Ditto

by Nick van Nes (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 596 comments [150 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:26:33 AM

As I have said before, George W. Bush hasn't got a Legacy to stand on!  There is not one redeeming value in him or any of his administration.  We can only be thankful that he has not compltetly destroyed this country and the world as of yet.  If it would not polute the Universe I would be for loading the entire Bush Administration plus his allies in Congress into a space shuttle and fire them into Deep Space.  The cleanup of his "legacy" is going to take the rest of this millenium, if we are lucky!

by Hayesml47 (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 540 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:58:09 AM

I Agree!

by Kenneth Briggs (186 articles, 88 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 142 comments [6 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:19:58 PM

"neither he nor his contemporaries are yet able to fully assess his legacy

Yes, we can, George.  I'm a contemporary, and I'm telling you that you're a crook, a criminal conspirator, guilty of the murder of millions, and you should go to gaol and stay there and rot there.  And if there is any justice in the world, rather than mealy-mouthed politics, that is what you will do.

Understood, George?

by Keith Pope (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 96 comments [29 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:21:40 AM

Corporate media propagandists will portray Bush as an icon right alongside of Reagan.  First, we will begin seeing buildings, highways, schools, etc. named after him, then we will begin hearing blurbs about things he has accomplished.....

The only way to have stopped this charade was to hold impeachment hearings.  That could not have been camouflaged, but would have told all his presidency did NOT go that well in terms of criminality, even treasonous activity. 

by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:41:54 AM

Bush's conservative legacy of failure follows from a single utterance from Ronald Reagan upon his inauguration on January 20, 1981; "Government is not the solution; government is the problem." What has happened over the last eight years links up to what has been happening over the last twenty-eight years, since Ronald Reagan was elected president.

In the long run, historians will have a very easy time characterizing the failures of the Bush presidency - Bush is a conservative Republican ascending to office with a Congress controlled by conservative Republicans, alongside a judiciary more or less controlled by conservative Republicans, all set in motion by President Reagan.

In the short run, it appears very, very clear that's not stopping conservatives from rewriting history.

NYTimes.com
A President Forgotten but Not Gone
By FRANK RICH
Published: January 3, 2009

[An] elaborate example of legacy spin can be downloaded from the White House Web site: a booklet recounting "highlights" of the administration's "accomplishments and results."

But the brazenness of Bush's alternative-reality history is itself revelatory. The audacity of its hype helps clear up the mystery of how someone so slight could inflict so much damage. So do his many print and television exit interviews.

The last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll on Bush's presidency found that 79 percent of Americans will not miss him after he leaves the White House. He is being forgotten already, but it is important to remember how vast the wreckage stretches.

HuffingtonPost.com
by Brad Woodhouse
Posted December 23, 2008

The Bush legacy should be remembered as a grand and failed experiment of what happens when conservatives are in complete control of the government. Conservative ideology rails against government, argues that government is the problem, not the solution. So when a government run by conservatives so utterly fails to promote and protect the common good for all citizens, is it any wonder?

Weekly Standard senior writer and GOP insider Stephen Hayes let slip that an unofficial White House PR campaign is afoot - which Hayes dubbed the "Bush Legacy project" -- with the mission of highlighting what they believe are the President's accomplishments. In 1987, President Reagan's job approval rating plummeted to 42 percent -- [yet] his conservative disciples redefined his presidency as an example of successful conservative governance. Reagan got away with repairing his legacy on the way out the door; George W. cannot be allowed to do the same.

In truth, the failures of the last eight years cannot be chalked up to one man. The war in Iraq, the floundering economy, the tragedy that befell New Orleans, were the failures of conservative ideology. The failures are owned by every conservative in Congress who championed and happily rubber-stamped conservative legislation and the conservative philosophy of governing.

The truly compelling story of this decade is one that conservatives do not want told – the rapid and dramatic failure of conservative government. America has learned what life is like under a true conservative government. With near absolute power, conservatives have pursued their agenda with little compromise or input from progressives. In a position of virtually unchecked power conservatives have failed quickly and utterly at the most basic responsibilities of governing, leaving our nation weaker and our people less prosperous, less safe and less free. The Bush years may have been years of political and legislative victories for conservatives, but those years of political and legislative victories have resulted in disastrous conservative governance.

