Bannon: George W. Bush Was ‘Single Most Destructive President in U.S. History, Including James Buchanan’

[jtssrx]

Bannon: George W. Bush Was ‘Single Most Destructive President in U.S. History, Including James Buchanan’

1719

 

 

 

 

PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images

by JOHN HAYWARD6 Nov 20176,468

On Breitbart News Sunday with SiriusXM hosts Joel Pollak and Rebecca Mansour, Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon was sharply critical of the Bush family, referring to them as “the last Whigs” because “the Republican Party that they talked about is essentially over.”

Bannon was referring to the Bush presidents attacking President Donald Trump in a new book, The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush by historian Mark Updegrove.

“Listen, I try to be bad cop to President Trump’s good cop. He’s head of the Republican Party. He tries to stay above the fray. Hopefully I’m there to do the dirty work as his wingman,” Bannon said.

“What are we talking about? This party is a party made up of workers. It’s made up of American workers. It’s made of the American middle class. It’s got to represent not just their values, but their interests, and it doesn’t. The donors, the conservative consultants, the lobbyists, and the politicians they bought in the Republican Party don’t represent their interests at all. It’s quite shocking,” he contended.

“I think now with the Internet and news services like Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and others you’ve disintermediated the kind of old think tanks of the conservative movement, and you’ve disintermediated the old media companies – including Fox News to a large extent, which is really quite Establishment. I think you just have this energy at the grassroots level that really wants to take its party back, and by taking its party back, really effectuate change in the United States. I think it’s healthy, and I think it’s great,” he said.

advertisement

“Look, it’s all about elections. If you’ve got a better idea and a better candidate, you know, throw down and let’s see if you can win,” he invited.

Bannon handicapped that hypothetical race as one in which Team Bush would not fare well.

“I think the energy is on the grassroots side,” he said. “I realize they use my name as kind of a Darth Vader figure to scare little children, or at least donors, to write bigger checks. But I think the power of what the grassroots has done, it’s turned their money from their biggest asset into their biggest liability. And now in a situation where the Karl Roves and the geniuses around Mitch McConnell, the more money they spend, the fewer votes they get.”

“They’re in full panic,” he added. “The Bushes are triggered by Donald Trump. They personally, obviously, detest him. I hear this book’s going to actually say that Bush 41 actually voted for Hillary Clinton, and Bush 43 didn’t vote at all. If that’s the case, and you think of what the Clintons stand for, and how we lost this country with judges and policies, and what we’re doing throughout the world with our sovereignty, and think of those people at the Remembrance Project – so many of whom died on George Bush’s watch – it’s just disgusting.”

“If that’s what they think, then they should move on, because they certainly don’t belong in the Republican Party that reflects the values and the interests of working people, working men and women throughout the country who I couldn’t be prouder come to the pages of Breitbart, and are basically the backbone of the listening audience at Breitbart News Sunday,” said Bannon.

Mansour suggested the “thinness and smallness” of the debate within the Republican Party before the advent of Donald Trump and his issues prevented it from making inroads with the working-class electorate.

“They make these speeches, and they string together these kinds of happy-clappy phrases, but it doesn’t really get down to the nuts and bolts of it,” Bannon said. “People are tired of hearing rhetoric. Really what they want to hear is what your action plan is, and what it means.”

“It says something about Bush that Bush is here attacking, once again attacking President Trump and being just as vitriolic as possible. I’ll reiterate this: I think President Bush 43 will go down in history as the single most destructive in the United States – and I include James Buchanan in that, the president before the Civil War,” he asserted.

“Now, what do I mean by that? He had three major policy initiatives that virtually destroyed the country. Number One was the Iraq war, $6 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan, the wars still haven’t been won. Iraq is as big of a disaster as it’s ever been. It’s caused total chaos in the Middle East. And it was either he outright lied to the American people or he’s just totally incompetent and misread what the information was,” he charged.

