Bush Admits to Failure

Not, with his entire Presidency, although that should be the first admission on his list. But he does admit that when he was elected President in 2000, he had a goal of changing the tone of politics in Washington. Now after eight consecutive years in the White House, Bush admits that he did not do a good job of completing that goal and considers his efforts a failure.

I feel this is just Bush's attempt at setting the tone for his legacy as President. He would like us to believe that he was a reflective, earnest and now, remorseful diplomat (owning up to his shortcomings) and not at all what he actually was: A bull-headed, stubborn, authoritarian who ruined and disgraced the country.

-Nice try Bushy, but I'm not buying it!

Complete article here.

Bush gets Shoed!!

This had to be the funniest thing I saw yesterday... Bush actually got shoes thrown at him. You can't right better stuff than that! How's that for your legacy, Bushy!
Check it out- I surely can't get enough.

It's also at the bottom of my page. This clip deserves to be added permanently for a while.

Bush Missteps Chronicled

On Davidcorn.com there is a story about all the missteps that took place during the W years.

Here's what he had to say.

From the Center on Public Integrity comes a report entitled Broken Government that lists 125--count-'em!--"systematic failures across the breadth of the federal government" that have marked (and marred) the eight-year tenure of (now-disappearing) President George W. Bush. From the press release:

Among the examples:

* a Food and Drug Administration unable to guarantee the safety of food or drugs
* a National Aeronautics and Space Administration inspector general who blocked multiple investigations
* a budget deficit that ballooned to $455 billion for fiscal year 2008, and could reach $1 trillion in fiscal year 2009
* an Environmental Protection Agency that ignored and underutilized its own office and task force on children's health
* a Securities and Exchange Commission that sat largely on the sidelines, allowing little-understood new financial instruments to undermine the pillars of the economy
* a Federal Labor Relations Board with neither a general counsel nor the quorum needed to handle hundreds of complaints regarding unfair labor practices
* a terrorist detention system based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whose legality has repeatedly been challenged by the courts

Many of the failures are rooted in recurring themes: agency appointees selected primarily for ideology and loyalty, rather than competence; agency heads who overruled staff experts and suppressed reports that did not coincide with administration philosophy; agency-industry collusion; a bedrock belief in the wisdom of deregulation; extensive private outsourcing of public functions; a general failure to exercise government's oversight responsibilities; and severely slashed budgets at understaffed agencies that often left them unable to execute basic administrative functions.

I know, I know. Most of this will not come as a surprise to anyone who has not been in a coma for the past eight years. The Government Accountability Office, as we reported recently at Mother Jones, has put together its own list. Chronicling the damage of the W years is an important job. And, alas, it won't be over any time soon.

***Truly amazing, I don't think my 8 year old nephew would have messed things up this bad.***