Conservatives in Washington have taken the country on a reckless sharp right turn, offering a disasterious economic strategy, a foreign policy too belligerent and too ineffective, and a style of governing too arrogant and corrupt for our proud democracy. Their approach has not only failed to yield the results they've promised, but has endangered America's leadership in the world and broad-based prosperity at home in ways that will take many years to repair.

Conservative leadership in Washington, DC:

• Misled the American people into an endless war in Iraq that has made the United States less safe, has resulted in the death and injury of thousands of American troops and Iraqis, has cost American taxpayers as much as one trillion dollars, has strained our military to the breaking point, and has prevented us from finishing the job in Afghanistan.
• Stood idly by while thousands of Americans lost everything during Hurricane Katrina – and still haven't taken leadership to rebuild the Gulf Coast and help people return home.
• Allowed trickle-down, laissez-faire (deregulation, anti-regulation, no government regulation or even oversight on anything for any reason, ever, period) economics to help the rich get richer, while regular Americans struggle with soaring gas and food prices, a meltdown in the housing market, and exploding debt during today's economic recession.
• Turned control of our country's health care system over to insurance and pharmaceutical companies, leaving millions of Americans incapable of paying for the rising costs of health benefits and turning emergency rooms into primary care physicians.
• Broke their promise to America's children, failing to fund early education programs and No Child Left Behind.
• Ignored the scientific reality of climate change, obstructing efforts to make our air and water cleaner so oil and gas companies and big business could achieve record profits.
• Turned their backs on America's workers, assaulting workers' rights and impeding regular Americans' efforts to form unions and bargain for better pay and working conditions.
• Conservatives have methodical pursued a campaign to politicize, ignore, twist or undermine science on the effects of smoking and of air pollution, the feasibility and benefits of energy savings through increased energy efficiency standards, the feasibility on deploying alternative energy technologies, stem cell research, educational standards, sex education and contraceptives and the drug abuse, all the way to a campaign aimed at teaching "alternatives to evolution" in the classroom.

We cannot let the conservative version of the past eight years, à la the "Bush Legacy Project," go down in history as the truth. Democrats cannot allow conservatives to reconstitute conservative ideology, as they did for Reagan's presidency, as an approach to government that will ever do more than utterly fail the American people.

"I'm absolutely positive history will be kind to this president, who made the right decisions in a difficult time for this nation," Bush Strategist Karl Rove, 5/7/08

Beware the conservative propaganda machine!

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by Runner (11 articles, 35 quicklinks, 47 diaries, 39 comments) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:51:10 AM

Bush's greatest legacy wil be the debasement of the Rule of Law itself. What are signing statements and other actions of the Bush regime BUT an attempt to replace the Rule of Law with Imperial Rule by Decree. The Politicization of the Justice Department and all the rest was a not-so-covert attempt to destroy the institutions and mechanisms of representative government itself. Watch Glenn Greenwald's interview with Bill Moyers here:

 

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12122008/profile.html

by Ishmael1 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:50:53 AM

The worst US President in history is his most likely legacy.

His support for big corporate profits over the well being of planet Earth and its' people may end up being a catastrophy of unimaginable proportions.  The collapse of civilization is a real possible legacy for him.

by Philip Pease (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 209 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:00:40 AM

Despots like Bush only receive their just desserts after their countries are defeated at the end of wars. Until that time, Bush's legacy will continue to be enigmatic as told by the controlled mass media which enabled his crimes.

by Bill Cain (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 435 comments [67 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:17:35 AM

Another devastating legacy will be the overwhelming secrecy of his administration.  Secrecy about Cheney's energy commission, secrecy about illegal wiretapping, immunity for telecoms who are complicit, the amazing efforts to block any investigation into 9/11, secret emails disappearing, his archives allowed to remain sealed for the rest of his lifetime, and now able to remain secret by his heirs into the next generation, secrecy over stolen elections and filpped electronic votes, executive privelege extending to everyone who talks to him.  Corruption requires secrecy to thrive.  He's left us in terrible shape if we can't know what's being done by our elected officials.

by Patrick Sinnott (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:23:32 AM

evaluate and judge his 'legacy'. Let's ask some of his victims who are survivors of his munificence.

