The rehabilitation of Shrubya
After living through the Repug beatification of St. Ronnie, wherein they ascribed such miracles to him as the tearing down of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Soviet Union, I was wondering when the Neo-cons and other remnants of the old regime would start on the rehabilitation of Shrubya.
Didn’t take too long! Former Bushie Elliott Abrams is already moving to credit Shrubya with the various ‘People’s Movements’ springing up in Tunisia, Egypt & Yemen. Well I don’t see him crowing about the one place Shrubya did directly intervene, Iraq. And we don’t see the angry crowds waving US Flags and yelling Viva Bush (or the Arabic equivalent thereof).
But I guess Abrams is right in one sense. The protesters undoubtedly have a lot of issues on their plates, including a desire for more democracy. However, what has them taking to the streets is the joblessness and growing poverty, stemming directly from the current economic crisis, which has direct roots in Shrubya & GOP policies to recklessly deregulate the U.S. Financial industry. So in a sense, you could call Shrubya the “Godfather” of Arabic Street Protests!
I wonder if the he or the GOP will still rush to claim credit if any of these People’s Movements take a turn towards Fundamentalist Dictatorship.
Stumble it!
Tags: economic crisis, Egypt, Elliott Abrams, financial deregulation, George W. Bush, gop, Tunisia
January 31st, 2011 at 6:42 pm
How long before our dear friends in the fourth estate pick up the line of ‘thought’ and “How Boy Blunder Saved the World” is a best seller?
February 1st, 2011 at 6:56 am
Don’t forget to give credit to Ronnie and George W for other deeds that were done in thier administration:
+The increased AIDs epidemic (thank you Ronnie for ignoring it for years and allowing millions of people being infected and our blood supply being tainted)
+ Thank you Ronnie and George W for deficit spending
+Thank you S&L as well as our latest banking crisis
+Thank you for several useless invasions and leaving our military available to be shot up in foreign lands (Lebanon and Grenada –thanks Ronnie, and of course all out wars in Afghanistan and Iraq)
+Thank you for stupidly defunding or just lack in investment in alternative sources of energy-now we are still supporting Petro dictators in order to secure our fuel
I can go on but my list above shows that there is no way either of these two presidents can move beyond poor performers although I do have to give George W credit for spending money in Africa to distribute drugs to help alleviate the plight of AIDs. That is one the decent thing he did and something the stupid Republican party should be telling the American people they can claim success for. I guess they don’t want their constituents to know that sending AIDs drugs overseas has helped the American image more than two wars.