George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

[Lakhota]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

 

[Lakhota]

I can think of several things to name after George W. Bush...but highways ain't among them...

Can anyone else think of things to name after him?

 

[Unkotare]

And? Former Presidents get stuff named after them all the time.

 

[TheOldSchool]

And? Former Presidents get stuff named after them all the time.

Yup and unfortunately dubya is one of them : (

 

[Avatar4321]

And? Former Presidents get stuff named after them all the time.

Yup and unfortunately dubya is one of them : (

You'd prefer he still was one?

 

[auditor0007]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

 

[TheOldSchool]

And? Former Presidents get stuff named after them all the time.

Yup and unfortunately dubya is one of them : (

You'd prefer he still was one?

It's unfortunate that he was ever President.

 

[Oddball]

politics?!?

 

[healthmyths]

I can think of several things to name after George W. Bush...but highways ain't among them...

AND idiots like you can't read or obviously think and definitely have NO Memories of what occurred!
These are the realities you choose to ignore! These events happened and nothing you can say can change it!

GWB will be considered by historians as one of the greatest Presidents who in spite of the following huge gigantic cataclysmic events larger and greater in number then ANY president had to face! NO president had ever faced the following:

1) Dot.com bust cost $5 trillion in lost market value.. this means every year for 30 years now starting in 2000 the federal revenue is over $66 billion written off against taxes owed.
How many people LOST jobs due to the bust??
According to the Los Angeles Times, when the dot-com bubble burst, it wiped out $5 trillion dollars in market value for tech companies. More than half of the Internet companies created since 1995 were gone by 2004 -
and hundreds of thousands of skilled technology workers were out of jobs.
The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion ? Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs

2) Did YOU forget that 9/11 occurred and it cost $2 trillion over the next 30 years again $33 billion will NOT BE PAiD.. was that Bush's fault?
Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 JUST in New York!!
Year 2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were the events that helped shape other financial events of the decade. After that terrible day in September 2001, our economic climate was never to be the same again. It was only the third time in history that the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for a period of time. In this case, it was closed from September 10 - 17. Besides the tragic human loss of that day, the economic loss cannot even be estimated. Some estimate that there was over $60 billion in insurance losses alone.
Approximately 18,000 small businesses were either displaced or destroyed in Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. There was a buildup in homeland security on all levels. 9/11 caused a catastrophic financial loss for the U.S.
The Top 10 Financial Events of the Decade

3) $1 trillion in written off losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history!
The worst Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages. Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992 as a Category 5. It caused 40 deaths and $30 billion in property damage. More than 250,000 people were left homeless and 82,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged.
Hurricane Katrina ALONE! Year 2005: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. as a strong Category 3 or low Category 4 storm. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.

Hurricane Rita quickly followed Katrina only to make matters worse. Between the two, more than $200 billion in damage was done. 400,000 jobs were lost and 275,000 homes were destroyed. Many of the jobs and homes were never to be recovered. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and over 1,000 were killed and more are missing. The effect on oil and gasoline prices was long-lasting.

400,000 jobs due to Hurricanes Katrina/Rita
145,000 jobs in NYC alone due to 9/11
300,000 jobs lost due to dot.com busts.

Almost 1 million jobs alone from those 3 events

4) Economic terrorist attack 9/18/2008 or how the world almost came to the end at 2pm on 9/18/2008!!!
Evidently the MAJORITY IF IDIOTS like YOU ,NEVER knew how close to entire collapse the ENTIRE world's economy was on 9/18/2008 when an economic terrorist attack occurred-- lead in part by George Soros!!!

On Thursday (Sept 18), at 11am the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury ...estimation is that by 2pm that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the U.S., would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S., and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.
Zero Hedge: How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18

Again all this happened and at the same time the MSM was bashing Bush DAILY!

Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters

But when it comes to Obama this same Bush Bashing Editor of NewsWeek.... Evan Thomas calls Obama god!

I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
Newsweek?s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ?Sort of God? | NewsBusters

 

[Avatar4321]

Yup and unfortunately dubya is one of them : (

You'd prefer he still was one?

It's unfortunate that he was ever President.

