of our NATO allies.

The President also created a worldwide coalition of more than 90
nations to combat terrorist networks by sharing information, drying up
their financing, and bringing their leaders to justice. To date, we
have captured or killed hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders and operatives
with the help of partner nations. Furthermore, the Administration
established the Proliferation Security Initiative, which now includes
more than 90 nations, and other multilateral coalitions to stop the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The President successfully pushed for expanding NATO membership,
generated international pressure on Iran to stop it from developing
nuclear weapons, and organized the Six-Party Talks, which have
resulted in North Korea committing to give up its nuclear weapons and
abandon its nuclear programs. Verifying North Korea's commitment will
be a challenge, but at the most recent Six-Party Talks meeting, there
was strong consensus among the five parties that North Korea must
submit to a comprehensive verification regime that accords with
international standards.

U.S. ties in Asia have been strengthened over the past eight years,
and the Administration has built strong relationships with China,
Japan, and South Korea, among others. We have signed an historic
civilian nuclear power agreement with India, reflecting a fundamental
change in our relationship. Pro-American leaders have been elected in
Germany, France, and Italy. Eastern European countries such as
Georgia, Ukraine, and Kosovo treasure their relationships with the
United States, and no president has done more to improve health and
security in the nations of Africa. We have also strengthened
cooperation with Latin America, including initiatives with Brazil on
biofuels and with Mexico and Central America on fighting organized
crime. Finally, when the President took office, America had trade
agreements in force with only three countries, versus 14 today - with
three additional agreements approved by Congress but not yet in force
and agreements with three countries that are awaiting Congressional
approval.

Myth 4: The war in Iraq caused us to "take our eye off the ball" in
Afghanistan and with al Qaeda.

Reality:

Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts in the same war, and while the
success of the surge in Iraq has been visible, we have also had a
quiet surge in Afghanistan. The U.S. has continuously and aggressively
fought side-by-side with Afghans and our allies to defeat the Taliban
and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The United States has provided nearly $32
billion for security, political, and economic development assistance
and the international community has provided more than $55 billion to
Afghanistan since 2001.

An additional U.S. Marine battalion deployed to Afghanistan in
November and they will be followed by an Army combat brigade of about
3,400 troops in early 2009. U.S. forces now total approximately
31,000, and are joined by nearly as many coalition troops. The United
States and our allies are working with Afghanistan to help it nearly
double the size of the Afghan National Army over the next five years,
from 79,000 now trained to 134,000 in 2014.

We have also deployed Provincial Reconstruction Teams to ensure
security gains are followed by real improvements in daily life, and we
have helped local communities strengthen their economies and create
jobs, deliver basic services, improve governance and fight corruption,
and build or repair key infrastructure such as roads, bridges,
hospitals, and schools. More than six million children, approximately
two million of them girls, are now in Afghan schools, compared to
fewer than one million in 2001.

In this Global War on Terror, we do not have the luxury to fight on
one battlefront at a time. To defeat the terrorists, we must fight
them overseas so we don't have to fight them here at home. Since 9/11,
we have successfully captured or killed dozens of al-Qaeda's senior
leadership and hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives in two dozen countries,
removed al-Qaeda's safe-haven in Afghanistan and crippled al-Qaeda in
Iraq, and disrupted numerous al Qaeda terrorist plots against the
U.S., including a 2006 plot to blow up passenger planes traveling from
London.

Myth 5: This Administration has been bad for the environment and
ignored the problem of global warming.

Reality:

Given the liberal media's failure to acknowledge this Administration's
true record on alternative energy, conservation, and climate change,
it's not surprising this charge has stuck. But here are some
irrefutable data points: From 2001 to 2007, air pollution decreased by
12 percent, and fine particulate matter pollution is down 17 percent
since 2001. Ethanol production quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in
2000 to 6.5 billion gallons in 2007, wind energy production has
increased by more than 400 percent, and solar energy capacity has
doubled. In 2007, solar installations increased more than 32 percent
and the U.S. produced 96 percent more biodiesel (490 million gallons)
than in 2006. The Administration also provided nearly $18 billion to
research, develop, and promote alternative and more efficient energy
technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean coal, nuclear, and
hydrogen.

This Administration has improved and protected the health of more than
27 million acres of Federal forest and grasslands, protected,
restored, and improved more than three million acres of wetlands, and
established the Papahânaumokuâkea Marine National Monument, the
world's largest fully protected marine conservation area (nearly
140,000 square miles).

