Was Bush A Gift To The Left?

During the election the chants of “Hope” from Mr. Obama and his followers always seemed to be said with a smile. Today those smiles are gone and have been replaced by the stern condescending look of someone very frustrated that a socialist agenda is being met with resistance from the right and conservatives all around the country. Thankfully, conservatives have finally spoken up and we can only “hope it’s not too late to reverse course.

If you listen to the liberal media, you will hear something very interesting. On the cover of Newsweek magazine they declare, “We are all socialists now.” This is not viewed as a negative event but one met with cheer. The interesting part of this article is that it decries the Bush Administration as the source of all of our economic problems: “The U.S. government has already – under a conservative Republican administration – effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries.” Yes, that’s true, Bush did effectively start this mess with the TARP program among other welfare type programs. Maybe this is why Bush’s approval rating was so low. There had to be many unhappy conservatives in order produce such a low number.

So the left cries that Bush was terrible, yet he laid the groundwork for the Democrats to effectively walk into office and continue on the same path. So why is it that when Nancy Pelosi does it the left calls it brilliant but when Bush did it he was worst president ever? Do democrats think that doing the same thing the Bush administration did will help us climb out of this economic mess? No, they don’t, and in fact they might very well want this to fail so they can push for more government control.

So how did we get here? If you ask the left they will say Bush spent us into a recession. Forget about the likes of Barney Frank pushing for more low income housing loans and protecting his lover’s company from oversight before the collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. I can only point to the greatest gift the left has had in 30 years. George W. Bush! Without Bush they would never have succeeded in winning the election with the most liberal President EVER, and they would have never been able to even utter the number $838 billion dollars in the largest spending bill to pass through the halls of Congress.

America of 2009 is on its way to becoming what Newsweek magazine called the Modern European State. Oh, and they said it with a smile.