Gail Collins Blames Bush for Not Using 9/11 to Pass Big Government Energy Program

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Bush's fault!

Liberals love to blame former president George W. Bush for such a wide variety of perceived woes that it has often turned into a joke.  Don't like the current deficit? Bush's fault! Polar ice cap might melt in a century? Bush's fault! A baseball playoff game is called off because it was snowed out? Bush's fault!

The above are all jokes but to Gail Collins of the New York Times it is no joke. Bush's fault! And in her latest blame Bush rant, Collins blames Bush for the unlikelihood of the current Cap and Trade bill  being passed by the Senate. Bush's fault! But in this case is that a bad thing if a high tax bill doesn't pass?

What kicked off Collins' latest rant was saying farewell for awhile to David Brooks in their periodic The Conversation column in which they discuss matters back and forth. Collins will be gone for a few weeks to go on a book tour but before she leaves she takes one final blast at her obsession:

Speaking of jerks, I’m afraid I’ve got to depart on a negative note because I need to register a long wail of pain and rage. It’s about George W. Bush.

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GEORGE W. BUSH!!! Slooowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...

I know we’re supposed to move on, and honest, I’ve tried to let it go. I have never once — well, until this very moment — dwelt on the fact that all our problems in Afghanistan might have been far less problematic if the last president hadn’t turned his attention away from the good fight to wage the dumb fight down the street.

Speaking of moving on... Oops! Sorry for interfering with your obsession, Gail. Please resume "re-Gailing" us with how just about everything bad is Bush's fault:

And during all this health care slog, I haven’t pointed out that this would be way, way easier if He Who Must Not Be Named hadn’t screwed everything up with those stupid tax cuts. O.K., I may have mentioned it once in a while. But not nearly as often as I thought it.

Bad nasty tax cuts. Putting more money back into taxpayers' pockets and allowing the economy to grow. Bad! Better for the government to waste those dollars. Bad tax cuts!

But this week I’ve been obsessed with energy. Watching the long struggle to get a health care bill through has made it pretty clear that the chances of getting any kind of effective energy bill passed are about nil.

Your energy obsession pales in comparison to your Bush obsession, Gail. Please return to it at once:

That means we’re not going to reduce our dependence on oil-rich governments that sponsor or shelter violent Islamic fanatics. We’ll have done nothing to set a good example for countries that are currently unenthusiastic about cracking down on Iran because they depend on Iran’s oil.

So does that mean Gail is supporting increased off-shore drilling? Silly me. Collins is an extreme liberal and we know that such an obvious solution is taboo in her circles. Much easier to blame "He Who Must Not Be Named."

You would need one big whopping dramatic moment to get Congress to pass an effective energy bill — the kind of moment that only comes along once in every several generations. We had it after Sept. 11. The country was totally ready to make sacrifices to fight the war on terror. It would still have been hard, but we could have done it.

Instead, President Bush decided to invade Iraq and cut taxes. I am never going to get over that.

I believe you, Gail. I believe you will never get over your Bush obsession. Bush's fault for not using the 9/11 tragedy for passing liberal big government legislation. And no matter how badly Barack Obama messes up the economy or generates foreign policy failures, it will always be Bush's fault in your mind. So for you folks who happen to meet Gail Collins on her book tour, please don't mention the name of...

GEORGE W. BUSH!!! Slooowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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   We of 'modern' times

   We of 'modern' times have wondered how Hitler was able to persuade large numbers of educated Gemans to follow his demonic persecution of Jews.  Here we have in Ms. Collins an example of that thinking where all of the problems that beset her and the nation are imbedded in one man.

Where to begin.....?

That was a special kind of dumb.    It was the kind of dumb that you have to order from a boutique and then wait six weeks for it to arrive.    It was custom made dumb.

It kills me how these uber lefties talk about Afghanistan as if they ever supported it.   As far as Iran goes she will jump for joy when they test a nuke.   All the lefties will because it will supposedly give some balance against Israel.    The woman is nuts.   Plain and simple.   Typical white liberal.

" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him....-Sen. Jim DeMint

9/11 was a crisis gone to waste?

That's pretty cynical.

Too bad Bush didn't push

Too bad Bush didn't push drill baby drill.

The hoaxers never get enough do they. Going to be a terrible winter for the hoaxers. Watch the food supply, the cold has already taken down lots of late season crops up north.

Never ever bet against the sun.

the cold has already taken down lots of late season crops up nor

the cold has already taken down lots of late season crops up north.

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really?? grains  local veggies??  can u provide some detail here??

would appreciate it..

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I believe

I believe that Ms. Collins' angst is real, and I must admit, it "makes a tingle run up my leg" to know that W continues to haunt her, and might possibly drive her mad.

Well, I should say, even more mad than she already is. 

JOKE!

The only jokes here are Gail Collins & The New York Slimes!

Gail, you fail

Yes Gail, let's not produce our own oil using the cleanest and most sophisticated 21st Century techniques to create American oil independance and jobs, let's get our oil from countries where it is common to spill one barrels worth on the precious Mother Earth for every single barrel shipped. That's smart progressive thinking!

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Write your Congress and Senate and tell them what YOU think!

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Oh Gail -- don't let the

Oh Gail -- don't let the door slam you in the arse on the way out the liberal echo chamber...  you halfwit

That means we’re not going to reduce our dependence on oil-rich governments that sponsor or shelter violent Islamic fanatics.

