The George W. Bush Policy Institute—which would be the first think tank to be affiliated with a presidential library—will address issues that were priorities during Mr. Bush’s presidency, such as education, global health, political freedom and economic growth, and seek to promote advances by offering practical solutions, the former president said.
That is sort of like hiring John Wayne Gacy to babysit your children.
It’s a one-room building, and the room is empty except for a Magic 8 Ball.
HA! Win!
I think the FARK headline said it well:
President Bush gives a speech to inaugurate his new think tank. Expected to ask: “Where are all the fishies?”
It’d be like Obama holding a jobs summit!
OK, OK, I found that a bit amusing.
Except people will actually be thinking at the summit, not praying to JAYSUS alone.
Thinking, maybe. Doing, no.
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! SNAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good one!
Yep, just like losing the lives of thousands of civilians to terrorism and thousands of servicemen for a useless war. They’re the same!
Not.
The political freedom of warrantless wiretapping and bringing Sharia Law to Iraq
Bush Think Tank? Is it an M1 Abrahms?
Think. Tank.
Walla walla bing bang.
How about the dunk tank?
Hey Dennis: DOW 10,300.
Oh, sure, but that’s still down 200 points from when the Bushobama Presidency began.
DOW was at 9,300 when Obama was elected. DOW was at 8,200 when he took office.
On preview, I’m not sure who Bushobama is. But it’s a disturbing image to say the least.
The unemployment rate was at 6.5% when he was elected, and it’s now at 10.2%. The real unemployment rate is at 17.5%. Obama said unemployment wouldn’t go above 7.8% if we enacted his stimulus plan. Now he’s bullshitting you with bogus ‘jobs saved or created’ numbers and you just swallow it hook, line and sinker. Your point about about why current tea partiers weren’t in the streets about Bush’s spending makes absolutely no sense. Because there were deficits then when people had jobs and homes and a vibrant economy does not mean they’re being hypocritical when Obama triples the deficit in his first year and tells everyone he wants to redistribute wealth, take over the health care system, and ‘not let this crisis go to waste’. You’re just being obtuse about it on purpose, Jaim.
The Bush Recession is the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression. But in general Obama has handled things well, much better than McCain would have. And no doubt unemployment is a real problem (although your “real” number could have applied under Bush II as well, anyone can multiply by 2).
Obama has been in office less than a year, yet wing-nuts expect him to have turned around eight years of Bush misrule. It doesn’t work that way.
Passing the largest tax cut in American history was a good start, and hopefully the stimulus will continue to create jobs. IMO America needs another stimulus bill, but it’s not going to happen for political reasons.
If unemployment numbers are still this bad in a year Obama will definitely be in trouble. But historically, even if this is a slow recovery Obama will be presiding over a healthy economy after two years in office. (At least that’s what the CBO is forecasting re: 3-4% growth.)
I expect some Congressional losses in 2010 for Dems but they’ll maintain majorities. I expect a Reagan/Mondale-esque landslide victory for Obama’s second term. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I do know that GOP leader Limbaugh “hoping he fails” was a bad move, politically. Obama’s re-election ads can practically write themselves.
So, pretty much everything he ignored or fucked up when he was in office. NOW he’s ready to get to work.
One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong…
See, the plan here is that we’ll get a gummint contract ta tell ‘em this stuff that we’re out here thinkin’ up, we’ll sell that advice BACK to the gummint, and we’ll go on the lecture circuit, fatten the ol’ coffers, ‘cuz we got the ex-president’s political capital to cash in.
I’m George W. Bush, and I thought up this message.
The underhanded evilness of the Obama Administration and his Czarist cohorts ranks with the likes of Nazism as simply a ‘dictatorship of monopoly capitalism.’ By purchasing control of devaluing industries as well as creating inflation by debt-rule destruction of the dollar, Obama’s Socialist agenda has achieved (for the present) aggressive expansionist support from his supporters, to include those 50+ Muslim nations who espouse his geopolitical and economic policies of decline for the US and Western Civilization.
By dismantling American industry and by perpetuating a job (lag) crisis which will continue for another 15+ months, the President will hold all the levers of power for another 3 years by default, since Congress and the Courts will not intercede until the 2010 November elections, or the Obama Healthcare laws are contested constitutionally in the Supreme Court in 2012 or later.
