Thanks for Nothing, G.W. Bush!
As conservatives survey the battlefield of American politics the morning of November 8, it is not a pretty sight. The nation’s capitol has fallen into the hands of those who would rather switch than fight, except when it comes to big government, higher taxes, abortion, illegal immigration, and socialism.
The man most responsible for the smoldering ruins of conservatism is President G.W. Bush. From the war in Iraq to his complete abandonment of Republican principles on all issues except lower taxes, G.W. Bush has been a complete disaster for the conservative movement.
Of all of Bush’s wrongheaded notions, his foolish policy on border security and illegal immigration has been the most distressing. By sending American troops to fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan while refusing to secure U.S. borders to prevent invasion by millions of illegal aliens from Mexico, Bush has sacrificed American sovereignty and security for cheap tomatoes and lettuce.
This sell-out of American interests to a foreign nation (Mexico) should cause Bush to be impeached and removed from office. Impeachment, if not actual removal, is an action long called for by real conservatives like Patrick Buchanan.
For the most part, the newly installed Democrat-majority U.S. House will make the next two years a living hell for President Bush. Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of leftist nitwits will most likely find Bush an ideal candidate for the impeachment option.
Unfortunately for America and Americans, one of the few issues that Bush and the new Democrat majority will probably agree on is illegal immigration. That could mean that Bush’s nonsensical proposal to grant amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens could become a reality.
Picture the scene if you have the stomach: From the White House, President Bush surrounded by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy proudly signs the amnesty bill.
Thus, 12-20 million criminals are instantly made into Democrat voters with a stroke of Bush’s pen. In effect, Bush and the Democrats will have turned the American southwest into a suburb of Tijuana, Mexico.
Should that happen, this is one conservative who will support Nancy Pelosi and her impeachment machine as they seek to put a premature end to G.W. Bush’s tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Thanks for nothing, G.W. Bush!
John Lillpop is a recovering liberal, "clean and sober" since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. Pray for John: He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where people like Nancy Pelosi are considered reasonable! | More from John Lillpop
Stumble It!
November 8th, 2006 at 7:11 am
This was the only way we could help stop this stupid war and send the message that we are sick of running up our national debt.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Yes John,
Let’s blame President Bush. The economy is booming, more individuals own their own homes than ever before. Shame on him.
A whole raft of Conservative Judges and Justices are now sitting in our court system thanks to him. Thanks for nothing George.
America has not been attacked in five years, beating all the odds. How disgusting.
The tax burden is far less than it would have been under Gore or Kerry. What a jerk he is.
Your rant reminds me of Monty Python…She’s a witch. Burn her! Burn her!
Is President Bush perfect? Hell no, he never claimed to be and no one ever said he was. His neglect of the border issue has been disgusting, but impeachable? Get a grip.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Yea, ok John. Impeach GWB for caving under pressure and signing the amnesty bill…. And global warming is GW’s fault too!
Now that the Dems are back in control, why not sit down and have a cigar in Vallhalla. Particularly, a Lewinski. I hear they are cheap and readily available in NY and on Capital Hill.
TMOTS
November 8th, 2006 at 8:37 am
“A whole raft of Conservative Judges and Justices are now sitting in our court system thanks to him”
Thanks to him? Have you forgotten Harriet Miers–Bush would have seated her if conservatives had not stopped him!
“America has not been attacked in five years, beating all the odds. How disgusting.”
You recall the Dubai Port Management fiasco? Again, had it not been for conservatives, GW Bush would have terrorist sympathizers ruuning port secuirty!
“The tax burden is far less than it would have been under Gore or Kerry. What a jerk he is.”
I conceded the point on taxes, Will.
“The economy is booming, more individuals own their own homes than ever before. Shame on him.”
Cheap tomatoes and lettuce, Will.
The fact is that America is being sold out–or given away–by G.W. Bush. Face it, the man is a disaster!
He should be impeached–ask Pat Buchanan!
November 8th, 2006 at 8:39 am
“Yea, ok John. Impeach GWB for caving under pressure and signing the amnesty bill”
Sorry, TMOTS. It will be GW Bush pressuring the democrats to send him an amnsety bill to sign. Bush is a liberal Democrat of the Nancy Pelosi ilk when it comes to illegal aliens. He is a traitor!
November 8th, 2006 at 9:35 am
No I haven’t forgotten Harriet Miers, have you forgotten Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Circuit), Sam Alito (Supreme Court), John Roberts (Chief Justice), Edith Brown Clement (5th Circuit), Richard R. Clifton, William G. Myers III (nominated to 9th Circuit), Anthony Kennedy (D.C. Cour of Appeals), William H. Pryor (11th Circuit), Priscill Owen (5th Circuit), Michael Luttig (4th Circuit), Jeffrey Howard (1st Circuit), William Pryor (11th Circuit).
