Reaction to last night’s farewell address of The Worst President Ever™ was fairly uniform. In Salon, here’s what BabyGrumpus had to say:
I would throw my shoe at that idiot, but I might need it for standing on the breadlines of the coming depression that the stupid, incompetent fuck created. So I guess I’ll have to settle for a hearty one finger salute to the worst President in American history. Good riddance to bad rubbish. And fuck every Republican until the end of time.
When one of that unfathomable 34 percent of Americans who still support Bush tried to claim that he kept us safe from terrorism, tbone 99 called bullshit:
I beg to differ.
We have had a terrorist in the WH for 8 (years), he has destroyed our Constitution, our moral standing, alienated allies, killed and displaced millions, and emptied the Treasury for his cronies.
He has contributed to the death and destruction of plants and animals in wilderness areas and sentenced future generations of our descendants to early death by toxins.
Our economic system will never recover to be what it was and we still have to see the full impact of this slow motion disaster upon American lives.
I would say The Terrorist won.
Boxorox was more succinct:
Bush hasn’t protected us since 9/11. He’s protected us since 9/12.
What a difference a day makes.
Boxorox is actually being generous, overlooking the anthrax attacks that took the lives of five people in the weeks after 9/11.
Personally, I think Santos L. Halper comes closest to expressing the zeitgeist when it comes to responding to Republicans and their continued support for Bush and failure. Halper:
Who the fuck cares what you think? Pack a lunch, you assholes are going on a one-way ticket to the Shitcan of History come Tuesday.
You people had your chance and you Failed in such a mind-blowing, uncomprehensible way it boggles the mind. There has never been a bigger Failure in the history of Fail than GWB, and all of the idiotic assholes who support him.
My feelings towards Bush have been clearly expressed over the past year, but my final impression will be colored by his stupifying cynicism, cluelessness, apathy, stupidity, criminality, inhumanity… whatever it is that causes this inert pustule to turn a blind eye to the mass murder going on in Gaza right now under America’s sponsorship.
Bush will be vacationing at Camp David during his final weekend in office, and that is a fitting coda for the man. Never in our nation’s history have we had such a slacker in the Oval Office. Not even Reagan qualifies. This guy sat out the early bombing of Gaza at his fake ranch in Crawford and refused to engage in crisis management. From Think Progress:
While Bush has been briefed on the situation by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, he has opted not to interrupt his final vacation as president to make a public statement on the crisis. For someone who has enjoyed the most vacation days as sitting president — including days spent relaxing in comfort during Hurricane Katrina and in the lead-up to 9/11 — it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Bush prioritizes vacationing over crisis management.
More practical folks than I have pointed out that if we had just paid Bush a ginormous sum to drink beer and ride his bicycle (in traffic, one hopes, or is that too much to ask?) for the past eight years, the country might still be standing. I mean, given the number of vacation days he took, it’s not like he was earning his pay anyway.
You have to marvel at Bush’s efficiency: If a guy can do this much damage working only 70 percent of the time, imagine what he could have accomplished had he been working full-time. The imagination reels.
Four more days. There are four more days for Bush to reflect upon the criminality of the past eight years and start issuing some genuine apologies.
Expect pardons instead. Lots of them.
This man could be very busy.
How ironic.
Filed under: crime, george bush, impeachment, iraq war, politics, u.s. history
