Conservative Pulse

Honestly, I am completely tired of George Bush at this point. America needs a new President… one who will stand-up for our national interests.

We’re giving Saudi Arabia giant piles of money for their oil and then allowing them to turn around and use our money to buy our high tech weapons. To use our money to invest in and purchase controlling shares of our major corporations and national assets. And to use our own oil money to fund extremist schools that exist as breeding grounds for the next generation of terrorist bombers.

The Democrats have nothing to offer… and I’m not sure how much any of the leading Republican candidates will do to fix things. But at the same time, I’m not sure if anyone could do a much worse job than President Bush has in the last couple of years.

It doesn’t take an economist to see something is wrong…

–> McKinsey warns US may lose financial leadership
–> Survey: Asia Has World’s Freest Economy
–> US banks get $21bn foreign bail-out
–> Pat Buchanan: Subprime Nation

But aside from a half-hearted (and failed) attempt to fix Social Security, the Bush administration has largely tried to ignore any domestic problems. Unless it involved installing security cameras or bomb sensors in airports and other public places. Gee, I’m so glad that we’ll be able to watch our crumbling national infrastructure and lines of jobless citizens on our awesome new night-vision cameras.

I said six months or a year ago that I was sick and tired of defending the Bush administration, because they weren’t earning our defense of them. Well, I’m actually beyond that point now. So many squandered opportunities exist. This administration could have ranked among the greatest in history… the events all lined up.

A real leader, engaged and motivated to take action, could have done something amazing with the last four years. But it just hasn’t happened… and I am sick of defending what’s gone on in some of these areas. Why do we have such a gigantic trade debt? Why are we allowing the American economy to be eaten hollow by foreign interests? Why are we paying brutal Middle Eastern dictators billions of dollars for oil that we could be pumping ourselves from Alaska and other places? Why are we helping companies move American jobs overseas? And why are we letting the Congress and the President continue to do nothing… or almost nothing… about the situation?

And beyond the damage that this administration’s inaction has done to the country and the economy at large… it’s also been horrible for the Republican Party. All of our resources and our fight was exausted in defense of an unworthy administration. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit now that, in one year’s time, we’ll be living under a President Hillary Clinton. Unless the Republican Party shapes up and becomes an agent of agressive change… it’s hard to imagine a GOP victory in November. Particularly if we’re spiraling into what is already being called the “Bush Recession” by many liberals in the media.