As a matter of record, George Bush presided over the single largest monetary loss in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. He is the only president-- other than Herbert Hoover-- with a Dow lower than when he entered office. GDP growth during his 8 years is the worst for any president since the invention of numbers. By the time his 2009 budget ended, he had added more to the national debt than any president in history (over $5 trillion). On the day he left office, he turned over to his successor the largest budget deficit in world history, $1.29 trillion. Six million people were added to the poverty ranks and over 8 million Americans lost their insurance during his reign. Wages took their sharpest loss since the Great Depression and the unemployment rate almost doubled from 4.2% when he took office to 7.6% when he finally ended his 8 year demolition of America.
A complete and utter failure to say the least. Yet all of that doesn't even begin to touch upon his Endless War Program or the fact that every single piece of legislation passed by his GOP-controlled Congress and signed by him was completely unfunded. His Medicare expansion adds nearly a trillion dollars to the deficit. And his wars are well above the trillion dollar mark and counting. His legacy is of nothing but a tax and spend Big Government failure. It is the epitome of everything Republicans pretend to be against. Of course, as we all know, despite what they claim to stand for, it's the only track record they have.
As one would imagine from such a decrepit and morally bankrupt presidency, they have no regrets. In fact, everything they did was "exactly the right decisions."
*Update:
Reader M.L. writes in to explain why Cheney and the other Bushies aren't sorry or claim any sort of responsibility for anything.
Why on earth would you think Cheney or anyone from Shrub era would be apologetic or even the slightest bit concerned about some of the decisions they made? You, more than anyone, should know why Cheney doesn't care. Or why Bush has yet to even be held accountable by the GOP which appears on the verge of nominating Bush On Steroids with Rick Perry. It's because none of it ever happened!!! It's down the memory hole!
True enough. I should have known better. That George Bush doubled the unemployment rate. That George Bush, a small government fiscal conservative, added over $5 trillion to the national debt and grew government larger than any president in 80 years. That Bush and the GOP did not pay for one single spending bill in 8 years. That the fiscally responsible Republican-led George Bush was the first president since the Great Depression to have the Dow actually lose money during their watch never happened. None it ever happened.
The fact that Cheney has no regrets is perfectly normal to a Republican. What has he to regret? The deficit never happened until Obama took over. The national debt was completely manageable until Barack Hussein Obama started adding to it. According to Fox News unemployment was at 5.6% when Bush left office. Iraq and Afghanistan are merely Obama's problems. And the fact that George Bush added not one single new job in 8 years is but a side note of history when you consider he kept us safe.
We are never allowed to bring up anything that actually might have occurred. Therefore, it's entirely possible Cheney and Bush made the right decision about everything. Actually, there is no other conclusion.
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