“The second was the financial crisis,” Bannon continued. “The financial crisis happened on his watch. It came to a head in September 2008. He just walked away from it, didn’t come up with any solutions. The thing was a debacle. We still suffer from that today. The solution was to, you know, flood the zone with liquidity, trillions and trillions of dollars of liquidity have inflated assets and made the owners of equity and real estate filthy rich, and the working men and women of this country have gotten stiffed after they had to pay for the bailouts.”

“But the most important part of what he was destructive about is China. It was on his watch they really set in motion Most Favored Nation and getting into the WTO. I know the Clintons pushed that and tried to implement it, but Bush looked at China, the whole Bush administration said China is going to get wealthier, is becoming more democratic, and more free-market capitalist. That was a massive, massive mistake,” he said.

“China today is a competitor-slash-enemy, having economic warfare against us, of incalculable power. That started with the Bush administration. He is the single most destructive president in the history of the country, and I include James Buchanan in that. For him to come and attack President Trump is an absolute disgrace,” Bannon concluded.

LISTEN:

Read More Stories About:

Big Government, Radio, 2008 financial crisis, China, Donald Trump, Iraq War, President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Steve Bannon

[Dave]

I dont think Bush can be blamed for anything....classic case of a government puppet if there ever was one.

 

[ActionfigureJoe]

Suddenly the right finds a new target. A man they once followed into war because Hans Blix was an idiot. Don’t dare say anything bad about Donny. 

[Dave]

Just now, ActionfigureJoe said:

Suddenly the right finds a new target. A man they once followed into war because Hans Blix was an idiot. Don’t dare say anything bad about Donny. 

Or in your case...Hillary Clinton.

[jtssrx]

3 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Suddenly the right finds a new target. A man they once followed into war because Hans Blix was an idiot. Don’t dare say anything bad about Donny. 

Suddenly? 

What's sudden is the love for Bush from the left because he doesn't like Trump. 

Edited November 7, 2017 by jtssrx

[Jimmy Snacks]

48 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Suddenly the right finds a new target. A man they once followed into war because Hans Blix was an idiot. Don’t dare say anything bad about Donny. 

Still subscribing to the same old political paradigm....SMH.

[f7ben]

Bush was indeed the worst Potus we have ever had......Obama is close behind him. I am quite confident the Orange Idiot has all the skills needed to top this list though.

[Highmark]

Disagree completely.   LBJ hands down was the most destructive President in the history of the US.  

Vietnam, Great Society just to name a few.  

Edited November 7, 2017 by Highmark

[f7ben]

4 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Disagree completely.   LBJ hands down was the most destructive President in the history of the US.  

Vietnam, Great Society just to name a few.  

Iraq , Afghanistan , War on Terror , Economy and Patriot Act

Without a doubt Bush was the worst ....millions dead around the world , trillions of dollars wasted , worst recession in history , obliterated the rights of americans and unleashed a tyrannical intelligence community on the public that is accountable to no entity or oversight

[Highmark]

16 minutes ago, f7ben said:

Iraq , Afghanistan , War on Terror , Economy and Patriot Act

Without a doubt Bush was the worst ....millions dead around the world , trillions of dollars wasted , worst recession in history , obliterated the rights of americans and unleashed a tyrannical intelligence community on the public that is accountable to no entity or oversight

Not even close.   50,000 US soldiers.   How many Vietnamese?  1-2 million?  Great Society, the modern day welfare system which completely destroyed the AA family.   $17 trillion + spent and poverty is no better and generational recipients looking for handouts.  His foreign and domestic policies suffered from a failure to understand governmental limits.  

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

 

I will avoid discussing LBJ's adventures in foreign policy. Like Mr. Carter, his presidency was so full of mishaps there is not enough space to cover them all, and Johnson's foreign policy was particularly contentious. Rather, I will focus on his long lasting social policies which have had lasting, regressive, deadly effects.

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson's policies laid the groundwork for victicrats Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Inner cities and black America have been relegated to poverty and lack of incentive to succeed as a direct result of Johnson's socialist policies. Many contemporary historians may consider LBJ a "progressive pioneer" but I see a different story.

 

Johnson was sworn in as our 36th president at Love Field in Dallas, roughly 100 minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. LBJ was preceded by a romantic figure cut down in  Johnson's home state.  

