Why Does President Bush Hate America?

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush eviscerated the moral standing of the United States of America by attacking, with insufficient provocation, the sovereign nation of Iraq. This act of a bullying nation, the richest, most-powerful nation on Earth, destroyed a two-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history of America taking the high road.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush took us to war against Afghanistan and Iraq without paying for it, but instead emptied out the Treasury and now hands the bill to our children.

What Makes George W. Bush Hate America So Terribly Much?
What Has America Ever Done to Him?

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush, instead of leading us to support our troops—those sacrificing limb and life far across the world—told us to go out shopping.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush was AWOL on September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Centers fell, and on August 29, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina destroyed one of America’s greatest treasures, the city of New Orleans.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush appointed his unqualified friends to public positions requiring capabilities that his friends failed to meet.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush led the nation down the road to torture.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush created an eavesdropping machine to destroy the privacy of every American who uses the telephone or the Internet, even going so far as to listen in on the intimate conversations of our military personnel stationed so far from home and so deep in harm’s way.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush creatively navigated a path to deny Constitutional rights—such as habeas corpus and a right to privacy—that Americans believe are the inalienable, God-given rights of every human.

What Makes George W. Bush Hate America So Terribly Much?
What Have We Ever Done to Him?

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush sent out his Secretary of the Treasury to indenture the future treasury, under great duress, so that our children’s children will be repaying this debt for generations to come.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush, the most-cowardly president the United States can imagine, sent out every force and deviousness that he could imagine, exporting war and terrorism to innocent peoples around the world. To peoples already victimized by the failures of their local governments. That President Bush deliberately exported the “War on Terror” to foreign shores to keep himself and his family physically safe at home.

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush put wealth and safety above the essential American values of “liberty and justice for all.”

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush thus made a mockery of the words, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

It’s Not Enough That George W. Bush has pulled the rug out from under the Republican Party, so that the party of small, responsible government, of free-trade, of individual responsibility, now plays the role of the fool on the political scene.

All This Is Not Enough.

Now George W. Bush Wants to Clean Out the Corners of American Government, by further weakening our laws. By undermining America’s ability to protect what’s left of her environment and to begin the job of rebuilding.

As Avery Palmer of CQ Politics Puts It:

“The Bush administration is poised to finish a series of controversial, last-minute regulations before leaving office, and Congress will have to decide whether to exercise its rarely used authority to rescind the new rules.

“On his way out the door, Bush may complete a host of environmental, health and labor rules....which could have a lasting impact on endangered species protection, air pollution standards, workplace safety and family and medical leave, among other areas.”

(Avery Palmer, CQ Staff, “As Bush Lines Up Late Regulations, Congress Has Choice About Intervening,” http://www.cqpolitics.com: 11/06/2008: 11:15am)

George W. Bush Has Previously Said that he serves with the American people as his boss.

On November 4, 2008, the American People Gave George W. Bush His Walking Papers. The American people said, “George Bush, you're fired.”

Now George W. Bush Is Loading up a Political Moving Van with all the staplers and ink pens and paperclips that he can put his hands on. The water-cooler, the desk, the sofa, the credenza, and even his secretary’s furniture. The portraits of his forty-three presidential predecessors that previously hung on the wall. George W. Bush is rolling up the carpet and he’s ripping out the bushes in the Rose Garden.

George W. Bush Is Taking Everything That He Can Put His Hands on and stuffing it into the moving van as fast as he can, before the American people can stop him.

If George W. Bush Has His Way, when he is out of the White House, nothing of value or decency of America will be left.

All That We, the People of the United States of America, will be left with in the wake of George W. Bush is a question:

Why Does George W. Bush Hate America So Much?

Republican Pot Calls Democratic Kettle "Black"

Speaking on his MSNBC Talk Show, Morning Joe, former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough today used the Bush White House as an example of how Republicans use government mechanisms—such as “pork barrel spending” and “you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours”—to over-extend the national pocketbook. These are the same mechanisms that Democrats historically use to get the work of government done, and judging from Mr. Scarborough's explanation, there is not much difference.

Telling How it Happened that the Bush White House and a Republican Congress lost sight of fiscal Conservative ideals, Mr. Scarborough explained that President George W. Bush needed a hands-off policy for his War in Iraq, and effected a reciprocal hands-off policy in relation to whatever else the Republican Congress chose to do on behalf of the American people.

President Bush Got Away with the War in Iraq. And Congress got away with economic murder.

This De Facto Treaty Between the Executive and the Legislative Branches of the Federal government meant that President Bush did not veto Congress’s legislation. In return, Congress gave the President free rein with the Iraq War.

In Other Words, per Mr. Scarborough, the government mechanisms of “pork-barrel spending” and “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” played the same role for “post-9/11” Republicans that these mechanisms played in the Democratic era of the “Great Society,” under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The Ideologies of “Tax and Spend” and “Defer and Spend” may sound different to the ear, but the effect on the national economy is virtually the same.

History Now Judges LBJ's “Great Society”

The Grand Result of the “Great Society” culminated in this week’s election of Barack Obama as president-elect of the United States.

The Cost of LBJ’s Many Programs, simultaneous with the costs of the war in Vietnam, was high. It included a political switch toward the Republican Party, with the South abandoning the Democratic party completely until this year, and it gave ascendancy to the Conservative theories of Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush.

The Future Will Judge the “War on Terror”

The Result of “This Republican Era” will be judged by history, too. As LBJ’s Great Society has now finally been judged. Let us hope that the final verdict of the Bush extravagances will be as high.

How Both Sides Want It Both Ways

But the Important Thing to See, as far as American politics are concerned, is that we really are one nation, with comparable policies and ways of doing things:

We All Hate it When the Other Guy uses the Federal government to supplant States’ Rights, and we all hate it when States’ Rights trump progress best-available to the Federal government.

We Love Term Limits When the Other Party Is in Power, but when our party is in power, we see how essential are the advantages gained from continuity.

We Hate It When One Party Governs by “tax-and-spend,” and we hate it just as much when the other party governs by “defer-and-spend.”

“Pork-Barrel Spending” is only “pork” when it benefits genetic studies of fruit-flies to help cure autism, but not when it benefits the families of children with special needs. It’s “pork” when it goes to what you want, but it’s essential government spending when it’s for me and mine.

In Sum, the Democrats under Lyndon B. Johnson and the Republicans under George W. Bush are pretty much even, as far as overextending the Federal government for benefit of a perceived greater good is concerned, during the time of an unpopular war.

How Government Gets Done

“You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours.” According even to conscientious Conservative Joe Scarborough, it’s the way that government works.

And Not Even a Staunch Conservative
Like Joe Scarborough
Describes for Us a Better Way.