There are dozens more. It is the best record of Conservitive Judges ever.
November 8th, 2006 at 9:35 am
We, the voters have given the demoncrats one more opportunity to prove that we live in an honorable nation. GWB may be guilty of war crimes. If the demoncrats don’t pursue criminal charges agains GWB, then we will know that they are all in cahoots with each other. If that is the case, look for a sweep of libertarian candidates in the next election. Then, look for the arrests to begin for both parties as the libertarians do really believe in constitutional government. Go that Dems? Last chance to restore our honor or down you go….
November 8th, 2006 at 9:42 am
No I haven’t forgotten Harriet Miers,”
Harriet Miers on the SCOTUS would be the WORST record of conservative a appointment in U.S. history!
What about PortGate?
BTW, I am not saying that I would have voted for Kerry–but the fact is, GW Bush is not even close to being conservative. He is a sell out–and you know it Will~
November 8th, 2006 at 10:40 am
Yep, we had a crappy election… so now let’s run around pointing fingers. Okay, Bush is no Reagan, but on the bright side, he’s no Clinton either. You run what you brung, it doesn’t always carry you to victory lane.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:53 am
“Yep, we had a crappy election… so now let’s run around pointing fingers.”
It involves more than pointing fingers, Greg. At 130p est, Bush will hold a press conference. He will hold out an olive branch of sorts, including a proposal to move forward with “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Code talk for amnesty. Our Republican president will crawl in bed with Nancy Pelosi, probably the best offer she has had in decades, on the illegal alien issue.
He will in effect say: Those hard ass conservatives in the US House are not in my way now–bring it on Nancy–lets convert Arizona, California, New Mexico etc into a giant suburb of Mexico.
Is that what you want? Is that why you voted for Bush in 2000 and or 2004?
November 8th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Am I happy? No. What would have me do, get angry? Been there. Now what? We took our lumps, all we can do now is look forward. We can’t fall into the same mode the libs did after the last elections. I refuse to seek therapy over this. I haven’t heard of any conservatives threaten to leave to country (Yet). The thing we need to do now is start looking toward 08. We all survived 8 years of Clinton, not fun but we survived, we will survive this. Conservatives are the rational ones and we need remember that, and look to the next challenge. And with any luck Bush will remember where he left his veto pen…
November 8th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Greg–I agree. Next time a fellow claims to be a conservative, we damn well better make sure!
November 8th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Some lessons from this election:
1) The minimum wage and overtime laws are extremely popular, with state measures allowing state minimum wages to increase along with inflation garnering huge margins. I know the economic purists hate it, but a large number of Republicans and conservatives are voting against the idea that employers should be allowed to exploit the desperate poor merely because they can.
2) Americans are royally pissed off about the shipping of our jobs to the cheap labor of the Third World. Rick Santorum was a free trade cheerleader, and it cost him.
3) For God’s sakes keep your hands out of the cookie jar! The constant scandals on the part of the Republicans are totally unnecessary and piss off voters all over the political spectrum like nothing else!
4) If you are gay be open about it, okay? That and make sure your partner is within 10 years of your age and is NOT a page!
5) Being a RINO did not save Lincoln Chaffee.
6) Being RINO’s does not inspire the conservatives to show up and vote for your re-election.
7) The rad-fem and easy pickings for lawyers agenda in the family courts is destroying the nation. Sooner or later, the public will figure that out. Maybe all of them Mexican Catholics we will now welcome with open arms will be the first to see it! It behooves the GOP to get out of that bed before too many Christian conservative Promise Keepers get the rude awakening that is divorce court!
I would suggest screaming for the enforcement of the Peonage Law (to better sell shared parenting as the alternative to North Dakotans) but people are tired of hearing about the obvious solution to so many of our problems!
November 8th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
“Next time a fellow claims to be a conservative, we damn well better make sure!”
I guess an 08 run by McCain would not suit you
November 8th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
“We, the voters have given the demoncrats one more opportunity to prove that we live in an honorable nation. GWB may be guilty of war crimes. If the demoncrats don’t pursue criminal charges agains GWB, then we will know that they are all in cahoots with each other. If that is the case, look for a sweep of libertarian candidates in the next election. Then, look for the arrests to begin for both parties as the libertarians do really believe in constitutional government. Go that Dems? Last chance to restore our honor or down you go….”…NationalVoice
Okay, in what alternative bizzaro universe is THIS going to happen…?