To achieve his dream of pure Socialist bellicosity via the plundering of the Constitution through his Executive branch position, Obama’s calculated lust for power and dominance necessitates the destruction of Conservatives and their views. He stands in no minimalist shadow; the days of bluff and brinkmanship (i.e. violent threats against FOX news via the trial balloons and select spokesmen) are over. They are over because unlike Hitler Obama hasn’t yet experienced a “domestic success;” his charisma in statesmanship rings hollow and forlorn; his envy of Hitler’s domestic achievements grows louder in his head because he so far has failed to become the symbol (of Hope) and embodiment (of Change) of national revival. Negative comments growing dangerously cynical of his self-created myth (the one thing he cannot help but nurture) are no longer to be joked about with his theatrical poses -rather they suddenly take on and continue like a tsunami to grow into a frightful reality that may supercede his ability to lie to us, and/or supercede his ability to ‘command’ the Democrats to do what he demands.
Will Obama be forced to ACT with treachery against the Republicans in the Senate and the House and the Conservative movement? In 1939 Hitler said: “The 80 million Germans have solved the problem of ideology; now they must solve the ECONOMIC PROBLEM.” His solution was an invasion of Poland and Western Europe. “One can let things drift for A CERTAIN LENGTH OF TIME but then it becomes necessary to solve our problems one way or another. The choice is between RISE or FALL…” and Obama’s rise and fall hinges on Healthcare and Afghanistan, neither of which he can accomplish, as long as the issue of his existence depends on a “dangerous hope” Conservatives -relying on cooperation and unity- believe rests on a socialistic pestilence spreading forth over the nation since January 2009. Obama must like Hitler have a VICTORY in his personal revolution, or Defeat and destruction will propagate the dangerous hopes of his stated enemies. “Every hope for compromise is childish,” said Hitler in 1939. “I have to choose between victory or destruction. I choose victory,” for the basic logic and cynicism of both men is aligned.
Hitler’s genius, luck, and momentum drove him to the top, but like Obama’s following, Hitler’s following which was only 30% (1933) rose steadily as he drew-in: those “whose anxiety, insecurity, and repressed desire for belongingness nursed (in them) a fear of (individual) freedom and a lack of responsibility.” Historian Zev Bardu said: “On the psychological level it has gradually led to the annihilation of the individual’s personality by the weakening of the critical mind.” Could, like Hitler’s followers, Obama’s followers be ingrained (according to E. Fromm) with a fear that causes them to “escape into (Obama’s style)
of authoritarianism?” Both great writers mentioned here conclude equally that Nazism induced Germans (all 80 million) to undergo “a process of regression,” that readily accepted authoritarian behavior. In fact Hitler was believed by millions for a time to have been sent from Heaven, literally.
Then came the battles of Moscow (1941-42) and Stalingrad (1942-43) and POP! What a reality check to lose 2 million followers-in-uniform, after a string of VICTORIES 5 years (previously) long! That was the beginning of the end for the Fuhrer.
President Obama -the Putz needs JUST ONE victory, but as I said a moment back, it isn’t very likely he’ll get it. I believe he’s FOUND HIS WATERLOO battle right here and now in the SENATE of the CONGRESS. He has no artillery: no re-supply chain of lies left in his “Healthcare bag”, no mobilization of Acorn, SEIU, or other ally to rally to the streets, no trusted media left to “create” a new visage for himself, no trust left in the Legislative Branch, except that in lying syncophants whose bereft-of-virtue leadership we saw pitiously in the House only recently (11/7/09).
All Obama has are Social Liberal Democrats, roughly around 30% of the electorate, give or nod another 10% independents.
Hitler had Social Democrats too! According to Bardu they were “Meinungschaos”. They were “a chaos of conflicting opinions which produced in them apathy and complete detachment, and at the same time anxiety and readiness to do something, to do anything.” So like Obama’s quote last week to give 60 million (more) people adequate healthcare, the frustration and insecurity in the ‘Meinungschaos” followers of Obama’s remains in their being ‘bottom-feeders,’ willing to peel off the table-scraps he throws at them in his $1.6 trillion healthcare monstrosity bill. Bardu said the Nazis offered the 1930’s Germans: “the quickest and most radical way of relief from a situation of stress and insecurity.” They, like Obama’s followers, follow their leader blindly into the dark, until the World collapsed around all the Germans, and even us, possibly….unless we stop it NOW.