Well, it was either him or Al Gore who is talking about playing with genetics to get silk out of goats or John Kerry who... well he's john kerry.

We've had a very crappy selection of Presidents to choose from.

 

[Unkotare]

President Bush is no longer in office. Some of you folks really need to find another Boogeyman.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

Too many bad guys profited from the Bush administration for him to get a pass for trying to "do what he thought was right for the country." As President he has certain responsibilities to uphold, and those don't include risking our national security by starting multiple wars, funneling money to his cronies (including Vice President) with our military's money, or beginning a partisan rift in our country that has no end in sight.

 

[Avatar4321]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

Too many bad guys profited from the Bush administration for him to get a pass for trying to "do what he thought was right for the country." As President he has certain responsibilities to uphold, and those don't include risking our national security by starting multiple wars, funneling money to his cronies (including Vice President) with our military's money, or beginning a partisan rift in our country that has no end in sight.

amazing what they were able to do in a good economy.

 

[TheOldSchool]

You'd prefer he still was one?

It's unfortunate that he was ever President.

Well, it was either him or Al Gore who is talking about playing with genetics to get silk out of goats or John Kerry who... well he's john kerry.

We've had a very crappy selection of Presidents to choose from.

Yea we've had a lot of awful candidates. I really like Votto's avatar with Willy Wonka saying, "So you vote for the lesser of two evils huh? Tell me how voting for evil is going for you."

 

[HUGGY]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

An expressway to nowhere? Will Iraqi oil pay for it?

 

[auditor0007]

I can think of several things to name after George W. Bush...but highways ain't among them...

AND idiots like you can't read or obviously think and definitely have NO Memories of what occurred!
These are the realities you choose to ignore! These events happened and nothing you can say can change it!

GWB will be considered by historians as one of the greatest Presidents who in spite of the following huge gigantic cataclysmic events larger and greater in number then ANY president had to face! NO president had ever faced the following:

1) Dot.com bust cost $5 trillion in lost market value.. this means every year for 30 years now starting in 2000 the federal revenue is over $66 billion written off against taxes owed.
How many people LOST jobs due to the bust??
According to the Los Angeles Times, when the dot-com bubble burst, it wiped out $5 trillion dollars in market value for tech companies. More than half of the Internet companies created since 1995 were gone by 2004 -
and hundreds of thousands of skilled technology workers were out of jobs.
The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion ? Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs

2) Did YOU forget that 9/11 occurred and it cost $2 trillion over the next 30 years again $33 billion will NOT BE PAiD.. was that Bush's fault?
Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 JUST in New York!!
Year 2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were the events that helped shape other financial events of the decade. After that terrible day in September 2001, our economic climate was never to be the same again. It was only the third time in history that the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for a period of time. In this case, it was closed from September 10 - 17. Besides the tragic human loss of that day, the economic loss cannot even be estimated. Some estimate that there was over $60 billion in insurance losses alone.
Approximately 18,000 small businesses were either displaced or destroyed in Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. There was a buildup in homeland security on all levels. 9/11 caused a catastrophic financial loss for the U.S.
The Top 10 Financial Events of the Decade

3) $1 trillion in written off losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history!
The worst Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages. Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992 as a Category 5. It caused 40 deaths and $30 billion in property damage. More than 250,000 people were left homeless and 82,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged.
Hurricane Katrina ALONE! Year 2005: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. as a strong Category 3 or low Category 4 storm. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.

Hurricane Rita quickly followed Katrina only to make matters worse. Between the two, more than $200 billion in damage was done. 400,000 jobs were lost and 275,000 homes were destroyed. Many of the jobs and homes were never to be recovered. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and over 1,000 were killed and more are missing. The effect on oil and gasoline prices was long-lasting.

400,000 jobs due to Hurricanes Katrina/Rita
145,000 jobs in NYC alone due to 9/11
300,000 jobs lost due to dot.com busts.

Almost 1 million jobs alone from those 3 events

4) Economic terrorist attack 9/18/2008 or how the world almost came to the end at 2pm on 9/18/2008!!!
Evidently the MAJORITY IF IDIOTS like YOU ,NEVER knew how close to entire collapse the ENTIRE world's economy was on 9/18/2008 when an economic terrorist attack occurred-- lead in part by George Soros!!!

