Bush: Idiot or Political Master?

I often wonder about that. On the surface the man almost single handedly proves evolution occurred. There are apes who appear more coherent than him.

Yet on other occasions I have to wonder. Take the mortgage bailout he announced. Gotta give it to that asshole, he had me going. He had me thinking he would bail out the idiots who took out more loan than they could afford. And Wall St. had yet another collective orgasm led by CNBC.

But wait as they say at the end of the infomercial. There's more.

If you read the details closely you realize that this is nothing but an election year stunt that does almost nothing concrete. It only applies to homedebtors who are current on their payments. That takes out about 5% of them. Then you need to have no more than 3% equity in your home. Given the amount of people who got $0 down loans there goes another 20%. Then your mortgage needs to be less than the value of your home. Goodbye anyone who bought a house 2005-2006 in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Florida, Miami, DC and much of SoCal. And it doesn't apply to investors, only owner occupied (although given how easy it was to lie there are thousands of "owner occupied" rentals out there).

Which in essence means nobody will qualify. It will help a few inner city families in Cleveland and Detroit. Then Bush will prop them up on the TeeVee and show how much he cares about minorities. Dat dere parsdent really done do care 'bout poor folk. And in the next election the GOP nominee will still get 8% of the vote.

Yet he had Wall St, me, the MSM and the poor slobs about to foreclose thinking this would actually be something. And more importantly he stole the thunder from the Democrats on the issue. From a political point of view he kicked ass. Almost as is Rove were still working in the background.

Well played Senor Arbusto, well played sir.

Yet this is one more in a series of stupid moves on the part of Bush and Republicans in general. Election after election they get votes mainly from white, middle class voters. Yet who do they reward once elected? Anyone who is not a white middle class voter. They give amnesty to illegals. They fight for affirmative action. They do shit like subprime bailouts (and let's all be honest here, subprime is not white middle class voter). And after doing all that, the very people they tell to fuck off are the ones who come back and vote for them again. And the ones whose ass they kiss don't.

Here is my piece of advice for Rudy or Romney.

Cut taxes. When Democrats complain tell them too fucking bad.
Build a wall on the border. When La Raza complains tell them too fucking bad.
Tell anyone who is foreclosed on too fucking bad. Next time be responsible.
End affirmative action. When Jesse Jackson complains tell him too fucking bad.
When you find a terrorist, kill him. When the ACLU whines and bitches about human rights, tell them too fucking bad.

Promise to do those 5 things and you will win a landslide.