Romney Puts Bush Back in the White House Saddle...... introducing Bush III
Earl Ofari Hutchinson of Huffington Post:
The terrifying prospect that GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney would put George W. Bush back in the White House, if elected, came a step closer to reality with the public unveiling of his transition team. Bush won't literally return to the White House under a Romney regime, but it's close. The names of the transition team read like a who's who of the Bush administration.
A tip-off that Bush's imprint would be all over a Romney administration came even before he announced he'd formed his transition team. It came at a closed door confab for Romney's fat cat donors back in June. The usual Bush suspects were there, including former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff and Bush political guru Karl Rove. There are more than three dozen ex-Bush officials that have hovered close to Romney in the last year.
The pack of the old Bushites make up the same cast of characters that were the architects of Bush's failed, flawed, and costly foreign and war policies. The bug Bush planted in Romney's ear about how to conduct the nation's affairs is plainly in evidence on the pet Bush themes, namely a talk-and-act-tough foreign policy, especially on Russia, and a virtually open taxpayer's checkbook to the Defense Department on spending. Romney even contradicted his own VP running mate Paul Ryan who agreed as part of congressional budget negotiations to cut billions from the military budget. Romney publicly and repeatedly declared that not a penny would be slashed from it.
His lambaste of President Obama for allegedly going soft on the anti-American protests in Cairo and his hard line blast at Obama for his alleged tepid response to the murder of America's Libyan ambassador for which he was roundly and rightly hammered further confirmed that the bring-em'-on-take-no-prisoners mantra that was the trademark of the Bush years would be back in the White House saddle with Romney. Bush's hang tough stance earned the U.S. the frustration of its European allies, inflamed hostilities with the Arab world, and cost the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the gross nose thumb at civil liberties protections with Guantanamo, and some provisions of the Patriot Act.
Romney's transition team conjures up the shuddering thought of a Bush Administration III return on domestic policy too. Former positions that Romney's transition team members held with Bush as agency heads, top administrators, or cabinet holders include the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health and Human Services, Small Business Administration, the Treasury Department, and the Security and Exchange Commission. Coupled with former Bush foreign policy bigwigs that have Romney's ear, they cover nearly every key area of White House policy making and department administration.
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That's not a change, that's a rerun! Willorge Witt Rombush.
