House Republican: 'Bush destroyed the GOP'-The Hill

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11/10, "House Republican: 'Bush destroyed GOP,'" The Hill blog, by Michael O'Brien

"Former President George W. Bush is no "class act," a Republican lawmaker insisted Wednesday. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said Bush had "destroyed" the GOP during his eight years in office in a blunt shot at the former Republican president, who on Tuesday released his book, "Decision Points."

Rohrabacher tweeted Wednesday:

@MarkRMatthews Bush not class act, destroyed GOP, jailed Ramos & Compean, left us bailouts, gave more power to fed gov & China.

The GOP lawmaker, who won reelection to his fifth term last week, was responding to another conservative on Twitter who called Bush a "class act" for avoiding criticism of President Obama since leaving office. Even in interviews supporting his book, Bush has refused to take any shots at his successor.

• Rohrabacher alluded to the jailing of two Border Patrol agents —

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean — whose sentences Bush commuted in his last day in office. The pair had been convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer, and conservatives had championed their release.

• The California Republican also complained about other elements of Bush's time in office, including his administration's work to set up the Wall Street bailout program in 2008, a program that conservatives have bemoaned.

Bush told conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh that he'd set up the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) again if given a second chance.

"Yeah, I would've," Bush said."

Commenter to blog item:

""W", like his father before him, said a lot of the right things. However, on domestic issues especially, he was a progressive.

• Until his second term, I was a life long GOP voter. He left the ideals of the conservative movement for political expediancy.

No "Bush" should ever run for national; office again. We will always remember "Read my lips". A Bush cannot be trusted to stick to principle. ... Rohrabacker is rightBY MRH1949 on 11/10/2010 at 12:06"

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