By Norman E. Hooben
The
Headline
“George H.W. Bush was the exact political opposite of
Donald Trump”
(CNN) George H.W. Bush would never have been elected to anything in the modern Republican Party. It's not because the former president, who died at age 94 on Friday, wasn't a "real" Republican. Bush believed in lower taxes, a smaller federal government and a robust military -- the general principles that, until the last few years, have defined modern conservatism.
The Facts
by Rabbi Dov Fischer
The Bushes got us into all kinds of messes. The first one killed the
economic miracle that Reagan had fashioned. The second one screwed up the
Middle East, where Iraq and Iran beautifully were engaged in killing each other
for years, and he got us mired into the middle of the muddle.
In his first eighteen months in Washington, this man (Donald Trump) has turned around the American
economy, brought us near full employment, reduced the welfare and food stamp
lines, wiped out ISIS in Raqqa, moved America’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem,
successfully has launched massive deregulation of the economy, has opened oil
exploration in ANWR, is rebuilding the military massively, has walked out of
the useless Paris Climate Accords that were negotiated by America’s amateurs
who always get snookered, canned the disastrous Iran Deal, exited the bogus
United Nations Human Rights Council. He convinced Canada and Mexico that he
would walk out of NAFTA if they didn’t negotiate a new and fair trade agreement
(they did), and he has the Europeans convinced he would walk out of NATO if
they don’t stop being the cheap and lazy parasitic penny-pinchers they are
He has slashed income taxes, expanded legal protections for college
students falsely accused of crimes, has taken real steps to protect religious
freedoms and liberties promised in the First Amendment, boldly has taken on the
Lyme-disease-quality of a legislative mess that he inherited from
Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama on immigration, and has appointed a steady line
of remarkably brilliant conservative federal judges to sit on the district
courts, the circuit appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
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Who is Rabbi Dov Fischer? Rabbi Dov Fischer is an attorney and adjunct professor of law, a Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, congregational rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California, and holds prominent leadership roles in several national rabbinic and other Jewish organizations. He has been Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, clerked for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and served for most of the past decade on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. His writings have appeared in the Weekly Standard, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Jerusalem Post, American Thinker, Frontpage Magazine, and Israel National News.
