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I don’t have time to get into all of the reasons that George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the worst Presidents ever, but the Knoxville News Sentinel captured part of it in an editorial today.  His mind boggling deficits.

In case you’ve forgotten, we had a surplus (fake though it may have been do to counting Social Security receipts as general revenue) but overall the federal government took in more money than it spent in 1998, 1999, and 2000.

Bush not only blew the surplus, he’s run the highest deficits in history!  The only President who comes close to being as fiscally irresponsible is his dad - Mr,. “Read my lips, no new taxes” - who also sucked.

From the News Sentinel:

In 1998, thanks to a healthy tension between a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, the country began running budget surpluses.

That lasted until George W. Bush took office. He saw a projected 10-year federal surplus of $5.6 trillion as a problem, a sign that taxpayers had been “overcharged.” He certainly solved that problem.

The interest on the federal deficit alone is $451 billion in 2008.  Bush is adding $1 trillion to the deficit this year alone - not counting the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!  For some reason, Bush doesn’t think those billions (it’s gotta be close to $1 trillion by now) should count.  Huh?

Please go away George.  Really, I won’t be mad if you left office early and let the White House janitor run the show for a few months - he CAN’T do any worse than you are doing!

I titled this post “Bush sucks part 1″ because there’s a LOT more to back up my assertion that Bush is the worst President we’ve ever had, but I don’t feel like doing all the research tonight.  Just pick a subject - economy, growth of the federal government, starting a needless war to settle a family fued, overly intrusive rules and regulations on business (does Sarbannes Oxley - SOX - ring a bell?), unconstitutional wiretaps, imprisonment without charges, etc.

Bush makes lame-brain Carter look like a genius!  And that’s way to much to put into one post, so I’ll add parts to this as I get to them before Bush leaves office.

gk

This just in - President Bush is “puzzled”

Oh yeah, that’s something new.  Let’s see what the story has to say next…

Bush was not “open and forthright on Iraq” and was slow in his response to Katrina. 

Damn, FoxNews is on their game today!  These are some awesome scoops! 

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m being sarcastic.  Bush is an idiot, who got us into a war in Iraq to finish off a family feud.

gk

According to a FoxNews story, the U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary

Excuse me, but that’s like blaming Mexico for the US allowing illegal immigrants. 

We’ve supposedly been in control of Iraq since the famous “mission accomplished” speech back in 2003.  Anyone remember that?

Does anyone remember that the Bush administration used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq - which had nothing to do with 9/11?  Does anyone remember that Iraq was going to give all of its’ “weapons of mass destruction” to Al Qaeda - but then it turned out that there were no “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq?

Back to the point of this rant - if we’re in control in Iraq, why is the administration allowing Iran to “funnel armaments into Iraq” anyway?  Are we in control of the country or not?  You can’t have it both ways.

gk

It turns out that the WMD’s Bush was looking for in Iraq were right here all along.  Here’s a CNN story on someone in South Carolina who (allegedly) was planning to blow up his school with fertilizer. 

Hmm….  If we can actually charge him with something, I wonder why Bush claims he needs all these search and seizure wiretapping powers that aren’t allowed by the Constitution?

Hey George, where’s Bin Laden?  Remember him?  The guy who actually had something to do with 9/11?  You seem to have gotten sidetracked in your family feud with Saddam….

gk

Ok, so the headline is fake.  Sue me.  But I guarantee that there is nothing that would make King George happier. 

Unfortunately, after 5 years and 4000 American lives lost in Iraq, we can’t even find any spoiled camel piss.   Hillary is bitching that she was suckered into voting for the war, while refusing to admit that she made a mistake.  Cheney basically says “tough shit - they volunteered.”

Meanwhile, Bin Laden (anyone remember him?) is still out walking around, dragging a dialysis machine behind him while sending messages saying that we suck.  He’s never even been to Iraq, but that doesn’t seem to matter.  GW had to settle a family feud with Saddam, so we invaded Iraq.

Just think about how far along - and how much public support Bush would have today - we’d be in Afghanistan if Bush wouldn’t have lied about Iraq.  Think about how many freedoms we’ve lost because of Bush’s paranoia.  Anyone remember when you could fly somewhere faster than driving?  Ahh, the good old days….

Those were the days when you could go through security without undressing - when you had more than one security agent actually working at a time while 6 others stood around and did absolutely nothing like the average hour long security line today.

I don’t really have a point here, reading Cheney’s interview just me ticked off and I needed to vent.  I really need to take the time to revisit just how bad a job Bush has done, but it won’t be tonight.

gk