Why do liberals hate brother liberal George Bush?

Of course the answer to that is obvious--because Bush is a Republican, but Bush gave liberals or enforced policies that were at times even more liberal than their own policies. Obama has basically continued the Bush policy of over spending and bailing out corporations and banks. Oh, and the obama foreign affairs policies aren't much different than those of George Bush.

Check out the following Bush policies and or enactments that could very easily be seen coming out of a liberal presidency:

2001: Even after the 9/11 attacks induced a major defense commitment, President Bush sought to buy off "soccer moms" with No Child Left Behind, the largest expansion of federal education spending ever.

2002: Farmers were bought off with an 80% increase in farm subsidies, reversing the 1996 "freedom to farm" reforms that had phased out subsidies.

2003: Seniors were bought off with a Medicare drug entitllement, the most expensive new program since LBJ.

2004: State and local government officials were bought off with the most expensive highway bill in American history.

2005: No one is quite sure who the target voters were for the president's expensive Mars initiative.

2006: Pork project spending--ridiculously considered vital to reelection by lawmakers--reached a record $29 billion, nearly quadruple the 194 level.

Here are more liberal Bush gems:

He signed the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold campaign bill;

He signed the highly regulatory Sarbanes-Oxley financial reform bill;

Essentially nationalized the banking industry in late 2008;

Imposed steel tariffs.

Filed a Supreme Cout brief supporting affirmative action;

Tried to nominate moderate Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court;

Proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants;

Created a new Department of Homeland Security;

Added 100,000 federal employees.


I find it so disengenuous for liberals to rag on president Bush when in reality they support and advocate much of his same policies.

The only reason I can think of where a liberal of today may disagree with Bush on is with his use of torture with certain prisoners. But even that (torture) when compared to what obama did with Bin Laden makes the torture process look tame in comparison, and makes libs look even more disengenuous for and with their attacks on Bush.

 

Hate is not a Word that is synonymous with Liberal, nice try though.

 

typically libs will raise taxes or try to find a way to pay for them, if allowed. Bush did no such thing, he implemented massive gov't programs. Never funded them and told states you figure out how to pay for them.

Then started wars for no good reason. Except Afghanistan, there was just reason for that.

 

I'm pretty sure liberals hate anything that is not-liberal. I can post many examples of hateful left wing liberal posts, if you like. Some of your posts may even make the list!

 

While Bush was in office, he was defined as the perfect conservative. Across the board, he implemented all the conservative dream policies, and conservatives were rejoicing about how American would enter a new Golden Age under the firm guidance of the conservative messiah, George W. Bush.

And then something funny happened. Bush's conservative policies tended to be failures. And after Bush failed and left office, the conservative herd, upon orders from their masters, did an about-face and declared Bush was really a liberal. After all, by cult definition, conservatism can not fail, it can only be failed. Therefore, if Bush failed, he could not have been conservative.

They're preaching to the choir there, because only their fellow true believers will fall for that stunt. Conservatives need to come to grips with the failure of conservative Bush and his conservative policies, instead of rewriting history to declare Bush was really a liberal.

 

Now Dubya is a liberal? Shows how off the map right the Republican Party has become.

 

Like hell.

Liberals are just as hateful as conservatives. They're just far more dishonest about it and hide it behind a lot of bull(*)(*)(*)(*) in order to make themselves out to be morally superior (which they're not) to everybody else.

Such as the commonly used race card to silence opposition.

Liberal tolerance is a sham.

There is no such thing.

 

What, are you on acid? Didn't you read the policies I posted here of Bush? Every one of them are exact carbon copies of liberal agenda or policy. Show or tell me how any of them were Conservative in nature. You can't!

 

They just rag on Bush because he is an idiot, and a war criminal that destroyed civilization as we know it. Even people in other countries throw shoes at him (they missed unfortunately). Your party embraces him. They embrace PinkSlip. They embrace The Newt. Idiot inmates of the right wing asylum. The bubble formers.
I rest my case.

 

Like obama sending troops to afghanistan and Pakistan?

 

Yep - Bush made me cringe. When he used to get that strange psychostupid look like he was about to start speaking in tongues or something, I used to give him the finger (via the TV) and get a real bad heaving feeling in my stomach. I still get the feeling in my stomach with Obama but at least hasn't tried to create a whole new federal bureaucracy with which to probe everyone's ass - yet - and he only started one war, as far as I can tell.

 

Disingenuous though it may be, I rag on Bush because he took a perfectly good economy and turned it into a giant ball of snot with his tax giveaways and because he had been purchased by the neocon criminals (not that Obama hasn't been bought by the neocons, too, but he inherited the ball of snot).

 

What do I have to say to convince you that I honestly hate conservatives?

 

Yeah, ain't that a hoot? But all I'm seeing by all that "Dubya is a liberal" stuff coming from the right is an admission that Bush was a failure.

 

The problem with Bush was that his policies were very anti-liberty, and therefore anti-liberal, for everyone except for the very wealthy. 99% of America experienced a reduction in practical freedom due to his presidency.

And the reason he ticked us off so bad is that he seemed to know he was doing this. He didn't just give us the department of homeland security, strip-searching Americans and spying on everyone, he also made sure to rub everyone's nose in it.

 

He did afterall, allow the gov't to invade our privacy. That is about the most conservative thing anyone could do.

 

Look, I never said that Bush was a success with our economy, but I thought I had made that clear by posting all of his liberal policies. The main point of this post that has so deviously been overlooked or skewed by you libs is that Bush's economic policies mirrored the liberal agenda to a tee. So the reason why Bush failed with our economy was because he implemented liberal policies. But I must add that Bush's economy was very strong for his first 6 years, and that he didn't stumble into liberalism until the dems took over congress in 2007 when he took the lame duck (liberally infested) label to a nuther level.

 

For the same reason they hate that other liberal, Richard Nixon. Nixon initiated affirmative action--called set-asides--and got SSI for the disabled. He wanted a "negative income tax". Liberals are vicious when they turn on their own.

 

But he also spied on people. We take that pretty seriously.

I will grant you that Nixon was certainly a more competent president than Bush.

 

So all of those policies you site occurred in 07 and 08. LOL.
And a housing bubble is a very good economy, just can't and didn't last.

 

LOL, to funny. Reichpublicans trying to disown GW Bush, the conservative loser who stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. Priceless!

You reichpublicans truly are screwed up in the head. You clowns who voted for bush are now getting turned on by another old fool-ron paul. LOL

 

I assume you're joking. Have you reported your neighbors to the White House website lately? Does the Patriot Bill ring a bell? How about government control of the internet? How about forcing encryption experts to give up the keys?

President Nixon inherited a vicious war and incredible domestic turmoil and did the best a liberal could do to deal with it.

I'll grant you, he was infinitely brighter and more competent than President Obama but then so was President Bush. President Obama doesn't even compare favorable with President Carter.

 

US Liberals are nothing more than neo-cons that support abortion and gay-rights.