House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'

I read the CNN interveiw about House Speaker Pelosi's comment on President Bush's performance. I agree he has been bad for our country but why should he shoulder the blame by himself. He is the President but he could not put us in this state without the help of his adminstration, the Congress, the Senate and the Judicial branch. I think we should consider that even we as voters should shoulder some of the blame because we put these people in office who had their own agenda and we should have had the fix voting reveiwed and asked more quesions about their earmark bills. We all let so much go far and get so very bad. I reflect on this often and I find it very hard to look at the children who will have to inherit this land.

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Permalink Reply by SJC on July 18, 2008 at 11:57pm: If a Democrat had done even half of the bad things that Bush has done, the Republicans would have impeached him long ago. They impeached Clinton for playing with a female intern and trying to keep his private business private, knowing full well that the Senate would never convict. Pure mean and spiteful people wanting to get even.

Bush has screwed things up SO badly that he has brought the country to the brink of collapse. The list is so long no one knows where to start when you recite all the wrong doing. He has acted reckless and irresponsible all his life and gotten off the hook for all of it. Millions will suffer for this idiot's wrong doing and he should be held accountable for once.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RD Davis on July 19, 2008 at 7:42am: klinton was impeached for perjury.

Bush had to straighten out the klinton recession...................

http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/2002/nov-dec02/spotlight.htmlThe Recession of 2001Morton J. MarcusExecutive Director, Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business, Indiana UniversityThe standard way of defining a recession looks at the value of economic output adjusted for inflation. This measure is known as Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Two consecutive quarters of decline in Real GDP is generally considered to be a recession. By this definition, the U.S. had a recession in the first three quarters of 2001 (see Figure 1).----------------------------------------------------Now, lets examine. The first three quarters of '01 would be jan, feb, march, the first quarter, april ,may, june, the 2nd quarter,july, august and september would be the third quarter. Who was president on january 1, 2001? klinton!!! Like I said, Bush inherited an economy in recession.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by A Thompson on July 20, 2008 at 2:41pm: Bush followed the path of all previous administrations except he put us in his own personal war. Not based of reliable fact but just to feather his own financial cap. His administration and congress have jointly ruined this country and put us all in peril. Clinton did not put us in a war and Clinton didn't ignore the Floods in this country. Bush didn't make New Orleans whole. His administartion allowed FEMA to ignore the needs of New Orleans. His own mother made a comments that these people are living better than they ever have. He acted poorly as well as his admistration and his family. Thousands died and many are still not buried to this day. As well as they are still homeless. It is all so very sad and could have been avoided.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RD Davis on July 21, 2008 at 12:45pm: Bullshit. Bush did just what EVERYONE in gubmint had been saying needed done, for years before he took office. klinton didnt have the balls for the job.

Bill Clinton: "If Saddam rejects peace, and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
Madeleine Albright, Clinton Secretary of State: "We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and the security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Advisor and Classified Document Thief: "[Saddam will] use those weapons of mass destruction again as he has ten times since 1983."
Harry Reid: "The problem is not nuclear testing; it is nuclear weapons. … The number of Third World countries with nuclear capabilities seems to grow daily. Saddam Hussein's near success with developing a nuclear weapon should be an eye-opener for us all."
Dick Durbin: "One of the most compelling threats we in this country face today is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Threat assessments regularly warn us of the possibility that…Iraq…may acquire or develop nuclear weapons."
John Kerry: "If you don't believe…Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me."
John Edwards: "Serving on the Intelligence Committee and seeing day after day, week after week, briefings on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and his plans on using those weapons, he cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons, it's just that simple. The whole world changes if Saddam ever has nuclear weapons."
Nancy Pelosi: "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons-inspection process."
Sens. Levin, Lieberman, Lautenberg, Dodd, Kerrey, Feinstein, Mikulski, Daschle, Breaux, Johnson, Inouye, Landrieu, Ford and Kerry in a letter to Bill Clinton: "We urge you, after consulting with Congress and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions, including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
After President Bush was sworn into office in 2001, his administration was handed eight years worth of intelligence analysis and policy positions from the Clinton years — you know, the years of appeasement when Saddam was tolerated, when opportunities to take out Osama bin Ladin were ignored, as was the presence of an al-Qa'ida terrorist cell in the U.S. — which reared its head on 9/11.
In the weeks prior to the invasion of Iraq, Democrats, who had access to the same intelligence used by the Bush administration (much of which was compiled under the Clinton administration), were clear about the threat of Iraq's WMD capability.
Ted Kennedy: "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
John Kerry: "I will be voting to give the president of the U.S. the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security. … Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein."
Hillary Clinton: "In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock. His missile-delivery capability, his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists including al-Qa'ida members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Carl Levin: "We begin with a common belief that Saddam Hussein…is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Al Gore: "We know that he has stored nuclear supplies, secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."