November 8th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
the idea that employers should be allowed to exploit the desperate poor merely because they can.
You’re so wrong. We LOVE exploiting the stupid, I mean “poor”.
Get a new siren call. You’re a broken record and you’re becoming seriously annoying.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Hey John Lillpop, it ain’t so bad.
And GW ain’t so bad. And life (during the next two years )ain’t gonna be so bad.
If you jump on Pelosi’s bandwagon, how exactly does that help anything? I have to admit, if GW were impeached, and Cheney were upgraded to POTUS, it would be awesome. No more wimping.
But it ain’t gonna happen, so we got to make the best out of a bad situation. Now go get a cold one. And a couple of Goody Powders for the headache.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
John, John, John,
PortsGate was much ado about nothing. It was a make up outrage. Who do you think the companies are that are running our ports? You’re worried about Dubai when Communist China’s COSCO is running one of the largest port operations in L.A? Dubai has been one of the good guys in this war against terror.
Meirs would not have been the WORST anything. She was fully qualified and more conservative than most. She was not ideal and as you know, I was critical of the choice, based primarily on the belief that she was chosen to avoid confrontation and that she was older than necessary or desirable.
Get a grip man. Yor’re right, George has never been a Conservative. He has always been slightly Left of Center, but until a better ship comes along, I’d rather ride than swim.
And yes, before you ask, I am not very happy about Rummy. Quite PO’ed as a matter of fact. I suspect that they had already decided that should the Dems take over Congress that it would be self preservation for him to resign. Hannity says its been in the works for a couple of weeks.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Halo,
You miss the point, they will first target Cheney with investigations of Halliburton and anything else they can trump up. If they can get him, then they will go after Bush, and in the mean time they will block the appointment of any Vice Presidential replacement.
The best we can expect is that they will simply be satisfied with keeping President Bush so preoccupied that he will be unable to accomplish anything for the next two years.
November 8th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
The best we can expect is that they will simply be satisfied with keeping President Bush so preoccupied that he will be unable to accomplish anything for the next two years.
If this will keep us from getting twenty million mexican democrats from being given citizenship, I’ll be happy. Or at least if they don’t raise spending again.
November 8th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
I would not be inclined to blame George “The Shrub” Bush for anything at all.
He’s doing the best he can with what he does not have.
I would blame the same people who see an image of Saint Mary in an oil spill on a Chicago overpass.
And then, worship that false illusion.
But, that’s redundant, right?
Interesting that Bush today made such a “concessionary” speech…. All about bipartisan cooperation and shit….
And he fired Rummy after only last week saying he was “his man” for the duration of his lame-duck presidency?
Would you trust Geroge Bush to chaperone your virgin daughter to a Washington D.C. party?
What, precisely, is this Prezodent’s lowest common denominator?
November 9th, 2006 at 1:14 am
“Would you trust Geroge Bush to chaperone your virgin daughter to a Washington D.C. party?”
Would you trust one of your girls–virgin or not–within 2 miles of Bill Clinton? If yes, then you should have those young ones removed from your care!
November 9th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Squiggy–You are the greatest! Always spot on and forthright!
November 9th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Deceitful? Mr. Bush? About Dumbsfailed’s adios? About Dubai? About doing his best to weaken the dollar? About rolling over America into the North American Union? About passing amnesty? About no-bids in Iraq?
Lowest common denominator? Too much skull and too little brains.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Just remember, we voted him in in the first place, when he was openly liberal as a campaigner, starting with his condemnation of the “Slouching Toward Gomorrah Wing of the Party,” his call for Republicans to back of on the Elian Gonzalez affair, and his snubbing of those who led the charge for Clinton’s Impeachment. Just a few hints among many of where this mixed up “Compassionate Conservative,” half socialist, half capitalist, was coming from from day one – and we voted him in, didn’t we?
This columnist stood by Buchanan … period. Too many others were all too willing to repeat the line, “I like Pat, but Pat can’t win.” Winning rather than principle has been the ruling passion, and so now we’ve all lost.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Dear John:
Yes, Buchanan was the true conservative that the Party turned on.
You might enjoy this, since you are a Buchanan man. It was my first column as a regular columnist at NewsMax in May of 1999, called “The Foolish Abandonment of Pat Buchanan.”
http://newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/6/30/102830
Best, Steve
November 10th, 2006 at 12:19 am
To all: Read Steve’s terrific column from 1999 at:
http://newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/6/30/102830
If we had heeded those words back then, life would not be so difficult in 2006!
November 12th, 2006 at 1:26 am
Thanks for inspiring the cartoon, John.
Thanks for Nothing, George!
All the best,
Dan Lacey
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