Thinking Right

By get out much?

December 29, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

I suspect in future crossword puzzles there will be a question along these lines: “what is a four letter word synonymous with failure?” - the answer will be “bush”

By The BlogFather of Scroll

December 29, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Bush’s success came when they only allowed two terms.

Bush’s greatest success was in fooling some of the people all the time, even now.

Bush has successfully forced the thesaurus to add seventeen new pages of synonyms for “victory”.

Bush successfully split his presidency into two parts: Cheney was the defacto commander in chief concerning our troop’s displacement in Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s something nobody voted for, and it successfully destroyed the institution of our office of the president. Obama will be handed a torn flag, my friends. Perhaps together, America can mend it.

By Howard

December 29, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Sir…Bush did a lot in his 8 years that I did not agree with…for example, if he had fought liberal Democrats the way he fought Islamic terrorists, he would have had a great legacy. But he made the horrible mistake of trying to co-exist with left-wing liberals…whose only covert aim was to ruin him!! Then he barged into Iraq on the advice of three men he should have never placed in power…Rumsfield, Cheney and Wolfowitz…on the premises from those gentlemen that he would: 1) finish the job undone by the daddy, 2) that he would be greeted like a conquering hero by all Iraqis and 3)his approval ratings would hit 90%. They pumped him up to winning the war but gave him not a clue how to handle things after it was won. His administration will hardly go down as the worst…as long as Jimmy Carter is alive, he has that distinction (he got us in this Muslim mess in the first place!!!) and as long as the Messiah Barack Hussein Obama stays in the White Hourse. Oh, Bush will continue to be a catch phrase used by stupid liberals…how?? Every time their neophyte, stupid, naive, far left stooge, Mr. Obama, screws up…which will be a lot…they will only blame Bush for it. The first terrorist attack on this country? Bush will get the blame!

By Bob Hess

December 29, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Does Congress deserve a raise this year? Arizona Democratic Rep. Harry Mitchell introduced a bill that would have stopped the automatic cost-of-living raises that go to members of Congress each year, but the bill never made it out of committee. As a result, our senators and representatives are set to see their salaries go up by almost $5,000 in the coming year.

America, it’s time for everyone to oppose giving Congress a pay raise. The time has come for Congress to show it’s serious about addressing the economic downturn in this country. Members of Congress should be looking at reducing their salaries and cutting staff positions, as our government has grown to become an oversized, underproductive and corrupted machine. The time has come for our representatives and senators to lead by example. The days of tough talk and no action must come to an end.

Recently, I watched our senators and representatives belittle the CEOs of the Big Three automakers on national TV, slamming them for their ridiculous salaries and lavish lifestyles and telling them to take drastic steps to save their companies. But the first thought that came to my mind was the fact that lobbyists for the automobile manufacturers have been filling Congress’ pockets to turn a blind eye for years. We knew the gas-guzzling automobiles produced by Detroit were a problem in 1977, yet 40 years later, the problem persists.

This country’s economy won’t be fixed until Congress cleans up its own corruption and does the job its members were elected to do.

By Redneck Convert

December 29, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Well, that new stuff you put in your gas tank to make the engine run better sure works, and I’m awful thankful to the missus for giving it to me for Christmas. My F-450 is up to 9 mpg now.

The libruls just won’t stop blasting My President. And since they are all pointy-heads, they get to write the history books while the good redneck supporters don’t get to on account of they spend their time on something useful instead of reading books and thinking hard and stuff like that. So I’m with Wooten. I say My President will wind up as a great President when us Conservatives take over again and write up the stuff that school kids have to study. That is, if we can get godly people like this Kathy Cox to keep being in charge of schools. She knows good and well we didn’t come from apes even if she can’t handle her own finances. But for a while we’ll just have to settle for having My President being called the most worst President in the history of the U.S. of A. and junk like that.

I was mighty sad to read Wooten’s column about the passing of this Durwood McCallister. He was a good Atlanta Journal editor back in the time when the Atlanta Journal put out the Conservative Truth and the Atlanta Constitution was spinning librul lies. You might of knowed the Constitution couldn’t stand to see the truth being told and made the Journal get merged and shut up. Except for token Conservatives like Wooten.

Anyhow, this guy’s passing reminds me of what is happening in the Southren states. Every time you read the death notices about six out of ten of the people passing on to their Heavenly Reward are good GA rednecks. And they get replaced by a bunch of yankees moving down here. Just like Mr. McCallister got replaced by this lying librul Tucker woman. In another ten years or so GA will be just another librul state. It’s disgusting to think about. We’re already halfway there. You see people like this ron that is redneck enough not to be willing to vote for this Obama but librul enough to blast Raghead and people like that. He’s already pink and turning red mighty fast.

Have a good day everybody.

By Ga Values

December 29, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

I voted for Bush 1st time because I hated Gore, would Gore be worse than Bush I don’t know but Bush is definately worse than LBJ, the previously worse president.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. While I do not particularly respect many aspects of the Bush administration economic policies – he emulated leftists in his wasteful spending– I regard well his international leadership. Ms. Rice and Ms. Bush are correct about the moonbats who seemingly do not remember the lack of leadership from the immediately-prior administration, which facilitated the ascent of Islamist terrorism. Certainly there was no aspect of the Carter administration that approached even the lowest levels of competence in the Bush 43 administration, so those who affirm that Bush 43 administration as “worst” betray a total lack of acquaintance with even recent history.

So, other than his brilliant, and now nearly totally successful, administration of war against the Islamist killers, what did outgoing President Bush do right? Unlike his father, and unlike the president-elect, President Bush showed he did understand the total effect of tax cuts on economic prospects. The end of the “Bush tax cuts” is the heaviest weight dragging down the economy, not the collapse of the leftist government-sponsored mortgage companies. Note that Obama offers nothing to give employers an incentive to expand business.

To cite the “dog that did not bark,” President Bush resisted the moonbat cries about global warming. Certainly the worldwide drop in temperatures over the past couple of years should ease some of the lunatic pressures – demands to inflict permanent and grave wounds on the economy - against the Obama administration. While there was never any real evidence of anthropogenic global warming, the greater risk arising from global cooling should now focus even the intelligentsia on the need for more energy development. One fears that the leftists will turn that into a fraud opportunity, spinning taxpayer monies into the hands of leftists who will endeavor to amend the laws of physics to produce de minimis quantities of energy from inefficient sources such as solar, geothermal, and wind energies. Democrats will be democrats.

In case you did not see the Saturday article on G. K. Chesterton by Allen Barra (no link available), there were a couple of great GKC one-liners:

“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing no true patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’“

“The business of the Progressives is to go on making mistakes, while the business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” Perhaps that is the true legacy of the Bush administration.

By ByteMe

December 29, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

You’re just trying to make yourself feel better, Jim. “Well, we’ll all be proven right about Bush sometime after we die.” Doesn’t seem like a working strategy for politics or burnishing your self-esteem.

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

December 29, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Anything is possible.

Consider that the Russian people have voted Stalin is the 3rd Greatest Russian ever.

By hughmass

December 29, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

When poor children cannot get medical, dental, optical, or other essential care, their mothers will curse this blood-encrusted war criminal we have for a president. He ignored the needs of the poor in America, and bankrupted the country for many years to come with his insane war in Iraq. After WWII, the world locked up many war criminals who had lesser crimes than he and his administration have on their records. He was hardly our president, more like our boy-king who postured while the VP did the murders.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Bush is definitely the worst President I’ve lived under and that includes Carter. When Carter was in office, yes inflation was high, but I had a job. Now with this Bush Administration, millions of Americans are either unemployed or under employed. Bush lied to us about the war. He lied to us about the economy saying it’s only a hiccup and everyting is fine. This lil bow legged man is certainly the worst of them all.

By iNDEPENDENT VOTER

December 29, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

The Bush Presidency only reaffirms one of my core beliefs:

Never Elect A Texan To The White House

By GitAPieceOnEarthToday

December 29, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

The Chimp is not quit as bad as Stalin or Hitler, but much worse than Moa or Ho. Bush is an absolute failure on domestic and economic policy, and a war monger in foreign policy. If there were a God, the Chimp and his entire administration would be sent straight to hell for all eternity. The jesusFreak-in-Chief should be very glad that his religion has no basis in reality…

By JoeC

December 29, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Well, Wooten, just what are these potential accomplishments of George W. Bush that will be recognized in the future? Build your case. Let us hear it. Give people a chance to discuss the merits of your argument. Or is a willingness to typing all that is required of you by the editors of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution these days?

By is it Jan 20 yet?

December 29, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

No question, bush = worst president in US history.

I will attempt to enjoy hearing this for the rest of my life, as more evidence to support it is uncovered. Sad though, that our country had to endure him,…maybe we will learn from this.

By rleb2003

December 29, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Ever since the beginning, the bush administration, begin to take power illegally, (not being elected by the people, as the way the constitution ordered) then , assuming powers, and doing unconstitutional acts, that are not legal nor moral.

By rleb2003

December 29, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Ever since the beginning, the bush administration, begin to take power illegally, (not being elected by the people, as the way the constitution ordered) then , assuming powers, and doing unconstitutional acts, that are not legal nor moral.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

December 29, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Bush successfully rewrote the thesaurus’s synonyms for victory with 17 new pages of terms.

Global warming mean temperatures are rising, and the variations come in waves, like everything else in the universe, moron.

Blog-simple is no way to go through life, jbmlaw. Think of how you’re searing the icon of the ignorant christian conservative into the national dunce cap, on-the-rag(nar), and then start observing the peoples in your orbit. Notice how they’re patronizing you?

Obama 09: He’s right for what’s left of America.

By bearcasey

December 29, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

George W. Bush is NOT the worst president in history… but he’s in the bottom ten. Retired history teacher here. Harding, Grant, Hoover, Carter, Pierce, Buchanan are worse than “W” but the list soon runs out. I put “W” with Taylor and Ford.

“W” is what we used to call a “skater”… a guy who made it on family connections, money and sometimes good looks. Knew dozens of “W”s in college… mostly nice guys.

“W’s” sin was wanting to surpass his father. The rest is history, pain and heartache.

By Rattman - Lynbrook, New York

December 29, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

So how do we prevent a repeat of the Bush travesty? I say we wait until after the inauguration (so there can be no pardons) then hold extensive public trials for the likes of Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Ridge, Paulson, Greenspan, Bernake, etc. If there’s any justice left in America, these individuals should be exposed, humiliated, stripped of all personal wealth and position, and ideally, imprisoned. They should be poster boys for political evil. How else do we serve notice to future administrations that lying and ignorance of the law, especially for blatant self-interest, is a betrayal of public trust, and a serious crime?

By RealityKing

December 29, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

The left hates traditional ideals. Self reliance through independence is the enemy, Bush is only the momentary figure head. And there is no doubt that the progressive hate spewed forth from the MSM will not stop on Jan 20th., in fact, look for the shrill to increase when their Lincoln comes to power.

