by va
Could anything be more transparently devoted to bullshit than the Bush Legacy Project? In a just world, this group would have one brief meeting, agree that said legacy has everything to do with making the worse the better cause, and promptly imbibe some hemlock concoction. But instead they're rolling out Bush in "exit interviews" to say that going to war with Iraq "is a do-over I can't do. Over. It's hard for me to speculate. In other words, I'm a halfwit. A nincompoop. A mungfuck. O thunderous gods of Timbuktu, O venom! Hurl down something glorious and awful!"
Elsewhere, the BLP is throwing out the idea that the foundation of a successful Obama presidency will have been Bush's. David Brooks said that the Bush administration "began to implement" some policy recommendations by Robert Gates "in small and symbolic ways," and thus Obama's retention of Gates vindicates Bush. Rich Lowry says Obama owes his pragmatism on Iraq to the "success of the surge. Perhaps never has someone owed so much to a policy he opposed so vehemently." Thus, "God does have a sense of humor." If Lowry's right (um, ha!), well, the joke's on Him. And then there's the Victor Davis Hanson opinion (mentioned here) that any Obama success "may do more for George Bush's reputation than anyone thinks."
Among the many remarkable things going on here--conservatives hitching their wagon to a Democrat, the 180 on their arguments from like, two weeks ago that Obama's a socialist, etc.--maybe the most amazing thing is that in setting up Obama as their party's savior, they're all but admitting that Jesus is Black.
Obviously, Obama hasn't actually exercised power, so we'll see how long these dudes are willing to claim him for their own. In the meantime, enjoy this 2001 cartoon by rightwing nutjob Michael Ramirez.
Elsewhere, the BLP is throwing out the idea that the foundation of a successful Obama presidency will have been Bush's. David Brooks said that the Bush administration "began to implement" some policy recommendations by Robert Gates "in small and symbolic ways," and thus Obama's retention of Gates vindicates Bush. Rich Lowry says Obama owes his pragmatism on Iraq to the "success of the surge. Perhaps never has someone owed so much to a policy he opposed so vehemently." Thus, "God does have a sense of humor." If Lowry's right (um, ha!), well, the joke's on Him. And then there's the Victor Davis Hanson opinion (mentioned here) that any Obama success "may do more for George Bush's reputation than anyone thinks."
Among the many remarkable things going on here--conservatives hitching their wagon to a Democrat, the 180 on their arguments from like, two weeks ago that Obama's a socialist, etc.--maybe the most amazing thing is that in setting up Obama as their party's savior, they're all but admitting that Jesus is Black.
Obviously, Obama hasn't actually exercised power, so we'll see how long these dudes are willing to claim him for their own. In the meantime, enjoy this 2001 cartoon by rightwing nutjob Michael Ramirez.
Posted by: Righteous Bubba | December 04, 2008 at 08:00 PM
Also, note to the proprietor: "Goroge Johnston" seems like it should be another name to me, but I am not aware of all internet traditions.
Posted by: Righteous Bubba | December 04, 2008 at 08:01 PM
This is yet more Wingnut Welfare to give employment to the obviously brain dead.
Posted by: DrDick | December 04, 2008 at 08:47 PM
Why why why?
Under different circumstances, it would be the Keep Bush Out Of Prison Project, but these guys have free time now and they're going with Legacy, I guess.
Posted by: va | December 04, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Yes, Bush is obviously the worst president ever, but -- and I kind of hate to say it -- I really think that cartoon IS pretty much the Clinton legacy. I mean it's not like he did anything for the Democratic party or liberal causes.
Basically he's a reckless asshole, and thanks to the fact that the people trying to bring him down were the most evil motherfuckers on the planet, I spent most of the 90s having to defend him. Which, frankly, I never want to have to do again.
If he would only take Shakespeare's advice: Get thee to the metaphorical equivalent of a nunnery.
Sorry to be the skunk at the garden party this early...
Posted by: steve simels | December 05, 2008 at 08:04 AM
Really? The Clinton years were bad? Please.
John Stewart selected some hilarious quotes from Bush's Gibson interview. My fav is that he is "intrigued" by the idea of baby boomers retiring not to nice places, but to go "help malariaraids" (The last part came out as one word. And one wonders why malaria or AIDS needs help). Then he announced that he wasn't planning on doing anything like that. Nice. Any rehabilitation of his legacy is going to have to involve his keeping his mouth shut.
Posted by: uncle noel | December 05, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Sorry to be the skunk at the garden party this early...
No worries, Mr Simels. I actually consider 8am to be very late at night.
The ironic bit of that cartoon isn't the pants-around-the-ankles gag, which, you know, is standard fare, but the "Executive Orders" gag covering his dirty bits. From what I understand, we had yet to appreciate the extent to which EOs could be used as a Presidential penile prosthetic of wanton fuckery.
Posted by: va | December 05, 2008 at 01:47 PM
If he would only take Shakespeare's advice: Get thee to the metaphorical equivalent of a nunnery.
Lo these many years ago, when I was studying Shakespeare, I seem to remember a teacher telling me that, in Shakesperean times, the term "nunnery" had a slightly different meaning. Specifically, it was more like a brothel than a place where the Sistahs be hangin'.
And as far as Obama's success being due to Bush'd personnel choices, etc.: this is just a variant of It's All Clinton's Fault. Anything bad is Clinton's (or Carter's, due to the CRA), anything good is due to Bush (both Sr and Jr) or Reagan.
Their capacity for self-delusion is amazing.
Posted by: SFAW | December 06, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I believe we can all agree that the Big Dog, even on his worst day, never did anything approaching Lil' Boots' on his best.
That said, I'd like to see Our Sainted War Leader, that protofascist frat-fuck, lying sack of shit, put in prison for the twenty-five-year maximum which the International Court can sentence. His grandfather was a traitor; his father was a CIA bagman, and his brothers are devious sons of a bitch -- means, you, Ms. Pierce. Not to put too fine a point on it or anything.
Posted by: Jemand von Niemand | December 07, 2008 at 10:47 PM