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John Cornyn said this in a C-SPAN interview: "I think President Bush's stock has gone up a lot since he left office. I think a lot people are looking back with more fondness on President Bush's administration, and I think history will treat him well."
The NBC/WSJ poll, however, does not bear that out. Bush’s numbers largely are unchanged. Our poll showed him with a 29%-50% fav/unfav -- largely unchanged from Jan. 2009, when Obama took office. (Then, Bush was at 31%/58%.)
Sen. David Vitter accused President Obama of playing politics by supposedly trying to move the Gulf oil spill out of the headlines by not appearing there since last month, June 4th.
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Hasn't Biden been going around lately saying what a great idea it was to take out Saddam Hussein and taking credit for the relative success there? Don't knock Joe by bringing up the ocasional murders by suicide bombings. More people than that are killed every weekend in Democrat-run cities throughout the USA.
CU Rambo, what the hell are you talking about? if you can, try and read the article before commenting there tough guy. by the way, great attention span there.
Idiot did you even read the article your suppose to be commenting on?
Idiot did you even read the article your suppose to be commenting on? You Republicans have to start your crap early don't you.
Ofcourse Corny Cornyn would lie about people pining for Clueless George Bush who wrecked our economy and killed thousands of our brave soldiers with his unnecessary war in Iraq that was only about allowing Halliburton and Blackwater to steal Iraqi oil and tens of billions in taxpayer money. Rest assured that history will not treat the many illegal acts of War Criminals Bush and Cheney kindly. His two tax cut welfare programs for the rich and greedy failed to create the jobs they promised us they would and left us over $6 trillion more in debt. Clueless George's rating have slipped some since he left office and that's a good sign that real Americans know he wrecked our economy. Nope illegal wiretapping and illegal torture won't play well in the future for War Criminals Bush and Cheney.
Prostitute Patron Vitter is only trying to pump his failing popularity up with the Gulf oil spill, he has done nothing to actually help the situation, but that's repugnant ones for you. Unlike the Prostitute Patron President Obama has many problems to solve and can't run down to the Gulf everyday to hiold hands with red state conservative crybabies like Prostitute Patron Vitter and Booby Jindal.
Oh and how is that Berm work going Booby Jindal? Lose a bunch of equipment when it got washed into the Gulf as your new berms are being washed away by the tides as you didn't bother to hire any real engineers to engineer the berms properly? You Betcha!
Gotta love those from the party of NO. You'd think they actually did something good for this country in the last 10 years, instead of basically ruining citizens lives for the sake of large corporations. I haven't forgotten, and it's soured a person who has voted for both parties-me!
I've seen enough in those 10 years to know until I die they'll never get my vote-ever. From 911, to Iraq, to foreclosures with no end, to TARP bailouts, an economic disaster which has tied the hands of our current Administration in real reform, I will keep my votes going to the party who is actually trying to HELP Americans.
The GOP rhetoric has deterred people from viewing the Democrats properly, but when the dust settles and people actually remember what the Party of NO has done in the last 10 years, I'm sure Michael Steel will have some 'splainin' to do In November!
McConnell again seems to be logically self-contradictory and as usual 'puppet' like in serving the interests of the very few, his strong supporters and benefactors.
Eh, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Cornyn, it was Mr. Bush's Administration that got us into much of the mess we are in today. Do you really want that to continue and if so why on Earth would anyone want high unemployment, tax breaks for the wealthy while fighting two expensive wars, borrow money from Communist China to pay for said wars, and why would anyone want us to be hated even by former friends in the world? He pines for a return to the Fascist wannabe Dick Cheney's policies? We may not have gotten the changes President Obama talked about in the campaign over night but we are seeing some changes. Why didn't you guys do anything about illegal immigration when you controlled Congress and the White House? Why were there no regulations in place that would prevent banks from getting away with taking our money and running or from the medical insurance companies taking our premiums and giving us little or nothing in return? You offer NO viable ideas or alternatives of any kind. All you do is whine and complain. You will get far more respect and more people listening and agreeing with you if you actually do offer good ideas, something other than no to anything but tax cuts for the wealthy.
GOP........you have got to be kidding!!!!!!!!!!!
mcconnell has always been a muppet in his reigning days as senator of Ky (one of the highest on unemployment) and still haven't been able to make any intelligent decisions. My dad says you can never trust one that can't look you in your face. That says a lot for mcconnell who can't change his contorted face with a smile. I think that comes from many years of being told what to say or do. It has been obvious that the party of NO is still being controled from the sidelines of past. I do believe that and mcconnell have been left in this admin to fend for himself and he and his comrads have absolutely no idea what makes sense as before and I've got to say, they make no sense at all. This has become a vicious cycle that nds to be broken. Snowe and Collins the American People really appreciate the consensus that you have for the American People and keep the fate...
I miss GWB about as much as I do cleaning up dog poo now that I no longer have a dog.
John Cornyn the biggest lap dog of dubya's who refuses to see what he has done to this country and to the state of Texas