Congratulations George W Bush!!!

[Captain Equipoise]

WASHINGTON, DC -- President George W. Bush and the current administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined, which the Blue Dog Coalition in the House of Representatives called “astounding.�?

Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation’s history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the U.S. Treasury Department. In the past four years alone (2001-2005), the Bush Administration has borrowed a staggering $1.05 trillion.

"The seriousness of this rapid and increasing financial vulnerability of our country can hardly be overstated,�? said Rep. John Tanner (TN), a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition and member of the House Ways and Means Committee. “The financial mismanagement of our country by the Bush Administration should be of concern to all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.�?

The Blue Dogs have long expressed tremendous concern over mounting U.S. debt and are particularly troubled by our growing dependence on foreign governments to finance our debt. Earlier this year, the Coalition offered a 12 Step Plan to cure our nation’s addiction to deficit spending. The Blue Dog plan required, among other things, that all federal agencies pass clean audits, a balanced budget, and the establishment of a rainy day fund to be used in the event of a natural disaster.

“No American political leadership has ever willfully and deliberately mortgaged our country to foreign interests in the manner we have witnessed over the past four years,�? continued Rep. Tanner. “If this recklessness is not stopped, I truly believe our economic freedom as American citizens is in great jeopardy."

The Blue Dog Coalition is a group of 36 conservative to moderate House Democrats focused on fiscal responsibility.

http://www.house.gov/tanner/press109-050.htm

http://www.innworldreport.net/

[Max_Rep]

G. W. Bush Accomplishments

•  Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
•  Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
•  Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
•  Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
•  First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
•  First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
•  First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
•  After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in   U.S.  history.
•  Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
•  In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
•  Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
•  Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
•  Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
•  Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
•  Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
•  Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
•  Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
•  Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
•  Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest him (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
•  Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
•  His presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
•  Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
•  First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
•  Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
•  First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign      nation.
•  Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
•  Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
•  First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
•  First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. 
•  Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
•  Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
•  Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
•  Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
•  First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
•  All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
•  His biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
•  Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
•  First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
•  First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
•  First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
•  Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
•  With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
•  Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
•  First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
•  Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
•  Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
•  Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
•  Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
•  In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
•  Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
•  In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
•  Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
 

[calfzilla]

you forgot kept us safe for 6.5 years following 9/11.

[WillGrant]

This is hillarious,

[MattT]

Coach must be so proud! Damn Republicans are so good at what they do! Those damn democrats gave us a surplus back in the 1990's they sure as hell don't have a clue what they're doing

[Tyr]

G. W. Bush Accomplishments

•  Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
•  Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
•  Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
•  Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
•  First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
•  First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
•  First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
•  After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in   U.S.  history.
•  Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
•  In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
•  Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
•  Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
•  Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
•  Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
•  Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
•  Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
•  Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
•  Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
•  Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest him (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
•  Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
•  His presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
•  Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
•  First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
•  Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
•  First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign      nation.
•  Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
•  Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
•  First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
•  First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. 
•  Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
•  Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
•  Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
•  Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
•  First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
•  All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
•  His biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
•  Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
•  First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
•  First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
•  First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
•  Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
•  With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
•  Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
•  First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
•  Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
•  Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
•  Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
•  Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
•  In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
•  Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
•  In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
•  Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
 

That's one heck of a list

[Emmortal]

you forgot kept us safe for 6.5 years following 9/11.

So fucking what? What did they do to prevent 9/11 while being told that even a month before hand by top officials that something like that would happen very soon?  Everyone likes to talk about how safe we were kept, all the while our rights were being stripped away, illegal wire taps on US citizens being made, wrongful imprisonments were carried out and the list goes on.  How safe were we exactly on 9/11??

Worst thing you could ever say.

[The Coach]

LOL..that list is a joke and obviously from a liberal source (which are notorious for making up lies). I have list of accomplishments as well by Bush. The one that isn't on there off the top of my head is that he inhereted a recession from Clinton and had the biggest economic turn around in recent memory and that was during wartime. Obama in 2 months has put us more in a deficite than Bush ever could dream of in 8 years, put our country back at high risk for security and hasn't worked since taking office with the exeption of running his pens dry by signing bullshit bills that ruin the country.

[WillGrant]

LOL..that list is a joke and obviously from a liberal source (which are notorious for making up lies). I have list of accomplishments as well by Bush. The one that isn't on there off the top of my head is that he inhereted a recession from Clinton and had the biggest economic turn around in recent memory and that was during wartime. Obama in 2 months has put us more in a deficite than Bush ever could dream of in 8 years, put our country back at high risk for security and hasn't worked since taking office with the exeption of running his pens dry by signing bullshit bills that ruin the country.

That letterman you tube clip is funny though dont you think Joe?

[Deicide]

This is hillarious,

Funny ass shit...

[The Coach]

I can't see it on a blackberry. I'm just playing around on here cause I'm having trouble falling back asleep.

[Deicide]

I can't see it on a blackberry. I'm just playing around on here cause I'm having trouble falling back asleep.

Coach, sometimes I really don't get your blind party loyalty. There was nothing conservative about Bush by any stretch of the imagination AND he was objectively a shitty president. Go ponder that on the tree of woe.

[pumpster]

kept us safe for 6.5 years following 9/11.

I think they held off attacks to help keep GW in power.

