LATimes: Romney and GOP still toe the Bush line.

[pnwmom]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-bush-republicans-20120914,0,1593687.story

Republican leaders are sick and tired of Democrats blaming all the nation's problems on George W. Bush, and of being tarnished by the former president's legacy. From walrus-mustached former U.N Ambassador John Bolton, to Bush's brother Jeb, to Fox News host Sean Hannity (who seldom lets a guest criticize Bush without pointing out that President Obama has been running the country for years), to "tea party" activists who since the 2008 elections have been complaining that Bush's failures could be blamed on the fact that he was not sufficiently conservative, the GOP would seem to wish Bush's name could be erased from the history books.

And that would be fine, if Republicans also repudiated Bush's policies. They haven't. Not only do Mitt Romney's ideas appear to gibe with Bush's on almost every particular, the Republican Party platform reads as if it could have been written by the Bush administration. The extraordinary mistakes made during Bush's eight-year presidency in the arenas of foreign policy, environmental protection and taxing and spending -- the ones that worsened relations between the U.S. and its allies and rivals around the world, caused the deficit to skyrocket and produced deadly environmental disasters -- almost certainly would be repeated by a Romney administration and/or a Republican Congress.

A few examples:

A bedrock GOP principle during the 2012 election campaign is the preservation of the Bush tax cuts, which were promoted and signed by Bush and approved by a majority Republican House and an evenly divided Senate. By now, the results are pretty clear. A Census Bureau report this week showed that the gap between rich and poor has hit a record, with households in the top 20% of income earners now accounting for an all-time high of 50% of the nation's wealth. It would be simplistic to blame this gap solely on the Bush tax cuts, but there is also little question that they played a role. A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that Bush's tax policies had conferred "the most benefits, by far, on the highest-income households," a conclusion echoed by many of the nation's top economists.


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[graham4anything]

1. the powers that be await Jeb16 and the hope he can defeat Hillary

so what surprises you in that the powers that be won't repudiate Bush.

they do however want to repudiate the crazy republicanlibertarianteaparty.

Remember something, their wants are not our wants, therefore we don't understand why they do the things they do.

But it is my belief GWB43 did everything he wanted to do in 8 years and it was by choice, as awful as his choices appeared to us to be.

(but then there were actually people in our party that hated LBJ and forgot just how great he was, believing the wrong spin, causing the loss in 1968 because of it. (same thing happened in 1980).

We must make sure to vote democrat in 14, 16,18 and 20 and forever keep Jeb out of office by not letting enough people vote for him.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Hillary will not run

[SoapBox]

3. And as long as they tow the BushCo. line...

they will lose.

[pnwmom]

4. The problem is, they're pretending not to, and most of the media

is letting them get away with it. So I was glad to see this in a fairly conservative outlet.