On Thursday (Sept 18), at 11am the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury ...estimation is that by 2pm that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the U.S., would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S., and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.
Zero Hedge: How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18

Again all this happened and at the same time the MSM was bashing Bush DAILY!

Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters

But when it comes to Obama this same Bush Bashing Editor of NewsWeek.... Evan Thomas calls Obama god!

I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
Newsweek?s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ?Sort of God? | NewsBusters

While I'm not going to argue with you on any of this, I find it interesting that you defend Bush due to all the hardships he faced, yet Obama is the Devil in disguise even though he faced even bigger economic obstacles after the housing and stock market crashes beginning in 2008. Oh the irony of it.

The Stock Slump of 2008: Wrecking Ball to Wealth

The wealth destruction went beyond stocks last year. Jeremy Payne, a senior vice president with market research and analysis firm S&P Capital IQ, estimates that about $10 trillion of wealth disappeared in the global housing market. Add that to the $7 trillion in U.S. stock market losses, another $5 trillion or so in equity losses overseas and the sharp decline in values of more exotic investments such as mortgage securities, and "we're probably looking at $25 trillion worth of asset price deflation," Payne said.

The Stock Slump of 2008: Wrecking Ball to Wealth - washingtonpost.com

 

[Unkotare]

beginning a partisan rift in our country that has no end in sight.

Are you serious?

 

[healthmyths]

You'd prefer he still was one?

It's unfortunate that he was ever President.

Well, it was either him or Al Gore who is talking about playing with genetics to get silk out of goats or John Kerry who... well he's john kerry.

We've had a very crappy selection of Presidents to choose from.

Tell me ... did those events I listed happen?
Were they the fault of GWB?
What would you have done differently when the dot.com bubble burst and hundreds of thousand of jobs were lost?
Were you aware a recession that the beginnings starting at the end of 2000 was declared to start 3/2001 and ended 11/2001 and the major reason for the tax cuts??? WERE YOU aware of that???
WERE YOU aware 9/11 occurred? Where were you? WAS THAT Bush's fault that Gorelick memo prevented the CIA to share with FBI the bombers were here in the USA? That same Gorelick memo designed to keep CIA from tracing the Chinese clinton donations to missile secret sales?
Were you aware of the Worst hurricane SEASONS in history and again was that Bush's fault???
Were you aware of the 9/18/2008 near world economy collapse and you blame BUSH???

See you are a product of the BIASE MSM that BASHED Bush every day while today they've been covering Obama's butt so much so that you obviously agree Obama's a god and he can do no wrong!
After all Evan Thomas Editor of NewsWeek called him a "God"!!

And I expect that YOU like MSNBC host Chris Matthews just can’t say enough nice things about President Obama.
Already remembered for 2008 remarks about Mr. Obama’s speech sending a “thrill” up his leg, Mr. Matthews has now suggested the president may be “the perfect American.”
Mr. Matthews‘ comments on Wednesday’s episode of “Hardball” came in context of discussion of Southern Poverty Law Center findings of a correlation between White House pushes for gun control and a rise in patriot group memberships.

“I look at Obama as perfect American,” Mr. Matthews said, according to the show’s transcript. “I don’t mean politically. … But as a citizen. The guy went to school, he never broke a law{{{CHRIS He smoked POT and did Cocaine don't you know that???}}}}}. THe did everything right. He raised a wonderful family. He’s a good husband, a good father. My God, I don’t think he’s ever gotten a speeding ticket. The guy does everything right.”

Mr. Matthews made similar comments in July, calling Mr. Obama “the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American” and implying that only racists could possibly fear his policies.
Read more: MSNBC's Chris Matthews calls Obama the 'perfect American' ? again - Washington Times
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[Lakhota]

Holy shit. It's even worse than I thought...

George W. Bush's Resume

 

[Oddball]

POLITICS?!?!?

SERIOUSLY?!?!?

goddammit, there are no standards at this dump anymore