Ironic isn’t it.., progressives idealizing a great republican president. A man that freed 4 million people from the oppression of a brutal government, historically, 1/14 of what Bush has accomplishments.

By Davo

December 29, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Why should historians get to decide? JW thinks that sometime in the future there will be some big revelation that Bush saved the world; he just couldn’t let people know about it at the time.

Keep dreamin’. I bet that as we move away from the Bush catastrophy more info will come out that exposes how even more corrupt and incomtetant his term in office has been.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Rattman, I agree with you. We should try them all as war criminals and turn them over to the Iraqis as a noble gesture. Collin Powell was the only honorable man in the whole administration and he quit when he smelled a rat.

By GitAPieceOnEarthToday

December 29, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Russian professor predicts the end of the USA.

From the WSJ: In Moscow, Igor Panarin’s forecasts are all the rage: America ‘Disintegrates’ in 2010. South to become part of Mexico.

By Charles

December 29, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

The only ‘failure’ in the Bush Administration is not doing enough to stop the Islamic terrorists and Iran. But the morons on the Left won’t realize this until they detonate a nuclear device on our soil. Then you can thank the mainstream press and the Liberal leaders of Congress for tying President Bush’s hands during his Presidency.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Dear GA Native @ 8:59, I understand that facts rarely make any impression with those of you who practice identity politics. You conspicuously failed to cite any particular Bush policy in your otherwise mindless rant. I acknowledge your rant is no different from any other by a leftist on the blog, and I do not particularly single out your “lack of causation” in your baseless argument. I respectfully suggest that personalities make no difference, but policies do. Policies take around a year to take effect.

The unemployment rate one year after election of President Carter was 6.8% (November 1977.) At the end of the Carter administration the unemployment rate was 7.5% (November 1980.) I’ll allow you to fill in the blank: “The significant increase in unemployment during the Carter administration was due to ___.” For contrast, the unemployment rate in November 2001 was 5.6%. In November 2007 – one year after the democrats seized control of Congress, the unemployment rate was 4.7%. November 2008, the rate was 6.7%. Perhaps you would wish to explain what happened to cause the decline in unemployment during the first six years of the Bush administration, and what thereafter caused the rise during the last two.

Similarly, inflation rate in November 1977 was 6.70%. In November 1980, the inflation rate was 12.65%. For contrast, the inflation rate in November 2001 was 1.90% and 1.07% as of November 2008. (Admittedly the low current rate is more a function of prospective economic weakness than any great fiscal discipline by the Bush administration or by Congressional democrats.)

By deegee

December 29, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

I am already thanking Bush for what he accomplished during his 8 years in the White House. We, as a nation have hit rock bottom. Our intervention occurred in November. In the future, the US will once again support visionary entrepreneurs and inventors of products that will positively change the way we live, work and travel. We will become healthy, then we will become wealthy with the knowledge and ambition of a population that is dedicated to using creative technology instead of creative accounting in order to solve problems. We will pull through this with the guided hand of an intelligent leader, Obama. Thank you, George Bush for helping us hit bottom.

By Midori

December 29, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Looks like I’ve got a lot of reading to do in 2009:

From the book’s website: Learn:

Why George H.W. Bush can’t remember where he was on November 22, 1963

Why oilman George H.W. Bush shows up in early CIA documents

A new, more troubling explanation of the Watergate scandal

The real story behind George W. Bush’s missing military service

The inside scoop on the Bushes and Saudi influence in America

The strange saga of Harvard University and its endowment

The untold real story behind George W. Bush’s religious awakening

Never before told anecdotes from George W. Bush’s wild past

How the CIA monitors the White House and its occupants

Why Barack Obama and his supporters should read this book

AND MUCH MUCH MORE

By jon wheatley

December 29, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, It is interesting how often one finds someone who makes a living in the media who complains that the media is biased towards the left. These statements are as common as T-shirts at a ball game. It is not the “left” that is in strong disapproval of this president, but the majority. For instance: Obama’s victory was more decisive than either of Bush’s wins,. It is the public, not the media, who has made up its mind. For that matter, you have plenty of strong allies in the media who jumped Bush’s ship when things went sour. We have had plenty of time and opportunity to see what this president’s impact is. I don’t see the need to dispute your actual specific claims of Bush’s successes, because you don’t give any.

By Walter Camp

December 29, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

It is interesting you listed none of those “successes.”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Dear Git @ 9:05, you make a persuasive argument that I should refer to the president-elect as “The Chimp” rather than as “Chauncey.”

Dear JoeC @ 9:06, “Well, Wooten, just what are these potential accomplishments of George W. Bush that will be recognized in the future? Build your case. Let us hear it. Give people a chance to discuss the merits of your argument.” Please refer to my 8:43 post.

Dear is it @9:09 and rleb2003 @ 9:12, I await the first evidence. You have none. Consider that a challenge you brainless souls. I will be here to rebut.

Dear blogfather @ 9:15, why do you assert that your evidence of “warming” is not merely one of your oscillations, moron? (And what’s with the epithets, PoFo? You are usually better than that.) The fact that we are back at the mean should hold some significance if you are willing to honestly consider the evidence. As to all Christians being “ignorant,” I suppose that argument is the epitome of your intellectual capacity? Consider that a challenge – I will be here all day today.

By Mrs. Godzilla

December 29, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Drop “among” and Wooten get’s one right!

By Curious Observer

December 29, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Has anyone else noticed that Ragnar sounds like a sophisticated version of Redneck?

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Jim Wooten, for telling us again the truth about President Bush.

For those who do not value freedom, his accomplishments may seem minor. But for the rest of the world who value freedom and the right to think for themselves, it is the greatest gift that can be given.

For the petty and the ungrateful, short vision comes with small minds. Rail on with Democratic brainwashed bambastic accusations and we know who you are.

Bush overlooked your short comings and tried to work with every American, no matter the politics. The immediate result has been, not only a stab in the back to Bush but to America.

The demoralizing Democrats of this age will be remembered as the American equivalent of underground revolutionaries of hate. The evidence is too great for denial. They have made their black mark on history that cannot be erased.

George W. Bush, our stalwart, honest and compassionate president, will be remembered as great in this century of American history. Feeble fabrications will not change that.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

December 29, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

There is very little left of the Right: just unimaginative predictions about revenge indictments, entitlement legislation, and easily-toppled gridlock.

Newt Gingrich keeps a measured tone and a deliberate pace as he positions himself for the future. Perhaps he can only make it as a third party candidate. If the racial barrier is broken, then perhaps the two-party system is broken too, and Newt may run on some new invention.

The Whigs. The Know Nothings. The Copperheads. All of those monikers are taken.

I’ll have to work on a name for Newt’s new party. (the Gecko’s?)

By GitAPieceOnEarthToday

December 29, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Russian professor predicts the end of the USA.

From the WSJ: In Moscow, Igor Panarin’s forecasts are all the rage: America ‘Disintegrates’ in 2010. South to become part of Mexico.

By sharkcellar

December 29, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

I love how you right wingers talk about the “idiots on the left” somehow not letting Bush do his job well, or some such other nonsense. The last eight years have been disastrous by any comparison, yet some of you are still living under this delusion that everything’s all right. I won’t go into the laundry list of appalling things that the Bush administration will be remembered for, they’ve been mentioned dozen of times and are easily ignored by most of you anyway. If “lefties” are so stupid, then why didn’t they vote for George Bush? Why do “lefties” want a government that stands up for its own constitution? Why do “lefties” all of a sudden sound like the people that had the right ideas all along? Yes, George Bush WILL be thanked in the future. He will be thanked for helping to unite Americans against the ridiculous practices of his administration and his own political party. He will be thanked for helping to get elected a president who actually appears to know what a brain is for and willing to use it in a presidential manner. He will be thanked for helping Americans see that the policies of the “Friedman” school should be taken with a grain of rock salt, and that the “free market” isn’t free when it costs millions of Americans their livelihoods and their children’s future livelihoods. Yes, Bush will be thanked but not in the way that a lot of you thick-headed flag wavers believe.

By win brown

December 29, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

Gee, I voted against Bush both times, but there is no way that I view him as the “worst” President in history. Rather, I’d say, many are ignorant of our history, including this. They consider only what they remember, not much. Our schools lack real substance on history, they are more concerned with teaching cultures, and other historys. Sadly they fail to consider that you cannot understand others without understanding yourself, or understand other nations and cultures without understanding your own. These people lack depth in their thought, so are made of weak, shallow actions and words.

Those that criticize Bush’s policy on aid to the poor should research how much he has increased funding in those areas. In fact I find that often when Bush did veto increases to low income programs, he had a good reason, such as” “For his part, Bush justified his veto of the spending bill that would have funded LIHEAP, telling a crowd in New Albany, Indiana on Tuesday that the legislation was $10 billion over budget and paid for wasteful projects like a prison museum and a sailing school taught aboard a catamaran.”

By Dennis

December 29, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten asks, “Bush among ‘worst in history’?”

Mr. Wooten is a genuine “far” right-wing pundit with his continued endorsements of the Bush administration.

I have to wonder just who or from where Mr. Wooten gets his information.

Even moderate Republicans are saying Bush is the worst president in history.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By tRussia

December 29, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Rice is as much of a failure as Bush. This is about protecting her legacy. I doubt she will have a good one.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Dusty, I was free before Bush took office, and if you think freedom is starting a war with people who had nothing to do with bombing the World Trade Center, then you’re nuts. Bush and his administration is nothing but High Class Thugs. Americans have lost so much in the last 8 years under this guy.

By scabo

December 29, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Bush did one useful thing in 8 years: He signed the “do not call” bill which stopped telemarketers from bugging us. That’s all. Some legacy.

By Copyleft

December 29, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

It’s touching to see that Bush still has a few (dwindling) holdouts supporting this disastrous presidency.

We wouldn’t want Dusty to get lonely, after all.

And Ragnar: You keep trotting out that same tired old list of “accomplishments,” all of which have been refuted and disproven with facts and logic dozens of times before. But since facts and logic cannot penetrate the inferior fascist mind, you blow right by them and haul them out again a week later.

Why do you continue to pretend you can make an intelligent argument, when as a fascist you lack the basic intellectual skills to do so? You’re not fooling anyone… except yourself, of course.

By Mid-South Philosopher

December 29, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

The administration of George W. Bush the worst in history???

No!

The saddest, maybe; the most inept and disappointing, certainly, but not the worst.

One can always point to Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Warren G. Harding. And if all else fails, one can always compare the Georgie and Dickie Show with the administration of William Henry Harrison, who accomplished nothing in his month in office!

By YeeHa

December 29, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

What exactly are the outstanding successes of the GWB II administration? Things that happened solely due to his admin’s vision and legislative prowess?

