Harry Reid Says Bush Is The Worst President We’ve Ever Had

  •  January 5, 2009

Which is exactly the sort of send-off for any Republican president you’d expect a hack like Reid to give:

WASHINGTON (CNN) – As the nation prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, a leading Democrat is not letting up in his criticism of President George W. Bush.
“I really do believe President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

I’m not going to defend Bush’s record as President because I do think it’s been pretty bad. Bailouts? Expansion of government entitlements? Expansion of government in general? A refusal to use his executive veto powers to slow spending? There are a lot of very good reasons to dislike Bush, and to think he’s been a bad President, but the worst President in history?
Names like “Hoover” and “Johnson” (both of ‘em) come to mind before George W. Bush, but that’s worth debating.
What amazes me is why Reid thinks Bush has been a bad President:

Reid pointed to Bush’s failed plan to privatize the Social Security program and also said Bush “has done his very best to destroy Medicare” in order support his assessment of Bush’s presidency.

So because Bush tried to fix the two biggest domestic threats facing this country – run-away spending on Social Security and Medicare – he’s the worst President in history?
With Democrats in charge again I doubt we’ll see any progress toward fixing those programs, but that doesn’t mean hacks like Reid get to conveniently forget just how much of a problem they represent. For all the carping we do about government spending on things like the war in Iraq and Congressional pay and bailouts, it’s worth remembering that we spend over $1 trillion a year on entitlements in this country, and Social Security and Medicare represent the largest chunks of that spending.
That $1 trillion, in fact, is more than the rest of the world (including us) spends on all the war and all the military that exists.
That’s a problem, and I’ll never accuse any President of being a bad leader for trying to rein that in.

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  • http://Array jimmypop

    Honestly take a step back, and ask yourself how you were doing financially in the Clinton administration, compared to how you are doing now.

    if i have any more of this bush recession, ill have to add even more workers (hired another 2 weeks ago) and sleep even less than i do now. and I dont sleep much.

    my peer group and i often joke about this; none, repeat, none of my friends have ever had it better than they do now. even with the stock market tanking (and ive lost MUCHO money, but we all know it will come back so who really cares?) were all MUCH better off.

  • Liberty

    And furthermore, Harry nasty Reid, you are not worthy enough to polish George W. Bush’s shoes.

  • http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

    I dislike Clinton, but he’s far from the worst president we’ve ever had.

    Honestly take a step back, and ask yourself how you were doing financially in the Clinton administration, compared to how you are doing now.

  • leon francis

    the response to this is pithy enough,Harry Reid is an Idiot

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    My favorite part of this meme econ meme is the fact that Democrats assumed the majority in Congress in January ‘07, economy collapse began 41 days later.

    I thought you nutters always ranted about how it takes a year or more for a policy to take affect.

    Now it takes less than two months?

    Nutter, get your stories straight.

  • http://www.poorschmuck.net/ John D

    Dino, cool avatar. Which one of the Ambiguously Gay Duo are you?

  • http://www.google.com/ George W. Bush

    So maybe it is called spellcheck but christmas is spelled correctly….. And it told me that it was wrong…. So you get it right! My feelings are hurt bad enough with what Reid said to me…

  • 2Hotel9

    boob, you were the one who told us that IMMEDIATELY upon gaining the majority in Congress that the Democrats were in charge, Nov 5, 2006. Were you simply lying yet again?

  • carrick

    I agree. Bush is the worst president we’ve had in eight years.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    He’s absolutely right.

  • welder4

    If Reid say’s it, it is more then likely wrong , this guy could be called wrong way peach fuzz, Wrong way was a character on the Rocket J. Squirrel show and he would unerringly go the wrong way . I disagree with some things Bush has done, but to not be attacked since 9/11 is not an accident . It came about by hard work and perseverance in the face of unlimited attacks on his own person .The news media did the same thing only not as bad to Reagan .Reagan had a way about him and met insult with injury, Bush never defends him self and that is one of the things I have against him. A trillion dollars has changed hands from us to the wall street crowd with more coming . why not be upset about that .

  • AR-15

    Harry Reid is the worst is the worst senate majority leader we ever had.

  • http://abestalin.com/ Abe Stalin

    We all know he’s bad. “(W)orst president we’ve ever had” is hyperbole, but convenient shorthand. No one alive had to watch Milford Filmore or James Buchanan smirk his way through a press conference after the latest disaster so there is little context for the average American to make an “all-time worst president” judgment.

    Is W. worst U.S. president in modern memory? If you take Lyndon Johnson’s war record and Jimmy Carter’s economic record and then throw in the epic mismanagement of the largest natural disaster in American history, you have a pretty good approximation of Bush’s place in post-war presidential rankings.

    The sniveling majority leader Reid bears at least some share of the responsibility as the current State of The Union is definitely the result of a team effort. Congress repeatedly failed to meet its obligations as a check on executive power over the last eight years.

  • Ken S

    Bush has been a big disappointment to me, as was his father (something in the genes?) However, for Harry Reid to be casting aspersions at Bush, he is making himself the #1 hypocrite on the planet. Harry Reid is a despicable little POS. A wussie little mouse of a bitchy man who is a disgrace even to the scumbag halls of Congress. As the saying goes: “Freedom isn’t free”, and this is one of the costs, having to endure slimy little talking twits like Reid.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Harry Reid is one of the biggest putzs ever to be in the Senate. I read recently that Harry is going to have a tough fight defending his senate seat. I know I would donate money to have this uninspiring moron thrown out of office.

  • richNJ

    The pot calling the kettle black.

  • Kramer

    Harriet Reed is a blowveating, bloated blowhard…enough said

  • brenarlo

    I’m as conservative as it gets… and I’d rate Bush in the bottom five.

  • robert108

    …Way to straw-man there buddy.

    Wrong! You raised the straw man of making it about “the economy”. The real question here is “Who was the worst President?” The President has limited influence on the economy, all of it bad, so that is a meaningless metric, as I have already said. The President, as Chief Executive and CIC of the Armed Forces, is directly responsible for the safety of our country, and Clinton was a miserable failure there, as I have also already explained.

    Plundering via budget surplus…

    Wrong again! There was no “budget surplus”; it was a ten year projection, based on Clinton’s continued program of gutting our national defense and intel budgets to feed the social engineering pig. Besides, a “budget surplus” is actually overtaxation. Figure it out. None of his economic schemes were any good, and we are still suffering from the aftereffects of his incompetence. His intel cuts directly enabled 9/11.

  • http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

    A meaningless metric.

    Ask most Americans. They’ll tell you differently, and at the end of the day, the majority of the American voting population are very moderate. They didn’t care that Obama had socialist tendencies did they?

    , refused to go after AQ after they bombed the WTC in ‘93, thus enabling their growth from some crazies to a fullblown international terrorist organization, and by doing that, Clinton enabled 9/11 and many other terrorist attacks all over the world. What could be worse than that? Except for the fact that FDR wasn’t afraid to fight our enemies, I would rate him lower than Clinton, because he brought communism to the USA. Shame on them both!

    …Way to straw-man there buddy. I asked you whether you did better financially under Clinton than as of right now. You spent an entire paragraph, and I didn’t get a single answer to my question.

    As far as the economics go, Clinton, with his leftie pirate economics, plundered our economy,

    Plundering via budget surplus… eeeenteresting.

    I’m doing way better now than when bubba Clinton was POTUS. And as an added bonus, My 2nd Amendment rights aren’t under seige by a gun hating, uninformed idiot.

    See? Now there we go, perfectly logical, clear-cut response, but wait! There’s more:

    keep voting Liberal. Yes, I said Liberal not democrat. Obama would make a real Dem blow chunks.

    Aaaaah! You were so close AR! Next time, let’s not try to assume, because as we know, assumptions make an ass out of u and me.

    Oh, and as a small note:

    I’m not eligible to vote.
    I’ve never supported a liberal candidate for president.
    My family did significantly worse under the Clinton administration.

  • Socks

    Let us put it this way, has he done this?

    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

    If nothing else, then he is not treasonous. This is more than can be said about another of our presidents, who has given if not aid, then comfort to our enemies. Anyone think that Bush is worse than Carter? (besides Reality Based Bob, Dino, Hannitized, or Man Train. I personally don’t care what the heck your opinions are)

  • Liberty

    Harry Reid, you are a corrupt, nasty little weasel!

