They aren't even trying to keep an honest, straight narrative

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jan-07-11 12:43 PM
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Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush
   
http://www.counterpunch.org/bovard01062010.html

The Tea Party movement rattled many politicians’ cages last November. Many Tea Party supporters define themselves by their opposition to big government. However, according to an April CBS-New York Times poll, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters approve of George W. Bush.

Because Bush is white, right?

It is not surprising that Obama’s abuses would cause some people to wish for his predecessor. However, liberty-loving Americans should never forget George W. Bush’s crimes against the Constitution, freedom, the economy, and the political system.

Political cosmetics pervaded many Bush policies. The No Child Left Behind Act was perhaps his biggest domestic fraud. The act was falsely sold as giving a wide ambit of authority to local school officials. In reality, it empowers the feds to effectively judge and punish local schools for not fulfilling arbitrary guidelines. Many states are “dumbing down” academic standards, using bureaucratic racketeering to avoid harsh federal sanctions. Though the No Child Left Behind Act promised to permit children to escape “persistently dangerous” schools, most states defined that term to claim that all their schools were safe. As long as people believed that Bush cared about children, it didn’t matter that his education policy was a charade.

Sounds like ObamaCoup.

BTW - Kennedy wrote the bill before Bush was elected.

Bush browbeat Congress into enacting the biggest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The White House blatantly deceived Congress about the cost of a new Medicare prescription drug entitlement, withholding key information that would have guaranteed the defeat of his giveaway. The administration launched a federally financed ad campaign showing a crowd cheering Bush as he signed the new law; federal auditors ruled that the ads were illegal propaganda.

More at the link --

Suddenly government perks to the elderly is a bad thing...unlike ObamaCoup...and suddenly we assume the same accounting tricks would never appear in any other government give-a-away...like ObamaCoup.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x130834

[USA4ME]

It is not surprising that Obama’s abuses would cause some people to wish for his predecessor. However, liberty-loving Americans ...

The above kills the whole article right there.  It's counterpunch.  To normal people, Dear Leader's abuses are because they're kooky.  To the counterpunch types, his abuses are that he's not kooky enough.  And the last people I'm going to whom I will listen about what constitutes a "liberty-loving American" are the quacks at counterpunch.

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[blitzkrieg_17]

I was never overly fond of Bush, who did do a lot of things to tick us off. But he was still 1000x better than Zero.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jan-07-11 12:43 PM
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Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush

What the Hell could it possibly matter, you ignorant slut, Bush can't ever run for Prez again and the TEA Party got its legs when he was already ineligible.

[Texacon]

Funny how fast they've gone from;

"The Tea Party is astroturf and nothing to worry about" to "They shouldn't believe what they believe"

KC

[Godot showed up]

What crimes against the Constitution (by GW)? Needed surveillance of spies and saboteurs in time of war (that didn't go far enough, in my opinion)?

 

[AllosaursRus]

What crimes against the Constitution (by GW)? Needed surveillance of spies and saboteurs in time of war (that didn't go far enough, in my opinion)?

 

I'd sure like to know how eavesdropping on foreign national's phone conversations is somehow unconstitutional in the first place? Oh, that's right! Enemy combatants are now automatically covered under our Bill of Rights, too!

Get it thru your thick skulls, DUmmies, you have to be a citizen to be afforded any rights under our Constitution! This includes all those illegal immigrants, too, idiots!

[true_blood]

Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Fri Jan-07-11 12:43 PM
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Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush    (I didn't know Bush was still in office?? Almost 3 years later and still?? You stupid scrunts. Are you really that DUmb? Yes, you are.)
The Tea Party movement rattled many politicians’ cages last November.   (That's right they did, didn't they. And they will continue to do so, until the Country gets back on the right path.)
Many Tea Party supporters define themselves by their opposition to big government. However, according to an April CBS-New York Times poll, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters approve of George W. Bush.

[jukin]

First off, it was the fat, murdering, alcoholic, lying teddy kennedy that wrote NCLB. It was a truly bipartsian move by Bush to bring a more friendly atmosphere to WDC.  Yes, I was completely against it.

Second, Medicare part D is the only government program to cost less than budgeted. Yes, I was against it.

Thirdly, Obama has made Bush look like a libertarian piker in deficit spending and forcing a bigger oppressive government on an unwilling public.

[AllosaursRus]

What Jukin said!!!!!!!

H5!