I'll Be Damned, Pigs Fly: Pelosi Thanks Bush For Role In Osama Takedown

I seriously believed pigs would fly before I saw what I just read, but lo and behold, I just read a piece at The Hill that reports Nancy Pelosi called President George Bush tp "congratulate him and thank him for the leadership role he had played in this quest over the years."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said she called former President George W. Bush on Tuesday to congratulate him on the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Following a classified briefing on the operation to take down bin Laden, Pelosi told reporters that she called the former president earlier in the day to "congratulate him and thank him for the leadership role he had played in this quest over the years."

Pelosi was Speaker of the House for two years while Bush was in the White House.

Pelosi said she thought Bush appreciated the call.

“I wanted him to know the appreciation that many of us have in a bipartisan way ... that his role was important," she said.

Wow. Pelosi has just publicly done what Barack Obama didn't do publicly. She showed a bit of class by acknowledging what Bush did while he was in office.

.

Obama Increases Debt Three Times More Than Bush Did In Eight Years

Jim Geraghty over at NRO's Campaign Spot provides seven quick points about Barack Obama's disgraceful speech yesterday.

Video below of Obama back when he was campaigning against John McCain from there, then point number two quoted, but make sure to go see the other six because they are worth remembering.



After watching that 1 minute 11 second video above, look below and match up his "promises" with reality:

2. There is a lot of blaming Bush in this speech. Quick perspective: Using numbers from the U.S. Treasury, we see that the debt during Bush’s eight years in office increased from $5.7 trillion to $10.6 trillion, or $4.9 trillion over eight years. That’s bad; that’s basically $610 billion per year. But in the less than three years Obama has been in office, the debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to $14.2 trillion, a $3.6 trillion increase in about 27 months. In other words, Obama is increasing the debt by $1.6 trillion per year, three times as fast as Bush.

Taylor Marsh, in no way conservative, expresses her frustration with Obama's campaign speech from yesterday, in a piece titled "Fool Me Once… Fool Me Twice

I did this in 2007 and 2008, are you telling me I’m going to have to do this again? Because he didn’t fool me the first time and he’s not going to do it now either.

Sweet Jesus, people, he campaigned on the public option.

I cannot think of one political issue Ms. Marsh and I agree on (her being extremely liberal and me being extremely conservative), yet I read her frequently because she is not a robotic Democratic puppy that jumps on the meme of the day and she stays consistent regarding her beliefs.

Her phrasing though simply cracks me up, the level of frustration that one "sweet Jesus, people" line showed, is so honest in it's inarguable intensity, I simply had to quote her.

I believe her frustration is justified though because she understands that there are Obamabots out there that will, indeed, ignore all proof to the contrary stemming from Obama's own record in the last two years and fall hook, line and sinker for his rhetoric yet again.

Others though... not so much.

.

Liberals Fear Obama's Backroom Deals: At Least Bush Was Open And Honest

Okay, so yeah, I am paraphrasing the words of Nancy Altman, the co-director of Social Security Works for the sake of a manageable title, but I am not misrepresenting her words or her intent.

Her exact quote is:

"What I am really afraid of is another deal behind closed doors. At least with President Bush, he went around the country on a tour and presented his plan, and people didn’t like it."

The topic of their concern is Social Security reforms and you can read about that at The Hill.

The interesting thing is how some liberals are willing to admit that Bush was transparent in his attempts to reform Social Security and they express concerns Obama won't be.

Even liberals don't trust Obama.

.

Polling Blockbuster- Majority Wants Obama Fired And Bush Was A Better President Than Obama Is

Recently Barack Obama admitted that while he was not on the 2010 election ballot his agenda is and via US News & World Report we see that Obama is very lucky his name is not on the ballot this November, because if it was, 56 percent of likely voters would fire him.

That isn't even the worst of the news for Barack Obama, according to former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen 48 percent of those likely voters say Bush was a better president than Obama has been with 43 percent saying Obama has been better.

More on that poll from James Pethokoukis.

Polling data can be found here.

.

VIDEO- Decision Points by George W. Bush

Video below by President George W. Bush about his book "Decision Points."



Via Fox News.

.

Standing Ovations, Sold Out Crowds and 'Bring Back Bush'

President George Bush is enjoying the freedom of not being the President of the United States anymore, writing, giving lectures and touting his new book called "Decision Points."

Much to the dismay of those Bush Derangement Sufferers, Bush is looking more and more popular these days, receiving standing ovations, not once but three times during his latest lecture to a sold out crowd.

He walked on the stage to a standing ovation. People in the audience were pumping their fists and whistling. One audience member shouted, “Bring back Bush,” at one point during the presentation.

He would receive at least two more standing ovations before the end of his speech.

With every speech Barack Obama gives, with every law the Democrats pass against the majority of Americans opposed and with every appearance George Bush makes publicly, more and more people are missing the style of presidency that leant class to the position without hate filled speeches and partisan attacks coming directly from their president's mouth.

When voters handed the majorities to Democrats in the House and Senate during Bush's last term as president, Bush did not strike out at voters, he simply admitted "The election wasn't even close, Bush said. "It was a thumpin."

Obama on the other hand insults voters by declaring smugly and arrogantly that people are too "scared" to "think clearly."

The level of disrespect and disdain that Barack Obama shows towards voters that dare disagree with him and the decisions the Democratically controlled Congress and Senate have made, should not be a surprise to anyone that remembers that same disdain shown for his opponents to whom he referred to as bitter gun and religion clingers in 2008 before he was voted in as president.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I might not have agreed with George Bush on a few issues but I do miss the respect he had for the people he served. His manner when talking about America and Americans, his level of civility for each and every person even when he disagreed with them or they opposed what he was doing.

.

Iraq: Biden Gives Bush Credit

Via The Hill:

"Mr. President, thank you," said Biden, addressing a hypothetical Bush. "I've known you for all eight years of your presidency, and I've never known a time when you didn't care."

Asked whether Bush deserves credit for the end of combat operations, Biden said earnestly, "You deserve a lot of credit."

My how things have changed and I have yet to see Biden or anyone give Bush credit for "the surge", which turned the Iraq war around when almost everyone, but Bush, had given up and called Iraq "lost".

Perhaps Harry Reid would finally like to admit he was wrong in publicly stating Iraq was lost?

.