Bush Wacking: Andrew Sullivan Forgets The Democrats As He Bashes The Bush
HOW many of all the bad things can be blamed on George Bush? Andrew Sullivan talks about the money but forgets the Democrats:
“The debt was so reckless and so immense that it now threatens to destroy the entire financial system. That’s what electing George W Bush twice has done for us. But then we are told that this threat requires us to do even more of the borrowing and spending before we can begin to get ourselves back in balance again. The unchallenged doctrine of the day is that: doing nothing would provoke a worse collapse than necessary and so we have to make our fiscal situation much worse now in order to make it much better later. Why am I not convinced?”
As Johnathan Pearce says:
Well, Sullivan is obviously right that the way to solve our debt addiction is not to go on the equivalent of yet another binge in the hope of relieving the hangover. Although his glib remark that re-electing Bush twice has added to the debt addiction does rather ignore, for example, the role of the Democrats, for example, in opposing Bush’s attempts to constrain the US federal home mortgage agencies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
The wonder is how long Obama’s supproters will blame things on Bush for?
Andrew Bolt hears Tobias Wolff “is the authentic voice of the Left - a tribalist who accepts no personal responsibility for his sheer nastiness”:
When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, or yakking loudly on a cell phone in a crowded elevator, I naturally assume they voted for George W. Bush. And - this is really mean, I know, really unfair and unreasonable and inhumane, and I scold myself for this, believe me, but - when a tornado tears off a few roofs in Texas, I think, serves you right! And I have friends in Texas. That’s some of what the last seven years have done to this writer.
What else can Bush be blamed for?
As the transition progresses and Barack Obama’s inauguration draws closer, it’s a good moment to mull the gifts George W. Bush has left for the incoming president. Bush has made the world a better place, and if Obama wants to do the same, he will take the good things Bush has done and move forward with them.
Well, Barbara Bush has had surgery for an ulcer.
Posted: 26th, November 2008 | In: Politicians Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 27th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Head in sand land, ah well when there is nothing left…
November 27th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The difficulty is that unless and until people realise just how incompetent the people who have been running the show are we are not likely to see genuine action. Lunatic as it may seem, people still can’t get their heads around the fact that the economic miracle brought to us by Wall Street, and replicated around the world, was nothing more than a Ponzi fraud, and now that the game has folded there isn’t a pot of gold sitting waiting to be found.
We really have beggared ourselves for the benefit of a small number of people who made vast sums of money at our expense, and yet the media still writes stories about how we mustn’t lose our expert financiers by expecting them to pay some tax….
November 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
The fat cats are the problem, they do seem to see any injection of cash is theirs - Lehmans laid off so many minnows, didn’t they.
But I feel the higher echelons should be removed and the banks run properly, but there is an awful lot of money going absolutely nowhere and doing no good, or so it seems
November 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Well, Citigroup people are waiting to find out where the axe will fall, as are a fair number of other banking employees, but unless the banks get it together then it’s the nuclear option.
It’s possible the EU package may do some good…
November 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Bankers seem to be keeping their jobs, but its not the same in High Street Anytown where businesses can’t get loans to keep going because the banks won’t make any advances, and people are being made homeless as an end result.
Perhaps the money being poured like syrup needs another pudding?
November 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am
i do not know whether i talk true or not. but in my opinion bush had done both of them.i mean the right things and wrong.
theres a lot of people kept judging on him.i think they were hve their own reason why.
i think the evil days shall be happen soon.. but i don’t know who,where,n when..
November 26th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
yes, i don’t think we should sacrifice the glenlivet.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I think the evil days have arrived, and it’s an exercise in damage limitation; whether it works or not is another matter. But trying to keep people in jobs seems more sensible than not, as well as more civilised than not.
And let’s not forget that the Treasury has had to admit that they did the sums wrong on the spirits’ duty, and has reworked them; otherwise whisky would have gone up by 29 pence a bottle. There are some sacrifices too big to make…
November 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
what good things has bush done ?
November 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Think they just seem to be postponing the arrival of the evil day, perhaps sometime in January 09?
November 26th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Not so much of a cure-all as a ‘nobody can think of a better idea’.
The US has announced it’s spending $7 trillion in the hope of softening the recession, and if that doesn’t cheer you up, Rupert Murdoch’s shares in News International have dropped from $7 billion to $3 billion…
November 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Same cure-all as here ?