His Legacy: It's a Triple-Header
My reputation grows with every failure
--George Bernard Shaw
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby you're the best
--Nobody Does it Better, Carly Simon
If Albert was an Einstein
and Phillis was a Diller
and Michael Jackson was a thriller
then you could be a winner
--The Winner, Coolio
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As of today it is official: the U.S. is in recession. Finally, the government has to admit the fact that has been haunting us in broad daylight for at least the last year. But the recession statistic is simply a fact.
The really historically amazing part of this dismal state of economic affairs is the confluence of a sinking economy with elective wars. Where most administrations would look to war to rev up the home side economy, Bush has instead used them to tear ours asunder. George W. Bush's legacy of extreme fuckupedness is now secured.
Mr. Bush is the first U.S. President to preside not over one war, but two, while his country descends into recession, lumbering toward an uncertain and rocky shore. It is a daring feat of incompetence unparalleled in modern history. A stunning failure by any accounting.
U.S. legions are fighting over there so We The People can go broke over here. We will never have to fight them over here thanks to George Bush; we will not have the money for beans and bullets. Bush can now preemptively invade the U.S. economy and declare a War on Recession, making it 3 for 3. Yowza yowza.
It is now official: George W. Bush has fucked up a wet dream.
Labels: bush's legacy -- war plus recession, george bush three time-loser, phony war on terror, PWOT, u.s. recession, war + recession
posted by rangeragainstwar at 7:41 PM
10 Comments:
everytime i hear bush talking about legacy, with the idea that history will somehow vindicate him, that he was out there doing great things that we were too stupid to notice, this is the soundtrack i hear, from janis ian, although with bush there isn't any note of wry wit or irony...
I know you and I'll agree
What this world needs is a lot more me
Well, I have got the remedy
Gonna write my autobiography
I've led a fascinating life
Had a husband and a wife
But you will truly be amazed
at just how humble I have stayed
Enough about me, let's talk about you
What do you think of me
You must feel such gratitude
that you will get to read
my autobiography
My life doesn't have a very good plot
Guess I'll have to lie a lot
Should be easy to make things up
There's no one left to call my bluff
A lot of my old friends have passed on
The rest did drugs and their memory's gone
So I'll write my own history
in my autobiography
I'll say I slept with a Kennedy
Don't remember which one
They all looked the same to me
or they did when we got done
Maybe they'll film it for TV
I wonder who they'll cast as me
Should be somebody I look like
Sigourney Weaver'd be all right
Gonna be hard to deal with fame
once the whole world knows my name
but I'll stay humble and grateful to
all the little people like you
A thousand pages more of me
and all I've said and done
It will be my legacy
and that's just volume one
of my autobiography
"It is now official: George W. Bush has fucked up a wet dream."
roflmao!
Ranger, did you read the Gibson interview with Bush's mea culpa?
I dam near went ballistic!
Bush: I don't know -- the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence. And, you know, that's not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.
I shit you not.
That is the actual quote from the interview transcript found here...
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6356046
On my blog I went into a long winded rant, but herein is the gist of my final thought...
"You may not have intended to end like this, but baby your decisions brought about these results, so you own the entire mess.
All your life you have been able to have daddy clean up your shitty little diapers every time you made a boo-boo in public, but guess what Mr. W. Bush…daddy can’t clean this one up. Daddy can’t do his daddy magic and wipe the boo-boo away.
You own this mess.
You own your decisions.
You own the results.
Don’t insult us by thinking you can just blame someone else.
Sorry sunshine, your signature and scent is all over the Iraqi fiasco.
You sunshine, will be tied to that murderous mess just as surely as Hoover is tied to the great Depression.
That is your legacy, and that is what you will be known for...for all of eternity.
MB,
An excellent choice, though as you say, minus a jot of irony or whimsy.
sheerahkhan,
What is the name of your site?
Sheerah: I'm with Lisa - I'd love to read your stuff; where is it?
And as for Shrub, it's a tossup whether he's down in Buchanan territory or can still be considered to be hanging in alongside Franklin Pierce and Harding and the other 19th Century losers.
Uh-boy...guess I kinda stepped in it now with me opening my yap about my blog...uh well, okay.
It's not your usual fare...in fact, it might just piss you off, or turn you off.
Anyway...enter at your own risk.
Thank you, sheerah. We need more of your sort -- you're a thinking American.
Ranger, either you're getting sharper or I'm getting duller. Or I'm starting to think more like you. Frightening thoughts, yes, but the bottom line is I'm finding little to add to most of your recent posts. This is another good one. FWIW, I like Bush and Buchanan together as a dynamic duo.
Sheer, I checked you out. Even signed your guest book. Nice blog. Keep at it.
Oh, how I envy you guys who can do this.
sheerahkahn,
I respectfully submit that Bush does not own the strategic blunders and errors.WE as a nation are responsible b/c he is our elected leader and as such all of this is now our cross to bear.
Bush will retire in regal splendor while the average taxpayer spins in the wind.
Your cmts are valid. jim
Publius,
I concieve Buchanan as a zero or even nuetral character but Bush is well into the negative side of the equation. jim
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