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Mr. Bush is re-emerging to promote his memoir, to be published a week after the Nov. 2 elections.
While the timing suggests that the book will not provide fodder for midterm campaigns, Mr. Bush will return to the public eye just as the Republican Party looks ahead to asserting greater power in Congress and to choosing its 2012 presidential nominee, and as President Barack Obama accuses the GOP of wanting to take the country back to Bush-era programs that, the Democratic president says, "drove the car into the ditch."[...] And the contents of his memoir make it likely that his voice will be heard on policy issues of the moment.
The book, "Decision Points," published by Crown Publishing Group, lays out 14 major decisions by Mr. Bush during his life and White House tenure. Among them, according to several people who have seen the manuscript: backing the bailout of the nation's financial system, enacting billions of dollars in tax cuts, limiting the use of human embryonic stem cells, and building up troops in Iraq for the so-called surge.
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Jun '10
Re: W.
1. Thank you W. for waiting until after mid-terms to publish!
2. If only, somehow, in some way, this book can accomplish the one thing that would actually help the cause of liberty and common sense governance: open a door for Jed to be able to run in 2020.
God, if you can do this one thing, I will never sin again. Amen.
Jul '10
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George Bush, an apostle of Big Government, spent more on non-defense budget items than any president since LBJ, and his frat boy buffoonery laid the table for the worst president in modern history with the possible exception of Woodrow Wilson. I attribute the rehabilitation of the GOP to the seeming rejection of his spending policies, although that remains to be verified when Republicans are back behind the wheel. Both he and his father are privileged country club Republicans from the same Ivy League blue-blood mold of Prescott Bush. They moved to Texas and Dubya found religion, but otherwise they are members in good standing of the East Coast elite that runs this country. Jeb would be a Bush too far. If you want conservatives to sit on their hands again, put him on the ticket.
Jul '10
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Mark Lewis: 1. Thank you W. for waiting until after mid-terms to publish!
2. If only, somehow, in some way, this book can accomplish the one thing that would actually help the cause of liberty and common sense governance: open a door for Jed to be able to run in 2020.
God, if you can do this one thing, I will never sin again. Amen. · Aug 29 at 8:32am
Jeb Bush?
The Jeb Bush who rushed to the microphone to be the first "prominent Republican" to denounce the Arizona immigration law?
That Jeb Bush?
May '10
Re: W.
I like Jeb, but even if he were the perfect conservative I wouldn't want him to run for POTUS. However much ground we cover in knocking down the media's tired narratives, nothing short of a genuine miracle would make another Bush candidacy a good idea. Like, a miracle on the scale of parting of the Red Sea... and I can't imagine God loves the Bush family that much!
Re: W.
My guess is that this is going to be a watershed book. It'll be jeered at and mocked by the left -- and the Obama administration is going to try to use it as a reminder, a kind of spooky Halloween story, to frame the midterm choice -- sort of a "Remember how awful it was when they ran the country?" gambit.
That's going to misfire. For all of GWB's mistakes -- and he did spend an awful lot of money, as Your Grace points out, though I'm loathe to characterize a person's upbringing or family -- my sense is that he's not the reviled figure that the Obama crowd thinks he is. At least not anymore, now that we've all got something else to compare it to.
May '10
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Hope you're right, Rob! I'm sure any quote that can be twisted will be tied into a knot by the usual suspects, with every CNN / ABC / CBS / NBC / MSNBC anchor trotting out a weary expression at the indignity of having to discuss again why George W. Bush was the worst president ever.
I'm not as optimistic as you are that we the people will see through it this time around. After all, President Obama's approval ratings are still in the double digits...
Jul '10
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I'm anticipating this book every bit as much as I was slavering for the release of Markos Moulitsas' opus.
I happened to get my hands on some prospective chapter titles:
Who came up with that title? Sounds like a Power-Point thing.