If he has to push the sale of his legacy, can't be much there in the first place. He has been a snake oil salesman from beginning to end, and this is the first real revelation that Cheney ran things and now that it is over, Cheney has let him off the leash to beg for his legacy. Screw him. Let's hear him whine and whimper, and deny his legacy-that ought to be some retribution in torture for the leader by lies.

by Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 676 comments [70 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:58:52 AM

And cows have wings....!

by Ned Delaney (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:18:59 AM

Verb	1.	bushwhack - wait in hiding to attack ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, scupper, waylay, lurk wait - stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"
	2.	bushwhack - live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
	3.	bushwhack - cut one's way through the woods or bush work, make - proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"

by dougontrack (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 10 comments) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:39:24 AM

BUSH THE PRETENDER, WHO PUT THE FINAL STAKE IN THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:50:06 AM

If they can sell us an unjustifiable war, costing thousands of lives and bankrupting the national treasury, they believe they can sell us anything.  As Goebbels once said, "The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we're doing it."  Years from now, the lunatic fringe apologists will still be making the case that W was an effective president.

Tim Fleming

www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi.html

http://leftlooking.blogspot.com 

 

by Tim Fleming (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 37 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:05:37 PM

"The less you know, the more you believe"

 

by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:13:08 AM

Hopefully, King Harry will manage to make less of an ass of himself once he takes "office". Divine right and idiots voting for the status quo, thank you. Nuff said. It's like John Stewart (Daily Show/Comedy) said: He will be judged by the 'lack of wars' before he took office. I don't doubt rich people saw some kind of benefit in their taxes (bottom line growth), but the record quarterly upon quarterly loss of job rate seems to trump that. The working class makes the goods the rest sit back and collect the cash upon.

Yes, Bush II was about life, liberty (for the rich), and the pursuit of police harassment (for everyone else...namely the poor). It's nice an evangelical agenda goes so nicely against separation of church and state and likely what 2/3 of the country even feel they are aligned with 100%. It's the status quo people's fault for continually buying into the terror oil war business and electing him twice. Nice how war is considered "keeping liberty abroad". Sounds like the opposite of that to me. Why not remove Raul Castro, as well, if we so worried about imposing our will on other 'sovereign' nations? Any military will get weaker eventually when it's been overstretched for a decade.

The author's bio fits my dad's timeframe, born 1937, Boeing, Nasa, Bank VP, Mutual Fund Investor, retired at 55 years old. You can thank my parents, however, for the Bush II legacy. Not me, personally, I voted for the other guy, typically the democrat--tho I have no party. What about Dana Perino? She was a pretty liar. (RE: nothing good in admin) It's like Ben Franklin said: 'Those who seek safety over liberty will end up with neither.' There is no "job" to finish in Afghanistan, that is the same propagandic lie as the first war of the millenium we had no business starting. We could have killed 5,000 "terrorists" and left if people want to get all 'eye for an eye' about it, not 20,000 of our own, 200,000 of theirs. This is standard American policy as usual. Name me a decade we weren't in some kind of all-out war dubbed a "police action".

If the wages were going to stay the same, everything else should have, too. However, if they want to sell all these stagnent houses maybe $300,000 homes will dwindle back down to the $100,000 range. [?] One way to fix the healthcare crises is to not carry it--the poor person's approach under Bush II. Sorry, no kids. Couldn't afford those either:) Banks, home lenders, and credit card companies, with high interest rates, hold all the cards. (You know, in DE, Biden's state.) We hold all the debt and surmounting interest. Clean, green energy frees us from finite resources, the Middle East equation, and promotes our planet's well-being. Kudos to all the comments here so far. You folks are right on target! ~s IA 50644

by STEVE RISK (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 70 comments) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:26:07 PM

Sounds like you could write for Rachel Maddow segment "Lame Duck Watch," or "Quackitude."  My only worry is that crook and crookest will pull a last minute (literally) deluge of nominations and regulatory changes that will bog us down for months.  By the way, how do the Republicans attack Holder for the Rich pardon when the Quack in Chief pardoned Toussie without even vetting him through the pardons attorney? 

by Kenneth Barr (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 107 comments) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:53:10 PM

It wouldn't surprise me if some of these items got missed in the legacy propaganda.

