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Bill W. on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 6:30 AM - PDT
(illustration by Tom Tomorrow)
Revisionist wingnut Jonah Golberg, aka Doughy Pantload, is asking for input on what you “think Bush’s legacy will be.“
Not kidding. I suspect we may have at least a few readers who wouldn’t mind helping him out.
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Absolute catastrophic policies created to inflict revenge on humanity for ills bush has imagined the world has caused him.
His legacy? Even the most incompetent frat boy can bring a nation to its’ knees when he picks the most corrupt people to work for him.
Yeah, let’s talk about the president who lied about a threat and caused thousands of human deaths as a result.
Or maybe the president who wanted to use the constitution as toilet tissue.
Or the president who strummed a guitar while NOLA was drowning.
And my favorite, the president who was responsible for the torture of human beings.
All these things and more make him the worst and most evil president. Hell of a legacy, george.
Worst president ever sums it up quite nicely I think.
How about Worst President since his direct ancestor Franklin Pierce. Seriously. I didn’t know that until a month ago.
Here’s my new video, by the way, where I explain why I’m a liberal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1MlJer_ck
Put him down as the construction engineer for the first two little piggies.
boosh good
Clinton’s jelly-beans
Obama eclair
mccain…belch.
Eight of the worst years in this nation’s history, led by a lazy, spoiled, rich entitled punk who has spent his entire life getting others to do his work for him. His latest and worst victims are the troops, who he unmercifully pimped into fighting another useless, unnecessary, predicament he started, and of course, can’t finish.
“redefining the gold standard for failure”
It’s quite simple: Complete and utter failure.
a lazy, spoiled, rich entitled punk who has spent his entire life getting others to do his work for him.
Doesn’t that describe the Doughy Pantload as well??
Literal Fascism
Bush’s Legacy…..
Nah nah na Nah na…….
By the majority in this country, george bush will be remembered as a war criminal, a domestic criminal, an international criminal, an unrepentant liar, a torturer, a “dry” drunk (or quite possibly “wet” drunk), a former druggie (or quite possibly a user), an AWOL during his own service to the country who gleefully sent thousands of American military personnel to die in a “religious crusade” of christians versus muslims….
All of these, and the many hundreds more negative terms that can be applied to bush’s disastrous time in the WH pale however, to his self-chosen role as the “Mission Accomplished President”. We are bruised and bleeding as a country, but lucky that he was not completely successful at his mission of destroying the United States of America.
Bush’s Legacy……
He is the man that set forth the complete implosion of the Republican Party.
It OK if you are a Republican
Criminal
Hopefully he’ll be remembered as the first president to spend his retirement years in prison.
I think Goldberg has the more difficult task. Its easy to point to all of Bush’s failures, crimes, rampant cronyism, etc. because they are so numerous. Heck, even a person who only took a vague notice of Bush’s entire presidency can point some of them out. Goldberg is going to have to produce some glimmer of positive Bush achievements and that may prove to be impossible even for Goldberg. No one has failed or been so completely corrupt as Bush.
Copy of my letter to Jonah follows:::
Jonah,
Perhaps you should keep FACT’s in front of what you write about the Legacy of this President. Such as:
$50 billion -estimated cost of the Iraq war on entering.
$1.2 Trillion - Present estimation as a finality.
$10 Billion - how much money is unaccounted for in Iraq and post Katrina.
45 Billion - How many Americans living without Health Insurance.
5 Billion - How many Americans LOST Health Insurance under George Bush
$3 Trillion - How much the National Debt has risen under George Bush.
24% - How much of our Debt is owed to Foreign Countries.
You might also mention how the loosening the Banking regulations for lending has helped bring about the scandalous crisis in the Lending Industry. A mention of the Lies that were told to keep the drum beat going about WMD’s in Iraq also will be something that is known (even if you try to hide the facts from Americans.) and a mention of the failure to take care of our Returning Veterans should have some mention.
Sincerely,
Bangkok-Bob
One word: Neckbeard.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 18:
Hey Bob, ya might wanna check the numbers…45 billion Americans minus insurance? 5 billion lost insurance…seems a little high.
Agent_M @ 1:
I second that.
Legacy? We don wan his steeking legacy, Senor.
He scraped out the soul of america with a spoon.
He murdered a million Iraqis - for starters - based upon lies.
The damage he has done to humanity goes beyond description. He has many accomplices. They can be easily ID’d by the medals on their jackets or the names of their companies.
He is insane, and yet we gave him the keys to the pentagon.
Yes indeed, we get the Change we Deserve.
For some reason the Black Plaque comes to mind.
This is what I emailed Jonah yesterday -
Well, let’s see what Bush is leaving behind….
*The war in Iraq - 4000 dead military members (so far), countless Iraqis dead and misplaced - 1000 suicide attempts per MONTH by military members. The most journalists injured/dead covering any/all other conflicts.
*Billions of dollars spent but unaccounted for in Iraq
*The resurgence of the Taliban - because he sent all of our resources to Iraq
*Overstretched military and National Reserve
*Highest rates of PTSD our military has ever seen
*Osama Bin Laden and Mulah Omar - still out there
*Abu Graib
*Clear Skies - clearing the skies of birds
*Relaxed environmental standards
*Underfunded No Child Left Behind so our kids can’t actually succeed.
*Abstinence policies that actually had the rate of teen pregnancies RISE (not to mention the spread of STDs)
*HURRICANE KATRINA
*Suspension of Habeas Corpus
*Presidential Signing Statements
*The Bankruptcy Bill of 2005, - S. 256 - a bill that made it harder for people to declare bankruptcy when their debts overwhelmed them, made it harder for struggling people to keep basic assets like a roof over their heads when working out bankruptcy arrangements, and increased the return for credit card companies that were already
making huge profits.
