Celebrating George W. Bush’s Accomplishments

“It’s a pretty amazing commentary on the current political landscape.”

And if it works it’s a damning indictment of the media, that two years removed from the most destructive administration on record, we’re about to see the return of the forces of Bush.

Oh yeah, the current WH occupant’s horrid leadership/eschewal of liberal policy hasn’t helped either. Good times!

When did it become the duty of journalists to foucus 24/7 on the political horse races rather than the issues? I seem to remember a time when reporters actually new the issues and gave us content. There are some in the traditional media that try but mostly it is the game that prevails.
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Any mention that the prescription drug plan was disliked by many Conservatives. Do the people of ND know that? Do they know how much that plan added to the deficit? Any dialogue going forward about how much drug companies loved Bushes’ plan? Now that I am interested in learning, not a Blue Dog acting like a Blue Dog.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/forgive-and-forgetforget/

Is there some other accomplishment being “celebrated” to justify the final “s” in your headline? No?

It’s kind of interesting that he’s touting his support of Mr Bush Medicare prescription drug plan. I thought the current angst was targeted at those crazy spending politicians who give no care whatsoever to the deficit. And thus they obviously hate children.

The ONLY thing that would satisfy you, april, is full fledged socialism. It only took twenty months of Obama’s lies and inept leadership to reawaken the American people and they are not pleased with what they see. Increasing debt, high unemployment and a government trying its best to take over every segment of their lives. This leftward tilt has given the American public objective vertigo and a feeling of nausea, with an overwhelming urge to retch. It can be cured by stabilizing balance and this is what Novembers election is all about. Center/right, has a MUCH better prognosis than leaning left.

“Increasing debt, high unemployment and a government trying its best to take over every segment of their lives. This leftward tilt has given the American public objective vertigo and a feeling of nausea, with an overwhelming urge to retch.”
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So the Republicans astronomically driving up the debt, running the economy into the ditch and causing millions to become unemployed reflects a “leftward tilt? Based upon the history of every Republican Administration since Reagan (with apologies to George H. W. Bush perhaps) sounds like Republicans being Republicans to me.

“Obama’s lies…”
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Earl, saying that there was a lie told again and again without ever once citing one example outside of your very deluded imagination does not make it so.
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You do seem to fit paranoid personality disorder fairly well.
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The World Health Organization’s ICD-10 lists paranoid personality disorder as (F60.0) Paranoid personality disorder.[3]

It is characterized by at least 3 of the following:

1. excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs;
2. tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights;
3. suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous;
4. a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation;
5. recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner;
6. tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;
7. preoccupation with unsubstantiated “conspiratorial” explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.”
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2. tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights;
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_personality_disorder
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How you were disappointed by the Obama Administration did not include Tort Reform which you mistakenly believe that he advocated when, in reality, that was a part of the McCain platform, not Obama’s.
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4. a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation;;
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See all of your posts.
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6. tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;
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See your many false claims of being a doctor and using it to claim that you won every debate with no grounds whatsoever.
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” 7. preoccupation with unsubstantiated “conspiratorial” explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.”"
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This describes you constant mantra about Obama lying.
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On the left and on the right people were very disappointed about the compromises he made in order to pass legislation, but, there is not a shred of proof that he intentionally mislead anybody in any material way. It seems as if he, simply, could not get the blue dogs to pass anything which was not weak and watered down.
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Please, if you are not insane, as I believe you may be, please state one time the president did not make an effort to do exactly what he promised with some evidence or realistic speculation that he did not intend to follow through at the moment he made the promise.
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Just one would be nice.

Seriously Earl,
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If you would want any respect as a poster, do not say “Obama lies”.
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When Democrats were talking about Bush it was “Bush lied ABOUT… WMDs… Iraqi ties to 9/11…” among a few others. If somebody just said at random “Bush lies! Bush lies! Bush is a liar!” I would not respect that, either.

Poor patrick, as a physician, I have great empathy for people with debilitating illness and your post proves my assumption correct. I suggested to 3xfire yesterday, that arguing with you was hopeless because you exhibit all of the clinical symptoms of having a paranoid personality disorder. You now take that assessment and pretend that you invented it. This is pretty symptomatic of how this illness works, patrick and once again, I strongly suggest that you seek professional help. This condition IS treatable with medication and counceling and it would make you a more tolerant person and perhaps even likable.