George W. Bush was:

the first convicted criminal in the White House
the first ex-cokehead in the White House
the First National Guard deserter in the White House
Lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
Broke more international treaties than any in history
Lowest job growth in American history
More debt than all previous President's combined
First administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons
Presided over the worst terror attack in world history
First President since the Civil War to lose an American city
First President thought by many leading historians to be The Worst President Ever™.
Spying on his people more than any administration since Stalin
First President to use a wire
First President on antidepressants (& God know what else)
More vacation time than any other (which is a blessing for the country, really)
1st case of espionage in the White House
1st security breach of White House press room
Biggest intelligence failure in American history!
Worst response ever by a federal disaster agency
Highest incidents of suspected election fraud
Biggest deficit ever
1st fake and/or paid "journalists" in WHO press corps.
1st institutional use of torture.
Highest disparity of wealth in US history.
Largest increase in poverty since the depression.
1st loss of entire major US city.
First President to lose jobs on a monthly basis in 60 years.
First President in ten years under whom median household income fell.
Seven of the worst bankruptcies in U.S. history under Bush.
First time in ten years incomes fell. U.S. Census Bureau
first President since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net job loss.
Has shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in history.
Bush's tenure set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
Bush cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
Bush set the all-time record for any president presiding during the most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Bush set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.
Bush appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
Bush presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
Bush is the all-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
Bush entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years every single economic category headed straight down.
First administration not to allow caskets of fallen soldiers to be viewed by the general public
For the first time in history the Department of Justice has barred its employees from holding its annual gay-pride event, DOJ Pride.
Bush has spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
Bush presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Bush dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
Bush is the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
Bush refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abides by the Geneva Convention.
Bush set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of television.
Members of Bush's cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history.
largest exodus of career experts in every branch of the administration due to crony/idealogue appointments, from CIA to DOJ to EPA to NWS.
In his first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
Members of Bush Administration are the richest administration in history.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases.
First president in U.S. history to attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First U.S. president in history to have a majority of people in Europe  (over 70%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
The biggest security failure in the history of the United States (still uninvestigated)
The first President to spend over 20% of his time on vacation or at Camp David.
The first U.S. President to invade another country.
First President to have 40% approval ratings less than a year in to their second term.
For the first time in 40 years Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year.
He has set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest him in public venues (15 million people according to New York Times), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
First President in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
The most secretive and un-accountable of any administration in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history of the world.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1).
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations that bid for government contracts.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the civil war.
For the first time in our history, a significant number of administration officials and supporters, including perhaps the President himself, must keep themselves and their party in power to avoid criminal indictment, conviction, and imprisonment.
Caused the infant mortality rate to go up for the first time in 40 years
Most corrupt administration ever.
Most hated President ever--the low poll numbers you see are heavily rigged in his favor.
The only President in U.S. history who continued his vacation when informed that a well known and capable enemy was PLANNING to attack the United States
the only President who continued reading his book when informed that that same enemy is ATTACKING the United States at that very moment.
First administration in U.S. history in which both President and vice President have criminal records
only president in US history that changes the law if the law doesn't suit his personal, religious and moral beliefs.
only president in US history to ever turn down an invite to address the NAACP
only administration to edit environmental reports to downplay the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global warming
first President to make communism look good.  Communist China is viewed more favorably than the U.S. in many long-time Western European allies, an international poll has found
Brutalized more words of the English language than any president in the history of the U.S.
First President to invade a country [Iraq] and lose
only President in American history to oversee three consecutive years of record high deficits.
 only president in American history with no discernable brain activity (just kidding, Big Guy!)
only president in American history to fail to use the veto during a time of massive budget deficits
only president in American history to absolutely destroy another country
only President in American history to LOSE the popular vote but still get  "elected" wink-wink nudge-nudge.
only President in American history to give in to the demands of terrorists.
only president in American history to disregard the civilian office of the Executive by wearing a military uniform. Not even the accomplished Generals Washington, Eisenhower, Grant, Jackson... No other president has worn military garb while in office except a fortunate son who dodged the draft.
First President to lie in his State of the Union address.
First President to have an alcohol and drug problem at the same time.
First administration to consistently blame the preceding administration for its mistakes—after seven years in office.
First President not to have a "bounce" in the polls after his reelection (possibly because he wasn't reelected).
First President who refuses to attend the funerals of the soldiers who died because of him.
First administration to smear a Viet Nam War hero (several of them, actually).
First President with a known history of torturing animals.
First President thought by a majority of Americans to be an unelected, incompetent fraud.
First administration to let troops die because of inadequate equipment.
First President to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state.
first administration to openly declare a policy of unilateral aggression