*SKYROCKETING gas/oil prices
*The mortgage and credit-crunch crisis
*Brought crony-ism to a new level
*Putting more money into the pockets of corporations and CEOs than any other president.
*Gutting of the constitution.
*The Protect America Act - removed the warrant requirement for
government surveillance of foreign intelligence targets
*Suspension of the Geneva Convention
*The United States Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No.
109-366, 120 Stat. 2600 (Oct. 17, 2006), enacting Chapter 47A of title 10 of the United States Code (as well as amending section 2241 of title 28), is an Act of Congress (Senate Bill 3930[1]) signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006.- This Act changes pre-existing law to forbid explicitly the invocation of the Geneva Conventions when executing the writ of habeas corpus or in other civil actions [Act sec. 5(a)]. This provision applies to all cases pending at the time the Act is enacted, as well as to all such future cases.
I could go on but I think you’ve got a lot for your talk at this point.
You know your faced with a daunting task if you have to ask a wide audience for help to find any positive achievements for Bush’s legacy. I bet Goldberg is even drawing a blank because I know I sure am.
Che’s Lounge @ 23:
We didn’t, some, including myself fought him every step of the way.
His legacy in three words:
Ass stains everywhere.
-The Political Jerk
How about: The least popular, least prepared, least intellectually curious, least truthful president whom nobody ever said “no” to, including a Democratic led congress who did not have the guts to impeach him on more than one outstanding issue, beginning with torture.
No wonder he thinks of himself as successful. He got away with murder!
His legacy is ongoing and could continue if the next President does not end it and try to reverse it.
A total Waste.
Warpig.
Wrong on everything.
Whacko.
A true Wuss who overcompensates by acting “tough”.
Pat J @ 29:
So far he has gotten away with murder…so far.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 32:
And just who is going to charge, indict and prosecute? The DOJ doesn’t go after rethugs.
George W. became president/Dick Cheney’s pool boy and got another incompetent mama’s boy a gig with the Los Angeles Times and (with plenty of money from the usual far right-wingers and a large landfill) a fictional best seller.
You know Bush’s legacy is going to be virtually impossible to spin especially since he recently polled as the most disapproved of President in modern history. Not to mention the fact that even the Devil himself had better approval ratings than Bush at one point as I recall.
Bush’s legacy? Serial mass-murderer, war criminal, worst criminal in nation’s history
(president or otherwise), snatched from Paraguay and forced to stand trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity, imprisoned for life and stripped of all assets.
The only positive thing I can think of regarding his legacy is that he wasn’t able to do all the things he wanted to do. Things like privatizing social security
the first president given an honorary PHD degree in brush removal by jerry fallhard’s famed church. and the fatbastard himself will do the incantation.
Dr. Acula @ 33:
Maybe things will change after bush is gone. Christ Doc, a man can dream can’t he?
Maybe bushco will be dragged to the Hague!
Heh. Yeah, I saw this request last night and banged off a message defining Bush’s legacy as one of death and destruction, followed by musings on what has made him happy. I remember Bush being happy when he announced the death of Zarqawi and when he and John McCain were celebrating McCain’s birthday in 2005 while New Orleans drowned.
Giving Hitler a run for his money.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 39:
Or maybe he’ll be treated like another fascist dictator, after he fell from power.
Bush probably entertains a desire to return to the earth and reincarnate as a “deadly virus” to thin the human population.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 20:
Thanks LH … I corrected it and sent an apology with the corrections. I appreciate you catching that for me though. Evening like this when I get a few tequilas in me, ….. well, you know.
CEO of the corporation called the “United States of America”.
Enriched hundreds of corporations profit margin.
Stole BILLIONS from the worker class useless eaters.
Left the border wide open in the fraudulent war on terror.
Signed into law dictatorial powers.
Left hundreds of thousands dead by invading 2 countries illegally.
Pretty fucked up if you ask me.
The Bush Administration Legacy: The Bush Administration marked the beginning of the end for the American experiment in Democracy, and the decline of American influence in World affairs.
Pre-emptive strike. We all heard this word floating around washington and the media before the Iraq war. Every American. This has been the real crime of the last 7 years, that we Americans did not do enough to question the justification of “pre-emptive strike.”
No country (NO COUNTRY!!) has the “right” to attack another because they think it’s a threat.
I bring this point up because douglas feith clearly states in his interview with jon stewart that the bush adminstration was taking a new approach to international threats. Jon lets this pass (as if preemtive strike might be justifiable under certain circumstances) and states that the negative consequences weren’t “revealed” to the American people enough.
No Jon. Usually I agree with you. But what you fail to nail feith on is the fact that pre-emptive strikes are NOT justifiable under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!
Incompetence is next to Godliness.
Everything Dad did was wrong. Better undo it!
Cheney knows best.
Condi kept me informed about about upcoming events.
I’m rich. You’re not. That must suck for you.
History will remember me.
Made the Warren G. Harding fan club feel better about themselves?
I always felt his presidential library should be on one of the low lying islands in the Maldives. Since he thinks global warming is a great hoax, he can get a great price for land that everyone else thinks is going under soon.
If his successor goes after him for crimes, the sight of him doing a perp walk in an orange jumpsuit might raise our standing in world opinion and in the eyes of history. That would be a good legacy. They could give him a job fitting his skills. (No George, we weren’t thinking of letting you manage the prison baseball team, we’d actually like you out in the desert sun clearing brush.)
The Worst Eight Years in the History of the Republic.