Bush: ‘I Went Against My Free-Market Instincts’

In spite of the continuing Bush-bashing that people like to do (never mind Dem ineffectiveness for 3 yrs.), it is likely that history will be kinder to Dubya, than the public currently is.

Bush slept thru derivatives. After we just learned that a completely unregulated derivatives market about took us down I can’t imagine him saying this.

The worst President we’ve ever had – who ruined our reputation in the world, who (by getting us into a war with a country that hid no WMDs and had nothing to do with 9/11) screwed up the war in Afghanistan, the man who drove our economy to near ruin, and who divided our citizens as never before – wants us to listen to another of his excuses/opinions? Horrors!

After the way he ran the country into the ground for eight years I am shocked that Bush has the gall to even show his face let alone criticize the Obama administration.
The Bush years mark the celebration of mediocrity and the embracing of ignorance, arrogance, greed and incivility.

The former President has lost touch with reality. Does he think I have lost my memory? He is backing away from the bailout but he was the one on TV pushing for the bailout!

Unfortunately, George Bush has no idea as to whether a “free market” would solve this problem. It is just a guess. Most professional economists agree that intervention was necessary. So he made the right decision. What did Republicans really want to do? Destroy the economy.

I always laugh when I hear the term ” war monger” applied to Bush. How long did he wait for approval from the UN, senate, congress and virtually the whole free world to go in? Something Libs either choose to forget or they just parrot their Lib venues. Bush, however did disappoint me in that I thought I was voting for a conservative But when he put the likes of Kennedy in charge of various aspects of education, I knew I voted for a bit of a woos. However, what we have now is considerably worse.

Uh…no. I remember a bunch (140 or so) of the country’s top economists signing a letter stating that they did not support the bailout and that it was unwise to intervene. This number included nobel prize winners and professors at major universities. The only people who thought it would work were directly connected to the industry.

And, on a side note, I’m pretty sure all of George W. Bush’s “free-market instincts” begin and end with “call Daddy, have him save me.”

The free market instincts of Reaganomics is the problem. It has been eating away at the economic viability of our society since the 80′s with off-shoring, hostile corporate takeovers and raping of companies. It has encouraged state and local governments to rebate excess taxes revenues rather than build up funds for economic downturns, it has force companies to run on debt to keep out raiders, and it has encouraged an environment of high speculation and financial manipulation to please stock analysts with quarterly profit short term lack of vision. It has also fostered high corporate salaries, benefits, and bonuses and force high salaries all the way doen the system to be competitive while regular workers are being paid less and less to do more and more work.
That isn’t free amrket it is free-for-all market and it allows giant corporations to drive out and bury small business entirely. It is not business friendly, it is multi-national monopoly friendly.

The House and the Senate run this country…and without a doubt for three years now the DEMS have run us into the ground. It’s getting worse now and we must stop the bleeding. It is time for us as a nation to wake up and realize WE have the ability to grow our economy through private enterprise not huge waste in GOV spending.

Basically, with Bush, the presidency became a license to torture, kill and steal, and NEVER be prosecuted for it.
Basically for the past 3 terms, including Obama’s we have been ‘electing’ the equivalent of Caligula or Henry VIII.
Moral of the story is, if you’re a drunken, corrupt sod you should aspire to ‘the highest office in the land’… because for the term of your presidency, and ever after you will be immune to prosecution.

Thank you george..you sacrificed popularity to keep us safe…..
Time will prove you loved this country..

DUMBYA BUSH=ONE OF THE WORST PRESIDENTS EVER!!! Now put THAT in your HISTORY BOOKS!!!

What a bunch of ignorant asses. Most of you are so blinded by your liberal biases, you jump at the opportunity to throw partisan attacks at a man speaking in a private forum on issues not meant to generate political attacks. Wake up! Look how our current president is leading us down a path where we reward complacency, punish success, and work towards the largest spending spree in American history, on the backs of every American.

Bush needs to be brought to the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands for War Crimes !!

Wait till Obama’s library is built. The only books in it will be: How to Snooker an entire country without them knowing it, World domination through Socialism, and Why it took 6 weeks to choose a dog but months to decide Afghanistan.
The book on his nightstand is: Socialism and Fascism for Dummies

BO is on pace to break Bush’s spending spree if he hasn’t already. Every death since Jan 20 is BO’s fault. He could pull the troops. Also, wasn’t it Clinton’s CIA appointee that said Iraq WMDs was a slam dunk?

