Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His ‘Strategies For Economic Growth’

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Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His ‘Strategies For Economic Growth’
By Pat Garofalo on May 16, 2012 at 10:45 am

Former President George W. Bush jumped back into presidential politics this week, endorsing presumptive 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. He also, according to the New York Times, plans to release a book in two months that will lay out his advice on boosting economic growth:

Gingerly, the 43rd president is beginning to add his voice back into the national dialogue. A month ago, he spoke publicly in favor of one of his defining domestic legacies, the tax cuts that still divide the country. Two months from now, he plans to publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth. And on Tuesday, he made a rare return to Washington to promote freedom overseas.

That Bush believes the country needs his thoughts on how to create economic growth is laughable. After all, under his watch, “growth in investment, GDP, and employment all posted their worst performance of any post-war expansion,” while “overall monthly job growth was the worst of any cycle since at least February 1945, and household income growth was negative for the first cycle since tracking began in 1967.” As the Economic Policy Institute found, “between the end of the 2001 recession (2001Q4) and the peak of that expansion (2007Q4), the U.S. economy experienced the worst economic expansion of the post-war era.”

As this chart shows, the only economic indicator on which Bush exceeded the average is corporate profits:

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/16/484981/bush-economic-book/

preview:
http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/05/70008,xcitefun-017246394.gif

[louis-t]

1. Haaaaaa!!1!!

[SoutherDem]

2. I have only one question

Will it be in Fiction, Horror or Humor

[lastlib]

17. True Crime

[rocktivity]

28. DUzy candidate!

And did that actually happen with a book Rumseld wrote -- people were going into bookstores and moving it into Fiction, Humor, and Fantasy sections?


rocktivity

[magical thyme]

3. I. need. a. drink.

[Fumesucker]

4. Get your dad's pals to buy a baseball team for you? n/t

[WI_DEM]

5. this has to be a joke! the guy who brought the economy to a brink of depression

is offering his economic expertise!?

[HughBeaumont]

7. The Bewsh 43 Administration:

Putting Satirists and Comedy Writers (and pretty much everyone else) Out of Work Since January 21st, 2001.

[krispos42]

8. His personal economic growth, maybe.

I wouldn't trust him to run a lemonade stand.

[EFerrari]

13. We need a new category of Duzy for this story.

[krispos42]

30. Things that make you go...

..

[EFerrari]

31. I call it the Bush War On Satire.

[malthaussen]

9. Chapter I: Get Daddy to Buy You a Baseball Team

n/t

[bongbong]

10. His Strategy

"Give me $24.95 and my economic growth will be up. In return, you'll learn a valuable lesson: don't buy books from repigs."

[mazzarro]

25. B-I-N-G-O!!!! -- n/t

[KG]

11. there's no way the moron wrote a word of this book. his next meal is as strategic as his mind works.

[Spirochete]

12. Oh , great...

My book budget is limited, and now I have to choose between this book, Sarah Palin's new one "Finish What You Started", or Rush Limbaugh's new one "Keys to a Successful Marriage". Decisions, decision...

[WilliamPitt]

14. Strategy #1: Don't Elect Me.

Strategy #2: See Strategy #1.

[lastlib]

15. His or Ours?

Are we supposed to follow the economic advice of the dipshit who nearly drove the economy, and the national debt, over a cliff??? What possible contribution could we get from a man whose only economic achievement was to make his rich buddies even richer, and poor people poorer?

He needs to be sent back to the oblivion he came from and stay there and STFU!

[rocktivity]

37. DUzy candidate!

rocktivity

[beac]

16. The only thing from Bush I'd pay $24.95 for is

the chance to give him a swift kick in the gonads.

[Initech]

19. Or a one way ticket to the Hauge.

[Major Hogwash]

18. Just in time for Christmas, available at Hannity's site for $2 by December 1st.

Of course, it will be on the "New York Times Best Seller List".
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when the books they had on that list actually were pretty good books.
His book will have an asterisk by it, naturally.
As his buddies will flock to order 1000s of them to give away to unsuspecting victims.
Just another attempt to rebuild the charade of the President who had no character.

The first MBA President.
What a fucking joke!

[Gregorian]

20. Spoiler alert! Start another war, cut banking regulations, cut taxes, cut brush.

[rocktivity]

23. DUzy candidate!

rocktivity

[n2doc]

21. It is a good guide-just do the opposite of what he recommends

and we will be just fine.

[rocktivity]

22. It's official -- Campaign '12 is going to be a LOT more fun than Campgain '08

Think of all the fun we'll have a) Getting Rmoney and all the other Rethugs to endorse Georgie's policies, and b) reminding people how wonderful the Bush years were. He must REALLY be hurting for money, but I'm not complaining. Quite the opposite -- thanks, Georgie!


rocktivity

[davekriss]

24. GWB and $24.95? Wuh? The price of toilet paper rise again? (nt)

[hifiguy]

26. Rack it next to "Navigation of the North Atlantic"

by the crew of the Titanic.

[Marblehead]

27. must be an onion piece.

[Yavapai]

29. Ima no gonna buy this,

Charmin is much cheaper!

[Initech]

32. How To Fail In Business And Still Succeed

[sarcasmo]

33. Strategery.

[spanone]

34. it would be laughable if it weren't true

[Johonny]

35. Somewhere an empty warehouse owner will be happy

[baldguy]

36. Would you want to pay for the advice of a guy branding himself as a cut-rate Tony Robbins?

On purpose?

Remember, this is someone who has failed at every business venture he has ever embarked upon.

[deacon]

38. or 'How To Convert a Budget Surplus Into $24.95 Cash'

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. Since he's going round giving speeches on human rights too, what can happen next?

Bush's return to the nation's capital lasted only a few hours to speak about democracy advocates and promote a human rights campaign that's part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in his home state of Texas.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/05/16/George-W-Bush-says-hes-for-Romney/UPI-79791337170787/#ixzz1v8UkXbNu

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