What a poisonous package was presented to the public by the House of Representatives in Healthcare, with the President’s seal of endorsement! What a tragic disrespect was shown to the great men who filled that chamber for over 200 years with resolve and bi-partisan compromise! The fight in the Senate in the coming month or months may be reason or pretext enough to make Obama’s driving attack against the Conservatives and true Republicans, especially if his bill leaves the Senate with personal embarassment to his name and reputation. A man with his contradictions can’t tolerate a conservative-contradicting element in voices that refuse -as we have for over 10 months now- his “preconditions”. England refused to remain neutral at Hitler’s request, and told that ‘man’ in 1939 that they would come to defend Poland if Poland was attacked. England would not tolerate Hitler’s psychological deceits or hurled threats…. and all “the little things” we bloggers catch as the “inconsistencies and atrocities” of Obama’s sleight-of-hand are not the things (the same for both Hitler and Obama) nobody sees.
That is worth a Godwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
Since you’re doing all this Hitler research, Google Hitler and Prescott Bush and see what you turn up.
I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or bolt the door.
That is worth a Godwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
HA!
‘The underhanded evilness of the Obama Administration and his Czarist cohorts ranks with the likes of Nazism as simply a ‘dictatorship of monopoly capitalism.’’
Talk about going off the rails with one sentence.
FOX must be so proud of you.
“A man with his contradictions can’t tolerate a conservative-contradicting element in voices that refuse -as we have for over 10 months now- his “preconditions”.”
Palinism. It’s a movement.
“By dismantling American industry and by perpetuating a job (lag) crisis which will continue for another 15+ months … .”
Hint – American capitalism run wild has dismantled American industry. If you new anything at all, you’d know that boom and bust is how capitalism rolls. But you’re an idiot.
Shorter Farris/Dennis:
You didn’t clean up our messes, so you’re worse than Hitler.
Bush Think Tank
Monsanto/Union Carbide Environmental Protection Society
McDonalds Culinary Arts Institution
Tom Delay/Michelle Bachman World Center for Civil Politics
etc
sweet Ginger Brown, that’s funny.
That is sort of like hiring John Wayne Gacy to babysit your children.
Here’s John Wayne Gacy at the first Thanksgiving:
“I want to dress up like a clown and have sex with children and kill them, pilgrims.”
Obama said unemployment wouldn’t go above 7.8% if we enacted his stimulus plan.
Really, when did he say this? Google came up with nothing.
ake over the health care system,
Yeah, because it’s doing such a bang up job on its own. Face it, we’ve given it 6 decades for the “free market” to fix the problems, and it’s only gotten worse.
Really, Zython, impetuous young child?
Unemployment Rate Calls Stimulus Claims Into Question
–May 18, 2009
–CBS news
What the hell kind of college are you attending, anyway? And just how the hell did you manage to get in to it?
Dennis, how does a month-olds article have relevance today?
If you are against members of the Executive branch misleading people, do you remember this golden oldie as well?:
WTF are you talking about, Dark Avenger? Idiot Zython said he googled it and couldn’t find where Obama had made the 7.8% unemployment. I found it in two seconds. And I brought it up in response to Jaim who was crowing about the DOW number.
Is you obtuseness all an act or are you another Zython here still in college not know his ass from a hole in the ground acting cute?
The question remains, old and moldy Dennis(I’m 50 myself, thanks for demonstrating what an older moron sounds like) what relevance your nearly a half-year old article about Obama and the recession has to the subject of this thread?
Also, if broken promises are so important to you,why you didn’t bitch and moan about false promises on the part of the Executive branch on another important subject, ie, Saddams’ supposed WMD which were never found because they didn’t exist?
Thanks for demonstrating here on a daily basis, along with SaveFerris, Amused Observer, and, of course, that survivor of hepatic encephalopathy, Frank DiSalle, what right-wing stupidity is all about.
