Why it took 8 long years?

and the rally 'round the flag effect drove Americans into some sort of mass hysteria (except for you and me). What did he get up to, 92% approval ratings? For why? Buildings falling down didn't make him any smarter. Any rational person would expect he would respond stupidly to the crisis, just like he had to everything else. But rationality was in short supply. Some people took a long, long time to wake up.

Now he's at a 78% disapproval rate. And Republican candidates are shunning him. And that seems about right.

Somebody on one of these threads said it just right: "It's not a legacy, it's an aftermath."

i even put a survey on my blog and 69% of respondents voted for "he is a moron who has no business being president."

i think they rigged those numbers. either that, or i have been uncommonly successful in surrounding myself with thinking progressive people. :)

:hi:

:hi:
:toast:
How are things in Lotus Land?

I just kept my mouth shut. I was against the war from the git-go, and against Bush from the beginning. Notice that his approval rating was falling like a rock just before 9/11. Imagine if they would not have let it happen, he probably would not have gotten re-elected.

What a massive failure these past 8 years have been!

Yay us! :eyes:

PS - Cheney endorses McSame.

... your legacy is now secure.

:party:

Mission accomplished, Bushy!

He may not be all bad after all.

country in the bathtub, he was also drowning the GOP for the foreseeable future?

They served their purpose.

And now almost 8 years later almost half of them are starting to realize it.

add a narcissistic personality disorder and a wide streak of sadism.

On Jan 21, 2009, this motherfucker will fly off to some South American country (with no extradition) and live his miserable life enjoying his ill gotten gains. And, in a few years, after the sheeple have long forgotten the damage this bastard has done to this country, he will return to a hero's welcome,(remember Nixon). The only thing to come from this son of a bitch is to remind folks that crime really does pay.

in "90's money", they should put his face on it!

All picture books and a snack bar that sells pretzels with plenty of room to ride and park your bike inside because it's not crowded. No doubt cheney will have a secret bunker underneath of it as nobody would think to find him there.

Makes St. Ronnie and Poppy look like rank amateurs.

is that when "the world" rejects you, it's a clear sign that you're doing God's work.

Seriously.

They believe this shit.

So, all this does is play into his fantasy that he's a crusader for the lord and has succeeded.

heavan because God rewarded them with riches. I was actually told this one and I said in reply, through the eye of a needle.
I'm in favor of putting bush into the ring with the lions, but he'd probably be AWOL from that fight too.

He used faith the same way he uses everything else.

GW. I have a padded cell as part of your prize.

in massive failure!

:woohoo:

What an enviable record.

Bush The Lesser, The One-Man Walking Disaster.

Fucking assholes that voted for him own this.

Dit da dadit da da dit da dadoot
dit dadada dit da dadit da dadump!

taken down his family's entitlement legacy to the White House. It's THE PEOPLE'S House, NOT the bush clan's house. BEWARE. jeb IS warming up in the wings. Anybody notice him lurking behind his party's candidate in Florida appearances this week with crist and company? He THINKS he's laying low and biding his time until the coast is clear, enough time has gone by, and - he hopes - most short-attention-span Americans have forgotten what a hose job his fool brother has inflicted upon this country. He'll be angling to run in 2012. Bet on it. And probably a lot of it has to do with some personal crusade to avenge his family's honor and rehabilitate the family name. I don't think any of the bushes want THIS to be the last word on their record.

Republican attacks and leaks on Palin. I'm sure that there is more than one Bush Crime Family loyalist working very close to the top of McCain's campaign, sabotaging Palin with leaks making her out to be totally loony and incompetent.

They want her marginalized and thrown under the bus after the election just as quickly as she rose to the top.

But Jebbie can't run from the Bush Legacy. He has an uphill battle to even gain control of a party that is just short of fracturing.

Palin for the ignorantly insane, and Jebby for the criminally insane.

count on, it's the stupidity, gullibility, and short-term memories of far too many Americans. He's banking on people forgetting all about the horror and anguish of the eight years of his fool brother's "stewardship". Especially as things slowly start to improve under Obama/Democratic leadership.

Not just the lowest approval rating, but IMHO definitely the worst president ever.

than the WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. You're in 1st place, Junior! We always knew you'd make it.

despite what Pelosi thinks.

