Bush's farewell address to the nation

Bush had 52 straight months of job growth and hardly got any credit, but if Obama has 3 months of job growth he'll be considered smarter than Alan Greenspan by the MSM...and of course, the Swamp writers...

Paulo

Just like when he was told "Bin Laden Determined to Strike inside the U.S", when Katrina hit - Bush was too busy clearing brush on his Horse-less Ranch, to bother doing what he claims was his "Number one" duty: Protect the nation.

Eventually he did do something, he went to have some Birthday Cake with John McCain.
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Bush has the same grasp of reality as a cardboard cutout. Incompetent does not go far enough to describe the abject failure the man represents.

Posted by: Paulo | January 12, 2009 5:35 PM

Yeah. Paulo, Bush is an economic genius! Look at what he has managed to accomplish for employment in this country.

Unemployment January 2001: 4.2%

Unemployment rate January 2009: 7.2%

What a fantastic success! I

Bush had 52 straight months of job growth and hardly got any credit,

Posted by: Paulo | January 12, 2009 5:35 PM

....he is Herbert Hoover with a fake Texas accent.

not Paulo

Paulo, 52 weeks of job growth ? Where are those jobs now??? How about my retirement money being devistated by a stupid hands-off mentality President.
Herbert Hoover all over again.

Are you sure you don't mean, job outsourcing !? That would be the more accurate statement, but what's accuracy to a Bush Republican? Quit bushing us !! We've had enough bushing, for 12 out of last 20 years !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Bush created 5 million jobs over 8 years, Clinton created 23 million. I think Bush has gotten more credit than he deserves, witness the assertion in the first post.

Problem is, Paulo, he's been President for 96 months. Besides, during those 52 months you brag about, the middle class wasn't going anywhere; all the wage increases were going to the big boys. As we saw today, the Pres. is in denial.

My favorite part of the whole press conference was when he left the stage.

Wow... Hebert Hoover? I can't wait until the history books tell us otherwise. Your 401K and retirment was taken by the boobs that wanted everyone to own a house (aka Barney Frank and Chris Dodd). They convince an easily convincable man that was the righ thting to do.

Hey Mark,
Saw you on the News Hour at Bush's last apology conference, looking very serious!

I thought his admission that the 'Mission Accomplished' stunt was a mistake was revealing.

If only he had also pointed out that we can no longer afford the aircraft carrier the stunt was performed on I would give him more credit.

How the economy can be bragged about is beyond me. Our 401k lost 41%. It, and the market, now sit at 1997 levels.
(I keep track)

Hey Mark,
Saw you on the News Hour at Bush's last apology conference, looking very serious!

I thought his admission that the 'Mission Accomplished' stunt was a mistake was revealing.

If only he had also pointed out that we can no longer afford the aircraft carrier the stunt was performed on I would give him more credit.

How the economy can be bragged about is beyond me. Our 401k lost 41%. It, and the market, now sit at 1997 levels.
(I keep track)

ENOUGH already! There are what, 250,000 people living in that dangerous, crime-infested, corrupt hellhole, where most normal people wouldn't CONSIDER living? How much did the American taxpayers spend in the last 5 years on that red-headed stepchild? How much for levees, pumps, the Army Corps of Engineers, evacuations, rescues, shelters, feeding, cleanup, sanitation, looting prevention efforts, police and national guard troops, FEMA trailers, demolition, paying for people's rent, welfare, etc. in the cities they were evacuated to for as long as they were there, etc.

What is the actual cost, per person served, per year, of all this to the taxpayers? I have no figures, but the numbers must be mind-numbing, and for WHAT? Political Correctness? Is somebody afraid of being called a racist (Ok, that WOULD happen!) if they don't keep throwing limitless amounts of money down this rathole? You think you have to agree because it's one of the "Chocolate Cities", because it's probably the only place in the country where some of the residents could own a house (prices ARE low if it ain't a good place to be!)? Are you sheep who meekly submit to all the shearing you can stand every two or three years? Do you think we HAVE to do it

"Unemployment January 2001: 4.2%
Unemployment rate January 2009: 7.2%
What a fantastic success! I
Posted by: Lou | January 12, 2009 5:44 PM"

Lou,
To 'the base' nothing succeeds like failure.