“You now take that assessment and pretend that you invented it.”
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No, it’s called “breaking your balls”.
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I do not believe that you are a doctor for many reasons I have already told you, but know that I am not one nor, most appropriately, a psychologist nor a psychiatrist who would have to see you in person.
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On topic, what are you claiming Obama lied about?
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I’ll get back to breaking your balls later, after you have answered a very obvious question about the topic at hand: What is it you claim Obama lied about?
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BTW: With fears of governments, conspiracies and the like, I would presume that people with actual paranoid personality disorder are to the political far, far right. Why would somebody who thinks that the government is poisoning the water supply or some other delusion want to have more government regulation or increased government services?
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I do wonder what ideology an actual paranoid personality has.

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Just like my quiz question to you once you said that you do thoracic surgery of what can be done about severe pectus excavatum and how is it done specifically, when I ask the brilliant “doctor” Earl about when Obama lied, the answer is:
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The classic Republican response”
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You won’t answer the questions proving that you know something about thoracic medicine nor when Obama lied because you do not know about thoracic medicine and there were no incidents of Obama being intentionally and knowingly deceptive.

earl — I posted this yesterday and you obviously missed it. Allow me to repost it here:

there is well defined paranoid strain in patricks genetic make up

Now earl, how can you expect to have any credibility if you make these kind of ridiculous statements? Who do you think you are, Bill Frist? At least he had video tape. What you’ve written here is completely unsubstantiated supposition, not fact. Perhaps you could do better in the future because this is just pathetic.
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BTW, I thought you said you were a thoracic surgeon, not a psychiatrist. Maybe you should stick to your specialty.

Just as a random aside, here is an excerpt I found online of what actual paranoids are like:
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“He reported multiple incidents in which he’d been injected with something while shopping, and he’d also had a dream which he’d come to believe was a premonition in which he would die, by his own hand. He also very frequently spoke of a government conspiracy to kill him. The patient became more and more ill, and soon, he began to hear and see things which nobody else could (hallucinations, according to prevailing social and cultural norms where we are). This patient was in danger of harming himself, and potentially harming others. I ordered him hospitalized, which he did not believe he needed–they rarely are able to see this. Ultimately, though, he cooperated and was able to be released.”
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http://medicopedia.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/success-stories-of-paranoid-schizophrenia-cases/
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This is not similar to anything I would post.
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I once had a neighbor who was a very muscular guy close to my height. He told stories about how he was in Army special forces and how he could kill somebody with his bear hands. … At one point, somebody else who also thought he was lying asked him what dates he served on two different occasions. One of those two times he claimed he was in special forces was, actually when he was a high school student.
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Later, this man took me aside, put his hand on my shoulder and said that he knew that his new upstairs neighbor was poisoning him with poison gas by pumping it through the ceiling.
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His upstairs neighbor was a small, chubby man in his late 50s. Maybe he had bad flatulence, but, poison gas I could rule out.
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Now, the first man I told you about, who claimed to have been in Army special forces, as far as I know did suffer from actual paranoia.
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I just am glad that the paranoid guy moved out before his upstairs neighbor since the paranoid guy was in very good shape the upstairs neighbor was a short, chubby guy.
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Anybody familiar with psychology would understand that the colloquial term “paranoid” meaning overly worried is nothing like the clinical condition at all.

POLITICO / George Washington University Battleground Poll.
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“Only 38 percent of respondents said Obama deserves to be reelected, even though a majority of voters hold a favorable view of him on a personal level. .
Forty-four percent said they will vote to oust him, and 13 percent said they will consider voting for someone else.”
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Obama’s Job Approval Rating is at 42%.
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And you wonder why people are beginning to think Bush wasn’t so bad after all.
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About two weeks ago a survey was conducted in Ohio asking who would you rather have as President George W. Bush or Barack Obama?
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Over 50% said they would rather have Bush as President.
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Ohio is almost always considered necessary to win the Presidential election.
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2012 is a long time away but these surveys are interesting.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42737.html
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Okay, patrick, just to appease your fevered mind…….Obama lied about three important issues…(1) my administration will ALWAYS be 100% transparent (2) I will NEVER appoint lobbyist to my administration (3) and most important, I will ALWAYS listen to and be guided by the will of the people. Now, addressing your pectus excavatum for the second time. It is a congenital deformity of the anterior chest wall and most patients live well without requiring surgery. However, if the patient experiences impaired cardiac function or respiratory problems (due to pressure from that anterior wall, then surgery is recommended. We do a modified Ravitch procedure that essentially repositions the breast bone and ribs and relieves that pressure. It IS considered major surgery and is usually not recommended unless the patients exhibits signs of distress. I have done probably six of these procedures successfully, with no complications to speak of. And diecash1, I mentioned genetics because it frequently repeats itself in a family history. Now, gentlemen, I have surgery at seven, so I bid you all good night.

