That's My Bush
"We'll succeed unless we quit."
-President George W. Bush (link)
It occurred to me after the election that the remaining two years of the Bush presidency is going to largely resemble those first 8 magical months in which no one had very high expectations for their new idiot president. There were even television shows created mocking the man. Then, like now, Bush had to work with a Democratically-controlled Senate, which he constantly bitched at for not passing his tax cuts wealth redistribution plan (a watered-down version passed with Cheney casting the tie-breaking vote). Of course now Bush is the owner of a disasterous civil war and chiefly responsible for America's decline in the world, but the image of a doofus with enormous power persists. "What me worry?" is the slogan again, with a child president unable to act like an adult and take responsibility for his actions. Many have blood on their hands, as I have said, but he is the president. He makes the decisions. He is, as he said, the "decider." But he acts as though things are beyond his control. Boo-fucking-hoo. Bush also said today that Vietnam held lessons for Iraq. Gee, you think so? Let's hope that lesson is to start electing real leaders with intelligence, instead of prep school cheerleader flunkies who, well into adulthood, still have to rely on Daddy's friends to bail them out of trouble.