No media bias in D.C., right?

This video shows how the White House press corps responds when G.W. Bush walks into the press room and when B.H. Obama walks in.

Abandoning free market principles

There's some troubling news emerging about former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke about the roles the played in Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch. The Wall Street Journal writes about an offer BoA CEO Ken Lewis could not refuse.

The WSJ piece (in its entirety here) states:

In the name of containing "systemic risk," our regulators spread it. In order to keep Mr. Lewis quiet, they all but ordered him to deceive his own shareholders. And in the name of restoring financial confidence, they have so mistreated Bank of America that bank executives everywhere have concluded that neither Treasury nor the Federal Reserve can be trusted.

President Bush said he abandoned free market principles to save the free market. Talk about a toxic asset.

I encourage you to read the WSJ piece.

Bob Woodward on Bush and Obama

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This is funny ... G.W. interviewing G.W. with the help of Will Ferrell. There is one word in it that some might find objectionable, rhymes with hisses.

Go shopping. Where have we heard that before?

Our government, first under the auspices of George W. Bush and now Barack H. Obama, began a shopping spree in the trillions to bail out failed business models. They are using wealth that has yet to be created (we are going in debt) and taxpayer money (hard-earned dollars confiscated from us).

After Sept. 11, 2001, this country was in shock. People were afraid to fly; no one was sure what lay ahead. During this time, Bush told us to go shopping and live life as normal. For this, he was mocked.

Now, we find ourselves in an economic crisis, and what is our government doing? Essentially, it is going shopping, purchasing roads, bridges, failed banks, suffering automakers and whatever else trillions of dollars can buy.

Bush says go shopping, and he is ridiculed. Obama basically says go shopping, and he is hailed as a genius.

Doesn't make sense or cents. Go figure.

If you do want to shop, this song from BNL might put you in the mood.

Shopping - Barenaked Ladies

Historians will be kind to his presidency

While George W. Bush will not go down as this country's best president, I believe history and historians will be much kinder to him than those trying to analyze his accomplishments now. September 11, 2001 forever altered his presidency. Whatever he had hoped to accomplish was set aside to focus on keeping America and Americans safe and to rid terrorism by spreading Democracy. While he was never the conservative I had hoped he would be (I was not a supporter of his until he tapped Dick Cheney to be his vice president), I am grateful for what he did to protect this country. May God bless his path as he transitions to life after politics.