Run away, it’s Obama.

“Obama lied about three important issues…(1) my administration will ALWAYS be 100% transparent (2) I will NEVER appoint lobbyist to my administration (3) and most important, I will ALWAYS listen to and be guided by the will of the people.”
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Down the list:
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“(1) my administration will ALWAYS be 100% transparent.”
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Subjective.
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“(3) and most important, I will ALWAYS listen to and be guided by the will of the people.”
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Subjective.
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“(2) I will NEVER appoint lobbyist to my administration ”
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That is objective:
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“Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to limit the influence of lobbyists in his administration, a recent lobbyist for investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is in line to serve as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. [...]
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The Obama administration’s limitation on lobbyists isn’t a direct ban. Lobbyists are still allowed to be a part of the administration working on areas that they have not lobbied on.[...]
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Patterson has spent most of his career in Congress. He served as special assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1985-88. And following law school at Catholic University, he worked as an attorney in private pratice for several years before rejoined Moynihan’s staff as legislative director. He then served as chief counsel to the Senate Finance Committee and later served as policy director for Daschle.”
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A more reasonable assessment would be that he broke a promise by making many exceptions to his rule when he believed that there would be no conflict of interest as he charged that the Bush administration had.
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I am, myself, reluctant to use the word “liar”.
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I asked you that question about pectus excavatum about two months ago. You had plenty of time to look it up, but, you did give the correct answer. A relative of mine did have the surgery and it was more trouble than it was worth. He would have been better off if it was left untreated and he was told such.
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So, for the question of Obama being a liar, I would say that the answer is no. He did fail to meet one specific campaign promise, but, I believe the word “liar” is too harsh.
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For you being a liar, the answer is now, probably.

This is an interesting article you linked to:
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“Congressional Democrats held a 2-point edge when asked who could best turn around the economy. [...]
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For congressional Democrats, the trend was especially promising. Forty-six percent believe Democrats in Congress will better handle the issue of turning around the economy — an almost 10-percentage-point spike since the last Battleground Poll nearly two weeks ago.”
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As far as the 2012 race is concerned, Obama’s re-elect number–38%–is the same as Gallup’s finding for Bill Clinton in October 1994. The president remains more popular than Sarah Palin, the most recognizable top Republican to voters. By an 8-point margin, voters would back Obama over Palin if the vote were today, and support for her is weak in the Midwest and the Northeast. But Palin’s problems run deeper: 58 percent said her actions since resigning as Alaska governor in 2009 have made them less likely to vote for her for president. She and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were the only leading 2012 possibilities with net negative favorability rating.”
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So, 3X, we can not rule out Democrats keeping both houses in November. We, absolutely, can not rule out Obama winning a second term. However, we can rule out either Palin or Gingrich taking the White House in 2012 even though other Republicans have a chance.
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More or less, it is up in the air who will have the slim majority in 2010 and reasonably likely that Obama will win 2012.

Sorry,
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I forgot to add the link:
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6735898&page=1

patrick,
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I’ve always wondered how each party would fare if a poll were taken and you substituted the words “CURRENT Democrats” and “CURRENT Republicans” for the words “Republican” and “Democrat” in the poll narrative?
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Are people voting along traditional positions (liberal and conservative) as opposed to the ACTUAL positions these scumbags are taking from a practical viewpoint?

patrick, if you go back and check old postings, you will see that I answered your question (in detail) that evening after getting home from the hospital…after an eighteen hour day, I might add. Your hostility is uncalled for, we have a different political perspective…period. Why can you not accept that fact and get on with your life…the angst can make your life miserable and unhealthy.

Patrick,
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Keep dreaming..
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Also keep digging. With all that horse sh*t there’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.
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90% of polls show republicans winning the house and being within striking distance of the senate.
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Are you willing to bet on the house? The loser stays off swampland for one month.
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Are you man enough to take this bet?

