troops in afghanistan. they ve done nothing, made no tough choices on medicare, no tough choices on medicaid. yes, they took $500 billion out of medicare to start a new entitlement program called the affordable care act. no tough choices. and, of course, that defines republican leadership for eight years under george w. bush. yeah. which also puts the republicans which is why we re racing toward a cliff right now. coming up, we ll continue this. republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania joins us. also, democratic senator chris coons of delaware. we ll talk oil and energy prices with boone pickens. and later, green jacket winner bubba watson. yeah, baby, boone and bubba. it gets no better than that for a southern boy. we ll be here on set. the political playbook is next. keep it here on morning joe brewed by starbucks. members of the american postal worker s union
bush s policies, for sending drones into countries where we are not at war right now. but guess what? under george w. bush and barack obama, there has not obviously, he killed osama bin laden as well. there has not been an attack in new york city or in washington or on american soil since september 11th, and who the hell would have predicted that on september the 12th? very few people. very few people. considering what our intel community deals with every day, and they never get the credit for the attacks they stop. no, they don t. you really can t ignore the fact that perhaps the single not perhaps the single most important thing any american president has on his plate or her plate historically, up until today, is the decision to put this country into a war, to send american troops into a war. and george w. bush made the
decision to go to war with ir iran iraq. in iraq. wholly illogical. when you consider the fact that things might have been alterably changed, pursuing osama bin laden in the tora bora mountains in december 2001, who knows what would have happened? that s past history. he has to live with that history. we have to live with that history. one of the things that george w. bush does not get enough credit for, though, i think is that in the fall of 2008 when the economy was collapsing, it was his treasury secretary, and he, as president, and his fed chief, ben bernanke, who saved the american economy. i mean, i don t think there s much doubt about that. now, how we got to that point is an entirely different story. but they had the resources and the will to save the american economy. you know, we will continue our historical analysis of the
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and very few people think the poor are getting a free ride in this economy anyway. and then on the democratic side, they re demagoguing tax cuts for the rich which, again, if you want to talk about the bush tax cuts, that s one thing. but this president extended the bush tax cuts two years because he thought it was good for the economy. that s what they were saying behind the scenes. the buffett rule, going after these small discretionary domestic spending, that s not going to help us in the long run. i think, though, what the president was saying is that it begins to slightly address the massive disparity. how many times, mika in this society. did we push the white house at the end of 2010 for political reasons on my part to end the bush tax cuts? yep. every single day. i don t disagree with that. you look what they did, they extended the bush tax cuts for two years. they tripled the number of