He was largely regarded as a rudderless do-nothing after eight months in office, and suddenly 9/11 saved his skin.

The list of things that largely went south due to things Bush’s admin did NOT do is quite lengthy.

DID NOT lead global effort to understand climate change. Even if it is still an open question, the USA should lead the effort to understand it, and not be the only industrialized country to run away from it.

DID NOT fund No Child Left Behind, instead only created another unfunded mandate of meaningless testing and admin burden on schools.

DID NOT regulate any of the financial markets, and aided and abetted this fantasy economy that finally blew up this past year. First real estate lending, then financial services, and now the credit crisis. The fact that some wise people avoided these risks shows that it was foreseen and entirely avoidable.

DID NOT abide by such basic human rights protections as our own Constitution and the Geneva Convention. Bush, Cheney, and the gang would probably understand this issue better if they had actually served in the military rather than using their family name or perpetual ‘educational pursuits’ to avoid service.

DID NOT pursue the 9/11 attackers but instead used the tragedy to invade Iraq for personal and oil-crony reasons.

Imagine if instead of this multi-trillion-dollar war, Bush had instead in 2001 increased annual spending on our special warfare forces by $50 billion? More SEALs, more Farsi language training, more CIA, more stuff that might actually root out these enemies and defeat them. Bin Laden might be dead, the entire Islam world would hate us less, and we’d have a trillion dollars that could have been invested at home.

I remember reading in 2006 that the govt had two people looking at the financial records of key Arabs that may be funneling money to Al Qaeda. We had 17 people still looking at Cuba embargo paperwork.

By Alan Weissburg M.D.

December 29, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

This kind of myopic prattle is one more indicator of the unreal world of the Conservative movement that lost its way years ago. William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, and yes, even Ronald Reagan, would have been horrified to witness how the party was hijacked by right wing religious fanatics, “values” voters with their heads in the sand of time, and vicious immoral political assassins like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Hanging chads be damned, the Bush catastrophe started the minute the election was subverted and ultimately settled by a partisan Supreme Court, to the day he was too lazy to read his morning National Security briefing and failed to notice its dire warning of an imminent attack on American soil.

He sat in a school room in stupor when informed the country had been attacked and then baldly lied to the country about the presence of WMD in Iraq, subsequently getting over 4000 Americans killed and 30,000 maimed. Not to mention the massive carnage dealt to Iraqi civilians. By doing so he radicalized the Muslim world, brought Al Quaida into Iraq where it had not existed before.

According to Bob Woodward, it has not been the surge that has marginally calmed the country, but rather, a coordinated series of targeted assassinations which has decapitated the leadership if the insurgents. Bush finally learned that terrorists can only be fought with counter- terrorists, not with armies.

His Vice-President usurped much of his power and committed a felony by outing a distinguished CIA operative in an attempt at revenge on her husband who produced evidence that part of the WMD claims were specious.

He has desecrated the Constiutionalal Amendments I and IV with warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, and International law by permitting torture and endless imprisonment of accused enemy combatants without access to representation or trial.

His handling of the catastrophe in New Orleans will be a model of incompetence for years and “you’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie” will be its catchphrase.

He has bungled foreign relations and alienated our allies. Respect for our country plummeted all over the world. He missed opportunity after opportunity to improve the Israel-Palestine conundrum.

His domestic fiscal policy has been a disaster, increasing the deficit astronomically after inheriting a surplus from Bill Clinton, and the unregulated orgy of greed on Wall Street has thrown the country into its deepest recession since the depression of the 30’s. Just one last kick in the teeth from a man of mediocre intelligence, international naivete and blindness, little true education or intellectual curiosity.

There is so much more. This is a mere quick summary. James Buchanan, the President before Lincoln who did nothing as the Union fell apart around him has usually been considered the country’s worst President. I think he is sighing with relief in his grave knowing that epithet no longer belongs to him.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

scabo, the economy seems to have taken care of a lot of telemarketers and bill collectors. I don’t get many calls anymore. In fact, one collector called me and I gave them the info to make the payment, but the money was never withdrawn. I called back and she was layed off so she never even bothered to draft the payment. Whoopee!! And now they are so understaffed that no one has called to follow up.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Dear Curious @ 10:12, you are correct in your analysis. Our leftist friend Redneck works his parody by selectively omitting the salient, which portions I supplement to present the full record. The essence of good parody is that it must have a grain of truth, and Redneck preserves that grain in his presentation. Note that Redneck allows his leftist tendencies, in that everything he presents is “identity politics” with little or no mention of policies, much less with any analysis. To credit you, when we cross swords you almost always argue on policy grounds; that makes you a rare leftist on this blog. (I know you prefer “moderate,” but there is no meaningful difference between the ideology of a leftist and the arbitrariness of a “moderate.”) While we disagree in our perspectives on the virtues of government, you and I do understand the perspective of the other, and the basis for the differences between us. To that end, you are strangely silent on the topic today. I would have thought you would see it as a hanging curve?

By angus

December 29, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Part of the blame lies in the system. Politics has become so perverted and fake that most people of quality won’t go near it. And so we end up with people like George Bush, who in a balanced world might make a good Walmart manager, but certainly not a high level leader and decision maker. While you can blame Bush, it was the voters who elected a man with a track record of failures, and who was simply way in over his head.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

December 29, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Take away the Iraq boondoggle, and you still get the worst prez ever: Osama is at large, friends.

The economy is in the worst wave function in our economic history of boom and bust.

The complete and total loss of dignity and authority that our country once possessed in all observer’s eyes which was the underpinning of our economic success and political influence is directly attributable to the Iraq war. Everybody sees oil-grab, greed, corruption, evil, when they look at our flag now.

EVERYBODY. Bush did that. He’s the worst world-leader since Stalin.

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By Churchill"s MOM

December 29, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:46 AM

I thought what you write is parody, you can’t be serious about this tripe.

By Lee

December 29, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Bush made a foolish promise not to raise taxes under any reason, and when the war started, he was caught. Without the ability to raise taxes, he had to run the war on a credit card, which is why there was not enough money to buy armor for the Humvees and body armor for the troops. Bush could not break his pledge because that would make him look like his father- so Americans died because of his political pride. So much for supporting the troops.

Using credit to fight the war, and increased spending for political favors of the Republican contributors, soaked up all the money available for credit- when the recent credit crunch came, so much money was tied up in US Government Bonds that there wasn’t enough cash left over worldwide for investments- hence the credit crunch.

Bush asked the Americans to share the pain of the war with decreased rights, rather than poneying up our cash for the war. Thus, the legacy of a balanced budget and eight years of peace and prosperity from the Clinton presidency was wasted, and is still being wasted, by this fool.

Now he is trying to re-write history by saying we went to war in Iraq to save the Iraqi people from a terrible tyrant. I would believe anything except that a neo-conservative will spend American tax dollars to help foreigners escape tyranny. We certainly haven’t done it in Cuba or North Korea, but then, they don’t have any oil supplies.

Corrupt, no-competitive bid contracts in Iraq have soiled Bush’s presidency, and with reason. $40 million dollars was spent on a new school in Iraq that can’t be used, while American kids need new schools at home. Blackwater mercenaries, and other contrators, protect our State Department employees rather than less expensive US Marines, and they shame our honor with their happy fire on Iraqi civilians.

Bush has a problem with dealing with quandries. He always reaches for the simplistic answer to a complex problem, and then stubbornly refuses to budge from his foolish consistency.

I, for one, will be glad to see this simple man go. Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing their idiot. It is time for him to go home, unaware of the pain he caused, the embarrassing results of his impulsive decisions, and the mess he made of things while in office.

By findog

December 29, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Two words: “Compassionate Conservative”, an oxymoron’s oxymoron. There was too little compassion for those who needed it other than the 2004 hurricane season survivors. There was too little conservative in his spending and expansion of government. Worst of all was wasting the global goodwill post 911 on Iraq. He will probably end up with Grant; great guy betrayed by those he trusted to be decent implementers of his policy goals…

By @@

December 29, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

For about two-to-three months following 9/11 the critics contained their dislike of Bush

which SURPRISED THE HECK OUT OF ME!!! They, being all about the instant gratification thingy.

And when the historians of the Left — those who came of age in the 60s, at least — write history in the next decade, Bush will be cast as a Warren Harding or Herbert Hoover.

And those leftists who read it will not see the skewing for they’ve been conditioned to accept academia’s screwing.

Dusty would be so ^^^ proud.

Anyhoo Jim, you’d think those old hippies would be grateful to Bush for having given them the chance to relive their rebellious youth showing the young’uns how it’s done. I mean….without their “revolution”, who are they really?

Deadheads.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Dayum Lee, you’ve said a mouth full. Now let’s see how Dusty and Ragnar respond to that.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Dear Curious @ 10:12, you are correct in your analysis. Our leftist friend Redneck works his parody by selectively omitting the salient, which portions I supplement to present the full record. The essence of good parody is that it must have a grain of truth, and Redneck preserves that grain in his presentation. Note that Redneck allows his leftist tendencies, in that everything he presents is “identity politics” with little or no mention of policies, much less with any analysis. To credit you, when we cross swords you almost always argue on policy grounds; that makes you a rare leftist on this blog. (I know you prefer “moderate,” but there is no meaningful difference between the ideology of a leftist and the arbitrariness of a “moderate.”) While we disagree in our perspectives on the virtues of government, you and I do understand the perspective of the other, and the basis for the differences between us. To that end, you are strangely silent on the topic today. I would have thought you would see it as a hanging curve?

Dear Copyleft @ 10:39, “You keep trotting out that same tired old list of “accomplishments,” all of which have been refuted and disproven with facts and logic dozens of times before. But since facts and logic cannot penetrate the inferior fascist mind, you blow right by them and haul them out again a week later.” The Big Lie is repeating a fallacious assertion as conclusive fact. You are congenitally incapable of offering argument, substituting invective and falsehood for any true analysis. But I am game – hit me with a refutation or disproof.

Dear yeeha @ 10:42,

“He was largely regarded as a rudderless do-nothing after eight months in office, and suddenly 9/11 saved his skin. “ Generally true. He was working to “change the tone” in DC – clearly the territory of an idiot, the same land now trod by Chauncey, I mean the incoming Chimp-in-Chief.. A rational president would have been working to eliminate constraints on economic freedom, which Bush did belatedly, only after the leftists showed their intention to block any substantial change in DC.

“DID NOT lead global effort to understand climate change. Even if it is still an open question, the USA should lead the effort to understand it, and not be the only industrialized country to run away from it.” Why waste time/effort/resources on illusory issues?

“DID NOT fund No Child Left Behind, instead only created another unfunded mandate of meaningless testing and admin burden on schools.” We agree that the Kennedy education bill was stupid ab initio.

