Via The Indepedent Institute's The Beacon Blog, The Washington Post reports:
Former President George W. Bush, outlining plans for a new public policy institute, on Thursday said America must fight the temptation to allow the federal government to take control of the private sector, declaring that too much government intervention will squelch economic recovery and expansion.
I mean... you can't be serious.
Anthony Gregory: So the guy who began the auto bailouts, whose federal “Ownership Society” was key in creating the biggest speculative bubble in memory, who had bragged in 2004 for having “passed the strongest corporate reforms since Franklin Roosevelt,” who trashed the Bill of Rights, inflated the welfare state and expanded government faster and in more directions than any president since Vietnam, if not since World War II — this guy is now promoting free markets and criticizing big government? This would be obscene if it weren’t so laughable.
Doug Bandow: Mr. Big Spender, aka George “ break the budget, expand Medicare, centralize control of education in Washington, bail out anyone and everyone, violate civil liberties, treat the president as an elective dictator, and initiate a needless war” Bush, is worried about government doing too much.
I am not a member of the Republican Party but plan on joining relatively soon. I will do this because I see it as the only viable and practical way of combating the Big Government Democratic Party. But I will bot be joining a party that is defined by the policies of George W. Bush and other Big Government Republicans. For this man to claim that the world should be promoting free-market enterprises after the horrific increase in government power that he oversaw is, quite frankly, sickening. Republicans, true free-market Republicans, should be outraged at this.
Until Republicans break off from the George W. Bush types, the Party will have zero credibility.
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