“Your hostility is uncalled for, we have a different political perspective…period. Why can you not accept that fact and get on with your life…the angst can make your life miserable and unhealthy.”
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Actually, if you look at what you have said to me, you should, be questioning your own hostility.
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First, you persistently kept on saying that I live with my mother. I haven’t lived with my parents since I was 18, 21 years ago in 1989.
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Second, you said that all liberals including me were a waste of a life.
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Third, you now claim that I am not sane.
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All I have said of you is that you do not behave like a doctor when online and, since all I know about you – I have no idea who you live with, what you do with your day or anything else – that you most likely are not a doctor.
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“…get on with your life…” I work, watch DVDs and Instant television all at the same computer. So, I can break away from it for five minutes here and five minutes there to respond to things on Swamland.
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“…the angst can make your life miserable and unhealthy.”
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The only thing which has caused me any unhappiness in recent years is the market. If I am away at client meetings or networking events I am not online. With the slow economy, even the places which run networking events have slowed down dramatically.
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The Swamp for me is like when you are working on writing a paper and have a bag of potato chips next to you. (I, myself, have not regularly had snacks like that since I was a teenager, constantly growing taller). But, you work, crunch one. Work, crunch one.
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So, I work, laugh at a right winger, work, laugh at another extremist like you, finish work, watch a move, laugh at another right wing entry….
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Angst is the last thing I would think of for this site.
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This is a laugh.

afguy,
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“Are people voting along traditional positions (liberal and conservative) as opposed to the ACTUAL positions these scumbags are taking from a practical viewpoint?”
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I do know that people support incumbents due to name recognition. This is true on both sides.
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I, also, have seen how the generic poll make things look far worse for Democrats than the race by race polls.
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3X,
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“Also keep digging. With all that horse sh*t there’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.”
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That’s funny since it was a Reagan joke calling Democrats pessimists…. but, anyway, I was using your article as the source for that information.
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“Are you willing to bet on the house? The loser stays off swampland for one month.”
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I keep on saying that it will be a slender majority for either side and, from the way you put it, you are expecting a huge majority for Republicans.
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I’ll make a safer bet. I’ll bet you that there will be either – either – a Democratic majority or, if there is a Republican majority, that it is by ten Republicans or fewer.
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That is I will bet you that there will be fewer than 226 Republicans winning in November.
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0 to 225 Republicans win, I win.
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226 to 435 Republicans win, then you win.
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But I will double the bet. Make it two months.
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However, if you have a bet with somebody else, you have to honor that bet plus honor the bet with me. (I thought Sacred bet you a month, too – maybe I am mistaken).
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Now, will you make that bet?
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I am saying that the right wing has succeeded in confusing Americans enough to drive approximately half of Americans against some policies which polls said that we favored in 2006 through 2008 and the confusion and fear has driven that half to vote against Democrats. The lack of specifics which will be unlike that of GWB years of complete Republican control and the incessant infighting of the Clinton years will stop people from voting because they like the Republican candidate.
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Again 0 to 225 Republicans and 210 to 435 Democrats I win. With 226 to 435 Republicans and 0 to 209 Democrats you win.
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Deal?

Patrick,
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“I’ll make a safer bet. I’ll bet you that there will be either – either – a Democratic majority or, if there is a Republican majority, that it is by ten Republicans or fewer.”
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Patrick you don’t sound very confident now that there’s a bets involved.
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There are currently 253 Democrats and 178 Republicans. The Republicans need to pick up 40 seats to become the majority in the House. In addition to that you want to be spotted 8 additional seats. That means if the Republicans take over the House and elect 7 additional congressmen for a total of 225 I lose.
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Not a very fair bet. You were talking even odds in your earlier comments as to who would come out as the majority.
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Since my original offer was even odds I will split the difference and spot you 4 seats for a total of 222.
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Let’s see if your man enough to handle a real bet.
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My bet with sach. is simply that the Republicans will win majority in both the House and Senate.

Okay, if Republicans have a majority of 4 or more I will quit swampland for one month.
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If Republicans have a majority by the three, two, one votes or a Democratic majority, you quit swampland for one month plus whatever you agreed to do for sacred (such that if you bet him one month as well, it would be two month…etc).
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That is a bet.

Patrick,
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“Okay, if Republicans have a majority of 4 or more I will quit swampland for one month.
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If Republicans have a majority by the three, two, one votes or a Democratic majority, you quit swampland for one month plus whatever you agreed to do for sacred (such that if you bet him one month as well, it would be two month…etc).”
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Agreed. It’s a bet.

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About the bet(s):

And nobody posts in Swampland under another name, or sends posts to a confederate to post under his/her name?

Just checkin’.

Earl has one problem. Nancy Pelosi. Besides Ed Schultz, Nancy Pelosi may be the most hated person in North Dakota. Unfortunately(for Earl that is) his voting record is a Nancy Pelosi love fest(97% of the time he votes with Ms. Pelosi)

That and the health care bill are what is causing him problems.

North Dakotans are nice. They are polite. We are rural and everybody knows everybody else. Earl hasn’t been loved(he is the least liked of the three), but in ND people don’t want to vote out someone they know unless they give them a reason to. Earl has given a reason.

hereby,
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I think both Patrick and I are honest and will honor our bets.