Fmr. President George H.W. Bush To Host ‘Economic Leadership Forum’ With ‘Recognized Expert’ Rick Santelli
Fmr. President George H.W. Bush To Host ‘Economic Leadership Forum’ With ‘Recognized Expert’ Rick Santelli
The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M has announced that the former president will host an “Economic Leadership Forum” next week that includes a panel of “distinguished leaders and recognized experts” — one of which is CNBC blowhard and former derivatives trader Rick Santelli:
President George Bush will host an Economic Leadership Forum featuring Maria Bartiromo, Richard Kovacevich, Lawrence Lindsey, and Rick Santelli. [...] The Twanna M. Powell Lecture Series is an endowed program designed to bring distinguished leaders and recognized experts on current issues of international and domestic interest to the campus of Texas A&M University.
Lindsey, who served as President George W. Bush’s National Economic Council director, once predicted that “the negative effect” of the war in Iraq “will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.”
It is unclear what “recognized” expertise former President Bush’s library foundation finds in Santelli. Last February during an on-air rant, Santelli famously called for a Chicago tea party to protest President Obama’s housing rescue plan. The right wing immediately latched onto Santelli’s rant, with some inviting him on their talk radio shows to promote it. In fact, on G. Gordon Liddy’s show, Santelli claimed — without any basis — that the White House was threatening him and that his kids “are nervous to go to school,” an assertion he was later forced to back away from.
Santelli’s February rant also inspired many of the tax day “tea party” protests across the country. “Santelli hit a lot of things that I believe — that the government needs to stop getting involved in everything,” one local New York organizer said. Indeed, Santelli solidified his right-wing bona fides yesterday saying that he’s “pretty proud” that the gatherings took place, adding, “I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture.”
Now, Santeilli’s recent work has sparked a backlash within his own network. The New York Post reports today that GE and NBC executives are worried that “CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much.” Former President Bush apparently has no such concerns.
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The event will probably be closed off to anyone who disagrees with them which is 70% of the country! Bush and economics are like conservatives and gay marriage!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:05 pmLarry Kudlow is crying right now… H.W. just went and broke his lil’ heart by leaving him off the list. How will he ever get over this?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:05 pmMakes sences as insane people like to be with other insane people. Look for the follow wingnuts to follow. Bush will have his hand out for money as he needs it for his fake Library. I wonder how many of the Republican Law Makers will join in the Circus.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:07 pmThe Republicans are indicting themselves. Let them talk, then expose their hypocrisy. They are really slow learners.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pmPost 4: Ape-Man Says:
The Republicans are indicting themselves. Let them talk, them expose their hypocrisy. They are really slow learners
LOL! I couldn’t agree with you more, Ape-Man!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:21 pmCrap…Now I have to clean my Computer…I just spit coffee all over it when I read this headline…Should say recognized Idiot not expert
April 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pmNothing like throwing an anchor to a drowning anvil…
April 16th, 2009 at 8:40 pmMore fun in the echochamber! I can’t wait for this. The humor should be good.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:42 pmGeorge W. Bush hosting an “economic leadership” forum?
That’s like Tom DeLay chairing a panel on ethics in public service.
And Rick Santelli? The guy who stood on the floor of the stock exchange (ground zero for America’s destructive economic meltdown) and called Americans who’d lost homes or were in the process of losing homes losers?
The unbridled arrogance of these a$$hats never ceases to amaze.
Just saying . . .
April 16th, 2009 at 8:52 pmSantelli the raving lunatic and Bush are the last jacka$$es on earth that should be hosting anythng regarding economic leadership.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:56 pmAs long as the blind are busy leading the blind, we will continue to walk into walls and bump our heads.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:57 pmObama deserves George’s SILENCE!
April 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pmI assume that Carrot Top was not available. He would have added some class to this event.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:05 pmwhat expertise could 43 offer at an economic leadership conference, how to lead the economy down the sewer?