“DID NOT regulate any of the financial markets, and aided and abetted this fantasy economy that finally blew up this past year. First real estate lending, then financial services, and now the credit crisis. The fact that some wise people avoided these risks shows that it was foreseen and entirely avoidable.” Financial markets continue to be excessively regulated. No rational analysis of the recent credit bubbly collapse can start (or end) with anything less than the unlimited taxpayer subsidy of leftist incomes at FNMA and FHLMC. I hope the lesson there would be that public risk/private gain is always a bad bet? The suggestion that financial markets have ever been insufficiently regulated is false on its face. Unless you really want to talk about CRA and its misguided effects?

“DID NOT abide by such basic human rights protections as our own Constitution and the Geneva Convention. Bush, Cheney, and the gang would probably understand this issue better if they had actually served in the military rather than using their family name or perpetual ‘educational pursuits’ to avoid service.” A foolish misapplication of our Constitution extends the protections of our system to those who decline to accept the responsibilities therein. The leftist protection of terrorists is beneath contempt. Note that leftists even opposed tapping international telephone communications, thus facilitating terrorist attacks against innocent Americans.

“DID NOT pursue the 9/11 attackers but instead used the tragedy to invade Iraq for personal and oil-crony reasons.” Newsflash, all but one of the 9/11 attackers died in the attack, and when we waterboarded the other one, to gain tremendous information that lead directly to the destruction of al Qaeda, the leftists objected.

“Imagine if instead of this multi-trillion-dollar war, Bush had instead in 2001 increased annual spending on our special warfare forces by $50 billion? More SEALs, more Farsi language training, more CIA, more stuff that might actually root out these enemies and defeat them. Bin Laden might be dead, the entire Islam world would hate us less, and we’d have a trillion dollars that could have been invested at home.” I think, outside Persia, most of the Islam world has greater respect for America than ever. You bear a false premise. However, I do agree that limited US financial resources would be better invested in military development than with welfare or other wasteful domestic spending.

Dear Dr. Weissburg @ 10:43, your epistle proves nothing more than that the brainless left is hijacked by atheists.

“Hanging chads be damned, the Bush catastrophe started the minute the election was subverted and ultimately settled by a partisan Supreme Court,” – right, a 7-2 vote - “to the day he was too lazy to read his morning National Security briefing and failed to notice its dire warning of an imminent attack on American soil.” A commonly retold lie by the left, as if the “morning security briefing” said there was going to be an attack by domesticated terrorists against US sites. You idiots would ride off in all directions and accomplish nothing. Had there been any concrete information, do you seriously believe there would have been any negligence?

“He sat in a school room in stupor” – typical leftist, you would have had President Bush needlessly alarm children when there was nothing specific he could do – “when informed the country had been attacked and then baldly lied to the country about the presence of WMD in Iraq,” – I would have been disappointed had you not repeated the leftist lie about the Bush “lie” – “subsequently getting over 4000 Americans killed and 30,000 maimed. Not to mention the massive carnage dealt to Iraqi civilians.” Of course all al Qaeda is “civilian” and you would proudly protect the terrorists from our noble military. “By doing so he radicalized the Muslim world, brought Al Quaida into Iraq where it had not existed before.” And wiped them out there – a brilliant gambit, if it was intentional. And great luck, if it was not. Of course, good luck seemingly always follows good strategic planning.

“According to Bob Woodward,” - yes, the noted military expert - “it has not been the surge that has marginally calmed the country,” - right, thousands of highly visible American protectors had nothing to do with building confidence in the population – “but rather, a coordinated series of targeted assassinations which has decapitated the leadership of the insurgents. Bush finally learned that terrorists can only be fought with counter- terrorists, not with armies.

“His Vice-President usurped much of his power” – what a crock, you loonies really believe that stuff – “and committed a felony” – Fitzgerald disagreed, no crime existed other than disputes over who said what, when” – “by outing a distinguished CIA operative” – wasn’t that actually Colin Powell’s aid, covered up by Colin Powell? – “in an attempt at revenge on her husband who produced evidence that part of the WMD claims were specious.” You did not bother to read the “evidence” – the interview with the president of the country who affirmed that his country was not negotiating sale of yellow cake to Iraq, even though his country has no other exports.

“He has desecrated the Constiutionalal Amendments I and IV with warrantless wiretapping of American citizens,” – name one – “and International law by permitting torture and endless imprisonment of accused enemy combatants without access to representation or trial.” You repeat the lie by the left, suggesting that any treaty applies to non-signatories. The Geneva Convention applies only to uniformed soldiers of the armies of signatories.

“His handling of the catastrophe in New Orleans” – notably here, your complaint is that he did not cure the incompetent performance by the democrat mayor and the democrat governor – “will be a model of incompetence for years and “you’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie” will be its catchphrase.” Sort of like “as competent as a Louisiana democrat.”

“He has bungled foreign relations” – that’s why the Germans and French and Italians and Canadians all punted their leftists out of office, and why Britain will do so at the next election – “and alienated our allies.” – excluding the Polish, the Estonians, the Czechs, the Slovakians, the Slovenians, the Latvians, - just who was alienate? “Respect for our country plummeted all over the world.” Except where it matters – in how they deal with us. “He missed opportunity after opportunity to improve the Israel-Palestine conundrum.” A problem unsolved since Truman is your signature badge of failure for President Bush?

“His domestic fiscal policy has been a disaster” – agreed, he is no better than a big spending leftist – “increasing the deficit astronomically after inheriting a surplus from Bill Clinton” – or more accurately from the Newt Gingrich Congress - “and the unregulated orgy of greed on Wall Street” – all stimulated by unlimited taxpayer subsidy of FNMA and FHLMC – “has thrown the country into its deepest recession since the depression of the 30’s.” (Not true, just the deepest since the recovery from the Carter administration.) “Just one last kick in the teeth from a man of mediocre intelligence, international naivete and blindness, little true education or intellectual curiosity.” Are you talking about your post?

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

The only good thing I can say about Bush is he can thank his lucky stars that he wasn’t at the Ringling Brothers Circus because in stead of a shoe being tossed at him, it would have been elephant poop.

By Coffee Creamer

December 29, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Worst! You have got to be kidding: Here is just a few accomplishments: 1. Brought this country back off it’s knees from 911. Built the countries defenses and CIA back after the Clinton deterioration. 2. Had 6 years of sustained growth after 911 (see DJIA Chart for 10 Years). 3. Drugs for Seniors 4. No child left behind - Major Success! 5. Most done for AIDS by any President! 6. Freed 50 Million Peaple in Iraq and Afganistan! Worst! You have got to be kidding! HISTORY WILL SHOW THAT HE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS!

By Glenn

December 29, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

OK, Mr. Wooten, I’m going to have to come out of the closet for Stanford. There’s much to be said for the place. For one, Herbert Hoover, who not only was no slouch, but secretly is the architect of our President-Elect’s recovery plan.

Also I side with the unschooled schoolteacher, Mr. Truman. As a rule I side with him and he’s stood me well, through the years. But seriously, the nation’s underestimation of him was a miracle in our time, and yet it happened. It really happened, and it was interesting to watch it un-happen, as it were.

There was at that time, the late-60s and early 70s, a general hatred — I think that’s the right word — of national authority, and that hatred extended at times to Mr. Truman. It seemed as though, by deciding to deploy the atomic weapons, therefore he’d deliberately terrorized us for life. Hence a kind of bone-dead Jungian hatred of the violent father-dude. How truly stupid it all was.

How blind it was to the simple fact that a man from Missouri had to make many terrible decisions, and made them. And had to live with those decisions for the rest of his life.

Is that all so complicated?

By Coffee Creamer

December 29, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Worst! You have got to be kidding: Here is just a few accomplishments: 1. Brought this country back off it’s knees from 911. Built the countries defenses and CIA back after the Clinton deterioration. 2. Had 6 years of sustained growth after 911 (see DJIA Chart for 10 Years). 3. Drugs for Seniors 4. No child left behind - Major Success! 5. Most done for AIDS by any President! 6. Freed 50 Million Peaple in Iraq and Afganistan! Worst! You have got to be kidding! HISTORY WILL SHOW THAT HE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS!

By Sharecropper

December 29, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

You folks out there on the Wingnut Fringe and anxious to clean up Bush’s image in his last few days need to grow up and acknowledge what is painfully obvious: Bush was an accident of history, beneficiary of a terror attack that he proceeded to use to terrorize Americans, then destroy our economy, pork barrel his political allies, wreck — intentionally or through cronyism and political hacks — almost every functioning department Clinton left in place.

To defend the man who subverted the Constitution in the guise of defending it, started an unprovoked war, which he refused to pay for, and politicized and criminalized almost every federal department, is almost criminal in itself.

I give Laura Bush a pass. She can’t help that she married a moron. Rice? A political hack who failed in two high administration posts and owes her whole political career to Bush.

You, on the other hand, seem blinded to reality. That is a fatal flaw in a supposed newspaperman.

By Fred

December 29, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Historical perspective takes at least 20 years to come into focus, so anything ‘historians’ write in the next decade will continue to be partisan and agenda-driven. See y’all in 2028.

By AmVet

December 29, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

It merely confirms that the empirically-challenged 20% gang will believe ANYTHING.

This is news?

And as long as these repulsive Republitoadies keep getting annihilated every other November, the majority of Americans will be happy.

01-20-09 The End of a National Disaster

By GaLiberal

December 29, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim quoted: Rice, in an interview on CBS, terms the criticism “ridiculous.” Said she: “I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he’s done. This generation will.”

This continues to prove how far out of touch with reality Rice, MJ, and the rest of the Bush apologists have become. Desperate to salvage any semblance of success from their blatant ignorance and folly of electing Bush twice they will pose anything no matter the facts. They ignore that Bush is responsible for over 4,000 US soldiers being killed in a reckless and unnecessary war. They falsely assert ‘this generation’ will thank Bush for all he has done. Yes, every time I get my 401k statement I thank Bush in very graphic and detailed language. I also thank every s** that voted for him and Cheney. I guess our gratitude is expressed in the fact their approval ratings are below that of Nixon. The only thing that should have happened to Bush and Cheney was their impeachment. But that wasn’t going to happen as along as the Rethuglicons controlled Congress. Instead, voters continued to return these useless Rethuglicon s** to office thinking they would somehow magically fix all the problems with tax cuts and deficit spending. Now the federal debt is over $10 TRILLION and Bush leaves behind a deficit of over $300 BILLION. Not to mention the cost of the reckless and unnecessary Iraq war that will be over $2 TRILLION. But MJ and his Rethuglicon buttlicking buddies continue to march to the drumbeat. It’s too bad we can’t enact a tax on people who voted for Bush to pay off the $10s of TRILLIONS he’s cost us. Instead, I and millions of others who didn’t vote for these idiots will be paying for their stupidity.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Condoleezza Rice is living proof.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Dear Lee @ 11:12, you err.

