Video: Michelle makes new friend on “The View”

“Everybody in the audience is going home with the book, The Culture of Corruption.”

We know The View audience doesn’t read. Need we ask the question, CAN they read? Joy reads the book’s cover and says, “I’ve read some of it.”

Malkin did a fine job having her say against the odds in a performance that’s earned another Brava!

The open assent that Bush was as corrupt as Obama should have been couched more strongly in DEGREE. Is this the tactic of agreeing with your enemy quickly, even if they’re wrong and you know it, so that you can sell your message? I see the rationale, but am wary of the compromise, giving an inch and yet losing a mile.

As per Harriet Meyers, Bush campaigned for her nomination, but did not twist arms or lie on her behalf. He simply stuck with his line that he thought she’d make a fine justice on the Supreme Court. Then he nominated another, now Chief Justice. Bush didn’t smear Meyers’ critics as misogynists, as Obama has smeared his critics and Sotomayor’s as racists.

On amnesty for illegal aliens, yes, Bush called citizens “vigilantes” for demanding immigration enforcement of current laws. But he ended up taking that back in public references after McCain’s comprehensive immigration reform bill failed. The Border Fence is still neither complete nor functioning. But that would be Obama’s fault.

Malkin equates the Bush administration with Obama’s. Yes, she specified the Iraq/Afghan wars, but that isn’t the sum total of the Bush legacy. And like Malkin, I too have my grievances against Bush for open borders.

Beyond the obvious failures to limit a bankrupt government’s services to its own citizens, the largest complaints against Bush’s domestic legacy regard the economy as he left office, gifting us our economic slavery under Geithner via Paulson. Worse even than horrible bail-outs, Bush slammed the irons round our necks with his Executive Order granting the Sec./Treasury carte blanche infinite powers owing no transparency to anyone, no reasons to anyone, to effectively own our nation’s economy. And we’ll never be rid of the new layer of Comprehensive Federal Bureaucracy overseeing all matters of our private lives after he entered office. Homeland Security, “meant” to serve American citizens but transforming to combat them instead, has censored all references to the original enemy it was created to combat, Islamofascism and the War on Terror, substituting veterans and right-wing activists as enemies of Statism.

But those were not Malkin’s reasons for dressing down Bush “as corrupt” for The View panelists and audience. They are grounds for another book, though sadly, as Statism is indeed Bush’s legacy that set the 21st Century American course of events. And Romney would be the smiling GOP to carry it all to the next level.

maverick muse on August 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM