Discussion: George W. Bush Warns Against ‘Anger’ Driving Policy

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Oh good lord, now George Frikkin’ Bush is the voice of reason and temperance. It’s come to this.

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WTF?

Dumbya Bush making sense? It’s going to be a long four years. I wonder if my liver can handle it?

It may not be, Dean Wörmer, but I’m gonna try for four years.

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Efff this guy. He’s lucky we haven’t put him in a cell.

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Trump: So now the biggest failure as a President wants to give me advice. No thanks. He failed. What a loser. Also, 9/11 happened on his watch. I will put him in jail.

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Has the Onion given up and gone out of business yet?

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“I understand anger, and some people may have been angry when I was president. But anger shouldn’t drive policy,” Bush said.

His sage advice? “Get a puppy.”

He didn’t bother to point out that the epicenter for anger/resentment/rage in the Trump administration has a name: Bannon.

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“I understand anger, and some people may have been angry when I was
president. But anger shouldn’t drive policy,” Bush said during an event
at his presidential library Tuesday in Dallas, Texas, according to CNN. “What needs to drive policy is what’s best for the people who are angry.”

Remember when we thought that Bush was the dumbest President ever? Here he is striving to hold onto his crown. That was Palineque word salad right there. Remember “Bushisms?” We’ll need a whole damn encyclopedia for trumpisms.

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It almost makes me think fondly of that cocky smirk.

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“What needs to drive policy is what’s best for the people who are angry.”

Yes, national policy must be crafted so that these people are happy.

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Did you hear Palin discussing the prospect of being Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Energy? She’s deteriorated substantially just since that bizarre endorsement speech she gave during the Republican primaries.

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Compared to trump glower smirk punchable face? I actually agree with you.

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I for one am grateful for every Republican voice that speaks out against this frightful demagogue. I read someone say they’d take Mitt Romney for life over one Trump term. Pretty much. I was heartened by Josh’s piece about potential splintering and in-fighting in the GOP. We need as much of that as we can get.

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Don’t knock it. We need a voice of reason no matter from where it comes…

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Also, have a younger brother who’s chubbier and less successful than you.

@carolg This might boost your spirits: https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-kind-of-president-will-trump.html

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Trump won the Midwest promising to kill free trade. Let’s see if the GOP will go along. I’m not sure they will but Trump is fucked either way. He will be blamed by them if he fails and if he gets his way the dislocations will cause a lot of anger and Trump will be blamed too. In any case 20th century factory jobs are never coming back.

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Photo shows a knee-slapping legs-crossed Good Ol’ Boy giving of his wisdom.

What I see is a million dead Iraqis and the creation of ISIS.

You be the judge.

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Yep…

It’s official. I have apparently dropped into an alternate universe…

I must get back to my own timeline!!!

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This feels utterly surreal.

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