first administration -- since the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II-- to enact special laws for a specific ethnic group. Non-citizen young Muslim men are now required to register and subject themselves to interrogation.
first American president in memory to swagger around in a military uniform, though he himself-- like all of his most militant advisers-- evaded the Vietnam War. (Even Eisenhower, a general and a war hero, never wore his uniform while he was president).
first administration to create a military command -- Northcom -- responsible only for North America.) In other words, the most devastating costs of "9/11" we inflicted on ourselves in a way al-Qaeda was incapable of doing.
first administration to support shifting burden of Superfund toxic waste cleanups from polluters to taxpayers.
the first administration to argue openly that reducing openness in government is affirmatively desirable policy
first president to take credit for legislation passed over his own veto (1st campaign when he claimed credit for an education bill that in truth he vehemently opposed, just another lie to him)
first president to have utterly failed at every other business except politics, bankrupting his oil company and running his baseball team into the ground
first presidential administration to openly advocate torture
first presidential administration in the history of the nation to establish an office in the White House explicitly for the purpose of facilitating overseas outsourcing of labor.
only presidential administration in history that has been accused of misdeeds while working in the corporate sector
only presidential administration, in the countries history, that has failed to prevent a domestic attack.
only presidential administration to ever be bashed by former presidents.
first President to admit to an impeachable offense, per legal eagle John Dean.
the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the USA from the Human Rights Commission.
the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the USA from the Elections Monitoring Board.
The first president to lose two wars at the same time
Bush comes to Washington as the first president to lose the popular vote since 1888; he won the Electoral College by the narrowest margin in more than a century.
first President to fail to veto a single spending bill in his 1st term since Warren Harding
first administration to fail to voluntarily list a single endangered species
The Bush administration has the worst record on safety rules in OSHA's entire history.
worst record on jobs of any president in American history.
first President to turn a record-breaking surplus into a record-breaking deficit—in record-breaking time
only President who's ever had a major terrorist attack happen on his watch
only President who's ever tried to pretend his private residence was an extension of the White House
only president who failed to prevent a direct attack on the Pentagon
only President with missing National Guard records
only President completely dominated and controlled by his VP
first President accused of engineering a fake terrorist attack against his own people
first President to choke on a pretzel
first President to grant security clearance to a male hooker
only President to threaten his own people with nuclear war in order to start a war
first President a majority of Americans want impeached
first President to make all but the weirdest conspiracy theories sound plausible
first President whose name turns up on the voting machine, no matter which button is pushed
first President to flip the American people the bird (same to you, Big Guy!)
first President to go into brainlock when told the country was under attack
first President thought by most people in the world to be the biggest threat to most people in the world
first (and last) neocon President
first Republican President to save the Democratic Party
first President we're afraid to impeach because his VP is even scarier
first President who has most Americans wondering if they'll even make it through his lame duck year
first President who, in comparisons to Hitler, keeps looking almost worse than Hitler
first President to get Americans seriously thinking about a woman President or a black President
first President to benefit politically from a domestic terror attack he and his party allowed to happen
first President in a symbiotic relationship with a terrorist leader
first President to rely entirely on crackpot science
first President with poor impulse control
first President to blame someone else for all his failures
first President to fail the nation when it was under attack
first President to virtually cripple the military
The only administration in American history, during a time of war, to propose tax cuts, much less openly arrogant tax-cuts for the wealthiest during any war
first administration in American history to start a war of choice based on bad information
first administration in American history not to raise taxes to pay for a protracted war.
first administration in history, of either party, who has failed to support the Clean Water Act.
first Administration in history that has a President of the United States, a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Defense, and a National Security Adviser, none of whom ever spent one minute wearing the uniform of the armed forces of the United States of America.
first administration in history that didn't issue a single major OSHA standard.
first administration in history that conducts foreign policy without diplomacy.
first administration in history to have lost our position at the UN Human Rights Commission.
first president in history to have executed a federal prisoner.
first president in history who once produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, doing so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of US congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
first US president to establish a secret US shadow government.
first American president in history who is outwardly hostile to science -- dedicated, as a distinguished, bipartisan panel of educators and scientists (including forty-nine Nobel laureates) has declared, to "the distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends."
Made the Republican Party the first religious party in U.S. history
first American President in history who has effectively lost two wars simultaneously
first American president in history to be labeled an "idiot" by a diplomat of a foreign nation.
first American President in history to lose the popular vote and the Electoral College vote and still be sworn in
first administration in US history to detain an American citizen using only "secret evidence."
first administration in US history to specifically target homosexuals and to thwart the scientific study of sex, research on AIDS, and innumerable other sexual health initiatives
first President appointed by the Supreme Court
Bush is also the only president in US history to be questioned by a commission with his vice president present (9/11 Commission).
Only administration in history to start two wars (three wars, four wars—whatever)
only President in U.S. history to attack a country which did not attack or even threaten to attack us first.
only President in U.S. history to have a negative job. record for 52 months consecutive months in office.
Created the first economic expansion in modern times with no real increase in American wages.
only president in U.S. history to have. led the country into two wars in two years.
President with the lowest IQ.
President with the most feeble resume' going into office.
First president to interpret a rigged election result as a "mandate" and "political capital".
President who didn't know there are different kind of Arabs.