“Bush made a foolish promise not to raise taxes under any reason,” – why do you say foolish? Given that taxes always damage future growth, in ways that government borrowing do not, your adjective is inconsistent with the state of economic theory – “and when the war started, he was caught.” True enough, but is unusually noble and unleftist of you to acknowledge that the war was inflicted on President Bush, and not the other way around. “Without the ability to raise taxes, he had to run the war on a credit card,” – although we might agree that a veot-proof conservative Senate would have permitted spending cuts sufficient to accomplish real good in the world – “which is why there was not enough money to buy armor for the Humvees and body armor for the troops.” No, excessive domestic spending is a greater culprit. We wasted far more on domestic spending that any tax increase could have obtained. “Bush could not break his pledge” – a rarity, an honest politician – “because that would make him look like his father- so Americans died because of his political pride.” And because of democrat intransigence on domestic spending.” “So much for supporting the troops.” The comparative paucity of deaths suffered by American troops, as a percentage of the deaths we have inflicted, reflects well on his administration of the war. As father of an American serviceman, I am far more comfortable with President Bush’s performance as commander in chief than I am with the prospective change.

“Using credit to fight the war,” – since the democrats insist on wasting so much domestic funds, to facilitate growth of FNMA and FHLMC – “and increased spending for political favors of the Republican contributors,” – all of which paled by comparison to the funding for those entities favored by democrats, FHLMC and FNMA – “soaked up all the money available for credit-“ – a strange assertion – I thought the leftist line lamented reliance on foreign, especially Chinese, investors in American government securities? – “when the recent credit crunch came, so much money was tied up in US Government Bonds that there wasn’t enough cash left over worldwide for investments- hence the credit crunch.” Where to start? Are you suggesting that the US Treasury invested its funds in US Government Bonds? Do you have any idea where proceeds, from US government bonds, go? A better argument would affirm that FNMA and FHLMC facilitated much subinvestment quality investment into an overheated housing market. I cannot make arguments for you, however, as that would undermine your thesis.

“Bush asked the Americans to share the pain of the war with decreased rights,” – I think you are simply making this up, as no American lost any constitutional right – “rather than poneying up our cash for the war.” Believe it or not, the government did not sell a termination of Constitutional rights to the highest bidder. “Thus, the legacy of a balanced budget and eight years of peace and prosperity from the Clinton presidency was wasted, and is still being wasted, by this fool.” The balanced budget, which existed only while Newt Gingrich was speaker of the house, was lost when the dot-com bubble collapsed in late 2000. The decline of government revenues in 2001 and 2002 was independent of any policy undertaken in the following two years, although the Bush tax cuts did restore growth to the economy, and a recovery of government revenues. The “peace” of the Clinton presidency is the peace of appeasement – he took no steps to constrain the growth of Islamists, and certainly the bill for that policy came due on 9/11.

“Now he is trying to re-write history by saying we went to war in Iraq to save the Iraqi people from a terrible tyrant.” Right, you leftists admire the humanity of Saddam. “I would believe anything except that a neo-conservative will spend American tax dollars to help foreigners escape tyranny. We certainly haven’t done it in Cuba or North Korea, but then, they don’t have any oil supplies.” That is you own limitation – you have no idea what neoconservatism is.

“Corrupt, no-competitive bid contracts in Iraq have soiled Bush’s presidency,” – cite one – there is none – “and with reason. $40 million dollars was spent on a new school in Iraq that can’t be used, while American kids need new schools at home.” Ok, send them to school in Iraq. “Blackwater mercenaries, and other contrators, protect our State Department employees” – agree, let the State Department employees die “rather than less expensive US Marines” – are you not ashamed of how poorly you pay Marines? Is there a single Marine who should earn $1 less than the average Congressperson? – “and they shame our honor with their happy fire on Iraqi civilians.” You are despicable, you liar.

“Bush has a problem with dealing with quandries.” Like his belief that democrats are honorable and trustworthy. Like Putin, they are all snakes. “He always reaches for the simplistic answer to a complex problem, and then stubbornly refuses to budge from his foolish consistency.” And it infuriates the democrats that he is almost always right in his simplicity. They insist that all problems are complex and require government solutions.

“I, for one, will be glad to see this simple man go. Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing their idiot.” You must be from Texas.

By One Voice

December 29, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Jim, Jim, Jim,

In any society about 20% of the population is made up of dogmatic ideologues who are indoctrinated and will follow their leader into oblivion, death, Armageddon, all of the above. At the end of WW II, that was about the percentage of the German people who still held onto Hitler’s “Aryan dream”. These indoctrinated individuals are immune to the sway of any and all evidence, no matter how compelling. Obviously, you and Dagnard are part of that 20% cult here in the U.S. (I’m sure you believe in the creation myth as well).

A number of people have mentioned Carter’s administration, but Carter inherited an economy ravaged by war and a country that was disenchanted and had lost respect in the eyes of world for the same reason. He did not work effectively with congress, but for the most part, world events were outside of his control. Bush inherited a prosperous country at peace.

Newsflash: Bush’s highpoint was the counting of the hanging chads you mentioned.

1) He allowed 9-11 to take place, not willingly, but due to incompetence;

2) He lied to the American people and took us to a war without just cause where thousands of Americans died and tens of thousands of others;

3) He mismanaged a natural disaster and allowed a major American city to be destroyed in the process;

4) He politicized every branch of government, particularly the justice department, going against the very principles this country was founded under (Jim, you may want to read the Declaration of Independence for the first time);

5) He presided over the most corrupt administration in recent history, employing, supporting, and protecting crooks and traitors;

6) He disregarded our Constitution and cheapened the ideals the country was founded on;

7) He severely damaged our standing in the world with his unilateral cowboy-style actions and his support for torture (any psychologist could tell you this is a bad idea practically, as well as morally);

8) His support for continuous deregulation and his extravagant spending nearly bankrupted the country, destroyed home values, and made millions lose their jobs.

The one good thing he did? He destroyed the Republican Party for the next 20 years.

Future historians may not insist that GW Bush was the worst president in history, but they will undoubtedly argue that he was one of the 3 or 4 worst. The question will not be whether he was incompetent or corrupt, but how incompetent and corrupt, and he will forever be near the very bottom.

By Long list of inept leaders

December 29, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Top 5 worst presidents ever:

Bush may edge out JC on my list of Top 5 worst presidents ever!

By GaLiberal

December 29, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

If you want to see the essential Rethuglicon mindset, read the rant by Howard@8:33 AM. Just more of the idiocy of the Rethuglicons. Blame everything on Democrats past and present and take no responsibility for the current failures by Bush, Cheney, and the Rethuglicons.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Howard is living proof.

By SaveOurRepublic

December 29, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

GitAPieceOnEarthToday @ 9:27AM - Professor Panarin’s analysis is all to close to reality. While I don’t agree with his geographic regions analysis (what sections of the country will fall under which influence), he’s correct that the fall of the Republic is rapidly approaching. From the research I’ve conducted, it’s the (EU-modeled) North American Union (NAU/SPP) that is being planned for implementation (along with the “Amero” common currency). The 9/11 false-flag attack, oil price fluctuation, a weakened U.S. dollar & economic crisis (by design) are being leveraged to shrink the middle class and create this long sought Globalist dystopia. It’s been in the cards for a long time & I pray we can make a stand to save the last vestiges of our Constitutional Republic!

By Jake

December 29, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Worst pres of my lifetime easily surpassing Carter and Reagan. Asked about the fiscal irresponsibility and deficit spending early on Bush responded, “we had a recession, we were attacked, and we are at war.” True but he failed to add that in the face of all that he gave a huge tax cut primarily to the very wealthy. There may be some very good long-term results in the Middle East, but we won’t know that until a few years after we pull out. Nagy was most responsible for the disaster of Katrina, not Bush, although the FEMA guy was pitiful. NCLB is not a success by any measure, it is a disaster.

By Cathy

December 29, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

What planet are you people from? Really?

By ncgreybr

December 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Wooten said “but the reality is that the Left would have stood exposed to history had they been forced to acknowledge Bush Administration successes.”

You will notice that he didn’t itemize any of them.

We’re not asking for a dozen of them, Jim. Give us 5, ok, 3…….how about 1?

By JM

December 29, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

There is absolutely no doubt that Bush is the worst president ever…and one of the worst leaders of any country…ever…

By ncgreybr

December 29, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Wooten said “but the reality is that the Left would have stood exposed to history had they been forced to acknowledge Bush Administration successes.”

You will notice that he didn’t itemize any of them.

We’re not asking for a dozen of them, Jim. Give us 5, ok, 3…….how about 1?

By timeoutofmind

December 29, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

no … this writer is a failure.

By Curious Observer

December 29, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

It is almost pointless and certainly subjective to argue about whether George W. Bush was the worst president ever. I’m old enough to recall the same argument about Harry S. Truman when he left office. Many pundits at the time were ready to assert Truman’s fecklessness. For 60 years that argument evolved, until today there’s a consensus that Truman was one of the best presidents.

What is inarguable is that the Bush administration completely changed the tone of administration politics. In future decades, those scholars who are fond of talking about “strong” and “weak” presidencies will be talking about the revolution that the Bush administration effected. When you have a vice president who asserts that he is above the law—that he is either a member of the legislative branch or of the administrative branch, depending on what suits his convenience; when you have an almost complete politicization of all departments of the executive branch, including the previously sacrosanct Justice Department; and when even science is sacrificed in favor of the imposition of a political philosophy—then you have an effort to explore brand new territory in administrative power.

I’m not ready to ascribe all these abuses to George W. Bush. One reason is that I don’t think he’s intelligent enough to invent such conniving usurpations of power. But he did loose some very cunning underlings on the country. And to these underlings power was an opportunity to seek revenge against opponents and to impose a rigid orthodoxy on the country. And anything was worth the cost of that imposition—including becoming an accomplice in previously unheard-of levels of Congressional over-spending and engaging in a war that would seek to crush the opposition by a push to super-patriotism—anything to keep power.

History will hand down the ultimate verdict on George W. Bush’s presidency long after most of us are dead. What is more remarkable is the way in which that administration stretched the constitution to new limits, while defying Congress to do anything about it. And Congress caved. It remains to be seen whether future administrations or courts will cave also.

By SaveOurRepublic

December 29, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Re the blog topic, “Jorge Boosh” is one of (far too) many Globalist POTUS shills puppeteer’d by the Elite. He enacted a Globalist, un-(paleo/real) “conservative” agenda (just as many before him have done). Most Presidents since Jackson (save for JFK) have been under the thumb of the Central Banking Cartel, so he was par for the course there. Even Reagan strayed from true (paleo) conservative values via his amnesty & Empire building. The one (major) factor which makes “Jorge Boosh”) the worst of all time (surpassing Carter, Johnson, Bush Sr, etc.) was the 9/11 false-flag attack…which was leveraged as a pretext for the (rapidly growing) Orwellian police-state & Globalist minded Middle East empire building scheme.

