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DonViejo

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Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:11 PM Apr 2013

The legacy of George W. Bush is having a bit of a revival—and some Republicans can’t stand it

Journeys With George

The legacy of George W. Bush is having a bit of a revival—and some Republicans can’t stand it.

By David Weigel|Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 7:06 PM


“George W. Bush should have been impeached, but it didn’t happen.”

The speaker was North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones, a safe Republican incumbent who has spent years apologizing for his early Iraq War boosterism. (You’ll remember him as the House member who got the cafeteria to rename french fries “freedom fries.”) The venue was the Capitol Hill Club, the quaintly posh hideaway situated between the House of Representatives and the Republican National Committee. The event was the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity’s official launch, a sober series of speeches last week from Paul and a few congressional allies. It wasn’t news, per se. Jones always, always talks like this; the Paul movement was always dumping tar and dirt on the Bush legacy.

“There was not the outrage from the American people to have a president who led this country to war without the Constitution,” said Jones, “who led families to cry at funerals, who led moms”—he paused—“I met one whose son has half a body left but is still living!”

This was fringe talk in the Bush years, and it obviously isn’t fully “mainstream.” But since 2008, plenty of conservatives defined themselves by their distance from Bush. Tea Party groups like FreedomWorks dated the movement’s origin not to Obama’s win but to the September 2008 passage of TARP. Out of office, Republicans started to admit that Iraq lacked weapons of mass destruction, that the years between the invasion and the surge were squandered. “We know the past. We know we did wrong,” said new RNC Chairman Michael Steele at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference. “My bad.”

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/04/george_w_bush_s_higher_approval_ratings_the_former_president_s_legacy_is.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content
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The legacy of George W. Bush is having a bit of a revival—and some Republicans can’t stand it (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2013 OP
All the bush publicity has nothing to do with W tularetom Apr 2013 #1
one of the sunday mags (parade?) had a picture of the drunk and the stoned niyad Apr 2013 #2

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
1. All the bush publicity has nothing to do with W
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:19 PM
Apr 2013

They're just trying to clean up the family name so Baby Huey Bush can run for president in 2016.

And the liberal media are jumping backwards through their own assholes to help promote the revisionism.

Some of the republican opposition comes from other potential 2016 candidates. They can see a big time power play coming and pushing aside all rivals.

niyad

(112,432 posts)
2. one of the sunday mags (parade?) had a picture of the drunk and the stoned
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:40 PM
Apr 2013

on the cover, which I saw accidentally, before coffee. it was not a good morning.

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