And—my personal favorite:
George W. Bush is the first President to have a male hooker lob softball questions to him at press conferences.

by Perry Logan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 558 comments [74 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:37:02 AM

The way I spell his nickname is much more fitting:  Duhbya

by Joni Greever (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 76 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:23:52 AM

First pres. to have 2 shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter.

by STEVE RISK (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 70 comments) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:42:29 AM

AWOL/Deserter, cocaine abuser, convicted drunk driver, inside trading while an alleged CEO of an oil company, thief, murderer of multitudes of innocent, shredding the US Constitution, railroading of spy legislation, the 700+ billion $ bailout and acts of war based on lies and deceit, plus a multitude of other un-American, un-ethical, immoral misguided policy's that have had a detriment effect on every living thing on the planet. 

This "Enemy Combatant" of the USA and all his former and current  accomplices should have trials of Treason before being turned over to the Hague for War Crimes and have them spend their life sentences at Gitmo enduring what its present alleged "Terrorist's" are.

by Stanimal (2 articles, 228 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 1259 comments [235 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:17:09 AM

Don't forget arrested at a sporting event for disorderly (drunken?) conduct.

by STEVE RISK (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 70 comments) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:45:36 AM

 

#6

12/28/2008

The Future of Silver, According to Adam Smith (1723-1790) (by Robert Singer)

 

adam: Let me get this straight, industry and consumers get low prices and the SSPs don’t think it’s fair because no one’s getting rich before the end of days. What don’t I get? Is this about consumerism--trashing the planet?

jmr: You’re not alone. Hot, Flat Friedman doesn’t get it either and wants to know what planet Bush is on. Consider My Hypothesis About Bush (CMHAB): He isn’t stupid if his goal is “trashing the planet”. At the G8 summit, he said "Goodbye, from the world's biggest polluter”.  He wants to drill in the ANWR to trash America’s last Arctic Wilderness. Sonar Testing is about torturing whales and dolphins and the Border Fence that keeps everything out but illegals will disrupt an extraordinary source of biological diversity along the 2,000-mile long region including deserts, mangrove forests, plains, mountains, river valleys, and wetlands.

 

by Robert Singer (31 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 138 comments [4 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:33:18 AM

Duhbya is the wreckingball...That has been his MO his whole life...that is why he was chosen--that was his job, he does it naturally because he is a stupid chimp, but still he gets the job done.

Arrogance certainly mustn't be construed as brillance.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:23:46 AM