 

Though he was elected in 1964, the GOP may have aided that victory with a somewhat polarizing candidate in Arizona senator, Barry Goldwater. The Republican nominee had a great record of supporting civil rights, but Goldwater opposed certain preferences in the bills that became the Civil Rights Act. His vote against it ultimately led to a 44 to 6 state triumph for LBJ in the general election. Johnson benefited greatly from a profound expansion in liberal control over much of the mainstream press, Hollywood, and academia, a process that, of course, continues today.

 

Not remembered much in current history textbooks or the media of today, was that in the 1920s Republicans proposed anti-lynching legislation, reflecting back to Civil War times when Democrats, including founders of the KKK, had been involved in this horrific act. The legislation passed the House , an opposition speech was given by a Democrat Congressman from Texas named Lyndon B. Johnson, but was killed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. Finally in 1939 it passed the Senate. 

 

LBJ and the Southern wing of the Democratic Party persisted in supporting anti-black positions. Consider, as LBJ's term neared:

 

 - In 1956, Democrats expressed their opposition to the desegregation decision of Brown v. Board of Education in the "Southern Manifesto." One hundred members of Congress, all Democrats, signed the manifesto. 

 - In 1957, REPUBLICAN President Eisenhower authored a Civil Rights Bill, hoping to repair the damage done to blacks and their civil rights by Democrats for nearly a century. Passage of the bill was blocked by Senate Democrats. 

 - In 1959, Eisenhower authored a Voting Rights Bill, again, in an effort to undo the disenfranchisement of blacks by Democrats through poll taxes, literacy tests, and threats of violence by the KKK. And once again, passage of the bill is blocked by Senate Democrats. 

But then, following the JFK assasination:

 

 - In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is the law originally authored by Eisenhower in 1957. Democrats, including Senator Robert Byrd (a former KKK member), filibustered the bill. Once the filibuster was overcome, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for passage than did Democrats.

 

 - In 1965, Congress passed, and President Lyndon Johnson signed into law, the Voting Rights Act of 1964. This is the law originally authored by Eisenhower in 1959. A filibuster was prevented, and passage of this bill also enjoyed support from a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats. Johnson, of course, is now president and gets "credit" for this legislation -- authored by Republicans, designed by Republicans to undo a century of damage done by Democrats, and voted for by a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats. 

 - This was followed by the Great Socety programs designed to eliminate poverty and racism.

At this point, the media and academic elite began using a powerful combination of information control and revisionist history to engineer a massive electoral shift. Falling for the blandishments of the Democrats and their media allies, blacks, once exclusively Republican, began voting Democrat in numbers greater than 90 percent,

 

The actual consequences of Johnson's Great Society were disastrous for blacks, discouraging initiative, encouraging a sense of entitlement and victimhood, and creating a permanent dependency class. Until 1965, 82% of black households had both a mother and a father in the home -- a statistic on par with or even slightly higher than white families. After 1965 (the year the Democrats and President Johnson decided it was time to stop oppressing blacks and start "helping" them), the presence of black fathers in the home began a precipitous decline; today, the American black out-of-wedlock birthrate is at 69%.

 

Unlike its socialist cousin (the New Deal), the Great Society emerged in a period of prosperity. Johnson presented his goals for the Great Society in a speech at an elite liberal public university, the University of Michigan, in May 1964. So-called "do-gooder liberals," having little faith in their common man, loved its aims. The elitist  "White Guilt"  (see Shelby Steele's book of the same name)  resulted in terrible long-term impacts. Soon after, the programs were heavily criticized by conservatives as being ineffective and creating an underclass of lazy citizens. They have been proven correct. Current evidence makes Johnson the villain. If he were alive today to see the effects, he'd cringe.

 

Socialism clearly makes individuals worse. Incalculable damage has been done to the black family by the neo-socialist policies begun under Johnson, which are a perverted form of what Eisenhower wisely began a decade prior. And for that, even ignoring the Vietnam adventure, LBJ goes down as one of our three worst presidents of all time. 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/americas_three_worst_president.html#ixzz4xlScvC5b 
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

Edited November 7, 2017 by Highmark

[motonoggin]

"Bush blew up the middle East"

"Yeah, but whattabout LBJ?!?!?!?!"

