Bush Bro's, California Going Broke

In an interview with Charlie Gibson, he who glares over the top of his glasses, George Bush said that looking back, he doesn't think he was prepared for war. This, of course, is a ploy for our sympathy, and we can forgive him for making the decisions he made because he didn't have the right intelligence.

In 1998, when Bill Clinton was President, the Republican Congress passed a resolution that supported regime change in Iraq. After 9/11, Bush, Cheney, and their cronies tried to fit what scant facts they had into a shoehorn and then tried to sell it to the American public. There have been many books and articles written on how Bush knowingly lied to the American people just do he could invade Iraq, because he had a hair up his heiny over Saddam Hussein. He ignored any information that didn't fit with his preconceived idea, and slandered those who were the messengers of that information. 

Once we were occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, there was no plan, and to this day all of the infrastructure that we destroyed has not been rebuilt. Billions of dollars have been lost in bribes, and the Iraqi oil fields have not paid for the war. Only within the last couple of years has a successful plan to battle the homegrown insurgency, and it looks like all hell will break loose again once we leave. 

Trying to position himself as the next best thing since sliced bread for the Republican Party, and with an eye on 2012, Jeb Bush gave an in-depth interview with Newsmax. In it he gave this advice:

" The party should establish a loyal opposition and “organize ourselves in the form of a shadow government” that would address key issues, providing the public with “a loftier debate about policy” rather than mere partisanship.

On the state and local level, Bush says the GOP should demonstrate “a passion for reform.”
The party must hold fast to its convictions. “We can’t be Democrat-lite. We can’t just ‘get along,’” he told Newsmax. “We have to actually be proposing solutions to what appear to be intractable problems as it relates to education, healthcare, infrastructure. Across the board there are ways that we can show that we are truly on the side of the people that are concerned about the future of the country, without abandoning our principles.”

Bush cited Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as “a great example of a governor who is leading by example, and has a passion for reform. That should be the model across the country.”

Bush also offered Obama advice on one of his favorite issues, education: “Obama should defy his core constituency. He should take on the teachers’ union and be on the side of disadvantaged families who send their kids to schools that almost assure that their children will not have the same opportunities that were afforded them. That is an un-American situation, and there’s much that can be done to narrow the achievement gap. " Who would you pay more attention to, Newt or Jeb?

California is going broke, to the tune of 11.1 billion dollars. By Feb it will be out of cash, and it will be the first in line of states also asking the Federal government for a bailout. I'm not sure what ol' Arnold is going to do, maybe he will have to go back to making movies to balance the budget. This all comes after it was announced that Hummer was going to discontinue its over-bloated lineup of vehicles. Next thing you know we will normalize relations with Cuba and have cheaper quality cigars available, it will ruin his lifestyle...

But seriously, California could ask the Iraqi's for the loan, just behind the auto industry. The Iraqi's can use some of the 60 plus billion dollars they have sitting in New York banks, they get to be the good guys for awhile, and they get guaranteed loan payments for the next several years, an incentive to stay democratic. Unless California defaults, giving Iraq an excuse to invade our Pacific shore...