  • robert108

    Honestly take a step back, and ask yourself how you were doing financially in the Clinton administration, compared to how you are doing now.–

    A meaningless metric. The coward Clinton tilted us more toward socialism, refused to go after AQ after they bombed the WTC in ’93, thus enabling their growth from some crazies to a fullblown international terrorist organization, and by doing that, Clinton enabled 9/11 and many other terrorist attacks all over the world. What could be worse than that? Except for the fact that FDR wasn’t afraid to fight our enemies, I would rate him lower than Clinton, because he brought communism to the USA. Shame on them both!

    As far as the economics go, Clinton, with his leftie pirate economics, plundered our economy, and ramped up affirmative action social engineering home loan mandates, which finally exploded last year. Clinton’s entire economy, with his nosebleed tax increases, was one big bubble. It started to burst just as he absconded from DC, with the White House furniture.

  • erick1740

    at least he has better approval ratings than Harry and the corrupt democrat congress

  • Kramer

    Sorry, Kramer here again, my wife says that there’s two t’s at the end of Harriett Reed, I think I’m right, but the boss says other wise…this could become a problem for yours turely

  • 2Hotel9

    My favorite part of this meme econ meme is the fact that Democrats assumed the majority in Congress in January ’07, economy collapse began 41 days later.

    jimmy, the time shift may be caused by where your ISP is. Mine is in the same time zone as me, but is one removed from where Rob’s is. Are you on the Left Coast?

  • robert108

    Our country isn’t an “empire”.

  • AR-15

    ass out of u and me.

    Good one EtH.

  • Neiman

    How many times has America been attacked since 9/11? What about holding firm to tax cuts which enabled us to withstand the attacks on America on 9/11, the corporate scandals, a three front war (really four, he had to wage war against the Democrats too) and some other victories, yes even a great military victory in Iraq? What about Jimmy Carter?

    I am very unhappy about Bush on many fronts (immigration comes to mind) and a Republican run Congress that spent money like drunken sailors; but history will rank him as a moderately successful POTUS, and Reid should rank as the worst Senate Majority leader in modern times.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I heard Waxman just today talking about hearings to investigate the bush admin lies that led us to war.

    There will be more. And the deeper the pain America is feeling the more republican blood they’ll demand. You do realize that nixon resigned during a very deep, ugly recession in 74, right? With the recession we’re expecting, we might be hunting republicans with DOGS by 2010. LOL!

    It isn’t going to happen that weasel Waxman is a piece of shit and the dems know if they start a string of investigation turn about is fair play and will start a precedent that they don’t want. The American people don’t want a bunch of meaningless show trials that do nothing. If anything the dems are going to over reach and will minority party soon if they keep up with their inept ways.

  • Socks

    Don’t forget that Congress’ approval ratings are lower than Bush’s!

  • Mickey

    Reid pointed to Bush’s failed plan to privatize the Social Security program and also said Bush “has done his very best to destroy Medicare” in order support his assessment of Bush’s presidency.

    Has Reid forgotten that he and his fellow entitlement socialists in congress fought against cleaning up these two programs?

  • jimmypop

    1:21 am? its actually 2:44 am. what kind of server does this thing run on?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Half of Congress is republican and the peoples’ image of Congress was shaped by years of republicans in power.

    I wouldn’t hold my breath for big republican gains in 2010, either. Watch as democrats and Obama rake those walking a-holes over the coals starting Jan 21st. I heard Waxman just today talking about hearings to investigate the bush admin lies that led us to war.

    There will be more. And the deeper the pain America is feeling the more republican blood they’ll demand. You do realize that nixon resigned during a very deep, ugly recession in 74, right? With the recession we’re expecting, we might be hunting republicans with DOGS by 2010. LOL!

  • jkpv

    If I recall correctly, Obama didn’t have two nickles to rub together. He didn’t come into any $$$ until Bush took office and turned things around.

  • NoJelly

    There is a fistful of names through American history who were terrible Presidents, the successful dumbing down of the populace makes it pretty easy to forget or be completely ignorant. Though I’d personally put Bush43 on that list, he is far from the standout.