By @@

December 29, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

GitAPieceOnEarthToday @ 9:27:

It’s important to note that Professor Panarin was former KGB.

I read the article. It’s Texas that’s going to Mexico. No mention of the south unless we’re viewed as one of those geographic areas who will secede.

See! California will form the nucleus of what he calls “The Californian Republic,” and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of “The Texas Republic,” a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an “Atlantic America” that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls “The Central North American Republic.” Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.

In the words of the famous Gypsy, “tease artist”…

“You’ve gotta have a gimmick” to survive on the bump-and-grind circuit.

By getalife

December 29, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Worst.Ever.

By Randall

December 29, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Wooten, please tell me Bush’s accomplishments and what he will be remembered? Your posting is hyperbole.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Jim’s essay seemingly invites a ranking of presidential performances. I am reasonably comfortable ranking presidents after McKinley.

Beneficial presidents

1) Reagan

2) Coolidge

3) Eisenhower

4) Taft

Nonentities or net-neutral

5) Truman

6) Bush fil

7) Kennedy

8) Bush pere

9) Ford

10) Clinton

11) Roosevelt T

Adverse current-term and long-term effects

12) Roosevelt F

13) Nixon

14) Wilson

15) Harding

16) Hoover

17) Johnson

18) Carter

By @@

December 29, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

O-:MG!!!!

Ragnar did-ent….

I mean the incoming Chimp-in-Chief.

I remember asking if it would be appropriate for us to apply the left’s oft-used name for Bush to Obama — political correctness being what it is and all. And then I thought, WHY ASK?

The leftist blog gander-ers deserve “the goose”.

Since the leftist PCP has deemed it acceptable to refer to a sitting president as a Chimp, then Obama has worked hard to earn the privilege.

It shall be so. Obama is, after all, our Chimp-in-Chief.

I do so appreciate this new-found freedom which they (the leftists) have bestowed upon me.

By Glenn

December 29, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Univocalist,

But how ‘bout them Rangers?

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 29, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

here is the youtube link to the magic negro, you’ll enjoy..

http://www.youtube.com/browse?&ytsession=acbK4pM2TsWCF0vb7KBhmGl11OGiiH68CkhPM23WR4nJkm61xu6WHsmSdunsSDaxlm2HaDB9hHjE7n2uWFYAgwYlOxpXCyICPMCyLhQAD-5-LYwH9r9C—hr2H3wSkmJEocREVnLc7gnwAaOMOiQOcfRrxQM7w6Yy0b3aL6yW0s3hC5UNYQyvG2EQs6Gc58QYMijDMX7eusxnIKKvExLAtiXP-jGLKf5jeIYeAT_Vs6IhHN9DWmsdCXjSCCiNgEfsZd0CGI5roiACXuRbHvT-jmX48WiXmJZvrcGOc9bulv5d4EXAR8T22A38c

By Richard

December 29, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

I won’t comment on whether or not Bush was the worst President ever. I’m not old enough to be able to comment on that.

But Bush made me feel like I could be President. If someone that terrible can get a second term, it can’t be that hard a job.

By Coffee Creamer

December 29, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

OK… And you LIBs must think yo man Clinton was the best pres. You know the jerk that lowered the morality of the presidency to the floor in the OVAL Office! Let’s see largest TAX INCREASE in History in 1993 and lies ….lies… lies in 1997-2000. I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN! Yes…. Yo First Black President!

By One Voice

December 29, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Dagnar ranking presidents?

Isn’t this the guy who said that McCain would win Pennsylvania and the presidency, and suggested anyone thinking otherwise was in lockstep with the crowd? Uh, is the person who’s in lockstep the one who succumbs to the propaganda and is mesmerized by it (Dagnar), or the person who has the intellect to identify the correct information and use that as evidence in applying judgment (me)?

Dagnar, you have lost all credibility. You either lack intelligence or have been the victim of brainwashing, possibly both, and I would argue that anything you say is more likely to be inaccurate than not.

By Alan Weissburg M.D.

December 29, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

To the gentleman or lady who rebutted my letter point by point. I obviously strongly disagree with you, but I’d like to thank you for your courtesy. A vigorous debate is what our country is all about.

Three things; I’m not a liberal, I’m not an atheist, and the Supreme Court decision on Gore vs. Bush was indeed 5-4. Renquist, O’Connor, Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas in the majority, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Stephens in the minority.

By Glenn

December 29, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Dr. Weissburg,

Stick to your last. The term is “plurality”. Heal thyself.

By @@

December 29, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Warren Harding - too busy playing cards to notice that his friends who were plundering the treasury.

Kinda reminds me of Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” allowing the government to shuffle the cards, cut the cards, and set the ante.

It mattered little to the public that Roosevelt had no idea what the New Deal would entail. “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” Roosevelt told the convention during his acceptance speech. Once in office, Roosevelt pushed a litter of new programs into existence, each marked by an acronym synonymous with New Deal legislation: the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), the CWA (Civil Works Administration), and the WPA (Works Progress Administration), to name but a few.

“It was the first time that Americans thought of their government as a solution to the problems that individuals and society at large were experiencing,” says Jean Edward Smith, a political science professor at Marshall University and author of FDR. Roosevelt stopped pushing New Deal legislation by 1938, after the courts ruled some programs unconstitutional. The effect of the programs was mixed, with most economists agreeing that what really got the country moving was the military buildup of World War II.

A chicken in every pot, and a politician in every pocket.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Much discussion today of Professor Panerin’s forecast. Interesting. I suspect that most Southerners would wish to disassociate from the constricting policies of the rust belt, soon to be imposed on the country by the incoming leftists. I suspect the faux-superiority of some of the Atlantic states could lead it to wish to associate with Euroweenies. One could reasonably imagine the left coast going its own way, doing its own thing. The mountain states and the agricultural Midwest could reasonably find western Canada more to its liking. Where would that leave the rust belt of industrial Midwest – Michigan, Ohio, Illinois?

By ncgreybr

December 29, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

More of Dusty’s blatherings. Bush=good, everyone else=bad. He could feed her sh*t on a plate and she would claim it was caviar!

By B. C.

December 29, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Seeing as how the President’s sworn to “defend the Constitution,” and W wiped his rear end with it violating even the Magna Carta, I’d say failure is to light a word.

By Phil Norman

December 29, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Reagan??? OMG he was the worst. He sent is frail wife around the country to preach “Say No To Drugs” while Ollie’s down in Columbia working out deals with the Guerillas for more keys in Cali.

Some of you should consider individual thoughts and indeas, instead of riding the balls of the Chimps here on the AJC blog.

By ncgreybr

December 29, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

More of Dusty’s blatherings. Bush=good, everyone else=bad. He could feed her sh*t on a plate and she would claim it was caviar!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 29, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Dear Dr. Weissburg @ 1:32, thank you for your kind response. I do not recognize your bloghandle, so welcome to the blog, and we look forward to future exchanges. Most of our friends on the blog here recognize me as the resident jerk. You are free to so recognize me also.

I accept your disavowal of leftism. There is nothing in your earlier post inconsistent with principled libertarianism. I accept that you are not necessarily an atheist, but your objection to Christian participation in public affairs distresses me (“Ronald Reagan, would have been horrified to witness how the party was hijacked by right wing religious fanatics, “values” voters with their heads in the sand of time”) However, as to Bush v Gore, you err on the substantial issue:

Question Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Article II Section 1 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution by making new election law? Do standardless manual recounts violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution? Conclusion Noting that the Equal Protection clause guarantees individuals that their ballots cannot be devalued by “later arbitrary and disparate treatment,” the per curiam opinion held 7-2 that the Florida Supreme Court’s scheme for recounting ballots was unconstitutional. Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice. The record suggested that different standards were applied from ballot to ballot, precinct to precinct, and county to county. Because of those and other procedural difficulties, the court held that no constitutional recount could be fashioned in the time remaining (which was short because the Florida legislature wanted to take advantage of the “safe harbor” provided by 3 USC Section 5). Loathe to make broad precedents, the per curiam opinion limited its holding to the present case.

By david wayne osedach, san diego/ U.S.A.

December 29, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Thank you President Bush for the global economic melt-down…

…and for the trillion thrown in Iraq.

By Jake

December 29, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Phil - You’re absolutely correct Reagan was horrible, precedent-setting amnesty for illegals, huge deficts accompanied by tax cuts for the rich, fiscal policies resulting in the ‘87 market crash and the S&L failures, destruction of Carter’s one good deed, the Energy Department, and, worst of all, he was a traitor, approving supplying arms to our enemy, Iran, which he lied about originally and later recanted saying it was probably less than a plane full altogether. He should have been tried for treason.

By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP

December 29, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

BUSH=LOSER CONSERVATIVE=LOSER CONFEDERATES=LOSER REDNECKS=LOSER SOUTH AND CIVILWAR=LOSER

P.S.YOU UNEDUCATED EMBREDS HERE IN GA CANT FIGURE OUT WHY YOU ARE 50TH IN EDUCATION,IM GLAD YOU ALL VOTED FOR BUSH SUXBY PERDONT AND MCCAIN,BECAUSE THEY GOT OVER ON RURAL NORTH AND SOUTH GEORGIA VOTERS WHILE THEY WERE SCREAMING DIXIE AND HAVING PARTIES BY THE CONFEDERATE FLAG,YOU GUYS HIGH ON YOUR CRYSTAL METH AND DRUNK ON YOUR JACK DANIELS,THE NEO-NAZIS TOOK YOUR JOBS EDUCATION MONEY TAX MONEY AND BANKRUPTED AMERICA REDNECKS YOU GOT WHAT YOU ASK FOR,8 YEARS OF REPUBLICANS AND YOU CANT BLAME CLINTON CARTER OR OBAMA.

By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier

December 29, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Jim and the rest of you DumbAzzes who voted for Dubya. You ar truly in your own false reality. O.K. the country has not had an attack on our soil, however, the attack has been on our economy. The attack has been on the Global Market/Economy. Can’t you see that or all you all so caught up in trying to defend and re-define the ridicuolous occupation of the White House by my current sitting President Idiot and his Patently Dumbfounding Group of Horse Manure? You are either Republican or Conservative and in either circumstance, you’re trying to shove your shameful performance of the last 8 years down the majority of American’s throat by saying it smells like crap, looks like crap, ahhhh, but the taste is soooo refreshing. You make racial comments like you’re handing out gumsticks and constantly are expecting people to actually buy your crap. Incredible. Jim, this is a free country and everyone is entitled to their own opinions, please remember that this country has voted for the most qualified candidate and give him a chance to either suceed or fail. But to try and paint Dubya’s 2 chances as being something we’ll define later in history as a sucess is as crazy as me believing that the bailout will somehow help the common man. Dubya is without a doubt the most destructive President we as a country have ever seen. The lives lost, the wealth lost, the failure of business, the mounting deficit, I could go on…. But in your eyes he will be deemed a sucess. Uh-huh.