Everything he touches turns to crap.

For the first time in your worthless goddamn life, you actually EARNED something! :evilgrin:

Cow chips.

but having said this I still believe he should serve a single life term in prison for every soul lost in Iraq.

Don't you think 100,000 consecutive life terms sounds better?

just think how much pity he spent on all the lives that he condemned to death or worse. that always straightens me out. i have not one iota of pity for this FUCK.

when he said,"You know George bush is doing bad when 7 years after 9/11 America thinks that a liberal black man with a muslim name sounds pretty good!" :)

So, congrats Bushie! The honor is well deserved.

I predicted in 2002 that it would reach this point, that Republican candidates would shun him, and some would even try to hide that they were Republicans because he had so disgraced the label. But even with the terraists helping him to ridiculously high unearned approval ratings, and the whole wide world expressing sympathy for America, he worked and he worked and he managed to drag the country down with him. Sigh. (Don't we have a smily for sid=gh?)

This is hugh.

:P

and sink his numbers even lower.

:puke:

Because I refuse...absolutely refuse to acknowledge his status as POTUS. He had never been, and never will be...MY "president".

That having been said, I've known since, oh, September or October of 2000 that he would be a miserable failure. It was during an interview he had with a reporter from a local station in which he was asked a bunch of questions on where countries were, who their leaders were, etc.

And he got snippy and sarcastic and defensive, with that shitty sneer he sometimes has plastered on his face because he couldn't answer the question and then threw it back in the face of the reporter, who very nimbly came back with, "With all due respect, sir, I am not the one who's running for President".

That's when I knew for a fact that he would be trouble with a capital T

oh, that, and the fact that a couple of his businesses had failed


Although I must say that right after 9/11, I was this close [] to admitting I might have been wrong about him all along. Maybe he DID have what it took to be a mature, sensible leader.

But once again he failed...whether by his own doing, or because he had not the strength of character to stop his handlers from using him to pursue their own greedy ends.

Either way....because he was stupid, or just plain greedy...

He hasn't even gotten half of what he deserves in the way of Karma....

Hell of job bushie!

:woohoo::party::toast:::applause: :toast: :party::woohoo:

Junior`s chin will be dragging down there with his knuckles.

I know at least five of you will rec it for me.

there will always be that 20% of die hards, willfully ignorant and just plain stupids.

ETA of which at least 5% typify the republican inability to ever admit they were wrong about anything.

:banghead:

Stupid morans.:wtf: :nuke:

Now, only four years later, Bush is leaving office with the longest sustained period of public disapproval ever recorded. No president, at least in modern times — and certainly no two-term president — has risen so high only to fall so low. Indeed, Bush's standings in the polls describe one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the American presidency — second only, perhaps, to that of Richard Nixon


And in California:
A Field Poll released Wednesday (Oct 24) bears out the trend: Bush is now at 27 percent approval among California voters, meaning he's hovered in the high-20s or low-30s for nearly two years.

"This is the longest running negative trough that we've ever seen for a president (in California)

eight years to realize what we knew all along. I bet Darth's ratings are just as low for VP.

Forget not the 25% who still ain't figured it out yet
and still worship their Holy Pope Bush for they have
faith that He can walk on bourbon.
They art the most faithful of the most faithful...
Given that faith is nothing but their euphemism for the glorification
of ignorance and gullibility, they art the most ignorant
and the most gullible of the most ignorant and the most gullible
and they shall surely go up to Heaven to lay with Jerry Falwell
and every Pope who has been and shall ever be
for ever and ever unto eternity...
ignorance art a blessing

this occurs to me. As vile as Nixon was, he had a brain. This current occupant has no brain. At least not a functioning one. He is a puppet his,strings are broken. He will be discarded to the woodpile of history and end up in hell where he belongs--if there is such a place.

Your poem is eloquent and very accurate.

Chimp's near the top of that list.

Longest eight years ever.

oh wait they showed him yesterday walking with his other wife Condi.

Sober he's been the death of the republican party.

1 - The unbelievable disaster of allowing 9/11 when being forewarned about it.
2 - The unbelievable disaster of the quagmire in Iraq.
3 - The unbelievable disaster of the Hurricane Katrina response, or lack thereof.
4 - The unbelievable disaster of the economic downturn as a direct result of his ideological deregulation and ignoring of the mortgage crisis.

