I detest Bush too.But Americans have to take a serious look at how someone like that can not only get elected,but stay in office without being held accountable.If not, another version of a Bush/Cheney can be elected.And far too many people focus on his foreign policy,but his domestic policy has been even more of a disaster.-Except for the rich of course.
The leaders of the Republican Party want to return to the economic status quo that existed from 1876 to 1900 - that is to say from the end of the Reconstruction Era to the beginning of the Progressive Era. Back then there was no Social Security, no Medicare, no Food and Drug Administration, no unemployment compensation, and of course, no environmental protection. The government limited its intervention in the economy to business subsidies, tariffs, and the suppression of trade union activity. The white working class left the Democrat Party during the election of 1968 to vote for George Wallace. Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 Joe Six Pack up North, and his Southern cousin Bubbah have been so busy grumbling about imaginary welfare recipients buying brand new Cadillacs with welfare checks and T bone steaks with food stamps that they did not notice that every year their pay checks bought a little less, and their employers lived a lot better. That might be changing. If so, it's about time.
As for what he should do when he leaves...I don't care as long as it involves him leaving...and choking on another pretzel.
"The Scribe" I am a 'former republican,and still conservative.But you are so right.The Bush administration and so many republican politicians have quickly put America on the path of becoming a third world country with 2 classes,rich and poor.I've seen people that pump gas for a living idolize people like Rush Limbaugh.Such stupid people.The once great America that I grew up is in big, big trouble-NOT from islamic radicals,but from its own government,that only cares about its wealthiest and corporate interests.America has become the laughing stock of the free world.The democrats have alot of problems too,but right now they are the only game in town.
You said it....In my opinion, if you are a "registered Republican" and make less than 200,000 a year, you are an ASSHAT!!
And if you are a registered Republican and make over $199,999.99 a year you are selfish and heartless.
He should take up drinking again. Once after he was elected President he told a group of people, "If I hadn't quit drinking I would not be in the White House. I would be sitting on a bar stool in Dallas." Think how much better off the country would be if he had stayed on that bar stool.
I had a conversation about this the other day with someone. We liked the idea of him being locked up with a baby bottle for food and being forced to watch re-runs of The Little Mermaid for the rest of his life.
Memoirs of Bush June 26th, 2008 In London the other day President Bush remarked that he intended to write his memoirs. He promises to include all the highlights of his life to date. His mischievous youth torturing small animals and insects in Texas. His glorious cheerleading days at Andover. The fun he had going AWOL in the national guard. The heroic struggle to get through Yale and Harvard with passing grades. The heavy drinking, the failed businesses, Jesus, redemption, the highest office in the land, surviving a deadly pretzel. The self-reported highlight of his tenure in office: catching a large fish in the Crawford estate lake. This is the stuff of epic, a certain bestseller and instant classic. Still, a few questions arise. Despite being the product of three of our leading academies, Mr. Bush has trouble writing a shopping list. A narrative hundreds of pages long is far beyond his compositional powers. A ghost writer will be required; to make the Bush memoirs wholesome family reading, one with considerable talent in the fiction line is preferred. The president was disappointed to learn that Dr. Seuss is no longer available. He does intend to approach Tom Clancy and Danielle Steele, his other two favorite authors. Then there’s the problem of a title. The president’s first choices, The Idiot, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ship of Fools, have all been taken. Ditto My Pet Goat, a solid second choice. Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps thinking of the eventual movie rights, proposed Dr. Strangelove. Dick Cheney in similar vein suggested The Creature From the Black Lagoon. Mr. Bush had to explain that his memoirs were all about him, not them. By his own admission Mr. Bush has read at least “three Shakespeares.” This led him to consider such possibilities as Titus Ambushicus, Macgeorge, and Busheo and Dickiette. These he rejected as a little obscure and faintly elitist, out of line with his brush-clearing cowboy persona. His current pick is The Oval Office for Dummies. It’s a serviceable title for the presidential memoirs, but perhaps not inspired. Better suggestions are welcome; post them here or send them to whitehouse.gov. http://www.diatribune.com/memoirs-bush