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JHB

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4. Google "Bush is a liberal" and ye shall find

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 03:45 PM

Mar 2014

There was some concern is some circles about his lack of concern about the cost of his ventures, but it was either policy-wonk stuff or recast as "Bush spends like a liberal". And it had no political weight whatsoever. In Cheney's words:"Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter."

So Kristol is wrong in his usual way: he remembers the weightless gloss of grumbling about spending under Bush, and thinks it backs his position-of-the-day

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I ask all of you... Before the 2008 elections do any of you remember Republicans going after Bush... [View all] busterbrown Mar 2014 OP

Actually yes, to a degree Scootaloo Mar 2014 #1

A small degree. What I saw mostly was them all closing ranks around him. calimary Mar 2014 #2

+1 unblock Mar 2014 #11

I remember right wingers attacking Bush on another board I'm on dlwickham Mar 2014 #12

there was a bit of squawking about the prescription plan for seniors Skittles Mar 2014 #3

I don't recall them whining at all about the tax cuts in the early 2000's that cost the gov $2T. madinmaryland Mar 2014 #13

Google "Bush is a liberal" and ye shall find JHB Mar 2014 #4

bill kristol is a chickenhawk of the first order, and a certified IDIOT. calimary Mar 2014 #5

I don't give a shit what the Republicans did. nt Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #6

They're all drastically oversimplifying a more complex phenomenon Hippo_Tron Mar 2014 #7

There was a switcheroo. CJCRANE Mar 2014 #8

Republicans, then and now ... napkinz Mar 2014 #9

Great post napkinz malaise Mar 2014 #16

Bush who? Jamaal510 Mar 2014 #10

Actually, yes YarnAddict Mar 2014 #14

Yea I remember No Child Left Behind and I don’t remember a lot of criticism from the right.. busterbrown Mar 2014 #15