Enlisting Economists, Bush Adds Book to Fiscal Debaterticle title
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON His entire involvement in the presidential campaign has consisted of four words uttered to a reporter as elevator doors were closing: Im for Mitt Romney. But former President George W. Bush gingerly enters the fray a little more this week with a new book outlining ways to rebuild the economy.
For the first time since leaving office three and a half years ago, Mr. Bush is advancing a variety of ideas about how to jump-start economic growth by restructuring taxes, expanding trade, encouraging innovation, fixing immigration and overhauling Social Security. He wrote the foreword for the book, a collection of essays from an array of economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, and he proposes a national goal of expanding the economy by 4 percent a year on a sustained basis.
To the extent that Mr. Bush has been part of the dialogue this year, it has been as a whipping boy for Mr. Obama and other Democrats. They have warned voters not to support Mr. Romney because he would revive Bush policies that they say led to the 2008 financial crisis and the problems that linger today.
The former president, who was confronted with a recession early in his first term and then presided over a long period of sustained though not particularly robust growth before 2008, does not use the book to defend his record, but instead tries to move forward.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/bush-presenting-book-of-economic-proposals.html?hp
I just cannot believe the hubris of this man - and how the NY Times rewrites history: "The former president, who was confronted with a recession early in his first term and then presided over a long period of sustained though not particularly robust growth before 2008, does not use the book to defend his record, but instead tries to move forward." Oh, NY Times, so he was just an innocent bystander, huh?
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Prison should be his retirement home.
snot
(10,530 posts)I see the only part W wrote was the foreward, which is just a little over 2 pp. long. Guess he's had a lot of brush to clear.
And I don't see any way to comment on the NYT article . . . .
blm
(113,065 posts)to vigorously defend Bush's military leadership and his Iraq decisions, knowing that the Dem nominee was attacking Bush on that issue.
TeamBush will be as sincere about their efforts for Romney's 2012 campaign as TeamClinton was in 2004.
This book tour is all about rehabbing Bush name for Jeb2016.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Is he perpetually drunk?
Also, could someone please educate me on what the hell "Debaterticle" means, much less how it's even pronounced?
debaterticle is so appropriate for a story about Bush.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)we will be paying for that bastard bush's mistakes for DECADES
snot
(10,530 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)(Sarcasm tag isn't really necessary, is it?)
benld74
(9,904 posts)Mr. Bush is advancing a variety of ideas about how to jump-start economic growth by
1)restructuring taxes,
2)expanding trade,
3)encouraging innovation,
4)fixing immigration and
5) overhauling Social Security
SOS. Cant ANYBODY in the US CREATE jobs anymore?
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tanyev
(42,567 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)sofa king
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