Why I Hate George Bush
It's not the smug frat-boy smile, the entitled yet undeserved Andover and Harvard background, the celebration of ignorance, the appropriation of cowboy iconography, the draft-dodging hypocrisy or the destruction of civil liberties. No it's not any of that. It's the lack of intellectual honesty. See:
"I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles when I was told ... the situation we were facing could be worse than the Great Depression," Bush said. "(But) we've taken extraordinary measures to deal with frozen credit markets (that) have helped thaw the credit market." "
George W. Bush., AP article today. Emphasis my own.
What's the point of having ideologies or principles when they are ditched at the first sign of trouble? This spineless compromising is at the heart of the economic (and other) problems. If you're right, you're right. Don't compromise, don't "chuck aside" what you believe in. Bush is not a conservative. The rest of the interview is even more pathetic - "I inherited a ression" boo-hoo, whine whine. "I won't release the 350 billion unless Barack says to" boo-hoo, I'm trying to weasel out of responsibility and blame it on the next guy.
"I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles when I was told ... the situation we were facing could be worse than the Great Depression," Bush said. "(But) we've taken extraordinary measures to deal with frozen credit markets (that) have helped thaw the credit market." "
George W. Bush., AP article today. Emphasis my own.
What's the point of having ideologies or principles when they are ditched at the first sign of trouble? This spineless compromising is at the heart of the economic (and other) problems. If you're right, you're right. Don't compromise, don't "chuck aside" what you believe in. Bush is not a conservative. The rest of the interview is even more pathetic - "I inherited a ression" boo-hoo, whine whine. "I won't release the 350 billion unless Barack says to" boo-hoo, I'm trying to weasel out of responsibility and blame it on the next guy.