Remember when President Bush made homeownership the centerpiece of his domestic policy? How’s that working out for America…
“Owning a home lies at the heart of the American dream.” So declared President Bush in 2002, introducing his “Homeownership Challenge” — a set of policy initiatives that were supposed to sharply increase homeownership, especially for minority groups.
Oops. While homeownership rose as the housing bubble inflated, temporarily giving Mr. Bush something to boast about, it plunged — especially for African-Americans — when the bubble popped. Today, the percentage of American families owning their own homes is no higher than it was six years ago, and it’s a good bet that by the time Mr. Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in.
Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
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A complete and lasting shift to the Democratic party?
The Bush brand is so damaged we might be spared Jeb?
Yup. One thing positive is that the Republican party is finally beginning to look like shitstain to middle America. Adios mutherfuckers.
Oooo Ooooo I know……. the new carpet in the oval office?
It’ll be torn down into fire wood
Since no one can afford heating oil either.
boosh has always hated everything, especially his own country.
he’s gotten his wish.
Well, Bush did give some hope to the retarded that they too could become President of the United States some day. I suppose that’s something.
bandit @ 1:
It certainly appears that way even to many Republicans as we see from these two headlines:
House Medicare bill gets veto-proof majority
http://thehill.com/leading-the.....06-24.html
Senate advances housing bill by veto-proof margin
http://thehill.com/leading-the.....06-24.html
He gave up golf in support of the troops?
He’s taken some of the social stigma behind getting a DWI?
One positive Legacy? Sure. That he left office.
Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Making comedy writer’s jobs easier.
He has successfully made people question the validity of capitalism and religion.
Permanent ruination of the GOP (greedy old perverts) party?
Legacy as THE worst president in American history?
Hatred for the Bush brand so we can tell Jeb to fuck off forever? (Making pappy oh so pissed off.)
Most corrupt administration in recent history? Makes Nixon look like a saint.
Lots-o-achievements. Worst of the worst.
And I’m lovin’ it!
Yep, blowing the repthuglicans was a great accomplishment. Hoist on their own petard they were! I still get giggles when I think of all those senators and reps waving purple thumbs in the air during the state of the Union address. All O’bama has to do is air that clip again and again and he’ll thump McSame soundly!
Christopher Turkel @ 2:
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Jeb, when’s Daisy-Mae gonna snag a husband?
She’s all of fourteen
An old maid.
Be careful what you ask for. Waiting in the wings is that boosh college dweeb, who likes to drunkenly party with transvestites, when he’s not lecturing us that we’re rascist, because we didn’t want important American harbors sold to Arabic intererests.
“Exit question: Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?”
* He didn’t kick out/kill all non-citizens, a/o Muslims, a/o arabs after 9/11 (and lets not kid ourselves some riech wingers wanted that).
* He’s presidency was so bad the very word republican has become a vulgarity.
* He left office……..I hope.
Not sure if this can be conflated into a legacy, but credit where credit is due:
The ‘Do Not Call List’ rocks.
Scorecard
Positive Legacy:1
Negative Legacy: Total Legacy -1
he’s made more people curious about prescott bush and smedley butler?
the best………..
if he or anyone of his administration travel out of the country
several countries in europe are just waiting with crimes against humanity
courts ready to arrest and incarcerate any and all of them.
bush here’s the door……..leave the country NOW !
Home ownership worked. I’m sure Dubya and Cheney’s friends own many properties now.
No third term.
The most positive thing that will happen in the Bush
Crime Spreeuh, Presidential Administration is when he leaves office once and for all. And let’s hope he left enough of a stain that we don’t have to suffer any more Republicans in that job…or at the very least no more members of the Bush Crime Family.Only one thing I can think of: he didn’t mess with Latin America for the Hell of it the way most US Presidents have done. Yes, he threatened Chavez, and yes, his administration has a lot of bigotry against Hispanics, but Bush’s Administration hasn’t actually done something to mess with Latin America as opposed to just making scary faces and using harsh language.
In the Cold War, Chavez would have suffered the fate of Salvador Allende. In the 19th Century, he would have suffered the fate of Moctehuzoma.
He gave us Ph.D.s in how to completely avoid reality.
foreclosure dot com
Down in sunny Crawford, three of Chimpy’s neighbors are on the foreclosure list, will he help them, not a chance.
and you can bet your bottom dollar, wherever McC*nt has one of his mansions, there are foreclosures going on too.
Foreclosures are an opportunity for the Republican money grabbers to buy up cheap properties from distressed people, they love it.
As with the S&Ls, Hedge funds, stock markets, pensions, 401Ks, oil price, all a golden oppo for the Repug crooks to make a killing at our expense.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory Over DIEBOLD! @ 19:
Wow, good point…and can anyone one the knuckle-headed Right tell me which one is the American Hero and which one was the Nazi Appeaser…sorry he wasn’t a Nazi Appeaser…he was actually part of the Nazi Machine.