That a man with such unquestionably limited grasp of all things intellectual and empirical should aspire to “lecture” or even speak to any of us, after his demonstrably disastrous 8-year reign, is simutaneously laughable and grotesque. This facade of a human being now wants to create a facility as the repository of his achievements. These newly appointed “fellows”, might they include anyone with any whiff of credibility? Disgrace upon disgrace. We are a nation that celebrates false, paper-maiche “heros”, Exhibit W being the subject of this puff piece. And, yes, the shelves of this morally and ethically empty place will be filled with books of heavily redacted pages, all to perpetuate the myth of an entirely disastrous regime, and to keep the truth from a populace who habitually self-congratulates on being citizens of the epitomy of forthrightness.

“and who divided our citizens as never before – ”
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That may well have been true when he was in office, but I think President Obama has managed to surpass him there.
Look at the polls and tell me this nation is extremely divided.

For once i believe him. His first instinct would have been to do nothing and to let the Country plunge into a catastrophic Great Depression causing untold harm to the United States, its Citizens and its future as he skips away to the fake ranch. Sounds about right to me.

I would say Bush pretty much screwed this country for all its worth.

I have no doubt that Bush governed to the best of his ability. That was the problem.

Deficits don’t matter

I truly miss George and Laura Bush. Especially George Bush had always blessed America and American. I don’t know why Obama has been so short to bless his citizens.

Baloney. He did what he was told to do.

What a joke this man is.
He “went against his free market instincts” when, in the last days of his presidency, he took desperate steps to save the economy from the mess he had created?
What about the 8 years preceding that? Hasn’t he figured out that it was his crony capitalism, corporate welfare, hostility to regulation, and war mongering that caused the collapse?
What a joke this man is!

Bush’s concept of a “free market instinct”
is to borrow from daddy or the Bin Laden family…and LOOSE IT ALL AGAIN and AGAIN!

I wonder what his “instincts told him about borrowing us into the greatest debt ever known by any nation at any time in history? I guess finding those “Weapons of Mass Destruction” was totally worth the plunge into economic suicide.

I love that song “FEaLLINGS NOTHING MORE THAN FAILINGS”

George Bush was a failure as a president, a war criminal that should be hanged, and a complete fool for even opening his mouth. Bush and Cheney drove our country right into the ground. The best thing Bush and Cheney could do for the country is for them to kill each other. Both will certainly rot in hell.

1800 died in Hurrican Katrina, and the Liberal world went on a blood-letting frenzy, demeaning President Bush (even though the deaths were as much the results of the inactions of Ray Nagin and Governor Landreau). 4000 and counting deaths from the swine flu, and the liberal world praises Obama for “declaring a state of emergency” and say it’s not his fault that the vaccine is not available to the common people…..Over twice the number of Americans dead…and not a peep about Obama’s lack of action

The last 8 years was about stealing from the middleclass and giving to the rich! lying with false intel for the invasion of Iraq! And making the whole world hate us!!! Thanks you, you bait and switch wealthy trickster!

I find it absolutely adorable that people are placing Bushes accomplishments (majority of them incompetence); burned the surplus that he (actually William Jefferson Clinton) made on who knows what. Then when that was gone he created a mild recession and thought the smartest thing to do was to give tax cuts to his fellow rich people (which of course did more harm than anything).
He was on a wild spending spree courtesy of the middle class till this country went dry because of his 10 BILLION to 12 BILLION monthly. He issued out ONE stimulus check, when that did not work out he started borrowing money from China.
Not that he cared because this was the guy who ignored 9/11 warnings that were given to him; because he couldn’t be bothered with actual presidential matters when taking record number breaks were on the top of his to do list.
To add insult to injury he allowed many greedy companies to go unregulated and still gave them money for it. Then there was the abstinence only education program that Bush funded yet again off the backs of the non 1% richest people. That was a HUGE failure.
/sarcasm So yeah Obama spending is bigger than Bush’s /sarcasm off

As a conservative, I can tell you several dozen things I didn’t like about Bush and his policies.
And he was still head and shoulders better than the Democratic alternatives that were offered at election time.