 

[motonoggin]

Whattaboutism - official ideology of partisan asshats everywhere. 

 

[f7ben]

5 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Not even close.   50,000 US soldiers.   How many Vietnamese?  1-2 million?  Great Society, the modern day welfare system which completely destroyed the AA family.   $17 trillion + spent and poverty is no better and generational recipients looking for handouts.  His foreign and domestic policies suffered from a failure to understand governmental limits.  

Totally disagree......we have not and will not see the end of the idiotic "war on terror" and perpetual warfare that the Bush regime started....we wont see the end of it in our lifetime.

Although none of this can be laid at the feet of the Presidents who are just figure head puppets.....if we are going to attribute the destruction levied on the USA under their tenure to them Bush is the worst without doubt 

[f7ben]

1 minute ago, motonoggin said:

Whattaboutism - official ideology of partisan asshats everywhere. 

 

its an exercise in futility no doubt

[motonoggin]

Just now, f7ben said:

its an exercise in futility no doubt

These guys don't see themselves as part of the problem, either. 

 

[Highmark]

Just now, f7ben said:

Totally disagree......we have not and will not see the end of the idiotic "war on terror" and perpetual warfare that the Bush regime started....we wont see the end of it in our lifetime.

Although none of this can be laid at the feet of the Presidents who are just figure head puppets.....if we are going to attribute the destruction levied on the USA under their tenure to them Bush is the worst without doubt 

Disagree.   Your "millions dead around the world" is a huge exaggeration.   Maybe Bush was a puppet maybe he wasn't but Johnson was no puppet regarding the Vietnam War.   The tapes prove it.    

[motonoggin]

Just now, Highmark said:

Disagree.   Your "millions dead around the world" is a huge exaggeration.   Maybe Bush was a puppet maybe he wasn't but Johnson was no puppet regarding the Vietnam War.   The tapes prove it.    

"Yeah it was bad, but Bush wasn't really responsible for that."

OMG...

[motonoggin]

"Our shittiest president wasn't as bad as your shittiest president!1!1!1!1! Czechm8!!!!!!"

 

[f7ben]

7 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Disagree.   Your "millions dead around the world" is a huge exaggeration.   Maybe Bush was a puppet maybe he wasn't but Johnson was no puppet regarding the Vietnam War.   The tapes prove it.    

Dude....are you fucking retarded? Barak Obama launched or dropped almost a quarter million bombs just under his tenure fighting bushes failed wars and new one. You dont think the War on Terror has cost the lives of milions? Holy fuck man you live in a fantasy world 

[Highmark]

Just now, f7ben said:

Dude....are you fucking retarded? Barak Obama launched or dropped almost a quarter million bombs just under his tenure fighting bushes failed wars and new one. You dont think the War on Terror has cost the lives of milions? Holy fuck man you live in a fantasy world 

Bush made him drop bombs just like LBJ made Nixon.     Give me a fucking break you fool.  

[Jimmy Snacks]

So discussing  history makes us part of the problem because Moto and Ben say so....STFU you big mouth do nothing cunts.

[f7ben]

Just now, Highmark said:

Bush made him drop bombs just like LBJ made Nixon.     Give me a fucking break you fool.  

Bush started the "War on Terror" and it wont end in our lifetime. The end

[jtssrx]

1 minute ago, f7ben said:

Dude....are you fucking retarded? Barak Obama launched or dropped almost a quarter million bombs just under his tenure fighting bushes failed wars and new one. You dont think the War on Terror has cost the lives of milions? Holy fuck man you live in a fantasy world 

Obama didn't launch weapons for failed wars. These wars are all part of a bigger plan and Obama is just a puppet like bush. 

[Jimmy Snacks]

BTW I agree with Bannon.

[jtssrx]

Just now, f7ben said:

Bush started the "War on Terror" and it wont end in our lifetime. The end

The War on Terror is a front