OpEdNews » George Bush is the best Republican of all time

Support OEN
With Your
Tax-Deductible Donation

Tags for This Article:

Populum Tag Cloud Control Panel
	Fine tune your search to access content

Articles	Links
Diaries	Products
Events	All

All time
Last 6 mos
Last month
Last week
Last 24 hrs

From:
Month Day Year

To:
Month Day Year

Alphabet Popularity	Count ON Count OFF
This Level	Sub-levels

Tag(s): Bush Enemy Of Civil Rights; Bush Failed Fiscal Policy; Bush Failed Policy Domestic; Republicanism
Add to My Group

November 12, 2007 at 11:27:02

Headlined on 11/12/07:
George Bush is the best Republican of all time

by Ed Martin Page 1 of 2 page(s)

www.opednews.com

SAVE FAVORITES

VIEW FAVORITES

View Ratings | Rate It

By adhering to Republican ideals and principles, George Bush will leave an indelible legacy. By following his Republicanism to its inevitable conclusion, here's what he has accomplished. Some of the information here is from an article in Vanity Fair by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

The tragedy of the Iraq war and its consequences.

Coming up on 4000 US soldiers killed.

About a million innocent Iraqis killed.

An expected cost to exceed $2 trillion.

Torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

The viewing of the US as a rogue nation by the world.

A tax code biased in favor of the rich.

A national debt that will probably have grown 70 percent by the time Bush leaves office.

A swelling cascade of mortgage defaults.

A record $850 billion trade deficit.

Oil prices at record highs. They tell us that supply and demand determines the price of oil, but even though the price has risen dramatically, there's been no shortage of supply. Strangely, I have no problem finding gas at exorbitant prices.

A dollar that has reversed its value in relation to the euro.

A budget surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP ($2.2 trillion) that Bush has turned into a 3.6 percent deficit, the greatest since World War II.

A $45 tax reduction for the bottom 20 percent and a $162,000 reduction for millionaires.

More than five million more Americans living in poverty now than when Bush took office.

1 | 2

Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

	Contact Author
	Contact Editor
	View Other Articles by Author

Bookmark this page: (what's this?)

(More...)

3 comments

Geery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Daniel GeeryGeery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only...

to see more of bio, click on member name

If you ponder the mainstream culture...

for even a few seconds, I'm afraid you can also argue that he is the Ultimate American.

by Daniel Geery (26 articles, 74 quicklinks, 123 diaries, 748 comments) on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 2:02:57 PM

Len Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy
Len HartLen Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy

If you ponder the mainstream culture..."

You are correct, Daniel. Americans rarely confront the dark side. When it is done, it is done unwillingly amid great social upheaval. The Civil Rights movement and the Anti-War movement are just two examples. Ronald Reagan was also a good Republican. We haven't heard peep out of the labor movement since Reagan quashed the air controllers strike.

by Len Hart (132 articles, 174 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 551 comments) on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 3:33:18 AM

SW Texas ultra-liberal
john riggsSW Texas ultra-liberal

It aint just repugs

the demos have bent over backwards to sell us down the river.And You left out the Wantagate theft of 4.5 trillion that the Clinton-Bush crime syndicate has been bouncing around the globe skimming off billions for their trouble. Just google Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta and spend days looking at all the info the mainstream has been paid to ignore.

by john riggs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 441 comments) on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 11:22:13 AM