Bye Bye to the Worst President Ever

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



Bye Bye to the Worst President Ever
By Bernie Horn

January 15th, 2009 - 12:49am ET


Tonight George W. Bush presents his valedictory, desperately seeking thanks and congratulations. So here goes: Thanks and congratulations, W, for showing the world that today’s conservatism is an abject failure.

Thanks to Bush, we know that conservatives are not fiscally responsible, they are not for small government, they don’t stand up for moral values, and they won’t make Americans one bit safer. Conservatives aren’t even true defenders of “free markets”—having presided over the biggest market bailout in the history of the world.

After eight long years, Bush can no longer fool the public. Polls show that he is the most unpopular president in the history of survey research. When the 2006 and 2008 elections are considered together, Bush policies resulted in the landslide rejection of his party at both the federal and state levels. There are probably a hundred examples where Bush conservatism failed, but let’s stick with the top ten.

1. The worst recession since the 1930s. The current recession will be the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. And unlike other recessions, this one was directly caused by conservative anti-regulatory policy. In fact, recent evaluations show that Bush policies never created any real growth—the ephemeral financial upswings of the past eight years were based on market bubbles and economic Band-Aids.

2. The worst financial crisis since the 1930s. The Bush Administration, flacking an “ownership society,” helped manufacture the housing bubble. When it burst, Americans lost $6 trillion in housing wealth (so far) fueling a market crash which has cost Americans another $8 trillion of stock wealth, according to economist Dean Baker. On a grand scale, we’ve been mugged. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009010315/bye-bye-worst-president-ever

[geckosfeet]

1. ...and tax give aways to the rich and corporate entities.

[rurallib]

2. I hate to say good bye. I wish he was moving to new federal housing

in Leavenworth for instance.