By BJ

December 29, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

When you put Bush I and Bush II together, probably an all time combined low. (Sorry Jimmuh, you get the solo record in a landslide)-Both Bush’s had the opportunity to increase the Reagan legacy and place liberalism on the back burner if not crush it altogether at least for the next 50 years and they let the opportunity slip through their fingers. Lame-O attempts and bi-partisanship (read: conservatives cave in, liberals do not) killed the producers future for the near term if not forever. We’re quickly slouching toward weak Euro/Africanism taking the worst aspects of both cultures. Atlas will be shrugging.

Bj

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten certainly did let the libs lay on the couch today so they could confess all their psychotic problems. They have outdone themselves in infamy.

They range from posting “disaster” for every Bush policy, namecalling (Chimp, Moa, Ho, high class Thug), pure lies(Bush not elected by the people), suggestions for public trials & humiliation & imprisonment, and tons of liberal propaganda and INQUIRER type info, insults to the President, Laura, Cheney, Condi Rice and to other bloggers, even Texans.

I believe SaveOurRepublic gets the Idiot’s Indignation Award for calling 9/11 a false flag attack. Dr Weissburg gets the High Hypocrit Honor for posting every anti-war twisted accusation concocted, then saying later that a “vigorous debate is what our country is all about”.

I hope Dr. Weissburg’s patients did not receive his “vigorous” treatment or they would all be dead. Rhetoric such as his is a killer, not a healer.

OK, now which lib is next to lie on the couch and tell the world how much you hate American leaders??? Better get it over with or you might end up insulting the next president from sheer habit.

By American Made

December 29, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

I would say that we have also had the worst legislative branch EVER. Our current collective legislative bunch make Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Tuffy the Airborne Soldier, I agree with you whole heartedly. The new wave of war won’t necessarily involve guns and ammunition. When they hit the World Trade Center with the planes, they saw the crippling effect it had on us financially. This time around they saw what raising our gasoline prices could do. Now they are looking at the mess we are in financially because of all the bankruptcies, closing of businesses, banks, investment firms and the loss of jobs. They know now that they don’t need to engage in a war to get to us. We’re a capitalist society and when the bucks stop flowing, we’re in trouble.

By Coffee Creamer

December 29, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

LMAO! LMAO! LMAO! … Oh I was just thinking about the leaders of the Democrats…. Pelosi,Reed,Rangle, Dodd,Franks, LMAO!!!! No wonder the country dropped off the last 2 years! 10 % Approval Rating! These Scoffers made some serious blunders and screwed our Economy! LMAO!!! Oh But the Liberal Press covered for them like they did Obama.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Why can’t politicians see that a National Lottery would be a great asset to this country and it could generate more money than the current income tax system? Today, the Georgia Lottery Officials are getting bonuses for another record breaking year. Imagine that, a record breaking year while the whole dayum economy has gone bust. The only reason we have the current income tax system is because of control. It allows the government to control us. That tax return tells them where we work, how old we are, where we live, how many kids we have, what we invest in, etc. It would be all about losing control.

By 401K

December 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

America was brought to her kness just as Bin Laden predicted. Dubya fell right into his trap and did not listen to one military or economic expert that warned him.So all of you Bushies should move to TEXAS where he is even more hated.We all have to come together and move foward otherwise we will all be history.LETS GET MOVING AMERICA> F-BUSH!

By 401K

December 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

America was brought to her kness just as Bin Laden predicted. Dubya fell right into his trap and did not listen to one military or economic expert that warned him.So all of you Bushies should move to TEXAS where he is even more hated.We all have to come together and move foward otherwise we will all be history.LETS GET MOVING AMERICA> F-BUSH!

By 401K

December 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

America was brought to her kness just as Bin Laden predicted. Dubya fell right into his trap and did not listen to one military or economic expert that warned him.So all of you Bushies should move to TEXAS where he is even more hated.We all have to come together and move foward otherwise we will all be history.LETS GET MOVING AMERICA> F-BUSH!

By 401K

December 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

America was brought to her kness just as Bin Laden predicted. Dubya fell right into his trap and did not listen to one military or economic expert that warned him.So all of you Bushies should move to TEXAS where he is even more hated.We all have to come together and move foward otherwise we will all be history.LETS GET MOVING AMERICA> F-BUSH!

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

CALLING ALL ATTENDANTS!!! 401K is loose AGAIN.

By Yep

December 29, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

American Made has a point… When are we going to stop taking our talking points from lunatics like Pelosi? These guys have a worse performance record than american made autos, and they just got a raise for next year!! It’s time to clean house and start over for both parties!

By SaveOurRepublic

December 29, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 2:35 PM - I get your “Idiot’s Indignation Award” eh? This coming from a 100% bona fide, unabashed “Bushbot” who endlessly champions & regurgitates the phoney (neo)”conservative” rhetoric?! Let me guess, you bought the 9/11 Commission’s report hook, line & sinker right?? Including their total whitewash of “Able Danger” & WTC 7 implosion? Besides “Faux News”/”Pawn Vanity” & “Hush Limblah’s” spoon-fed Machiavellian propaganda, how much research have you done into the 9/11 “terrorist” attack?? Here’s a good start…

http://www.seeloosechange.com

By Mike

December 29, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

I’m curious if the people who declared Bush the “worst president ever” can even name any presidents before Bush’s father. If they hadn’t done Disney movies, none of the “younger generation” would have a clue who Eartha Kitt and Paul Newman were, either.

Maybe they should check out James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, and Herbert Hoover before declaring Bush to be the “worst.”

By Hey wait

December 29, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Hey what about Clinton? He was the president that did the least while he was in office but I know that all of the democrats loved him so I’m sure they will argue with me on this.

By Hey wait

December 29, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Hey what about Clinton? He was the president that did the least while he was in office but I know that all of the democrats loved him so I’m sure they will argue with me on this.

By 401K

December 29, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Hey Dusty, your suffering from a major case of denial. You probably voted for all this right? It’s retards like you that need to realize your BOY SCREWED YOU and everyone else was left to pay the tab.F-BUSH.

By AmVet

December 29, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

I think as a very fitting gesture, President Bush should invite the Detroit Lions to the White House for a celebration.

Who better than America’s Biggest Loser to host such an occasion?

Dustmop and Dagnabbit can bring their pom poms.

Hopefully the screw up-in-charge won’t start World War III before January 20th.

01-20-09 The End of an Error

By jm

December 29, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

W - the Matt Millen of Presidents.

By just me

December 29, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

I like the way that unemployment is Congress’ fault with a Republican in the White House, but the President’s fault when a Democrat is in office. You can’t have it both ways. Furthermore, any actions taken by the Congress from the 2006 election could have EASILY been vetoed by the President and they would not have the power to overturn his veto. If President Bush were so tough and morally-principled, why didn’t he stop the “destruction” of the US financial system with his veto powers.

One day, you will have to admit his errors.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Hey wait, the country would have been much better off if Bush had done nothing. He made a mess out of everything he did.

By The BlogFather of Scroll

December 29, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Clinton was a bad president because of the damage he did to the institution of the presidency with his philandering. Innexusable waste of a really good presidency, but the beginning of the end for the respect most of us had for this office.

ANd for that, Clinton can never be forgiven. Bush simply finished what Clinton started and now the president of the united states is on par with the military junta of the sudan.

I love saying the word junta.

ISAIDJUNTA!

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Dear Save Our Republic,3:08

Thank you for confirming that I made the right choice for the Idiot’s Indignation Award.

Dear Heart, I saw our twin towers fall as I watched the TV. I did not need a commission to tell me we had been attacked and thousands were dying. You probably did.

Unless Jim Lehrer is issuing propaganda on his News Hour, I do not listen to any Machiavellian propaganda. Strange how you believe everybody has to be “fed”. Yet somehow it does not always agree with what YOU have been fed and you are indignant.

Alas for the Feeding!! Hello to the THINKING! Try that sometime and take off the blinders. Take a look around for yourself and try a dose of loyalty. Might improve your outlook.

Thanks but no thanks for the link. I don’t take the bait from bottom feeders.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

BlogFather, what Clinton did in the Oval Office with Monica had no effect on the economy. His years in office was very prosperous for all of us. It was “Let The Good Times Roll” years. We’d be much better off if Bush was getting a BJ in the Oval Office instead of jumping into a war that was not justified.

By Iraq Genocide

December 29, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Bush is a criminally insane maniac and will be gone in a few days. This means relative global peace for the first time in eight years.

By Call it Like it is

December 29, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

yea, GaNative,

And we can contiue to suffer from this mortage crisis because of the MORON Clinton and his administration!!!

Enough Said!

By Iraq Genocide

December 29, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

Bush is a criminally insane maniac and will be gone in a few days. This means relative global peace for the first time in eight years.

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Dear 401K, 3:15

I see you are coherent again. Yes, I voted for President Bush and appreciate his efforts to keep us free and NOT UNDER ATTACK. I believe you forgot to mention that.

Yep, out there in the big ol’USA folks are FREE (unless you are behind bars somewhere). Be thankful!!

Dear AmVet,3:18

If there is a party for losers you will be the first to be invited.

Try on the suit, pin on a smile and you will be a big hit with the losers. You’ve had enough practice.

By GaNative

December 29, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Call It Like It Is, what mortgage crisis? We are beyond that. Senior Citizens are filing bankruptcies in record numbers and they had good mortgages. I see folks who have owned their homes for years losing them because they are either unemployed or under employed. This mess is deeper than a mortgage crisis. What about all those rich folks who just lost their money in this investment scheme? Did the guy who shot himself because he lost billions suffer from a mortgage crisis? Thank God a change is coming on January 20th 2009.

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Iraq Genocide @3:42

Are you 401K’s cellmate?

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 29, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

“One day, you will have to admit his errors.”

Actually, they never do have to admit to his errors. It’s the nature of things.

Just as there are about 25 percent of Germans who believe that National Socialism had some good points there will likely remain, for generations, those who will be taught and who will believe that GWBush was a Godly man who fought evil and loved Jesus, and that our nation was better for his two glorious terms in office. Historians, economists be damned.

By Jake

December 29, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Call it - Lots of blame to go around on that one. Both parties wanted more home ownership, Bush bragged about more people owning homes during his administration than ever before. Perhaps the biggest blow was the independent Office of the Comptroller General throwing out the predatory lending rules in 2005 which started all the disastrous NINJA loans. Banks, brokers and even insurance companies motivatd by unregulated greed. It’s a failure of capitalism more than the Clinton administration.

By jm

December 29, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Funny, from 1994 election until the end of his time in office, every bit of legislation that President Clinton signed came from a republican congress and senate.