“… it’s a good bet that by the time Mr. Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in.”
Sadly, that’s just about meaningless when compared with the damage Bush has done to the dollar,
and the economy.
Billy @ 28:
Not to mention our military and our good name!
Although you will not find someone who likes Bush less than I, his one positive achievement and legacy for Hawaii is declaring the Northwest Hawaiian Islands a national monument, strengthening even Clinton’s protections for the region. Of course, the NWHI have no oil under them and no industry with a lot of money(fishing) to put into lobbying…but to give credit where credit is due, he has done something positive.
He cleared brush on his ranch???
Can you name one positive legacy of George W. Bush’s presidency?
That there are only 211 days left in it?
The Do Not Call registry. I think Josh Marshall pointed that out a while back. That is something quite nice that I don’t know if they championed, but at least they didn’t derail it.
bandit @ 1:
Remember, Wilson thought Creationism was a dying ideology in the 1910s…
and today we have the Creation Museum. Don’t ever take a trend for granted.
General_Rennenkampf @ 24:
Its called world opinion, and mutual defense pacts, Bushco only attacks pre isolated countries.
Iraq had to be softened up for twelve years before the 2003 invasion, and subsequent genocide and looting could happen.
Bullies never attack people who can fight back.
Snore @ 31:
Former pig farm, not ranch.
Its working out the same way Bush offered tax credits for those who bought SUV’s back a few years ago because the car makers were crying to him on sagging sales. So much for that Stimulast Plan also. Like Bush didnt know we had an oil crisis back then as we do now?
Well now those SUV owners cant afford the gas to run them.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm And he has the nerve to blame US for being dependent on oil. Its like the dope dealer saying, “well if they didnt want it I wouldnt have sold it to them.” Bush pushed the SUV’s and now is telling us we’re horrible people for buying those gas guzzlers.
http://4wheeldrive.about.com/c.....41603a.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....reak_x.htm
Positive Bush legacy: Exxon profits through the roof!!!
An expanded American vocabulary, with words like “misunderestimated.”
TerroristFistJab @ 38:
and nukuler.
sharkcellar @ 7:
don’t be so rude….the mentally challenge are
leaps above bush……
they won’t fuck you over. in fact the mentally challenged
have IQ’s 75% higher than bush.
Name Required @ 30:
who made money on that deal?
think about it!
It has worked out about as well as all the other things that shithead has touched. The environment…education…healthcare….and America’s international reputation. They’ve all suffered significantly since Chimpy took the reins.
Amazing that in eight short years, this country has plunged so far, it may never recover.
My guess is that it never will.
Ummm…he has the #1 most corrupt administration in history…that’s an accomplishment, we’ve had some real douches in there.
To take your question literally, he’s done a lot for AIDS in Africa, thought the 1/3 of the funding going to abstinence programs is a giant skid mark on these otherwise clean undies.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 35:
Excellent point!
Kevin @ 43:
Nah, second most by a .999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 margin. Ulysses S. Grant’s administration has Bush’s beat to hell and gone.
Max @ 44:
that’s a crock!
look up what he’s done, not what he takes credit for!
He took more vacation days than any other president. A record that will be tough for the slackest of slackers to break.
Oh, and I think he did a lot for sales of “My Pet Goat”.
To be fair, the economy and foreclosure problem is not all Bush’s fault.
Much — if not most — of the blame needs to be laid at the feet of the Federal Reserve BOG, specifically Greenspan.
Bernanke, while appointed by Bush, gets an ever-so-small Mulligan, due to the fact that the problems he inherited from Greenie are so massive, and he really is in kind of a policy bind — too hawkish kills off potential “growth” and accelerates an inevitable crash, too lenient (as we’ve seen) produces inflation.
The rest of the blame for our economic woes falls squarely upon our own collective shoulders.
While times were nominally “good,” our savings rate plummeted below zero, as we loaded up on iPods, HDTVs, Monlo Blahniks and Yukons galore.
Yes, Washington policy had something to do with that, too, but if Washington told us all to jump into the Potomac, should we?
But. The democrats shouldn’t bail out struggling home owners. It’s not right that taxpayers should be bailing out people who knew what they doing when they signed on the dotted line.
http://apnews.myway.com/articl.....O9J80.html
Everyone needs to learn a hard lesson and we shouldn’t have to pay for it.
harley @ 39:
Believe it or not, that predated Bush.
At least now OBGYNs can practice their love on their patients, though.
The word ‘positive’ implies some metric that can be measured. Republicans don’t demonstrably believe in basing policy on things that can be shown to be factually effective. If they did, things would surely be different in Iraq. Ask any repug, and he or she will tell you things are going ‘great’ in Iraq, Afghanistan et al.
‘Positive’ to a republican means, did it piss-off the left? Have we covered up our closeted homosexuality? Have we passed money to our cronies? Have we rendered government ineffective? Did we pass war crime immunity to protect ourselves? Did we pass telecom immunity to cover up our impeachable offenses? That sort