Republicans - still delusional

From Crooks and Liars...

Jeb Bush: "History Will Be Kind to My Brother"
from Crooks and Liars by Blue Texan


Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign is off to a bad start. He's flipped-flopped so many times on immigration, no one can tell what his actual position is. And now, instead of being forthright about his W's disastrous administration, he's embracing him.

    One of the biggest obstacles facing him if he is to mount a White House run could be his name. There is some resistance in the US, a country proud of its democratic credentials, to electing a third Bush into the White House. But the main problem is the negative feelings still arouse by the George W presidency.

    Seeking to confront that issue, the former Florida governor told NBC: "In his four years as president a lot of amazing accomplishments took place. So my guess is that history will be kind to my brother, the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what's going on now."

Let's look at what history is saying about W's tenure right now:

    While Bush was in office, the median household income declined, poverty increased, childhood poverty increased even more, and the number of Americans without health insurance spiked.
    President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.
    The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has estimated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the Bush tax cuts, will account for almost half of the projected $20 trillion debt in 2019.
    Early exit polls released on Tuesday evening show that about half of voters still blame President George W. Bush more than President Barack Obama for the country's economic problems and most cite the economy as their top issue in the election.

When we're finished paying his debt...

George Bush threatened with arrest

Out of office, but still playing "army."

From Acerbic Politics

Just in case you've forgotten...

...this is what it was like when the Republicans were in charge...

MANIPULATING INTELLIGENCE AND LYING TO CONGRESS TO JUSTIFY WAR IN IRAQ:
justifying the invasion of Iraq with false and misleading statements linking Iraq to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes and uranium, these assertions being either false, or based on 'fixed' intelligence, with the intent to misinform the people and their representatives in Congress in order to gain their support for invading Iraq, denying both the people and their representatives in Congress the right to make an informed choice, George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America."
-From Article I of House Resolution 1106: Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States, introduced by Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on December 8,2006

Personality Cults

From Acerbic Politics

Just in case you've forgotten...

Just in case you've forgotten what it was like when the Republicans were in charge, here's a reminder.

During the run-up to his first presidential campaign, President Bush told Texas evangelist James Robinson, "I feel like God wants me to run for president, I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen, I know it won't be easy for me or my family, but God wants me to do it."

Just in case you've forgotten...

...what it was like when the Republicans were in power, remember this?

"I'm the commander—see, I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president."
-George W. Bush, as quoted by Bob Woodward in The Washington Post, November 20,2002

Best Buds

McCain - no longer the maverick, now just a shill for the right-wingers.

From Acerbic Politics

Remembering the Decider

From Acerbic Politics

What We're Thankful For

McCain Advisor Can't Find a Difference Between Bush and McCain on Economics

8 Years Later: Paliin Parrots Bush (2000)

Dated - But Funny

Some folks out there have a great sense of humor. This piece, taken from "within the cranium," is a bit dated, but I didn't get around to posting it earlier. So here it is for your enjoyment.

San Francisco may name sewage treatment plant after Bush
By Jesse McKinley
Published: June 25, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO: Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water-treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

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