President Bush Flip-Flops on Mortgage Bailout Bill

President Bush has flip-flopped on the mortgage bailout bill and will now sign this burden on the taxpayers into law if it reaches his desk. He has been threatening to veto this legislation but is now clearly in public relations mode. He wants to try to raise his approval ratings before he leaves office and he thinks that this is a means to do so.

He is now prepared to bail out people who bought houses that they couldn’t afford and he is ready to make us pay for it. President Bush is desperate, he needs to get something accomplished before he leaves office so he has decided to capitulate to the Democrats during his final months. Will it end here, or is he so wanting of approval in his last days that he will bend over and take whatever the Democrats give him? What other Democrat bills is he willing to sign on to in order to improve is record low approval rating in time to gather donations for his presidential library?

President Bush is no conservative. Remember he is a “compassionate conservative” and now he is showing us his compassion by ramming this legislation down the throats of ordinary tax paying Americans who work hard to keep their families in their homes.

I haven’t written or talked about this until now but I have become ever more bitter (maybe dissappointed is a better word) towards the president in recent weeks, and this just tops it all off. He spends too much money, is for amnesty, and worked with Ted Kennedy on the education bill. The one issue that I thought would be his defining moment were his nominations to the supreme court. But the recent Washington DC verdict on the handgun ban has made me re-think that success. Sure the verdict was a victory for the second amendment, but is was a close call. President Obama will easily be able to overcome President Bush’s supreme court appointees because he will have at least two nominees of his own. Throw that Bush victory out the window. Normally I would say that it isn’t his fault that President Obama will have the chance to appoint supreme court judges that will reverse the good that Alito and Roberts have done, but it is his fault.

President Bush has done one thing better than anything else, he has energized the Democrat base and there is no stopping the slaughter that is going to take place in November. He has killed the national Republican party and it now has to be built from the ground up. It is going to be a long process but we have President Bush to thank for it. This bill is just another reason why conservatives will stay home in November.

Conservatives stayed home in 2006 to teach Republicans a lesson but it seems like the Republicans didn’t understand the lesson. Learning is done through repetition, and in November the lesson of 2006 will be repeated. Will they learn then?