The magnitude of any one of these disasters during a presidency would be enough to make it a failure. He accounted for four majors and unaccountable minor ones.

...and offer a debt of gratitude, for all that George W. Bush has done for us. He has single-handedly done what we, as a party, have always wanted, but been unable to do: Destroy the Republican Party.

Now the hard part: We have to make sure that we don't return the favor. Lest any Democratic politicians think that Democratic (feces) doesn't stink, let me spell it out to you: No more House Banks, House Post Offices, Abscams, or sex scandals (Gay OR Straight). Let's elect competent politicians, (yes, like Obama) who will stand up for what is right, but will be willing to admit wrong when wrong, and see the other side's point of view as well. Let's be honest and open with the American people, and most important of all (and very unlike the Republicans), let's decide that it is better to accept defeat than to lie, cheat, and steal to obtain victory at all cost.

If we do this right, and bring four (or preferably eight) years of peace, prosperity, safety, honesty, and decency to the American People, we literally have a chance to drive the last nail into the coffin of the G.O.P., as we once did to the Whig party. (Yeah, it's been that long since we've been able to do that!)

If we foul it up, they'll rise from the ashes, like Reagan did six years after Nixon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/31/useconomy-banking/print

The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth

By Naomi Klein
The Guardian, Friday October 31 2008

The US bail-out amounts to a strings-free, public-funded windfall for big business.

In the final days of the election many Republicans seem to have given up the fight for power. But don't be fooled: that doesn't mean they are relaxing. If you want to see real Republican elbow grease, check out the energy going into chucking great chunks of the $700bn bail-out out the door. At a recent Senate banking committee hearing, the Republican Bob Corker was fixated on this task, and with a clear deadline in mind: inauguration. "How much of it do you think may be actually spent by January 20 or so?" Corker asked Neel Kashkari, the 35-year-old former banker in charge of the bail-out.

When European colonialists realised that they had no choice but to hand over power to the indigenous citizens, they would often turn their attention to stripping the local treasury of its gold and grabbing valuable livestock. If they were really nasty, like the Portuguese in Mozambique in the mid-1970s, they poured concrete down the elevator shafts.

Nothing so barbaric for the Bush gang. Rather than open plunder, it prefers bureaucratic instruments, such as "distressed asset" auctions and the "equity purchase program". But make no mistake: the goal is the same as it was for the defeated Portuguese - a final, frantic looting of the public wealth before they hand over the keys to the safe.

How else to make sense of the bizarre decisions that have governed the allocation of the bail-out money? When the Bush administration announced it would be injecting $250bn into US banks in exchange for equity, the plan was widely referred to as "partial nationalisation" - a radical measure required to get banks lending again. Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary, had seen the light, we were told, and was following the lead of Gordon Brown.

In fact, there has been no nationalisation, partial or otherwise. American taxpayers have gained no meaningful control over the banks, which is why the banks are free to spend the new money as they wish. At Morgan Stanley, it looks as if much of the windfall will cover this year's bonuses. Citigroup has been hinting it will use its $25bn buying other banks, while John Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch, told analysts: "At least for the next quarter, it's just going to be a cushion." The US government, meanwhile, is reduced to pleading with the banks that they at least spend a portion of the taxpayer windfall for loans - officially, the reason for the entire programme.

What, then, is the real purpose of the bail-out? My fear is this rush of dealmaking is something much more ambitious than a one-off gift to big business: that the Bush version of "partial nationalisation" is rigged to turn the US treasury into a bottomless cash machine for the banks for years to come. Remember, the main concern among the big market players, particularly banks, is not the lack of credit but their battered share prices. Investors have lost confidence in the honesty of the big financial players, and with good reason.

This is where the treasury's equity pays off big time. By purchasing stakes in these financial institutions, the treasury is sending a signal to the market that they are a safe bet. Why safe? Not because their level of risk has been accurately assessed at last. Not because they have renounced the kind of exotic instruments and outrageous leverage rates that created the crisis. But because the market will now be banking on the fact that the US government won't let these particular companies fail. If they get themselves into trouble, investors will now assume that the government will keep finding more cash to bail them out, since allowing them to go down would mean losing the initial equity investments, many of them in the billions. (Just look at the insurance giant AIG, which has already gone back to taxpayers for a top-up, and seems likely to ask for a third.)

