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The Decider in Chief arrived at JFK Airport yesterday: President Bush was welcomed by Mayor Bloomberg and other dignitaries at the start of a trip that will mark his final visit to the United Nations General Assembly as U.S. leader and his first visit to NYC since last week's financial market meltdown. According to NY1, Bush and Bloomberg "spoke about the turmoil on Wall Street, and the president thanked Bloomberg for his ideas on how to curb the current meltdown of the financial markets."
The president's speech at the U.N. is expected to explain the U.S.'s huge $700 billion bailout of financial institutions. White House press secretary Dana Perino said, "He would not have wanted to take this action to help these companies if he wasn't convinced by the considered judgment of his senior economic team that it was critical in order to protect the American taxpayers and the American economy as a whole." His only officials meetings are with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.
Last night, President Bush attended a private fundraiser in NJ to raise money for Republican congressional candidates. Some protesters lined the highway, and a NJ man who lost his job told the AP, "After 17 years, I'm out of work because (Merrill Lynch) lost $40 billion on subprime mortgages. Bush and McCain orchestrated this disaster and made it fall like a house of cards. Now you, me and everyone else is paying for it out of our own pockets."
Photograph of Bush and Bloomberg (above) and of protesters in NJ from the AP
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Throw it back.
The bias in Gothamist veritably drips off the page.
If anyone here bothered to look into it (too much work?) you'd discover that it was during the Clinton Administration that most of the deregulatory laws now being blamed were put in place. Also, in 2003 Bush sent a bill to Congress to tighten the regulations on Freddi mac and Fannie Mae and that law was ignored. Finally, Obama has lots of friends in Freddie and Fannie and has gotten huge contributions from the bosses there.
Oh wait, why am I telling you this? You guys are like the SNL skit on the NY Times reporters; totally out of touch except for your inner biases.
#2 is a throwback too.
It's late 2008, jchez. Wake up.
dude, jchez... We've had a Republican Executive for the past 8 years who has incredibly extended his own power and for most of that time he had a Republican majority in the Legislature...
are you gonna blame the country's (and the world's) problems on "the media" like my grandma does or are you going to realize who's (quite obviously) been in the drivers seat and sending us right off the cliff?
(not excusing all Democrats cuz hell, most of them have voted for the same dumbass shit anyway)
Just thought I'd add that Bush and the First Lady are hosting a "dissidents' luncheon" in NY on Tuesday. The guests include my friend and boss, Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion turned opposition leader in Russia. (I missed my chance to be there by being in Seattle visiting family. Oops.) AFP has a note, but there will be more coverage coming out of it soon.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKlWC_GgDvE5szrJQaW9BB2woyLw
You might say it's a bit late considering how little was said in the west as Putin destroyed the fragile Russian democracy. But in this case it's definitely better late than never. Presidents in their final months often try to get "moral" things right (peace processes, aid packages, pardoning people, etc.) so it will be interesting to see if this is a real move or if they're just doing it to piss off the Kremlin (and the others).
Gee I hope those loony leftist wacko protesters don't get run over. It was Clinton and his cronies that still to this day are reeking havoc in this country with the help of all the leftist in congress and the lib media. Wake up wacko leftist.
republican apologist tactic: blame carter, blame clinton, ignore a preponderance of evidence.
Shout out to the secret service agents and FBI monitoring this blog!
Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall, which had about as much to do with starting this meltdown as anything Bush did....and don't forget Alan 'there is no housing bubble' Greenspan.
you can't blame clinton for glass-steagall. when it came to his desk it was veto-proof. if you want someone to blame just look at the name of the act that repealed it, gramm-leach-bliley: republican, republican, republican.
i thought it smelled like crap over by JFK yesterday
Its funny how this so called bias seems to be all across America. What is Bush's approval rating now 28%? or less. and also funny how R's are running from their own party platform, now blaming it all on the Dems last two years of majority in Congress. When intellectually honest persons would realize there is majority and in numbers and voting majority, which they lacked.
But if blaming Clinton makes you feel better about your self keep on doing it... you have since 1992.
I may have been misunderstood. I'm not blaming the Clinton or the dems exclusively. I'm blaming them all.
I like the pink comment field. Nice.
Threadjack....does anyone know if this will be Caribou Barbie's first trip to NYC?
Bush and McCain orchestrated this disaster
Seriously, do people think the Bush administration is that smart? The reason we have problems in the economy are systemic to our culture as Americans and our desire to spend more than we earn. We are a debtor nation. The Bush and Clinton and Bush and Reagan and Carter and Ford and Nixon and Johnson and Kennedy and Eisenhower and Truman and Roosevelt and Hoover administrations have at least some part of the blame here.