April 16th, 2009 at 9:06 pmCan’t we deport Santelli to the Republic of Texas? I hear they’re a country now.
(joke)
April 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pmBirds of a feather Stupid together.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:12 pmPolicies aside…I can actually respect HW. Too bad class (and intelligence. and tact. and decency) skips a generation in that clan.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:16 pmI’m guessing they asked Santelli because Berard Madoff will be
April 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pmunavailable.
I am not familar with Richard Kovacevich, though I probably should be, but the others are all clearly Obama bashers.
First, Jeb Bush takes a shot at Obama and now Daddy Bush joins the fray. Not even 100 days have passed and out roll the big guns. I think the people will see through this gambit.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:23 pmThe Bushies have such a great track record with economics. Santelli is an idiot as proven on CNBC. I won’t get into Texas A&M because I like to believe they hold class down there but they cannot deny Phil Gramm. Moral, wingnuts and liars all.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:28 pmgreedy selfish bastrd…
that’s all i’ve got to say about that.
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rachel maddow just spanked sen.burr a good one, 3 times actually.
thank you rachel!
gad it was good. classy and respectful, of course.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:31 pmThe tighty righties do love them some populist celebs, don’t they?
April 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pmHeh. “Recognized expert”??? On what? Man on dog action??
*eyeroll*
April 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pmOops – I got my idiots mixed up! :o/ (Rick SantORUM)
Oh well, once you’ve seen one wingnut, you’ve seen ‘em all.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:46 pmLast February during an on-air rant, Santelli famously called for a Chicago tea party to protest President Obama’s housing rescue plan. The right wing immediately latched onto Santelli’s rant…
isn’t there evidence that points to this tea party business having been planned since august 08?
correct me if i’m wrong…
April 16th, 2009 at 9:49 pmkatydid Says:
isn’t there evidence that points to this tea party business having been planned since august 08?
correct me if i’m wrong…
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Heh… correct you?
Au contraire… I’m prolly starting to annoy some by posting the following too many times… BUT… it is SOOOOOOOO apropos…
ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, was live within twelve hours.
Huh??? ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008??? But… but.. the Teabaggers’ Balls are supposed to be genuwine populist uprisings…
Gee… imagine that… a website named “ChicagoTeaParty.Com”, organized SIX MONTHS EARLIER.
ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public.
Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
http://www.wikio.com/news/Zack+Christenson
April 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pmthat’s it, tros! thanks…
April 16th, 2009 at 10:10 pmI saw Dick Army talking to a host at a tea party on TV and i thought he was a senile senior and felt sorry for him, until they said who he was. Incoherent nonsense.
Tell us more about groups like Freedomworks and Koch family money. :) I feel like there was a sinister element to the tea bagging…
April 16th, 2009 at 10:32 pmThis event is the high brow equivilent of tea bagging. Just as sinister, but it won’t be as obvious, except to those who have learned how the bushies operate.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:36 pmOf course not, Dorothy Bush married into the Koch family
April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pmAnother right-wing economic forum on how to bankrupt america and it’s citizens again.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:50 pmBirds of a feather … The right wing noise machine is too powerful for us. This is nearly impossible to fight against.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm” Former President Bush apparently has no such concerns.”
Do you really expect GWBush to have any ?really,this is the guy who knowingly lied to Americans about Sadaam Hussein having WMDs.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:55 pmMaybe they could get Kramer to speak with them too.
One of my favorite rants is going into how Bush bankrupted a MBL team, how hard is that? Nearly impossible. Three super geniuses speaking on a topic they know nothing about. That should get alot of support, at least from FOX.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:58 pm.
BUSH/CHENY BANKRUPTED WORLD!
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April 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pmI find it amusing as they have lost the ability to control the message. The shrieking is a sign of desperation
April 16th, 2009 at 11:04 pmmk3872 Says:
Birds of a feather … The right wing noise machine is too powerful for us. This is nearly impossible to fight against.