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

DB Gwinnett,3:58

Perhaps you would like to admit to YOUR lib errors for a start. How Clinton was a disgrace that left a smirk on the world. Or a Democratic led Congress with the lowest rating ever known was a killer on American values of economy and sensibilities. How Democrats voted for a war and then would not support it but disgraced and complained about our military and its progress.

Those are some strong points that history will make. George W. Bush will look like a saint compared to the infidels and faithless of the USA at this time. They are known as far left Democrats.

YOUR failings will be the black spot on present days when it comes to writing history.

By catlady

December 29, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

to get out much this morning at 8:17: we already have the “bush leagues”, don’t we?

By Army Retired '04

December 29, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Dubya is a total embarrassment. Everything he touches becomes a disaster. It has been a painful eight years. Just look at how he is handing over the country. Republicans need to hang their heads in shame—- including you Mr. Wooten.

By ron

December 29, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

I believe George is the worst President I’ve ever seen.I believe the people he surrounded himself with were bad people.Rumsfeld,Cheney,Rice,and others were bad choices.

Before Bush,I could travel freely to foreign countries without a worry.Today I cannot do that.That is the fault of his policies.Period.

Starting in January we are going to be guided by a President that I trust less than Bush.That is the fault of Bush and his policies.Period.

I could go on,but I wont.Bush and company were bad for America.The Democrats gained control on his watch.Big time.

See, I told you I could go on.

By AmVet

December 29, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Awww, Musty got her nasty old granny panties in a wad regarding my joke about her cheerleading.

But after licking neo-con boots for eight years her tongue must be awfully sore.

By catlady

December 29, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Bush is NOT the worst leader in world history! Remember Caligula? Oh, wait. We were talking about US history.

Nevermind.

By Jim Jr

December 29, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

What successes are there?

By 401K

December 29, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

DUSTMITE, you just cannot admit that BUSH and his band of BUTTHOLES played all of you KOOLAID DRINKING INBREDS LIKE AN ACORDIAN. You probably are unemployed and collecting disability so I kind of feel sorry for you LOL. Just go heat up your TV dinner and turn on FOX for some more therapy.Your kind are finished, CHANGE IS A COMING. 1-20-09.You know your probably related to DUBYA.Look it up.

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Army Retired ‘04

You are getting retirement pay from the US government, aren’t you? That government is still intact, is it not? You are still a free man in the country you fought for, are you not?

I believe that President Bush has been the leader that kept us free. You and our Commander-in-chief have kept us free. For that, I thank BOTH of you.

By SaveOurRepublic

December 29, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 3:34 PM - LOL! What a joke! If I’m a “bottom feeder”, than you are absolutely subterranean! You’re living proof that there’s no logical reasoning or honest debate with sheer idiocy! It is sheeplized lemmings like yourself who do indeed ingest spoonfuls of propaganda & fail to do “research” beyond what’s spewed by the (controlled) “mainstream” media (ie - your pals at “Faux” News).

My “blinders” were taken off once I decide to study the history of Globalism, the Elite & their many puppets (including your beloved Bush Dynasty). It was then easy to see that you’re beloved GOP & DNC are virtually two sides of the SAME coin.

If a center-left leaning (Libertarian…I presume) American like AmVet and a right-leaning, old-school, real (paleo) conservative American like myself can see the mass failures & hypocrisy of the phoney (neo)”conservatives”, then surely any free-thinking, observant individual could as well. Soooo…it’s obvious (to all) you are not such a person. I’ll let you get back to your Bushbot programming & Neocon worship via “Pawn Vanity” now.

By catlady

December 29, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

To REPUBLICANS (sic) EVIL TIME IS UP:

Let me introduce you to our friend, Mr. Apostrophe (‘). Learn about him. Embrace him. Make him yours.

BTW, it is inbred, not embred. Please get some “eddykaytshun” before you come to Georgia to “school” us rednecks.

By ncgreybr

December 29, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Dusty wrote: “Hello to the THINKING! Try that sometime and take off the blinders. Take a look around for yourself and try a dose of loyalty.”

Why don’t you take you own advice? Take off your blinders for a minute. Look around and take a dose of REALITY! Your loyality to the failed Bush presidency is beginging to look a little ludicrous.

Anyone who disagrees with you or Bush is unpatriotic. WRONG! WE are the patriots!

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Dear AmVet,4:28

Grannie panties? Must be something you wear. No grannies at my house. With five children, who needs grandchildren!

Licking boots? You must have a foot fetish. Is that an old army saying or just back alley?

Maybe you should write your insults in plain English so we can understand the personal attacks a little better. That is much more effective for losers like you.

By 401K

December 29, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

DUSTBOWL

YOU PROBABLY STILL BELIEVE SADDAM HAD WMD AND WE WOULD PAY FOR THE WAR WITH IRAQI OIL. OR THAT CURVEBALL AND CHALIBI WERE ON OURSIDE RIGHT. DO YOU ALSO BELEIVE IN SANTA CLAUS? PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE REASON BUSH GOT AWAY WITH MURDER.YOU NEED TO GO OUTSIDE MORE LOOK AROUND ASK ANYONE BUSH IS BY FAR THE ABSOLUTE WORST PREZ EVER. THERES A VERY WARM PLACE AWITING HIM AND HIS GOOD OL BOYS.

By Call it Like it is

December 29, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

No thanks on supporting Barry Obama Robin Hood the Socialist and the dumb liberal left, and by the way, your boy Clinton did nothing when America was attacked. World Trade Center, USS Cole, etc. so talk about not being able to travel when Bush took office, give ME A FREAKING BREAK!!!

All Barry can do is point fingers and attempt to arm-chair quarterback.

I’m Done.

By Dusty

December 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Well, it seems that many here suddenly REMEMBERED they were patriots. Well, that’s what they said. Congratulations! You decided that running down the President which also runs down the country is just the nicest thing you could do.

It just happens that I disagree with you. This is a great country and has been led by a strong and honest man. I appreciate what he has done and the storm of events in which he has had to work.

If there is no appreciation among the “patriots” it will not affect this man who has kept us safe. The loss will be among those who complain and ruin their own health and politics with vindictiveness.

Happiness is a morale builder and I can see why so many of you are in the dumps. That is where you are and where you will stay.

My compliments on your ability to lose. May you enjoy your dinner but doubt that you will. I go to prepare mine and it is going to taste GOOD. Eat your heart out! I’s having my favorite beef stew. So long…..loveless losers…

By AmVet

December 29, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Retired, yes the thugs who elected and enabled BushCo SHOULD hang their heads in collective shame.

But that would require a modicum of dignity and the manhood to actually acknowledge the endless screw ups of their horrific ideology.

And these chickenhawk neo-cons of course feel no remorse whatsoever for the 4200+ American kids KIA needlessly by their Liar-in-Chief.

None will EVER be shown by these louts and cretins. Look at this abysmal, brain dead Dustmop as the perfect example. Cheerleading for them to the bitter end.

But this is great news for America and just what she needs right now.

To be crystal clear that these criminal f&ckups NEVER get another chance to send this greatest of nations reeling backwards with their corruption and deadly incompetence.

And based on the past two elections it appears that it will be a long, long time before another actor/fraud conservative convinces enough Americans other than these mental midgets to drink their kool aid again…

By Fred

December 30, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Historical assessments of Presidents tend to focus on one or two lasting legacies a President leaves behind. Jefferson owned slaves, but fought the Barbary pirates and doubled the size of the US. Lincoln was manic-depressive and a bigot, but ended slavery and preserved the union. So, criticizing any 19th century president for his racial insensitivities is basically changing the rules after the game is over. And while the jury is still coming in on the Reagan administration, judging him on the solely on Iran-Contra (and Nancy’s ‘Just Say No’), while ignoring the 80’s economic turnaround and ultimately bringing down the Soviet Union is just blind. (Oh, and it was John TYLER, not Taylor, who turned his back on partisanship - as George Washington repeatedly advised - after he succeeded to the Presidency, not elected to it.)

And by the way, if the best historical assessment you can muster of a Presidency (any presidency) relies on obscenities and name-calling, no one is going to (or should) take it seriously.

By Copyleft

December 30, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Fred: Another option, however, is to simply rewrite history.

For example, you could credit Reagan with “singlehandedly winning the Cold War,” when a variety of internal factors in the USSR had much more to do with it.

Or you could claim “Reagan’s tax cuts produced an economic boom!”, when in fact he backed away from them with tax hikes in 82 and 83, and then a major tax overhaul in 86 that most economic conservatives viewed as a “betrayal”—and even then, his policies resulted in massive, unprecedented deficits that he used to oppose, and tax revenues actualy FELL as a portion of the economy.

But none of that matters to those determined to deify Reagan and make him the symbol of Republican Righteousness, false front though it may be. His “legacy”, whatever it might have been, has been hijacked by supply-side ideologues.

By pbg40g

December 30, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

I’ll tell you one thing about President Bush, he had the right idea in the war against terrorism. It’s a LOT better to fight them over THERE than to have to fight them here at HOME.

By Fred

December 30, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

I didn’t credit Reagan with ‘singlehandedly winning the Cold War’… those are your words. Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II helped immeasurably. The three worked together to exploit the ‘variety of internal factors’ you speak of to hasten the end of an evil empire. (Of course, I’m sure you don’t recognize their efforts either.)

And I won’t deify Reagan; his deficits were the single greatest failure of his administration. But that brings me back to my original point; presidential legacies are usually defined by successes, not failures.

By Fred

December 30, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Oh, and I thought leftists weren’t supposed to acknowledge that tax increases actually result in lowered federal revenues. Just noting.

By twinkletoes

December 30, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

The first terrorist attack on this country? Bush will get the blame!

WELL….DUH!? NO KIDDING! Since he totally ignored the warnings, telling a CIA agent “well, you’ve covered your a* now” I suggest that he IS to blame on many fronts.

The list of Bush’s errors is so long that there isn’t room in this comment section to list them.

By AF

January 1, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this

I notice Jim doesn’t enumerate the Bush “successes”. Maybe because they are so pitifully few.

Dubya Bush - the worst President in US history. Yes, and good riddance.

By Butch Gaddy

January 2, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

President Bush will go down in history as a great leader and protector of our great society. He is a good and decent man. Now let’s talk about Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, etc just to mention a few of your Bush haters who fought him every step of the way. Aren’t you just so proud of them? What was their approval rating? Yep, lower than President Bush’s.

By WFG

January 2, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this

Wait a minute!!! Why did all of you vote for Obama? Certainly not because he is black? Oh no, it’s because he is cool. He’s going to pay your rent, buy your gas and give everyone a check who won’t work. Sound familiar???? Now for the nut who asked for Bush’s accomplishments? What in the heck has Obama done? Christ!!!!!!!!!

By The BlogFather of Scroll

January 2, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this

You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you nuke the gooks in the orient. (Korean War Era variation on the Pepsodent commercial written by Macarthur)