This $700 billion bailout is probably the worst mistake America could make right now.
I didn't say it first...but once your approval rating gets that low...shouldn't it change to a 70% DISAPPROVAL RATING??? I'm just saying.
...and I like how the leader of the free world and the head of the Republican Party was absent from the Convention...he was scrubbed on the 1st day due to Ike...but he couldn't make it any day...BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT HIM THERE!!!!
#5 - what Did Kasparov think about the penis copter (google it). Anyway, Mike Bloomberg must have heard crickets when he was talking to Bush about Finance.
"Dana Perino said, ..."
PSILF
#7 get your head out of your leftist ass and you may learn something
#11 what is the democrap congress approval rating?
Heh, PMF you're such a joke. Leftist lefty lefto. That's all you got?
I hear he'll visit Ground Zero, and kiss the ground in gratitude.
No but I do not want to use bad words this early.
Yessssss, Pres. Clinton was responsible for the last 8 years...
Um, No. "Looney Left" my ass.
The democrats are up to their neck in this economic mess too. Some people are just too blindly partisan to give a damn and hold those responsibile who caused this regardless of party affiliation.
This started years ago during the Carter administration when the government began forcing banks to lend to people based on race and ethnicity rather than ablity to pay a loan back.
It's only now that political correctness is having a long overdue head-on collision with economic reality.
can somebody answer me something. we are the largest and most powerful nation in the world. by far...not even a comparison. at the current rate it is going to take 30 years for the chinese to catch up to us. and that is at our current crap economy rate. we have built all that we have...every building...every global company...every dollar we have earned...every piece of the most powerful military in the world...on free markets and capitalism. the one flaw in capitalism is that every once in a while the system gets out of whack and the bubble bursts. without free markets, there wouldn't even be any bubble to burst. so what's better, 7 years of progress and 1 year of pain? or is 8 years of mediocrity your flavor.
the republicans and the democrats are all greedy power hungry buffoons. bush is a moron, obama is a moron, pelosi is a moron, mccain was fine until he started pandering to the far right but now he's a moron. and yes, clinton had just as much to do with this mess as bush.
we are the biggest and most powerful country in the world. and we're gonna be fine. lets stop acting like little whiny babies. stop looking for messiah obama and the feds to save us. lets take this shit back ourselves!
the nine worst words you can hear. "i'm from the government and i'm here to help."
oh and robingee i see you are still contributing absolutely nothing with your posts. keep up the good work.
ides_of_march don't waste your breath. When a looney leftish has his or her head up their ass they can not hear you.
BUSH? HERE? This is awesome! I get the sense that a lot of Obama-bots are short circuiting.
Oh, ma bell I love you too. kiss.
What I don't like, ma bell, is 8 years of mistakes, blunders and malfeasance from the executive branch. I also don't like people who are so wrapped in a nationalist fervor (you) that they can't see the true state of our country.
We have the strongest military but its strength has been so compromised by this presidency that it's capable of doing less. Our Air Force is faced with replacing an aging fleet of aircraft at a time when money is short. The Army has a lot of personnel and equipment tied down/worn down in Iraq.
The fiscal mess we are in is so much worse than people like you realize that your economic jingoism is really pathetic. Yes, we built up a lot of the world's economy. But, we did it at the expense of our own future.
Oh, China is catching up quicker than you think.
we aren't talking about just 8 years. bush sucks we all know that. we're talking about a century of progress. the world has ridden our coattails. we are the innovators, the scientists, the global business powerhouse. we are still the top dog. nationalist fervor? fact my friend. and killing the free markets kills the incentives to innovate.
we do still have the strongest military. hands down. we are the masters at destruction and you can bash the air force if you want but ours is by far the best in the world. we can destroy anything anywhere if need be. one thing we are not is nation builders. we can oust a regime but we have no idea what to do after that. proof in point. iraq. it took us what...3 days to conquer bagdhad? it took russia longer then that to conquer little georgia.
i am no nationalist. the us is wrong plenty of times and our president is a putz. but people like you that just blindly sit around and bash our country piss me off as well. case in point. your thoughts on china. talk to me about china when the average worker makes more then $0.30 an hour. you wanna be more like them? go tell the workers at any manufacturing plant they have to take a pay cut to $0.30 an hour and see what they say.
Republicans just can't waitg until they can stand atop the smoking ruins of this country and shout "We Win!"