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Impossible to fight racism, hatred, bigotry, fear-mongering and brainwashing from the right-wing? The Republicans will be feeling a severe backlash from their constituents when mid-term elections come around in some areas. And in looking at some of these Republicans voter polls around the country, their not doing to good in the approval satisfaction department.
The tea party model was the corporate whores riling up the wingnuts to carry water for their corporate interests. The only taxes that are in jeopardy are the Bush tax cuts that will expire next year. The wingnuts had taxes cut two weeks ago. This just another example of how the corporate whores use their sheeple by making them angry and fearful. This deal is Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and the boys. They never have anything to offer but lies and dishonesty.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:46 pmSantelli looks like he may have fetal alcohol syndrom. So sad.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:58 pm*
bonat – I want to believe that is true. But when a fringe radical 250k Americans can get the largest cable news network to advocate their beliefs on TV 24×7, I do not know how we combat that.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:12 amEvery former President who has left office makes speeches. It’s what they do. Some leave office and go their merry way. Others like Bill Clinton can’t stay out of the spotlight and says things to remain in the media. The problem with President Obama is that he won’t step aside and let the country do whats it’s done before he was President and will continue to do after he leaves office. No one man is the country and President Obama should know this. If President Obama wasn’t so concerned in getting agendas passed he would see that the country is grown up enough to go one day without his involvement.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:16 amGet over it, Chapalody.
George W. Bush f ucked up this country so bad, we need a president who actually interested in doing the job — and has the capability of doing it.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:19 amNow Dubya’s library is getting into the crazy. If the people running that had half a brain, they’d stay far, far away from the loony tunes marching and ranting lately. It’s one thing to have a Presidency that’s going to go down in history as a miserable failure; it’s quite another to have one that lets itself get involved in carnival freak sideshows.
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Chapalody Says:
The problem with President Obama is that he won’t step aside and let the country do whats it’s done before he was President and will continue to do after he leaves office. No one man is the country and President Obama should know this. If President Obama wasn’t so concerned in getting agendas passed he would see that the country is grown up enough to go one day without his involvement.
Because laissez-faire economics is proven to work every time, no matter what!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:34 amChapalody:
You’re another rightwingnutcrazy who fails to realize that Bush’s stand aside and let the country go to hell policy is what got us into the mess we’re in. Obama MUST intervene. We must have regulations to protect “We The People”. People like you live in an alternate universe! Come back to earth and reality.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:40 ammk3872
You can’t combat ignorance and sore losers, that’s to much wasted good energy and time. Most people don’t take Faux News seriously except those ignorant right-wing radicals. And most of my ‘moderately’ conservative friends stop watching Faux News all together they hate and detest the direction the Republicans are going in. In fact they actually voted for Obama. The GOP is destroying themselves, let them keep doing that. Besides, 250k that’s a handful of right-wing radicals, nothing to worry about.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:40 amWhat’s sad is that these tools don’t realize they’re being pimped by the George HW Bushies and Psycho Santorelli’s of America to have these crazy rallies!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:43 amThe US is grownup? That’s weird all the high school social curricula claims the US is a young nation relative to the grown up ones…
April 17th, 2009 at 12:44 ambonat Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 12:40 am
You’re right, we can’t combat ignorance and sore losers — nor should we. But we can move through them, in spite of their protests — and we should never ignore them.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I’d rather know what the radicals and extremists are saying and doing then not.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:48 amChapalody’s approach would be like me saying we could all get to work more efficiently if we got rid of all traffic lights, signs and police. Just let the traffic flow do what it does best without all that intrusive government interference!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:54 amZooey Lepidoptera
Agreed. ;-)
April 17th, 2009 at 12:58 amChapalody Says:
Every former President who has left office makes speeches. It’s what they do. Some leave office and go their merry way. Others like Bill Clinton can’t stay out of the spotlight and says things to remain in the media. The problem with President Obama is that he won’t step aside and let the country do whats it’s done before he was President and will continue to do after he leaves office. No one man is the country and President Obama should know this. If President Obama wasn’t so concerned in getting agendas passed he would see that the country is grown up enough to go one day without his involvement.
