"Secrecy"

You'll have to explain how this has anything to do with conservatism.

"SS"

Bush tried to fix SS. After my recent post about SS, I don't know how you even had the nerve to bring this up.

"Historic tax cuts primarily benefitting the wealthiest."

Aka, across the board tax cuts for all taxpayers. It's okay to admit it. Tax cuts are conservative, but not when they aren't paid for, and Bush's weren't. Running up deficits and debt isn't conservative.

"Wars of aggression."

Wars aren't a conservative act, according to the true meaning of the word. That's why the term "neo-con" was invented.

"The Terri Schiavo embarassment"

Did Bush get involved in that ? I thought it was only Congress. In any case, I'm not sure that keeping the state from murdering an innocent woman is a particularly conservative idea either. That's more of a moral idea, as in, Thou Shalt Not Murder.

"Further leverage deregulation for banksters"

Hardly a conservative idea, but in any case, this was done to keep the banks from failing even earlier.

"Refusing to fund any new embryonic stem cell research other than on existing stem cell lines"

In other words, Bush funded stem cell research.

"Faith-based initiatives"

Obama's doing the same thing, and he's no conservative.

I'll give you the two Bush Supreme court justices. They were conservative, thank god.

Hasn't the dissonance cracked your skull yet? Capitalism in America, left deregulated and supercharged with greed, gambled away America's near term future…..and lost. That loss rippled downward resulting in massive layoffs. The layoffs started under Bush, and continue under Obama….though they have slowed slightly recently. Contrary to conservative ramblings…..the current almost-depression, complete with historic layoffs, was a direct result of capitalism at it's worse. Even Alan Greenspan agrees with me now.

Shall I go on?

You don't like capitalism and you tried to make all those unemployed the responsibility of the recent capitalist government when in the first month of our road to socialism, we are on now, over 700,000 people lost their jobs. BTW, have we had a month without job loss in the past 8 months? If so which one was it.

I have been wondering if the present President is a capitalist since the job losses have continued with him in office.

Now Walter was talking about the expansion of government under the Bush administration. Walter, how many new agencies have been proposed just to enforce the healthcare Pelosi that the "bad" town hall protesters were against? Somehow I seem to keep hearing more than 50 agencies just to enforce the road to socialized medicine. I don't think that any one bill passed during the Bush administration needed that much growth of government just to enforce IT.

Could you point out which ones did that? Maybe I just missed it and I need to know about this because the elections of 2010 are just over 1 year off. That is if I get to vote. You do know that Ms. Napolitano has declared old vets, who are Republicans, are very dangerous as possible terrorists. I fit every description she put in there and will believe that I will be allowed to vote when I am indeed making my marks.

just saying DAVID MICHAEL GREEN has your number…….again, from Counterpunch…..

Are all of these failings why regressives don’t think George W. Bush was one of them as president? Of course not. In fact, Bush did all of these things. In fact, he and his fellow-travelers fulfilled every single item on the regressive wet dream checklist during his presidency.

Except for two. First, they expanded the size of the national government through reckless spending. And, second, because they were careful not to take any popular goodies away so that voters would experience the real pain of regressive politics, they paid for it all (and the tax cuts, and the wars) by borrowing. Future generations could pay for it. Plus interest, of course.

King….addressing dishonesty with larry is an outright hoot. Nobody is going to forget larry's outright lie about me saying something filthy about Mexicans…except you of course

But the last I heard, Bush isn't the President anymore.

What I can't figure out is, why do those like you and the Reverend always want to change the subject back to Bush (or even Reagan in the Rev's case) . Is it THAT hard to defend Obama ?

Add one more authoritarian left-winger to the count. Tyrants R' Us.

again, my apologies

Are all of these failings why regressives don’t think George W. Bush was one of them as president? Of course not. In fact, Bush did all of these things. In fact, he and his fellow-travelers fulfilled every single item on the regressive wet dream checklist during his presidency.

Except for two. First, they expanded the size of the national government through reckless spending. And, second, because they were careful not to take any popular goodies away so that voters would experience the real pain of regressive politics, they paid for it all (and the tax cuts, and the wars) by borrowing. Future generations could pay for it. Plus interest, of course.

Those are both important issues to the right, to be sure, but it is absolutely ludicrous to argue that those two items, stacked up against everything else he gave them listed above, remotely suggest that Bush was not a conservative. Utter nonsense.

So what’s going on?

The obvious answer is that Bush was a total disaster as president who was hated by a country that couldn’t wait for the clock to run down on his nightmare. Who wants to be associated with that?

The less obvious answer is even more telling, though. It’s true the Bush folks were grossly incompetent, at least at the things they didn’t care so much about. But the deeper and more profound reality is that this was far less a failure of one fool than it was the acid test for an entire ideology, which in fact failed the exam miserably.

good thing the President has been reading Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/green09252009.html

Why do you blame capitalism on unemployment? Unemployment is directly caused by our govt. And our current unemployment is caused directly by the Democrats. From Clintons villianous actions of signing NAFTA to the Dem congress crashing the economy in 1997.

Obama's UN comments put America back on the right track. Torture ended, Gitmo closing, etc.

Bill Maher wants stuff taxed…not prohibited. Prohibition is a conservative gig.

No question, unbridled capitalism is a sin…..worse, with some capitalists it's an incurable disease. 6 1/2 million unemployed Americans agree.

I wonder why it is that when people like R. Reagan and the Governator increase fees in various sectors so they won't be called taxers……conservatives, like King, don't call them taxers. Odd.

Chavez is popular with his people, actually provides benefits for his people….and basically minds his own business. Conservative faith-basers don't like Hugo because he dared to call Commander Guy out on his crimes. …..oh, and yeah….Chavez won't allow U.S. profiteers to exploit Venezuela's resources. What would conservatives do without a boogeyman to point to?

While I have been told by our leaders that peaceful Libertarian / right wing demonstrations are racist domestic terrorists and violent riots of rock throwing, window breaking trash can burning left wingers are the displaying highest form of patriotism, I just can't get my head around that theory based on what I see and hear.

A post on this would be welcomed.