Ah but Wags, didn't you hear? Bush is the evil Satan out to destroy your liberties and steal your money.

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Andy, they have an option to not show up:  The Cayman Islands

Wags:

I appreciate your efforts to show the Dems for the government gluttons they are, but how can you consistently overlook the guys who consistently out-do them?:

"In the first three years of the Bush administration, government spending has climbed -- in real, inflation-adjusted terms -- by a staggering 15.6 percent. That far outstrips the budget growth in Clinton's first three years, when real spending climbed just 3.5 percent. Under the first President Bush, the comparable figure was 8.3 percent; under Ronald Reagan, 6.8 percent, and under Jimmy Carter, 13.3 percent. No, that's not a mistake: Bush is a bigger spender than Carter was."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/23/ED9088.DTL

Joe

Tom,

you silver tounged devil..I was thinking you didnt like me anymore,

Bush is a Nazi, so is McCain. Obama is a wimp. Whats a voter to do?

Im thinking Thomas Jefferson was right..God forbid the country be 50 years without a revolution.

Im thinking Tom M for Prez, (you dont want me as prez, I have a bad temper....and am the last guy you want holding the football). Im thinking Andy for VP, in case you die.

As for me.....Im vying for high cheif of staFF..the most highest of all. Heh Heh.

Lenny

Lenny you wound me.  Lumping me in with the Republicans...I'm an equal-opportunity political assassin.

Actually I brought it up because as I was reading your post I was listening to the History Channel's series on The Presidents on TV, and they just happened to be discussing Thomas Jefferson and that particular issue.

As for Bush, I'll say it again, he's been getting blamed for way more than he's due, and history will eventually prove me right, just like history has since reevaluated John Adam's presidency as not so bad.  Bush has done very little to do anything to erode anything, particularly to those of us who work in the technology fields that know just how unsecure your telephone conversations are...

He's actually done pretty well considering his lot.  He managed to stave off economic depression for almost six years, knocked off one constant pain in our ass, got China to bitch out North Korea, and messed up some terrorists.  And through it all he had a very vocal minority bitching about everything without offering solutions of their own because they were still pissed that Gore wasn't the President. 

And more importantly, he's at least tried to do something.  The only reason I even lean towards voting Republican is because the entire platform of the Democratic party for the last 7 years has been "whatever Bush does, we'll do the opposite." Even now, we have to listen that nonsense. "I'm not Bush" is not a position. "I'll do what Bush hasn't" is not a plan.   Pelosi and her crew finally got control of Congress, and what did they do with it? Nothing. Nada. Nutz. Zip. Zero. Zilcho.  Hell she won't even let people vote on issues.  Everybody went on vacation instead.

In terms of finance, Bush isn't to blame for people not reading their mortgages.  He isn't to blame for spending ridiculous amounts of money out of the Federal Government either, since that power is entirely under the Congress' purview.  He can't use a dime without their say-so, but it's easier to put it on him for not vetoing the money they're spending because he's one guy and they're a whole bunch.

If anything, the main erosion of our liberties has come from the 24 hour media which has decided you can have your privacy so long as you never do anything they take an interest in.  You're worried about the government tapping your calls overseas, but what about the guy from Channel 7 hiding in your bushes with a telephoto lens? 

They've managed to quietly dumb down all our political interactions to one-liners, quotes out of context, and scandal while reducing any intellectual discussions to who won American Idol the night before.  They single-handedly frakked up the 2000 election with their polling and their deciding who won before the voting even finished, much less got counted.  They hung around Katrina "reporting" on how the "victims" who were too stupid to organize themselves to find and distribute resources were all being let down by the President because he didn't dip his wick in the water and part it like Moses and the Red Sea.  They spend every day convincing every geek and nerd with a good idea that he/she is inferior to the jock taking steroids invented by geeks and nerds.

They are our check and balance against government and what do they report on? Britney Spears flashing a crowd.  Anna Nicole ODing.  An alligator that has wandered into somebody's backyard...in Gator Alley.  

Chris,

That was a long Winded post and I mistook it for an Al post. After careful reading, with no mention of Miles or radioactivity, I stand corrected.  Son, are you actually trying to defend Bush from a historical perspective? Geeez man, I could post a long winded response, but let me be succinct…are you freaking crazy?

Do you know or appreciate anything about checks and balances, separation of powers? I know why your butts are worried. Bush created the perfect Nazi govt., and now your afraid Obama will assume that. How scary is that?

Quite frankly , I don’t give a crap about who wins, I WILL live overseas with the millionaires and duck this mess. Be careful what you ask for Chris, sometimes you get it.

Lenny

Chris,

That guy Bush, got us into a war by lying, WMD is all the BS. . He is a liar, you, me and everyone know that.  Whats worse, him and his  lil dog Cheney sacrificied our boys, our sons, for oil futures. I dont know aBOUT YOU, but Im mad dog crazy angry about the deception. IMO hanging is too good for them.

Lenny