Why Tea Partiers Should Despise George W. Bush

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.counterpunch.org/bovard01062010.html

The Tea Party movement rattled many politicians’ cages last November. Many Tea Party supporters define themselves by their opposition to big government. However, according to an April CBS-New York Times poll, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters approve of George W. Bush.

It is not surprising that Obama’s abuses would cause some people to wish for his predecessor. However, liberty-loving Americans should never forget George W. Bush’s crimes against the Constitution, freedom, the economy, and the political system.

Political cosmetics pervaded many Bush policies. The No Child Left Behind Act was perhaps his biggest domestic fraud. The act was falsely sold as giving a wide ambit of authority to local school officials. In reality, it empowers the feds to effectively judge and punish local schools for not fulfilling arbitrary guidelines. Many states are “dumbing down” academic standards, using bureaucratic racketeering to avoid harsh federal sanctions. Though the No Child Left Behind Act promised to permit children to escape “persistently dangerous” schools, most states defined that term to claim that all their schools were safe. As long as people believed that Bush cared about children, it didn’t matter that his education policy was a charade.

Bush browbeat Congress into enacting the biggest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The White House blatantly deceived Congress about the cost of a new Medicare prescription drug entitlement, withholding key information that would have guaranteed the defeat of his giveaway. The administration launched a federally financed ad campaign showing a crowd cheering Bush as he signed the new law; federal auditors ruled that the ads were illegal propaganda.

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[NNN0LHI]

1. LOL! They voted for him twice

He is exactly what they wanted.

Don

[Submariner]

2. Republicans are shamefully embarrassed they voted for the dummy Bush

since it reflects on their stupidity, so they won't show they were dead wrong voting for him. Bush's total failure was the repubs failure. Instead, they always play the "Look over there" game....the look what Obama did game. Incompetent goons.