Tanned, Rested, & Ready

As to the rested part, well, even that's a bit of an exaggeration--over the long weekend I managed to take care of a few pressing chores...damn, I'm actually becoming a responsible adult in my rapidly advancing years. Don't tell anyone.

This post from Attaturk caught my eye because I can almost claim a small credit--somewhere in my archives there's at least one, and probably several, references to Shrubusto as this era's equivalent of James Buchanan or Franklin Pierce. Hmmm...like Pierce, the dauphin has a taste for booze. I guess his affinity with Buchanan is more on a macro scale--a capacity for failure that's astonishing.

You'd think sheer random chance would come into play once in a while with James Buchanan Bush--the stopped clock is right at least once a day (twice if it's a good old fashioned dial clock), a blind pig stumbles upon an acorn now and then, etc., etc., etc. But while watching the replay of Press the Meat last night, and resisting the urge to throw a brick at the screen (can't afford any new stuff right now), it hit me: can anyone point to A SINGLE instance where George W. Bush, as pResident, has shown unqualified success? Anything?

9/11? Asleep at the wheel. Afghanistan? Laff. Osama? Laffing AT us. Iraq? You've gotta be kidding. Saddam? Took 9 MONTHS and over 500 coalition fatalities (plus approximately 2000 wounded US soldiers...no info on non-fatally wounded non-US soldiers) to capture ONE person. That's NOT an unqualified success.

Tax cuts? Yeah, right: we're in the midst of TWO wars. Tax cuts, i.e., passing the bill to the next generation, is crass, lazy, and irresponsible. Disaster response? Two words: Katrina, Rita.

But for some reason the idiot press corps continues to give the Worst... Administration...In my lifetime, if not all time, a free ride, even going so far as to echo Big Time's "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" bloviatings of late.

Bullshit--or, more appropriate, Bushit. Now IS the time to question the clown show. And a good, simple question like "what unqualified success can George W. Bush point to" should be the starting point for ANY discussion of his administration these days.

And the answer, of course, is "none."