The year 2000
Thanks GOP for George W. Bush. Here was a guy who brother stole the election for him. Coming into the office left with a surplus the nation puts its faith into a c plus college graduate. Then 9-11 happens on his watch by all GOP talking points today this would by default make bush Jr. The worst President ever. But after an act of war the nation unites then the bush administration lies to the U.N. and the America people about weapons of mass destruction. 2 wars later and no domestic agenda after 6 years or so this guy was done thanks GOP.
And here I thought by the thread title that you were going to be factual and genuine - pointing out the actual failings of the Republican Party since Clinton left office. (And there are many, several of which helped make Trump possible.)
That said, you are not entitled to your own "facts".
1. The 2000 election was won fair-and-square. Democrats attempted to steal the election for Al Gore, in truth. Winning a popular majority is not a requirement for winning an electoral majority. Bush won the 2000 election legitimately and had every right to act as President of the United States. Sore losers have been trying to spin that election result now for nearly two decades and you've no excuse for falling for it other than your own intellectual dishonesty and laziness.
2. The surplus was an illusion because President Clinton had added FICA taxes back into the general fund for budgeting purposes. Both parties wanted to spend the surplus. Al Gore campaigned on increasing federal spending while Bush campaigned on decreasing taxes. Bush's tax cuts actually
increased revenue to the federal government over time. The fact that the (relatively small) surplus disappeared was hardly bad policy on Bush's part.
3. Are you suggesting that anyone who graduates college with a C+ average or less should not be hired? Or are you suggesting that the Constitution should stipulate that the president must have a college GPA above a certain point? Perhaps we should set a GPA bar on posters in this forum to spare us the pain of reading claptrap like your OP.
4. What "GOP talking points today" are you referring to that would condemn George W. Bush as the worst president ever because 9/11 occurred six months into his presidency as a result of the fact that Bush's predecessor had consistently treated terrorism as a law enforcement issue and had refused to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when presented the opportunity? If anything could have been done to prevent 9/11, then Bill Clinton - or Jimmy Carter, who lost Iran in 1979 - deserve the lion's share of the credit, yet I don't hear Republicans calling either of them the worst president in history.
5. The Bush administration did not lie to the United Nations when it made the case for Iraq's consistent flaunting of sanctions and previous UN resolutions. Nor did it lie when it laid out the evidence that Saddam Hussein had, in the past, deployed WMDs (albeit chemical and biological ones) and had been pursuing the acquisition or development of more. The intelligence on which the administration decided more urgent action was needed was, in fact, never proved but that was because Hussein had sufficient time to smuggle his WMDs (as multiple sources have since confirmed) into Syria, where they have been deployed in recent years. Repeating easily debunked myths about the 2000 election, the Iraq War and the Bush administration does not make them facts. It just makes you look silly and unserious.
6. While the increasingly unpopular Iraq War, in particular, did help render Bush's second term less effective, he did have a domestic agenda; it was just stymied by the election of a Democrat-controlled Congress in 2006. Your complaints/argument is all over the page here.
This doesn't appear to have anything to do with partisan politics other than proving your own partisanship. Bush hasn't been in office for more than 8 years. I don't see any discussion of the long-term implications of the Iraq or Afghanistan Wars. All I see is someone who struggles to put two coherent sentences together deriding a U.S. President for his college GPA not being high enough.
Grow up.
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