This tethering of the public interest to private companies is the real purpose of the bail-out plan: Paulson is handing all the companies admitted to the programme - a number potentially in the thousands - an implicit treasury department guarantee. To skittish investors looking for safe places to park their money, these equity deals will be even more comforting than a triple-A from Moody's rating agency.

Insurance like that is priceless. But for the banks, the best part is that the government is paying them to accept its seal of approval. For taxpayers, on the other hand, this entire plan is extremely risky, and may well cost significantly more than Paulson's original idea of buying up $700bn in toxic debts. Now taxpayers aren't just on the hook for the debts but, arguably, for the fate of every corporation that sells them equity.

Interestingly, mortgage fund giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both enjoyed this kind of unspoken guarantee before they were nationalised at the start of this crisis. For decades the market understood that, since these private players were enmeshed with the government, Uncle Sam could be counted on to always save the day. It was, as many have pointed out, the worst of all worlds. Not only were profits privatised while risks were socialised, but the implicit government backing created powerful incentives for reckless business practices.

With the new equity purchase programme Paulson has taken the discredited Fannie and Freddie model and applied it to a huge swath of the private banking industry. Again, there is no reason to shy away from risky bets, especially since the treasury has made no such demands of the banks (apparently it doesn't want to "micromanage".)

To further boost market confidence, the federal government has also unveiled unlimited public guarantees for many bank deposit accounts. Oh, and as if this were not enough, the treasury has been encouraging the banks to merge, ensuring that the only institutions left will be "too big to fail", thereby guaranteed a bail-out. In three ways, the market is being told loud and clear that Washington will not allow the financial institutions to bear the consequences of their behaviour. This may be Bush's most creative innovation: no-risk capitalism.

There is a glimmer of hope. In answer to Senator Corker's question, the treasury is indeed having trouble dispersing the bail-out funds. So far it has requested about $350bn of the $700bn, but most of this hasn't yet made it out the door. Meanwhile, every day it becomes clearer that the bail-out was sold to the public on false pretences. Clearly, it was never really about getting loans flowing. It was always about doing what it is doing: turning the state into a giant insurance agency for Wall Street, a safety net for the people who need it least, subsidised by the people who will most need state protections in the economic storms ahead.

This duplicity is a political opportunity. Whoever wins on November 4 will have enormous moral authority. It should be used to call for a freeze on the dispersal of bail-out funds, not after the inauguration but right away. All deals should be renegotiated, this time with the public getting the guarantees.

It is risky, of course, to interrupt the bail-out process. Nothing could be riskier, however, than allowing the Bush gang their parting gift to big business - the gift that will keep on taking.

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:rofl:

they are both republicans and share republican ideology, agenda & philosophy...Only McBush is pretending otherwise, just like Bush did until after the election and then comes the fucking republican corporate fascism, imperialism, polluters, war-mongers and domestic spying again!

Congrats you clusterfuck.

Maybe single digit approval?

at least he's the best at something. . . being the worst "pResident" ever.

in Ireland...it's true, the world does look to the US for leadership...look what they got. remember after 2004, the "sorry everybody" webpage? i'd go there and read and cry, and read, and post, and cry...and fucking gw has literally made my most dread dreams come true. war, chaos, economic meltdown. sigh.

I'm sure it would be useful tomorrow since McSame = Bush III

...for being so utterly imcompetent that his government has created the conditions for the largest landslide of progressive Democrats since 1932.

Couldnt have done it without you, fuckface. Now go back to Crawford and seclude yourself with your shame and complete failure as your constant and eternal companions. :nopity:

i want to see some consequences visited on this administration. they are criminals. justice.

If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have a President Obama. We wouldn't have been able to do it at this time without your help.

THAT is your legacy. You should be proud.

If Bush had done a series of right things after 911 - we would be stuck with GOP Presidents for a generation - but he f'd and f'd up big.

:applause:

Congratulations, President Prick!! What an asshole!! I will be so glad when he's gone!! :party:

Pretzels all over America are feeling a sense of vindication, no doubt.