    Politically speaking we have the false “glory” of FDR to thank for the modern socialist surge in American politics and it’s wide acceptance. His template was the labor unions and his keen knowledge that the media had more to do with public opinion than any political moves. It took a planet-wide war to yank America out of his sabotage of our economy. His legacy lives on and is still feeding the mentality of the Left. To collectivists that would make him one of the best, but the Left thrives on false image and revisionist history…

  • jimmypop

    people like Dino who work minimum wage jobs excluded.

    sorry, but nobody works for min wage for more than a month or two. the home of the big mac paid $7.50 to start three or four years ago up here. im guessing its closer to $8 now.

  • robert108

    Clinton is the worst, but Obama will probably surpass him in that. We’re going to need all our individual independence to survive Obamunism as a free country.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    You might have heard that before Obama took Nevada. Thanks to republican failures, corruption and destruction of the economy, Nevada is now BLUE.

  • 2Hotel9

    Pinky”Mussolini”Reid is criticizing who? Mr Fascist Asshole Reid actually has the gall to say a single word about ANYONE!?!?

  • 2Hotel9

    Its called “spellcheck” knucklehead. Mrs Laura? Smack him for me!

  • Claude

    I hereby declare Harry Reid the biggest pussy on earth. There.

    And shut the fuck up Dino, I hear your mother calling you.

  • Socks

    As other people have noted, nobody earns minimum wage for more than a couple of months. Even so, one shouldn’t forget waiters, waitresses, taxi drivers, and other jobs where the majority of the income is from tips. Their wages are kept intentionally low to offset their income in tips.

  • AR-15

    Honestly take a step back, and ask yourself how you were doing financially in the Clinton administration, compared to how you are doing now.

    Dear Magnum PI,
    I’m doing way better now than when bubba Clinton was POTUS. And as an added bonus, My 2nd Amendment rights aren’t under seige by a gun hating, uninformed idiot.
    If having a few more $ in your pocket temporarily is more important than your Constitutionally guaranteed rights, keep voting Liberal. Yes, I said Liberal not democrat. Obama would make a real Dem blow chunks.

  • 2Hotel9

    You did spell it wrong. It is spelled C-h-a-n-g-e-m-a-s, as in “Hopey Changemas, Everybody!” Didn’t you get the memo from Barri?

  • http://127.0.0.1/ George W. Bush

    I feel bad that you said those things to me… You hurt my feelings Harry Reid and because I found this site, You’re not spending christmas with me and my family..

    Another thing, I will be president again…

    And wtf is with this site saying christmas is spelled wrong?

  • Walt Baschnagel

    Well HArry.. That is not saying much when the worst performing Senate and Congress exist at the same time..

  • carrick

    RBB:

    I thought you nutters always ranted about how it takes a year or more for a policy to take affect.

    Must be a bitch to have your own logic used against you.

  • http://127.0.0.1/ George W. Bush

    I’m going to go enjoy myself right now..

  • carrick

    jimmypop:

    my peer group and i often joke about this; none, repeat, none of my friends have ever had it better than they do now. even with the stock market tanking (and ive lost MUCHO money, but we all know it will come back so who really cares?) were all MUCH better off.

    Same here.

    And I’d venture to say that would be the same for most Americans, people like Dino who work minimum wage jobs excluded.

  • http://detroitcitydragons.weebly.com/ Frank A. Fiorello

    “I really do believe President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

    This is the vitriol that goes on and is accepted as the political machine in our great nation, that country men is the sad tale of it.

    I am not in favor of this division any longer Washington has to shape up this bitter hatered for the other side, hell just the other guy/gal even in your camp is not the way to get things done.

    Why is there such a divide among what WE THE PEOPLE think is the great US ideas that we could all hold true and all work for, thats what I want to hear and thats what I want to vote on or for.

    Our country will destroy itself as all great empires have from within.

  • http://127.0.0.1/ George W. Bush

    So maybe it is called spellcheck but christmas is spelled correctly….. And it told me that it was wrong….

  • 2Hotel9

    And your not gonna tell Mrs Laura I asked her to smack you, are ya?

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