Dark Avenger,
The topic of the post is Bush establishing a think tank as part of his presidential library and the mocking of it by you guys as being like hiring John Wayne Gacy to babaysit your children. One of the priorities is economic growth. Jaim starting the obligatory comparisons of Obama’s economic policies and results to Bush’s. If you took the time to see how the replies went and read the articles you’d understand why the Obama projections last spring are relevant to today now that we are at 10.2% unemployment and no one is guessing that that number has peaked. The whole point of the stimulus was to create jobs. Now th Obama Admin tells us the stimulus is doing what it was designed to do; they bullshit you and me with the phony baloney ‘jobs saved or created’ numbers that even the more liberal of the MSM outlets are calling bs on them, they tell jobs are ’shovel ready’ and Obama keeps blaming his bad projections and everything bad for that matter, on George Bush. And you guys buy it all. On top of that, Larry Summers tells us we will have to live with high unemployment for years to come. That’s why the memo from last spring is important to today. So if you want to liken George Bush to Jown Wayne Gacy on the economy and Barack Obama to Superman, like Jaim does, be my guest- but at 50 years old, I’d think you’d be a little too wise to the world to let someone bullshit you like that.
One of the priorities is economic growth.
Yes, the deregulation of financial services and allowing the housing bubble to grow and pop certainly contributed to Americas’ economic growth.
If you took the time to see how the replies went and read the articles you’d understand why the Obama projections last spring are relevant to today now that we are at 10.2% unemployment and no one is guessing that that number has peaked.
Have things gotten worse than Obama expected them to?
Yes.
Does that absolve the previous Administration of the responsibility for following policies that led to the current situation, ie, deregulating the financial markets and the housing bubble, etc?
No.
The whole point of the stimulus was to create jobs. Now th Obama Admin tells us the stimulus is doing what it was designed to do; they bullshit you and me with the phony baloney ‘jobs saved or created’ numbers that even the more liberal of the MSM outlets are calling bs on them, they tell jobs are ’shovel ready’ and Obama keeps blaming his bad projections and everything bad for that matter, on George Bush
So, the current economic climate has nothing to do with the folks who were in charge for the last eight years, on your planet?
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On top of that, Larry Summers tells us we will have to live with high unemployment for years to come.
And analysis is the same as taking ownership of a situation that has only been under their control for less than a year.
That’s why the memo from last spring is important to today.
You mean ‘for today’, ‘to today’ grates on the ear.
Whether he predicted 5% or 15%, he didn’t create the situation, which is why it’s risible that a think tank associated with GWB would prate about “economic growth” after GWB’s record in that field.
So if you want to liken George Bush to Jown Wayne Gacy on the economy and Barack Obama to Superman, like Jaim does, be my guest- but at 50 years old, I’d think you’d be a little too wise to the world to let someone bullshit you like that.
I think you’d be wise enough to establish your own blog instead of trolling here, and you are the uncrowned king of bullshit here, I am unworthy to unlatch your sandals in that regard…………
Really, when did he say this? Google came up with nothing.
But Bing, and some searching experience [I used Obama unemployment "7.8%" stimulus plan] and I found this
The appropriate paragraph is to the left of President Obama’s picture .
I will admit that it was not easy to find, but you should not have been so quick on the draw, eh, Skippy?
Dennis, I’d be interested in how you wrote up the search
Frank, I don’t remember what exact key words I used, I think it was ‘Obama + 7.8% unemployment+ stimulus’. I went back to Zython’s google page he linked to and the second entry had the 7.8% figure, so he didn’t even review his own search.
Here’s the original document from Romer and Bernstein and the Council of Economic Advisers on the Obama Stimulus Plan.
Th Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
So you’re pissed because Obama low-balled a figure over which he had no control several months prior? Is that it? And you’re calling it a lie?
Weak tea, Dennse.
Jamey, what Bush did is irrelevant if Obama makes the problems WORSE, which he is.
No he isn’t.
Frank, I don’t remember what exact key words I used, I think it was ‘Obama + 7.8% unemployment+ stimulus’. I went back to Zython’s google page he linked to and the second entry had the 7.8% figure, so he didn’t even review his own search.
Dennis, that link was from the Heritage Foundation. Not exactly an “objective” news source.
I admit I didn’t do a thorough enough job, and for that, I apologize.
What the hell kind of college are you attending, anyway? And just how the hell did you manage to get in to it?
1. I graduated already, so none.
2. By not making repeated threats against the U.N. in my application essay, but you already know how poorly doing so works, don’t you?
But Bing, … eh, Skippy?
Damnit, I think Frank’s having another stroke.
@ egesehava – I’m impressed, a teabagger that quotes Eric Fromm, spare me the fucking agony. You wouldn’t know critical thinking if it smacked you in the head. Moron.