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Chapalody, you are really ignorant, enough said.
You see mk3872 why would you combat this?
April 17th, 2009 at 1:04 amUh, folks — there are a couple of posters here who seem a bit confused.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:07 amThis is George the Elder, #41, George H. W. Bush, that they’re talking about, and *not* George the Lesser (”Least,” actually), #43, George W. Bush.
The George H. W. Bush (41) Presidential Library mentioned here is the one at Texas A&M in College Station Texas. The George W. Bush (43) Presidential Library doesn’t exist yet; it’s planned to be at S.M.U. in Dallas.
I understand that to a certain point, all Rethugs look alike, sound alike, act alike. And they don’t make it any easier since they keep using the same names over and over. (What the frak is up with that anyway? These people are the ones who always talk about “rugged individualism.” And they’re not normally so big on recycling…)
But still…
I think we’re tracking all that, smartalek.
Thanks.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:10 amMaybe Bush can explain why he handed Bill Clinton the biggest deficit in U.S. history.
Right Will Eat Itself
April 17th, 2009 at 5:23 amMaybe poppa Bush will explain his family’s ecognomiks by explaing how his traitorous father Prescott Bush was such a economic GENIOUS that he sought fortune by TRADING with the enemey Nazi Gemany AFTER PEARL HARBOR (Germany declared war on us the same time as we declared war on Japan) and he kept trading and laundering Hitler’s money until he was stopped by FDR’s courts. THAT is why the BUSH’s have ALWAYS had a hardon for all of FDR’s programs. And THAT is why they need to all HANG. GHWB no different and no less a traitor than his FATHER, or his SON. Shit flows through them all.
Oh and BTW, this the scumbag who runs the Sam Alliance mentioned by TROS above.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:52 amhttp://www.samadamsalliance.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=913&Itemid=75
CNBC and FOX should be taken off the air. All they are now are non-paid political advertising for the far right. In the past 2 months CNBC has a Republican politician almost every day talking about how Obama is ruining America.
Santelli, Kudlow, and the rest should be taken off the air. We own the air ways, not NBC. It’s about time we got true, factual reporting rather than this farce.
By the way, the Economic Summit will be paired with a summit on Creationism. Remember, God is on their side. But as George Carlin pointed out so well, God has never been good at money, that’s why he asks us to keep on giving…..
April 17th, 2009 at 7:59 amSantelli must be referring to the racism that still remains as part of the right-wing culture. It is shameful that Santelli is proud of this racism.
The racism that was hidden has finally surfaced in this nation. Now that it is so obvious, we can call it like it is… hatred of blacks and anyone that is not of the color white.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:12 amI was completely and utterly “gobsmacked” that BushytaleI didn’t have BushytaleII give a lecture on the positive effect on our economy of combining the theory of creationism, supply-side economics and the national debt. It could be titled something like “God Works In Mysterious Ways His Wonders To Behold” or “How To Destroy A Country Without Really Trying”. I’m sure everyone attending would be on the edge of their chairs fearful they may fall off the edge of the world.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:12 amsANTELLI IA A JERK OBAMA SMACHER AND IS BEING USED BY bUSH A CREEP IN HIS OWN WORLD NO PEOPLE WIL SHOW UP FOR THIOIS SPEECH.SANTELIA IS ON THE VERGE OF BEING FIRED BY CNBC GOOD FOR CNBC FIRE MORE HERKS
April 17th, 2009 at 10:17 amBush: Economic prosperity? Successful Businessman? The only advice this man can give is to come from a wealthy family who can cover your ass each time you FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. But then again, I guess that those will be the people who will go to see him play knowledgeable speaker. What morons.
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