Greenspan Slams Team Bush in New Memoir
Alan Greenspan is no fan of the Bush administration or the once-dominant congressional Republicans. In his new memoir, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," the former Federal Reserve chairman disparages the two groups for violating the GOP's values on spending and small government. UpdatedAlan Greenspan is no fan of the Bush administration or the once-dominant congressional Republicans. In his new memoir, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” the former Federal Reserve chairman disparages the two groups for violating the GOP’s values on spending and small government. Update: The Sunday Times contains this bombshell of an excerpt from Greenspan’s book: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
AS CHAOS UNFOLDS, FIND SOLID GROUND…The New York Times:
Mr. Bush, he writes, was never willing to contain spending or veto bills that drove the country into deeper and deeper deficits, as Congress abandoned rules that required that the cost of tax cuts be offset by savings elsewhere. “The Republicans in Congress lost their way,” writes Mr. Greenspan, a self-described “libertarian Republican.”
“They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose” in the 2006 election, when they lost control of the House and Senate.
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