looks like bush blew his political capital much like he blew the giant federal surplus right?
956020
It started with the Terry Schiavo thing. That wasn't even about right to life. It was about a couple of controlling parents making a federal case out of a family issue. That's when Bush blew his "political capital". After turning a surplus into a huge deficit and losing thousands of lives in an illegal, dishonest, and mismanaged war, Bush has a lot to answer for. He destroyed the ability of the Federal government to respond to Katrina. That's going to take a lot of rebuilding.
731283
Clinto balanced the bhudget and had a huge surplus that Bush squandered.
601059
Maybe he has had enough, this is not the contract with America that he signed. I know that I have had enough. Tax cuts for the very rich. Spend, Spend and spend somemore, maybe he has joined the 71% that does not like the direction that the country is going in.
412715
Yes.  This was a campaign point for W in his first election - double taxation of dividends.  The company pays its taxes and distributes the left over, then the investor has to pay taxes on those earnings.  Bush wanted to get rid of that, but the Dems threw in the whole "tax breaks for the rich" and it didn't go through.
295101
Bush is no Christian, if he was he would not allow all these things to happen to our country. I believe that this man was born to destroy America. The first thing he did was to take the surplus, that everyone in this country worked so hard for, and distribute it amongs his round table friends. Thank God he was not given a chance to put our Social security dollars in the stock market, a place where his frinds could make billions more on the hard working class. Given enough time, this man would cause more damage to our country, and the world, than the evil Hitler himself.....KECK
581829
GEESH!! SEE WHAT THIS BUSH ECONOMY IS DOING TO PEOPLE!!
336781
No. That was some of the same crap that came out of that Demacrook Billionaire in Texas that first came up with the forged military records on GW back when he first ran for Governor against Ann Richards. It got kinda revived when He ran against Gore but most of that died except for the CBS scam that ended Dan Rather's (and others) reigns over in left leaning media land.
923934
Yes..You are out of touch...Of course we all know about that silly war across the ocean..We all know Bush lied about why he went their..He still hasn't told the truth about it. He spent the last 4 years ac using us of wanting to run when that's what he did in Afghanistan...He's been doing bad in Iraq since he claimed victory and in fact has made the terrorist situation worse then when the war started. He has increased spending so much that the national debt has gone up from 6 trillion to 7 trillion dollars. That''s 15%. This country is a mess. The distance between those that have and those that don't is bigger than ever and getting worse... Health insurance is unaffordable to most people...Discontent among Americans is rampant, coming from an administration that promised to bring Americans together....Bush will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever
338125
NO!  There is no way that any other president could possibly have screwed things up worse than he has.  \n\nWe're fighting two wars right now, our resources are vastly over-extended, and now they're talking about bombing Iran.  Talk about incompetent.  Anyone know why the American Colonies were able to defeat a country that at the time had about the most powerful military in the world?  England was busy fighting France, that's why!  It doesn't matter how powerful you are, you can still lose to a little guy if your resources are over-extended.\n\nThen there was the whole Hurricane Katrina thing.  You know, the thing where Bush said there was no way anyone could know the levees would overflow, and then a few days later the media got hold of a tape of him being told the levees would overflow.\n\nAnd there's the minor detail that he's turned an unprecedented budget surplus into an unprecedented budget deficit, and yet continues to simultaneously increase spending and decrease taxes.  Any five year old can tell you that's not the way to reduce the deficit.\n\nOh, and he's managed to turn unprecedented international support after 9/11 into hatred and ridicule.\n\nAnd have we completely forgotten Enron?  I doubt that was the only instance of the government screwing over the public to increase profits for themselves and their rich friend.s\n\nHe's also refused to do anything to slow the destruction of the environment, and in some cases has even relaxed existing limits.\n\nHe's made several attempts to channel government funds to Christian organizations, which is a clear violation of the first amendment.\n\nHe's also appointed judges who seem rather inclined to set civil rights back to the stone age.  There was even that one guy who was literally a Nazi.  As in he fought for Germany in World War II kind of a Nazi.\n\nI could go on, but it's nearly 3 in the morning and I have a paper to write.
114710
Amazingly, President Bush has managed, with his batty attack on Iraq, to drain the treasury of the credit balance Clinton left it with and turn it into a huge deficit.  Maybe a drop in the dollar's value will give a temporary boost to exports, but that won't go anywhere to offset the tragedy.  Bill got blown, but George has blown America : her finances AND her moral credibility.  I don't know which is worse.  I just don't want to think about it.