Much of the misperception about the President's environmental record
is born out of the President's withdrawing the United States from the
Kyoto Protocol, which did not include the effective participation of
major developing countries such as India and China. Instead, the
President worked to address climate change by launching the Major
Economies Process, which convened the leaders of the world's major
economies, both developed and developing, to work on ways to further
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security without
harming our economies or giving any nation a free ride. Finally, the
President set the country on course to stop the growth of greenhouse
gas emissions below projected levels by 2025 and invested more than
$44 billion in climate change-related programs.

Some other items that are infrequently mentioned about the real record
of the Bush Administration but are worth noting: Teenage drug use has
declined 25 percent; in 2007, the violent crime rate was 43 percent
lower than the rate in 1998; between 2005 and 2007, the chronically
homeless population decreased approximately 30 percent; funding for
veterans' medical care has increased more than 115 percent; and as of
2005, the most recent abortion rate is at its lowest since 1974.

And one last fact: Our homeland has not suffered another terrorist
attack since September 11, 2001. That, too, is part of the real Bush
record.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...t_the_real.html

I complete agree with what you say as I pay attention to what the
President does, not what he plans to do. President Bush played it
straight and did what he said he was going to do.

The one thing that really frustrates me is the misrepresentation of the
federal actions after Katrina. The federal government can not move men
and equipment into a state with out the permission of the state. States
Rights goes back to the Revolutionary War, and there have been many
discussions about it especially in 1861 - 1865. The governor and the
mayor did not officially request that aid until it was too late.
President Bush could and did have the Coast Guard helping people before
the storm ended.

The media ignored these facts and blamed the Federal Government for not
acting. The mayor got off free after people saw pictures for 24 hours a
day of the school buses that could have been used for evacuation but
were left in an area to be flooded. The media ignored it.

There are some people on this group that refuses to listen to what their
heroes say, and they ignore the facts. When people refuses to see and
listen, they can not be educated.

wrote:
Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie


A paid republican apologist.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:12 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

Real as seen through the foggy lenses of someone desperate to
reposition Bush's legacy from horrific to unfortunate.

Pretty soon, Reagan will have to move over as the standard bearer for
the Republican party.

Look at how Bush was willing to destroy his own political party in
order to do the right thing for the American people and the world!

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:38:44 -0800, jps wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:12 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

Real as seen through the foggy lenses of someone desperate to
reposition Bush's legacy from horrific to unfortunate.

Pretty soon, Reagan will have to move over as the standard bearer for
the Republican party.

Look at how Bush was willing to destroy his own political party in
order to do the right thing for the American people and the world!

You make a great point. Sometimes integrity tramples toes.

You won't see any Democrats taking a political risk for the betterment of
the world or the country. Just watch.
--
John H

* They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.*

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:23:07 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:38:44 -0800, jps wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:12 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

Real as seen through the foggy lenses of someone desperate to
reposition Bush's legacy from horrific to unfortunate.

Pretty soon, Reagan will have to move over as the standard bearer for
the Republican party.

Look at how Bush was willing to destroy his own political party in
order to do the right thing for the American people and the world!

You make a great point. Sometimes integrity tramples toes.

You won't see any Democrats taking a political risk for the betterment of
the world or the country. Just watch.

That's because Bush is a dunderhead who not only made horrible
decisions but took his party down at the same time.

It's not all bad though John, he's got a perfect record of screwing up
every job he's ever had.

The silver lining for me is that I have him to thank for putting the
Republican party in the gutter, a now small crappy organization that's
nearly shrunken enough to drown in a bathtub.

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:34:19 -0800, jps wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:23:07 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:38:44 -0800, jps wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:12 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie

Real as seen through the foggy lenses of someone desperate to
reposition Bush's legacy from horrific to unfortunate.

Pretty soon, Reagan will have to move over as the standard bearer for
the Republican party.

Look at how Bush was willing to destroy his own political party in
order to do the right thing for the American people and the world!

You make a great point. Sometimes integrity tramples toes.

You won't see any Democrats taking a political risk for the betterment of
the world or the country. Just watch.

That's because Bush is a dunderhead who not only made horrible
decisions but took his party down at the same time.

It's not all bad though John, he's got a perfect record of screwing up
every job he's ever had.

The silver lining for me is that I have him to thank for putting the
Republican party in the gutter, a now small crappy organization that's
nearly shrunken enough to drown in a bathtub.

You won't see any Democrats taking a political risk for the betterment of
the world or the country. Just watch.
--
John H

* They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.*