"Unemployment January 2001: 4.2%
Unemployment rate January 2009: 7.2%
What a fantastic success! I
Posted by: Lou | January 12, 2009 5:44 PM"

Lou,
To 'the base' nothing succeeds like failure.

Sorry, but it's cut in stone, Bush had 52 straight months of job growth.
Let's see what the community organizer can do...

Paulo

Boy George was at his petulent best today, fully full of himself and railing against any suggestion that he did anything wrong except the Mission Accomplished banner and some atmospherics regarding Katrina and privatizing social security.

It will be nice to have a non-delusional President again on Jan 20.

Paulo, it's also cut in stone that he lost more jobs in 2008 than in any year since 1945. He never managed to lower the unemployment rate to a point lower than it was on the day he took office.Those are the facts. Your hero was a complete an absolute failure on the jobs front.

Is there anyone else except Paulo, Jerry White, Terry, MJ and John D who are going to watch this pathetic delusional President in his final speech? I for one will be re-arranging my sock drawer and then I will spend the rest of the speech watching paint try somewhere.

Bush is going to retire to his daddy's ranch in Crawford and play cowboy. But he's not a native Texan and has a phobia of horses. That place was nothing but a photo op.

"Your 401K and retirment was taken by the boobs that wanted everyone to own a house (aka Barney Frank and Chris Dodd). They convince an easily convincable man that was the righ thting to do."

Posted by: Sadman | January 12, 2009 7:31 PM

"This Administration will constantly strive to promote an ownership society in America. We want more people owning their own home. It is in our national interest that more people own their own home. After all, if you own your own home, you have a vital stake in the future of our country."

- President George W. Bush, December 16, 2003

"This Administration will constantly strive to promote an ownership society in America. We want more people owning their own home. It is in our national interest that more people own their own home. After all, if you own your own home, you have a vital stake in the future of our country."

- President George W. Bush, December 16, 2003

Posted by: Perspective | January 13, 2009 2:00 PM

Perspective-

Bush touting the benefits of home ownership is not a reasonable indictment of what happened during the subprime meltdown- or his role in it. He (Bush) had proposed changes to the two GSE's with warnings about its horrible business plan- this was, at the time , threatened with a fiibuster by the dems, so Bush and the Rep congress failed us by not pursuing the legislation more vigorously.
This pales in comparison though to the rabid defense of the two GSE's by a number of DEM leaders..attached some interesting quotes from some of the DEM superstars..
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): “Through nearly a dozen hearings, where frankly we are trying to fix something that wasn’t broke, Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and in particular at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines.”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.): “Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines. Everything in the 1992 act has worked just fine. In fact, the GSEs have exceeded their housing goals.”

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY): In a hearing several years ago about a report on the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from their regulator, Armando Falcon, Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Director, Falcon came under fire. Meeks said; “The GSEs have done a tremendous job. There has been nothing that was indicated that’s wrong with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac has come up on its own,” adding the regulator was trying to give the two a “heart surgeon [sic] when they really don’t need it.”

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.): “The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see. I think we see entities [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disaster scenarios.”

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.): In the same hearing several years ago about a report on the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from their regulator, Falcon, Frank attacked Falcon: “I don’t see anything in your report that raises safety and soundness problems.”

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.): “I, just briefly will say, Mr. Chairman, obviously, like most of us here, this is one of the great success stories of all time.”

Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.): “And my worry is that we’re using the recent safety and soundness concerns, particularly with Freddie, and with a poor regulator, as a straw man to curtail Fannie and Freddie’s mission.”

Franklin Raines, former head of Fannie Mae: “These assets are so riskless that their capital for holding them should be under 2%.

Richard Syron, former head of Freddie Mac: “If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.”