344569
I think metcalf has it half right. This war was intended as payback for the powerful corporations (most notably Halliburton and the oil companies) who backed bush's political campaigns in 2000 and 2004. These companies are making a fortune off the deaths of young American and British soldiers, to say nothing of the staggering Iraqi civilian casualties. It is a disgrace!\n\nAs far as consolidating republican power on the homefront, it's a decidedly mixed bag, I think. The lockstep majority are of course falling in line behind their idiot king, georgie the incompetent, and many will go down with his ship of state (aka ship of fools). But I am seeing increasing signs of dissent in the ranks. Censure and even impeachment (sweet Jesus, let it be so!) could be in the offing if the Democrats can retake control of the House and/or Senate in the 2006 elections. \n\nThat said, the blood money from this illegal and immoral war has filled the GOP coffers to overflowing. So by virtue of that fact, yes, the consolidation of republican power has been achieved. Money is the name of the game in Washington and those bastards have plenty of it now. Still, I am not without hope of something vaguely resembling justice prevailing when all is said and done in this, the worst period in modern US history.
261470
Where is all that "political capital" he claimed to of had? Support from the left? Please, he's burned, actually torched any bridge from that side of the aisle. He better worry about his base. There is nothing conservative about this administration. This guy loves to spend, borrow and spend more (mostly on industries and cronies that have helped his political career along). Just look at the national deficit! Is there no end to this groups madness and incompetence? Does anyone honestly think he has one bit of concern (other than their vote) for the common American citizen? He did say "Some call you the have & have mores... but, I call you may base". He sure wasn't referring to the person that punches a time clock!
178558
yes your assumption is true, and today's "conservatives" are turning "liberal".  Or at least our president is.  Did you see the spending cap? 9 trillion!!! crazy!  and he wants to let in every Mexican citizen and give them amnesty.  c'mon... i'm movin to North Korea.  At least they're on the level about their communism, and I hear the women there are AMAZING
695441
You are horribly uneducated.  If you call increasing our national debt by billions of dollars per year being economically sound, what happens when the bottom falls out.  I would hardly call this economy booming.  You also fail to mention that Bill Clinton operated with a budget surplus while Bush operates with a huge deficit.  This may be because of the war, but the war was Bush's main cause.  Oh andby the way how is that war coming along.  There is nor end in site and it could be decades before we are able to withdraw.  When Clinton dealt with Iraq he did it with surgical precision and took care of the situation in Iraq without having any type of extended conflict.  The main difference is that the rest of the world repected Clinton, but no one respects Bush.  You also fail to mention that since our commander in chief took power, not one, but two countries have began enriched uranium programs.  In case you don't know what that means, it means they have the power to make nuclear weapons.  One leader directly said they did it because of our president's attitude toward him.  That is good leadership.  Also, since NAFTA there has been a net increase in American jobs, my college international business teacher stresses that fact all the time.  So while we have lost low paying jobs we havce gained even more higher paying jobs.  Look it up, it is a fact.  Clinton did not fire those workers.  Poor business management fired those workers.  They were fired because they were overpayed by incompetent bosses.  Don't blame a president for that.  And you can thank Bill Clinton for the lower prices you enjoy because of NAFTA.  So good question, actually it is not a good question because you are comparing apples to oranges and your facts are wrong.  Congratulations.\nP.S. and G.W. wants to cut educational spendning, so if you want to go to college someday, he wants to make sure you have to pay more.\nP.P.S. and your wonderfol president wants it to be legal to essentially "spy" on you and every other citizen.
198002
WE DID NOT, it was those damn stinking red states.  Apparently, his religion and anti gay feelings are more important than what he had done wrong.  Never mind he is cutting education and investing more money overseas and on HIS war rather than at home for the people actually paying taxes.  I hate that bastard.
812427
Were you reading the posts earlier?  Someone was saying "now that the libtards have won, watch our stocks tank" or some crap like that.  No tankin' on Wall Street, EH???  They must be incredibly SHOCKED.  hee hee hee
93317
Ahh to have the Urban legend of Bill Clinton, how nice it must have been to live in a world of surplus money that he was supposed to have.  There has never been surplus money in this country.  The National Debt grew to over $5 trillion under his leadership.  It past a trillion dollars for the first time in our Nations History under Reagan and some almost 20 years later when Bill Clinton left office we had a debt of $5,650,000,000.00 or about double what it was when he took office.  And it will double again under Bush, and again under the next president unless we start doing something about it.  I have heard so much about all the surpluses under Clinton, but I have done my homework and there never were any.  You see the American People believe that by reducing the deficit we are reducing the debt.  The answer to that is NO! When we reduce the deficit we reduce the amount our debt grows for that year and that is all we are still spending more money than we are taking in.  John Kerry also believed that Clinton left surpluses of money in fact the amount he quoted during the 2004 campaign was the amount of actual debt that was left at the end of the Clinton administration,(Kerry quoted a $5.65 Trillion surplus at the end of the Clinton Presidency, we were in Debt that amount, maybe that is why he lost).  The only time in the history of our country that there was no National Debt was under Andrew Jackson(1833-41), the last time we had brought in more than we spent and brought it down was over 50 years ago Under President Harry S. Truman who will be my choice for the greatest American President, not only did he have that one year,(and it was the only year since Jackson was President), but he stands alone in History as having been the only man to order the use of Nuclear Weapons against another country in the time of war.  And that distinction goes for all mankind, no one else has ever ordered these weapons to be used against another and let us pray he remains the last as well.