It is my firm opinion that the Bush administrations gave America Clinton and Obama with their numerous feats of inaction, rope-a-dope,
consorting with the worst RINOs and trusting the demo-socialists’ word.
What does it take to learn from history?

That could be pretty good. Let us know the specific things that were done or not done that support our contention. Not that we aren’t familiar with most of them, but you may remember some we’d forget. It’s good to have them in one place.

Then we could compare them to Rove’s book, and Bush’s book when it comes out. That ought to give us some insight. This isn’t quite right, though.

No explanation was made for Bush NOT hammering home the facts on WMD and simply assuming the libmedia “punching bag posture” for years.

Rove did answer that question. Check the transcript tomorrow.

See:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030910/content/01125108.guest.html

Salient Excerpt:

Look, I should have, in the middle of 2003, you know, taken and sounded the warning bell. But I didn’t. I was preoccupied with the coming campaign and the pressure of the West Wing and I didn’t see how damaging it was. I did raise the issue and we talked about it, but there were a number of reasons for our inaction. One was people would say, “Well, it’s beneath the dignity of the president to refute such outlandish charges. If you wrestle with pigs, you get muddy.” And then another one was it would look defensive, you know, we don’t want to relitigate the past, we need to focus on winning the war, that will resolve it, not on this argument which nobody accepts. And the third one, frankly, was people were just worn down by the Iraq war debate. I mean, the fact that there weren’t stockpiles was a blow, and some White House aides simply wanted to avoid the topic and hope that if we didn’t say anything it would evaporate, and I should have said at the time, this is my responsibility, I should have said, you know what, this is not going to go away and this is going to be corrosive and this is worthy of the president of the United States responding in a powerful venue and the rest of us all hands on deck need to combat this because this is going to be corrosive. And what was amazing was, I knew, I remembered — you know, obviously this was in my consciousness when I sat down to write the book about this being damaging. But when I got into it and sort of went back and reconstructed how it happened, you can’t have Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, John Edwards, and Jane Harman all within the space of two days say the same thing without there having been some coordination, and I suspect some polling and focus groups to say this is the line of attack that we can use against Bush for political purposes.”

that anyone who had more personal interactions with Bush were impressed, unlike what his speeches to the public were. He regretted that “they” didn’t do more to adjust Bush’s speeches, to bring the real Bush out.

If Rove was the “architect” of the Bush WH, he missed more than Bushes speeches. He addressed Bush’s stuttering and stammering, he knew it was happening, and, he did nothing to stop/avoid it, for almost 8 freakin’ years. Was he advising Bush that he needed to back the Progressive agenda for entitlement expansion. Medicare part D, No Child left behind, and Amnesty?

I have considered Rove’s position as the man that controlled the WH, as much as Emanuel does today. His position was so terribly wrong, destructive, and invited Bush bashing, yet sat back, and, did nothing about it. I could care less what this loser has to say. He is very obviously a Progressive Republican. He is every bit as responsible for the Obama win as anyone. He currently supports the more “moderate” candidates. He is a SELL OUT.

topic but why does a California policeman pull up to a car going 90 miles an hour to help him stop as opposed to thinking he is a terrorist and wanting to force him off the highway ? Is it the media again.?

Rove did address the Valerie Plame leak thing: The WH was NOT informed of who the leaker (Armitage) was until after the dust had settled. Fitzgerald knew, Novak knew, and Powell knew — the WH did not know. That little episode completely obliterated any remaining respect I’d had for Colin Powell.

Neither Bush nor Cheney would have stood mute while Fitzgerald was doing his number on Scooter Libby, had they been aware that the leaker’s identity was already known to Fitzgerald, and I believe the “special prosecutor” should’ve been prosecuted for that one (and also for the way he mishandled the Blago thing).

They all wanted to leave when the going got tough.

The big irony about Iraq is this:

Saddam did a head fake to the world. Everyone thought he had WMD.
His own people on the inside thought he did as well. Bottom line – Saddam was another Hitler. Eventually he would have had his nukes – no doubt about it. Now when Iran DOES GO NUCLEAR the world won’t do anything about it. NOT EVEN after Iran lights up downtown Jerusalem.

Iran will hold the west hostage and the US will be a feeble, hollow shell of itself. Europe won’t have a savior this time. China & Russia will expand and take what they want. Get use to it.