The top three major oil exporters to the US are

1. CANADA

2. MEXICO

3. VENEZUELA

All around 9000 miles west of the middle east.

Chicago's 2016 Olympic Games bid... one more example of Obama's SMART diplomacy. 

Oh yes.  It is all Bush's

Oh yes.  It is all Bush's fault that your side has the votes in congress and the presidency but has accomplished nothing.  It is all Bush's fault that you are so obsessed by his very memory that you refuse to live in the present.  It is all Bush's fault that your hair is going gray and you look like a Sharpei with dermatitis.  It is all Bush's fault that (fill int he blank with ridiculous cause and effect).

Get over it, Gail.  Or get a Cymbalta prescription.  Either way, your obsessions with Bush are getting to the point of dissociative symptoms that will land you in the acute psych unit for evaluation under a mental hygiene warrant.

         What

         What gives her the right to tell us what she thinks, without us being able to tell the world what we think. She, and the rest of the media, are supposed to REPORT the news, not throw their views in our face. If I want to know what they think, I'll ask them.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Let's all not buy Ms Collins new book. :-) ACA

That would be for starters, but I'm sure no one here is very interested.  I'm sure all the people on this site will run out and greet her on the tour and ask for autographed copies.

Frankly, I'm a bit tempted myself.  After all, what greater example for posterity than her book?  With her vile attitude toward defeating Terrorism whether in Iraq or Afghanistan centered about Bush, history could record no greater example than whatever she puts into print.

Vile is a great word.  I've decided to incorporate it into the 2010 nomination for the word of 2010.  Trillion already won the IguanaBoyz award for 2009.

I'm getting older, darn it, and I'm afraid that sometime in the future, no one will be nominating and awarding words of the year.  But I digress.

Let's just review briefly the Liberal Left attitude toward war.  Code Pink is one end and 'We Hate Saddam, but he was better than liberty and freedom under the US troops.'

Am I getting senile or did I hear over and over again the mantra from the Left about Iraq?  I remember something to the effect that 'our slaughter of innocents in Iraq is the Recruiting Poster for Al-Qaeda'.  Also, the so-called 'good' war in Afghanistan was hampered by a lack of NATO commitment to agressive counter-insurgency and so Bush, who never made a friend abroad in his life, let the NATO troops run the show; but for some reason is responsible for any setbacks there.

If any of the NATO countries had actually let their troops face danger - aside from camping out in the country rather than bitch about the war in Iraq and the failure to capture Bin Laden; forbid the idea of actually doing something.

I'm not really trying to take away from the troops' efforts.  I am more than sure that individually they serve with honor.

But the leadership issues prevail.

Now, Obama has taken ownership of the leadership; where is it?

I don't see it.

Yet, Liberals will never shift focus from their hatred of George W. Bush because it is their core.  They have no other value to expose to us.  We must simply conclude that their 'thinking' function is impaired to the degree their creative juices are dried up.

So it goes....

 

ACA

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

PJ - Bush did try to pass major energy policy - reform

PJ - Bush did try to pass major energy policy - energy reform. It included a smart grid, a beefed up grid, ANWAR exploration for oil and gas, offshore drilling, nuclear energy, and alternative energy.

However, just like his efforts to reform SS, Medicare, and immigration policy, the national MSM and the Democrats, in the face of broad support from we the people, attacked him and the Repbulicans from every possible angle and defeated the effort.

(;~/ gary  

Gail Collins from 2008

Ahem:

Demanding that Congress come back from vacation to do something is a time-honored political gambit...

Both McCain and Barack Obama have spent the last few days wandering around the country, scowling at gas pumps and talking up their energy plans...

 

So Obama talked about gas when it was important and has since moved on, but it's still Bush's fault. Got it.

"Dumb" fight?

It always amazes me how liberals tend to ignore reality .  This comment that Bush "turned away" from "good fight to wage the dumb fight down the street" highlights this departure from reality rather succinctly.  Why can't the Liberals explain why we're winning the fight in Iraq, if it was just a "dumb fight" as they claim, and losing the fight in Afghanistan, as they claim, if it was the 'good" fight? Do the liberals all think that a losing war is the best war to wage?

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These Libtards would have

These Libtards would have opposed any Bush program including authorizing a new coat of paint on the White House.

Once Socialized Medicine goes through then these malcontents will be too busy crowing about how Dear Leader is finally leading this nationo the right track...anti-Bush rants are for when Obama's facing challenges that's over his head or below his interest, scandals, etc.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

The truth is coming out

These libs are revealing their true colors more and more each day. She said "we all have to make sacrifices" -- as she's explaining why massive tax increases are desired.

Sacrifice is correct. The economy went into the tank after terrorists killed 3,000 people, and this idiot believes we should have "sacrificed" more. And why? Not to go after the killers. No, not that sacrifice. Instead, to pass cap and tax. That's the sacrifice we all should have placed on top priority 8 years ago.

Part of the "don't let a crisis go to waste" crowd -- supported by the NYT, of course.

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Actually, our problem with

Actually, our problem with regard to energy is the fact that we cater to and indulge the enemy within: the parasites and economic terrorists who refer to themselves as "environmentalists".  And just because Gail Collins never learned how to brush her teeth shouldn't mean that I am forced to subsidize her dental work through an Obamunist "health care" program.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Amen to your response..right

Amen to your response..right on..

Woodstock permanently

Woodstock permanently screwed up her brain.

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