Bob Graham: "We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has and has had for a number of years a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
For the record: Here's a partial list of what didn't make it out of Iraq before the OIF invasion: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium, 1,700 gallons of chemical-weapon agents, chemical warheads containing the nerve agent cyclosarin, radioactive materials in powdered form designed for dispersal over population centers, artillery projectiles loaded with binary chemical agents, etc. Assuming Irag had no WMD because only small caches were recovered after Operation Iraqi Freedom began is perilously flawed logic. That, in no way, affirms what he spirited out through Iran and Syria before OIF.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Albert Johnson on July 23, 2008 at 11:56am: We went to Iraq for Weapons of Mass Destruction and they were not there, So everything you have written has nothing to do with why we went to IRAQ and you should ask those people who lost love ones.

I had some of my peopl overthere and I pray for them everyday, however the results are good so lets bring our boys home slowly.

Remember Collin Powell was very upset that he was shined over by Rumsfeld so he did the honorable thing and resigned on his own accord.

Rumsfeld had to resign by demand; although not proven, because he made bad decisions concerning why we went to war. Look at how many people have come and gone in the 8 years on this administration. House Cleaning has been BIG.

I am not interested in who is the next President, I am interested on how we as a united force can control our destiny no matter who is President. I will be bying myself a Bicycle and I will be puting it on the bus as soon as I start goint back to school at the RED MCCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.

Now thats my committment to you and everyone else that is under the Boone Pickens umbrella of stopping our dependency on OIL PERIOD.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Larry Kinsey on July 25, 2008 at 7:08pm: Great job. Everyone should go to You Tube and watch the Clinton Chronicles.
The video is 1 hour long and the real truth arises from the pits.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Beth Locklear on August 13, 2008 at 12:09am: You tube does not qualify as a reliable source!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by dave murray on July 28, 2008 at 8:02am: all he was doing was protecting our way of life. hussein was a menace to the world just like hitler. bush didn't let it escalate. we went into viet nam just to slow the spread of communism i thought that was good enough. hussein could have started ww3 changing this earth in ways most people can't open there eyes to. whether they just can't grasp it or they just don't want to. these are great facts. too bad some of these people can't see it. oh maybe they are from the clinton era. they read it but couldn't inhale it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lock Piatt on July 31, 2008 at 12:32pm: Democrats

The majority of YOUR Senators and House members voted to APPROVE the Iraq War. They reviewed the same info Bush used and they came to the same conclusion. If the info was bad it was because the Democrats gutted the CIA spy network to satisfy the ACLU left wing of the party.

Quite the DAMN blame game and get on board to save the American economy and future by increasing energy production, every kind and everywhere.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Greg Hall on August 1, 2008 at 9:24am: That's right only democratics get blamed for whatever. Republicans sins should be glossed over and forgotten. When Bush and Cheney are rotting in jail I'll be happy. They are international criminals to the world for war mongering torture and should be criminals at home due to their systematic shredding of the constitution.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Beth Locklear on August 13, 2008 at 12:08am: If Bush came along to fix Clinton's mess like you say, why did he not succeed in doing that for the last 8 years? Oh, I forgot, he's been busy with the war that is adding to our financial problems here in the US! He's so engrossed in this futile war that he has dropped the ball in healthcare, education, energy, corruption in Washington DC, immigration, and so on.....and the middle class is paying for it. It's time for change and we can start with Pickens plan.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by dave murray on July 28, 2008 at 7:49am: 1 a president gives up the control of his personal holdings while he is president. he has to appoint someone to manage it.
2 bush didn't make new orleans a sink hole that had been warmed for years this was going to happen
3 new orleans was acting just like clinton. out of sight out of mind.
4 put that in your pipe and smoke. oh but don't inhale.; ▶ Reply to This