Democrats Detour Bush's Legacy Express
A rolling museum of the bad parts of President Bush's eight-year legacy hit the road today in the form of a 28-ton, 45-foot bus that plans to hit the hometown of every House and Senate Republican who has voted with the president at least 90 percent of the time. First stops: the Dayton, Ohio, district of House Minority Leader John Boehner, and Louisville, Ky., where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell grew up. "We're going to expose what you get with a conservative government," said Brad Woodhouse, president of Americans United for Change, which decorated the bus in a plastic wrap that screamed "The Bush Legacy" and built a timeline inside to highlight some of the administration's issues—and blunders. Among the highlights: Boots worn by National Guard Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey, killed by the Iraqi forces he was training. The reason was kept from his parents for over a year. Tour spokeswoman Julie Blust, pictured above with another bus exhibit, said that McCaffrey's mom gave the group her son's boots because "she just wanted his story out there." The bus will be on tour through the fall presidential campaign and will visit at least 150 cities.
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Bush beyond criticism?
I have to be amused at the anxiety of "Omnius" over the Bush Bus.... I watched the far right pound away at Bill Clinton over petty issues for eight years, reaching an hysteric frenzy during Monicagate. Now he is upset when Bush is being held accountable for the worst presidency in my lifetime -- perhaps in this country's history.
While accusing the Democratic Party of "demoralizing the country with blatant lies," he conveniently ignores the blatant lies which got us into an unnecessary war of choice which has certainly been the root cause of the demoralization of the country and one of the prime causes for the plunging economic situation.
Republicans have supported the dismal mismanagement of Bush every step of the way, ignoring the costs of this insane war, the plunging homes market, the dramatic increase in foreclosures and bankruptcies, increased threats to the environment, and the decay of our infrastructure while presiding over energy policies which have allowed oil companies the biggest profits in world history, government actions that have stripped us of our privacy, our rights, our previously beloved habeas corpus, and our moral standing in the world.
Almost every day brings more revelations about how inept, corrupt, or illegal this administration has become -- today we have new revelations about illegal hiring practices at the Justice department in the on-going story of how the Bush administration attempted to politicize the department into a wing of the Republican party.
It also amuses me that he invokes our soldiers as a magical charm to defend Bush, bearing in mind the appalling lack of support given to our soldiers by this administration -- soldiers who are being worn down faster by our policies regarding stop loss and rotation and limits in benefits than they are by the enemies in Iraq or Afghanistan -- which recently manifested itself in the shameless refusal of Republicans to support Webb's GI bill on the basis of it being "too generous."
The only thing surprising about this story is that they only needed ONE bus to detail the dismal record of this incompetent and inept president.
And we though Al Qaida was bad!
Over the past eight years it has been appalling watching how the liberal media and the liberal community have ruthlessly pounded on the Bush presidency. Even our enemies, like Al Qaida could not have come up with better plans to throughly demoralize the nation with blatant lies, innuendos, spin, and non-support as the Democrat Party and their cronies have done. Sure, George Bush has not been the most stellar of all presidents, has made faux-pas like all the rest. But "E pluribus unum" has certainly been locked away for these past eight years. While our soldiers are at war, the rest of the nation outside of their familes is at the Mall, the Restaurant, the Club, the Movies, or the Stadium entertaining their feeble minds away. Keep their minds off the bad times and the people will love you until their death - which isn't too far away.
And, as the polls would have us think, annointing a person with only one light term in Congress as our president is going to solve our problems? NOT!!
I hear there is going to be a sale on matches and violins in Janury '09.
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