Bush

Not now, not ever.

I'm so done with this President. I'm so done with NOW and NARAL and Planned Parenthood and Ms. Magazine, who pretended Barack Obama was a feminist superhero. Even Hillary Clinton, in her forced-reconciliation tour-de-bullshit before the election, emphasized Iraq and the economy as reasons to vote for Obama. She never claimed that he'd be the male version of Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem and Elizabeth Cady Stanton combined. I assume those were words that neither Party loyalty nor political self-interest could force the core of her being to choke out.

George W. Obama?

That is the headline on an excellent Washington Post article by Jackson Diehl.  Is the press who swept him into office finally seeing Obama for the pretender that he is?

By Jackson Diehl
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Washington has spent the past couple of weeks debating whether Barack Obama's ambitious agenda and political strategy are more comparable to those of Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. Oddly, hardly anyone is talking about the ways in which Obama is beginning to resemble the man who just vacated the White House.

The similarities in mistakes are laid out by Diehl in plain english.

.....Bush's approval rating soared above 80 percent at home. London, Berlin and even Moscow rallied behind him. A front-page analysis in The Post in late November said that "President Bush [has] a dominance over American government . . . rivaling even Franklin D. Roosevelt's command." ...

The stimulus bill that's moving through the Senate has 3 major components: tax cuts, spending, and amendments. A fourth part not mentioned is the interest on the debt which would amount to about $350 billion. That's what John McCain is referring to when he mentions the cost being something like $1.2 trillion. The CBO says if Congress does nothing, the recession will be over by later this year.

It's very tough to accept this fact, but yes, George W. Bush is still our President. Apparently, someone still cares enough to interview Teh Deciderer about his eight-year reign of error. Surprisingly, he actually admitted a mistake. But as usual, it was all someone else's fault.

Dubya's greatest regret was the "intelligence failure" in Iraq. (I always say that the intelligence that failed was his.)

"The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," Bush said 50 days before president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. "I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess."

The mainstream media is still going after Sarah Palin like a pack of hyenas.  They know she could spell trouble for the powerful good ole boys, and clearly want to do her in beforehand, nip her promising political future in the bud. I'm putting 2 and 2 together, and it's sounding pretty conspiratational.  I think it's the Bush guys.  A few weeks ago Bush pundits and supporters were coming out endorsing Obama, and at the same time saying nasty things about Palin.  Well, it's a pay-back-time thing.  Remember the pipeline legislation back up in Alaska?  Palin said no to big oil.  The Bush administration bullies, specifically Cheny's office, were pressuring Governor Palin to toe the line and give the pipeline to their oil buddies.
 
news reports' quotes:
 
"Cheney's staff pressed the Palin administration to draw in the energy companies, said current and former state officials involved in those discussions."

(Happy New Year to all you Joooz out there! May it bring health, happiness and the strength to make it through the tough times ahead.)

SCENE I: The Oval Office. GEORGE W. BUSH is sitting behind his desk, staring at the ceiling, bored. There are two chairs on either side of his desk; one is a wing chair, and one is a chair that swivels. The back of that chair is facing the audience; light snoring issues forth from it, but we cannot see who occupies it.

Oh dear, oh dear. Is our post-Chicago School neo-liberal deregulated greed-is-good utopia showing the cracks in its free-for-all facade?

NEW YORK - When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had vanished.

Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, said it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed.

Bank of America Corp. said it is snapping up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in an $50 billion all-stock transaction.