The Bush-"Legacy"

[Mr. Shaman]

Shaman. The roads and bridges were funded for 2 times each with a 6 year windows starting in 2001 I believe. That money hasn't even been spent yet. It's only been 8 years.

I'd like to see evidence of (whatever) you're trying to suggest, here.​

Not to mentionre the "pork" spending.

None of that "pork" spending is budgeted, therefore it has to be siphoned off from a program that has real merit, and then the government says, we need to steal more from the citizens.

Maybe the Obama Admin could (merely) earmark all spending, on our infrastructure....much the way the Bush Admin paid for War-$pending. That way, the real-cost of maintaining this Country's infrasturcture doesn't have to be made public...and, all good-Americans can say they weren't aware of what was being spent....so, once-again, they can claim ignorance, while passing-off all blame to Congress.

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[BigRob]

I'd like to see evidence of (whatever) you're trying to suggest, here.​

Maybe the Obama Admin could (merely) earmark all spending, on our infrastructure....much the way the Bush Admin paid for War-$pending. That way, the real-cost of maintaining this Country's infrasturcture doesn't have to be made public...and, all good-Americans can say they weren't aware of what was being spent....so, once-again, they can claim ignorance, while passing-off all blame to Congress.

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Seeing as how Congress controls the money, who else would you blame for spending money?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Seeing as how Congress controls the money, who else would you blame for spending money?

Toooooooooooooooooo easy.......

BUSHCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

"Nor can Republicans blame a Democratic Congress for being responsible for these trends. Much of the expansion took place between 2002 and 2006, when Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House. The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes was writing about "big government conservatism" back in 2003."

 

[PLC1]

Toooooooooooooooooo easy.......

BUSHCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

Bushco is not presco any more, you know. Now, we can quit blaming Bush for spending too much, and start blaming Obama. We also no longer have a Republican controlled Congress, haven't for a couple of years now, so excessive spending has to be blamed on the Democrats now. Before, of course, we could have blamed the Republicans.

Whoever you blame, the federal government is getting way too big and expensive.

 

[BigRob]

Toooooooooooooooooo easy.......

BUSHCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

Congress controls money... so the President should be blamed for spending....? Blame the President for proposing massive spending... blame Congress for allowing it.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"I thought we would get there quick and handle our business and we'd be out," Tucker told us this week. "At least, that's what we were told anyway."

Better check with Dick "The Delusional" Cheney, first, pal. He's STILL "rewriting" the Bush Years.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters he is convinced that the public will again embrace conservatives now that President Bush is gone:

“President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both ‘06 and ‘08. We now have the opportunity to be on offense, offer our own ideas and we will win some.”

Lil' Dumbya's book should be quite the laugh-RIOT, compared to Reality!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

"A new Senate subcommittee responsible for tracking government contracting heard yesterday from federal watchdogs seeking greater investigatory and enforcement powers and more staffing to try to keep up with the expansion in federal spending.

Federal spending on contracting ballooned to more than $500 billion last year, one of the reasons that lawmakers established the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on contracting oversight in late January.

The panel is likely to focus on the use of foreign contracting firms, on how government contractors and the military plan to withdraw troops and equipment from Iraq and expand operations in Afghanistan, and on the suspension and debarment of contracting companies, a spokeswoman said."​

Gee.....it appears that smaller, leaner Federal Government's gotten a little top-heavy.



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[Mr. Shaman]

"Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq. A cover-up, naturally, followed.

Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native, served with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to official records, she died on Sept. 15, 2003, from a "non-hostile weapons discharge."​

WAY TO GO, DICK & RUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

"The Pentagon is about to release "hundreds" of photographs showing the alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, US officials say.

The alleged abuses by US personnel are said to relate to President George W. Bush's time in office."​

"....So, I says "HEY, Dummy!! How's that Higher Father thing workin'-out, for you, so far??!!" Heh-Heh!!!!!!"​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"Stories of short supplies for American forces in Iraq, such as inadequate body armor or unshielded Hummers, have been around since the war began. CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston has discovered that some soldiers were forced to ration water, perhaps as little as 2-3 liters per day, because there was never enough.

It is less than the one gallon minimum a day that an Army manual says is necessary just to survive in a desert environment. In fact, an Army training document on preventing heat casualties states that water losses in the desert can reach 15 liters (about four gallons) a day per soldier.

Robey said in 2003 his company would run out of water on missions, forcing them to improvise, like drinking water from whatever taps they found.

Unfortunately, the often-untreated Iraqi water can cause intestinal illnesses. Robey said 50 to 60 members of his company got dysentery.

KBR told KHOU that a Department of Defense Inspector General's report has concluded "KBR has (since) satisfied applicable water standards," adding that "the DoD has not found any illness which it attributes to water in Iraq."

Staff Sgt. Dustin Robey disagrees. He says he's passed hundreds of kidney stones since returning form Iraq, and because of his condition the Army forced him to retire. His family is now facing foreclosure.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/12/national/main5008643.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline"​

"Kellogg Brown & Root has found some legal loop holes to avoid paying Medicare and payroll taxes, saving them hundred$ of million$ of dollars. They have done this by setting up offshore companies in the Cayman Islands. The Defense Department has known about this since 2004, but says it was saving money through cheaper labor."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"On the August 4 edition of the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh said that England and the other accused soldiers were engaging in acts that were "sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun."​

Yeah, Porky....that's what it was....just some good ol' all-American FUN!!!​

"Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.

Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

Allegations of rape and abuse were included in his 2004 report but the fact there were photographs was never revealed. He has now confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.

The graphic nature of some of the images may explain the US President’s attempts to block the release of an estimated 2,000 photographs from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan despite an earlier promise to allow them to be published."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Perhaps those aren't the exact words President Bush used, (I've looked briefly and can't find 'em) but the jist of his message remains the same. At first, I thought it was typical Bush, speaking with an unearned arrogance. After a lot of thought, however, I think that Bush's confidence has some merit. Cheney is on the record, stating that without the policies the Bush administration enacted after 9/11, we would've been attacked again. Assuming Bush believes this as well, then it's quite clear why he thinks history will vindicate him. Obama is not following the same policies that the Bush administration used. If a terrorist attack happens on Obama's watch, Bush and Cheney will forever be vindicated in the eyes of some because they "kept us safe".

One of the Cheney's should (probably) start packin' for Britain.​

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"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war on Monday that aimed to examine mistakes made during and after the 2003 U.S-led invasion.

Lawmakers and anti-war protesters have repeatedly demanded that an independent panel scrutinize what they say are a range of errors made by Britain, the United States and other allies in prewar intelligence and postwar planning."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Remember how Lil' Dumbya was ALWAYS saying:

"HEY!!! WE CAUGHT #2!!!"....or, "HEY!!! WE CAUGHT #3!!!"

Most logical/mature adults could never figure-out how (it was) there were so-many #2s & #3s......for good reason:​

"An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.

"They told me, 'Sorry, we discover that you are not Number 3, not a partner, not even a fighter,' " said Abu Zubaida, speaking in broken English, according to the new transcript of a Combatant Status Review Tribunal held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."​

This makes you wonder how-long-ago the intelligence-community realized The DICK; Cheney had been lying-to-them, all along; i.e. what did they know, and when??!!​

 

[samsara15]

Parties wax and wane. As soon as they become too dominant, their faults begin to outweigh the faults of the other party, and the pendulum swings back the other way.