[Mons Venus]

I can't see it on a blackberry. I'm just playing around on here cause I'm having trouble falling back asleep.

Instead of Sheep count Soapy Studs!

[dr.chimps]

WASHINGTON, DC -- President George W. Bush [b]and the current administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined,[/b] which the Blue Dog Coalition in the House of Representatives called “astounding.�?

Relax, Coach. Obama is called out as well. Now maybe you can fall asleep. 

[The Showstoppa]

Coach must be so proud! Damn Republicans are so good at what they do! Those damn democrats gave us a surplus back in the 1990's they sure as hell don't have a clue what they're doing

You dumb midget....for it to be "us" would mean you are an American.  Thankfully you are not....go drink some moose piss, eh.

[Tapeworm]

Go ponder that on the tree of woe.

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[LurkerNoMore]

LOL..that list is a joke

Well then, I am sure you will tell us which one of those FACTS are not true?

Hmmm?  Which is wrong?  If you can't correct it, stands to reason it must be true.

[shootfighter1]

Bush was bad.  No arguement.  But if you criticize Bush's spending, you must certainly criticize Obama.

According to the Congressional budget offices, Obama's plans will continue a budget deficit for the next 10 years.  The administration far underestimated the costs of their current plans and budgets according to the CBO (report out late last week).

Obama is taking spending to the next level.  This is truth, not a partisan complaint.  Not all of the spending is going to fight the recession, some is some isn't.  Many of the programs being funded will have little to no effect on the recession.  Obama certainly has his work cut out because of the recession, but his main solution is enormous spending, at times with little focus.  This is hurts the taxpayors. 

As an example, look at AIG.  Obama's administration allowed AIG to pay billions to foreign banks and allowed these executive bonuses.  Getting out of a recession isn't all about spending.

[Tre]

Bush was bad.  No arguement.  But if you criticize Bush, you must also criticise Obama.

According to the Congressional budget offices, Obama's plans will continue a budget deficit for the next 10 years.  The administration far underestimated the costs of their current plans and budgets according to the CBO (report out late last week).

Obama is taking spending to the next level.  This is truth, not a partisan complaint.  Not all of the spending is going to fight the recession, some is some isn't.  Many of the programs being funded will have little to no effect on the recession.  Obama certainly has his work cut out because of the recession, but his main solution is enormous spending, at times with little focus.  This is hurts the taxpayors. 

As an example, look at AIG.  Obama's administration allowed AIG to pay billions to foreign banks and allowed these executive bonuses.  Getting out of a recession isn't all about spending.

QFT.

Unfortunately, Shootfighter, this is why people like you and I don't run the world - we've got too much common sense.

What we need is for common sense to be labeled as 'extreme' and the maybe we can get millions of lunatic followers like the right and left have. 

Stupidity is a wonderful thing...for those who hold the power, that is.

[240 is Back]

you forgot kept us safe for 6.5 years following 9/11.

anthrax attacks happened after 911, ya know

[jpm101]

Excellent post by shootfighter1. Obama is printing money to handle the trillons he plans to loan/give to financial corps.And all without proper and solid backing. Compound that with the over the top budget and we have the makings of a bankrupts nation. Almost get the feel that Obama has not a clue what to do and is more of a figurehead president. Tend to wonder who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes on him.

If Obama's goal is to best Bush than the good news is that Obama has dented Bush's list (though how true that list is, or bias, is up to question) even before his first 100 days in office.

Just alone, the many travel days a week Obama takes, in this time of crisis, for speeches to raise personal funds for the Dem's. How about him staying in the White House and actually trying to solve problems.  Or the usual  recycled former Clinton staffers (there's change for you) he selected for government post, only to find that most of them are above paying their own present or back taxes and other infractions of federal  law's.  Most are just old political hacks. Will Obama call for criminal charges directed to Sen. Franks and Dodd, for them being the root cause for the mortgage disaster? Let's see if the half brother, Obama, can hang around (no pun intended) the full four years. We all live in interesting time now.

[delta9mda]

Coach must be so proud! Damn Republicans are so good at what they do! Those damn democrats gave us a surplus back in the 1990's they sure as hell don't have a clue what they're doing

fuck yourself, obama has now quadrupled the deficit in 2 months.

[#1 Klaus fan]

George Bush and the government terrorised you America with their scare tactics . They are as much terrorists as Al-Qaida.

[shootfighter1]

Tre, I love when I hear people just repeating the talking points from the media (both the far right and far left).  They don't have an independent mind to evaluate for themself.  Its ok to criticize (or praise) both Obama and Bush on individual decisions.

 It has been popular to blame everything on Bush and he deserves some criticism, as do many others...but, Obama now owns some of these expansive programs and incredible deficit spending with its limited oversight.  He did not inherit all of it, as the administration keeps repeating (thats what the Nazis did...they repeated simple mantras and such and it caught fire with the people).  Mantras and slogans are for idiots.

The gov is not a good steward of our tax dollars (nor can they fully control funds alloted to certain entities), thats why I favor limited, but necessary government.  I see gov as having some regulatory responsibilities but we must have limits on that power.  There must be a balance.  If the excessive spending was bad under Bush, its also bad under Obama.