“I Went Against My Free-Market Instincts” … sounds like what the bimbo said about actually paying the minimum due on one of her credit card bills…with a different credit card!
Had Bush stuck to his so-called “Free-Market Instincts” – they which actually hold that he and his buddies should get whatever they want “for free” (or at least in the form of unlimited no-bid contracts) – we would probably ALL be praying five times each day by now… or else singing praises of the “Glorious Chairman”!
Face it: Bush got ahold of the nation’s Visa Card, and he just went on a huge Christmas shopping spree – buying war after war and playing fiddle with Cheney while Wall Street burned Capital in bonfires the size of Ground Zero! Bush burned through $4.4 Trillion in borrowed money while an unrestrained and unregulated Wall Street burned several times that amount in the fires of human greed!
And now Bush and his buddies bemoan that THEY might have to pay part of the tab instead of just sticking it to the “little people” of the United States like they thought they had it planned!
Bush should dress in Prada.

its funny that operation Mchale removed 550 tones of yellow cake from Irag in june of 05. But everyone says he had no weapons program. Kind of like Iran and Korea have no weapons program, Korea already set one off and it will not be long for iran. we have now had a terrorist attach on the US soil but this admin. Katrina devistated 900 miles of coast with army navy rescue crews on the scene making hundreds of rescues. We now have a flue we had all year to get ready for. thousand have died with an emergency declared and what response from Gov. Lip service.you lefties need to wake up. the bad response in ketrina was for the demleader in the state and local government. there were weapons of mass distruction (operation Mchale loof on the Dept of Defense web site)

Tim, all the yellowcake found in Iraq was previously known to and both inventoried and sequestered by the IAEA/INVO prior to the U.S. bombing and invasion and in fact years prior to Bush taking office: the only lapse in that oversight being due to the bombing and the invasion themselves, when the IAEA/INVO inspectors had to leave Iraq for their own safety.
Bill Clinton had an agreement with N. Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program in exchange for help in developing safer nuclear energy programs that would not further weapons production. George Bush abrogated that agreement, thus setting off the Korean race to nuclear and missile tests.
FEMA had successfully handled MANY hurricane disasters before Bush folded it into his bloated, control-freak Department of Homeland Security (or Insecurity, if you ask me). But despite repeated warnings that a direct hit on New Orleans could be catastrophic, the “new” DHS/FEMA utterly refused to prepare for that disaster scenario or even to respond to it until – after nearly a week – each individual governor BEGGED for help!
But keep up the good work there at the Ministry of Truth, Winston!

Freedom fosters prosperity, and freedom is natural; it needs no government to create it. I don’t agree with the Bush statement that limited government is needed to protect the rights of those entrepreneurs and innovators and others so that they can create wealth. Govt should be involved at every stage where ever common man is concerned.

I am beyond flabbergasted at this man’s hypocrisy. I blame myself, as I am an American and have to take part of the blame, for electing this clown to two terms (I never voted for him, just to be clear). Shame on all of us. Shame on us even more if we allow W to become relevant again. He took this country to the brink of devastation, and now he wants to keep those policies in place? Is America really that stupid? I suppose we’ll find out.

I miss W.
The worst president in history is the big Zero sitting in the oval office today. Obama: Worst. President. Ever.

I’m a 100% Disabled Vet and I would Love to have the money the White House told us if we would have to redo my home loan!? So where’s the money we gave to the banks? if they can give out over what $10 Billion of our taxes then the damn bank can redo my home loan as we all where told they would! my home was up to $162,000. be for all this crap! I put $40,000. down on it 5 years ago and I still my home is at about may be $65,000. so I need the bank to give me my money back on my home or pay all of our Tax money back + what it would have made in the bank be for we gave it to them! The White House told all of us the banks would make our loans good on our homes!? but they just took our money and let the banks pay each other big bucks as we the people are losing our homes, and paying more taxes on our homes that are at about 1/2 of what we paid for them!? we just got punked by the white house and the banks! after 15 years in the Army I can’t sell my home or buy one I can pay for!?

President Obama Has lied to us, and left us to rot as the banks get richer and good people lose there homes and can’t feed there kids!? how can this be? you told us you would never do this to us! we don’t make cars and part in Detroit! hell Harley Davidson’s may be put together in the USA but all the parts just like the old Big 3 are made over seas! and we the people let the white house do this to us! when all our rights are made over seas then may be we will take back the USA from the banks and the white house!? this is sick!