Not sure on the exact day, but Here is the quasi official announcement!
Here in Canada, and I'm sure around the world there will be a massive party to celebrate not only the historic first day in office of Barack Obama, but the final end of the most dangerously extreme assholic administration in America's history. And all of you good decent Americans, suffering through these eight years of utter misery, are the guests of honor!

Cheers!

As tough as my life has been at times, I still thank God that I wasn't born George W. Bush.

A loser for the ages.

For being the best at being the worst...

and embodiment of the Republican efforts to make ignorance and failure American values. We can only hope he won't nullify the election under the provisions of the Patriot Act. Don't put the pitch forks and torches in storage just yet.

The incompetent prick inherited a vibrant, full employment, high wage, no deficit, peaceful economy from a democrat President and TOTALLY DESTROYED IT!

He plunged us into a 6 year, never ending, 10 BILLION dollar a month war over the LIES of WMD's and spent money like a drunken sailor! (apologies to all drunken sailors out there)

Bush used the Constitution for toilet paper while in the White House. George W Bush's name will go down in INFAMY forever as the absolute worst President this country ever had the misfortune of electing to office!

His administration is an absolute disaster on all levels, I just pray to God that a President Obama and a Democratic controlled Congress can begin to repair some of the damage that this dirty rotten chicken-hawk @#$%^^&& and his party have done to this nation.

Hence, the record for the largest change in approval as well.

could hold both the highest and the lowest. Shows how totally inept, incompetent and evil he is.

not a thread for Cheney? The mastermind who drove it all on behalf of his baron bosses.

George was the money raiser (for awhile). And he perpetuated the myth of a President.

He was paid with plenty of perks.

Loyalty- reward - he got to give people medals for screwing us.
Betrayal- revenge - he took it.

But Cheney - the idea man, the director, the boss.

Where's his thread?

that he and his employees at the WH were worrying about his legacy. here's his legacy, the numbers and the reasons for them.

oh what a relief it is-that tomorrow we get to cast our votes for a much needed change. :hi:

:rofl:

and the children and the burned and the dead innocents inhabit his days and nights without respite.

May he spend eternity reliving every increment of pain he has caused in others.

May he toil in hell for each man-year and woman-year that has been siphoned off by the Rethuglican Party.

May he be slapped with a kharmic fine for every penny distributed to war profiteers, outsourcers, and cronies.

May he return as a disfigured shrub to be ground to a nub at his phony pretend Crawford hideout.

May he and his administration cohorts spend eternities of horror and pain, colliding with each other in an endless whirlpool of blood they have shed.

May his pseudo-Christian self be forever confronted with the deformed, the aborted, and the miscarried who are his legacy from saturating Iraq with "depleted" uranium.

May the rest of his days be spent in an ultra-LSD bummer confronting the infinity-sized fuckup of his cursed life.

It's going to be a long way down

I don't have enough replies to recommend yet, but in my heart of hearts....I recommend.

By George! I think he got it! So long sucker! .....:hi:

for most of the country to wake the fuck up!

Because of improvements to communication, they didn't have to wait six months to know who was president.

In this computer age, can't we let the new president start on Nov. 20?

Or at least take the powers of the presidency away from W. Who knows what buttons he might push between now and January.

thank all the little people who made this all possible...especially Uncle Dick and Turd Blossom, who taught me that when the going gets tough, the tough make millions...

My wish for this morally repugnant little fuckstick is simply that he gets exactly what he deserves.

My mother, however, was not so generous before she died in 2004: "May he have a toothache in every tooth in his head every day for the rest of his life".

-chef-

and America rejects their agendas. That's why this President has an all-time low favorability.

Bush fucks up entire country. Breaks the economy, screws the military, and builds a list of dis-accomplishments unequaled in American history.

He paves the way for Democratic victory.

What a job he has done!

Stop him, somebody!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-regulate31-2008oct31,0,4163433.story?track=rss

Bush administration seeks last-minute regulations

Many of the new rules would weaken consumer and environmental protections and could be difficult for McCain or Obama to undo.
By R. Jeffrey Smith

Reporting from Washington -- The White House is working to enact an array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift existing constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Full story at link.

History will not be kind and his wonderful legacy he so desired is a pile of steaming crap.

Asshole!