Did you know that Bush is still president? It's true. BUT NOT FOR VERY MUCH LONGER.
Bloggenfreude at Agitprop mourns W's passing. "We will never see his like again."
As a lefty blogger, I will miss him. Sure he’s a dangerous
sociopath, a pathological liar, and a national embarrassment. But he’s
also The Decider, The Commander Guy, and Commander Codpiece. Think about that as January 20, 2009 approaches....
The photographic tributes are particularly choice. We recommend clicking.
HuffPost has a whole slideshow of presidents OTHER than President-elect Obama whose pecs became public domain. (Reagan frightened us, and we were sad to see that when he isn't leveling his razor-like stare at the camera, Putin is kind of a....well, a hottie.)
Even more shirtless presidents (American) here at Gawker. And if that ain't enough, go here.
Though it was nominated for a Grammy, we just don't think there's been nearly enough screaming about Harry Shearer's musical send-up of the Bush administration's main players. If you've had all the peace and good will you can handle, you might enjoy a bit of black comedy, in diverse musical stylings.
If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for a progressive friend, we don't see how you could do better than this album (available at I-Tunes):
Via expert hair deconstructor Princess Sparkle Pony---which gets a special mention---this CNN video comments on the probable role of Blagojevich's hair in the current scandal.
In an interview with Fareed Zakaria, Powell slams Palin and Limbaugh and says the military should rethink its "don't ask--don't tell" policies. HuffPost has relevant portions of the conversation here.
...which are, of course, in completely different coloring books. Meanwhile, the Left just laughs the bitter laughter of adults who have seen it all before because OF COURSE everyone knew it was coming, even though it is all so stupid, so stupid and transparent, so stupid and transparent and bogus, and yet full of wingnutty media-fuelled portentousness and pomposity.
Wonkette and Princess Sparkle Pony are all over this one. Princess Sparkle Pony has courtroom drawings! And says:
I love the dominance of Blagojevich's mighty hairdo. ...It's like the
artist got dazzled by the enlarged coiffure, pulled into its vortex. I
can't blame him! Me, too!
Bush unveils his self-portrait and says something (intentionally) funny. Jon Stewart: "Is it possible that his entire administration was a set-up for that joke?"
So...we can all stop worrying. Santa Claus WILL come down your chimney as usual with his bag full of toys for your kids and a new job and a new mortgage for you! There WILL be presents under your tree and a turkey dinner (with razzleberry dressing) on your table!
Would Papa Bear or Karl Rove misrepresent the facts?
As Bush prepares to move into his exclusive new neighborhood his neighbors are worried that his presence might disrupt their Way of Life. Those neighbors include "former presidential candidate Ross Perot and Mark Cuban, the billionaire businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner" and some guy next door who just installed a "trout-filled lake" on his property. (Raw Story)
Will Bush turn their American dream into a Bush administration-style nightmare?
Our colleague at Buck Naked Politics wrote way back even before the primaries about the ever-evolving Hillary mythos, and it's true: no matter how she behaves or what she does "she thicks men's blood with cold." Equally chilled---so they claim---is the blood of certain well-known female pundits. Why is that? Hmmm? Why?
Yes, now that Bush doesn't need them anymore, the Supremes will finally take a look at the limits on the executive's powers in what The Talking Dog calls "the second most important case of our lives."
Bark Bark Woof Woof woofs about this glorious waste of taxpayer dollars in the interests of settling once and for all a "worrying" "issue":
The United States Supreme Court is going to decide
whether or not to hear a case claiming that Barack Obama is not a U.S.
citizen and therefore ineligible to serve as President of the United
States...
On ABC tonight,
George W. Bush said he was "sorry" that Americans are losing their jobs
and watching their 401(k) plans get fiendishly rear-ended into the next
12 dimensions thanks to the throbbing fiscal phallus of Friedman and
Laffey, free marketeers to whose semen- and feces-slathered altar knelt
Harvard MBA George "Fuck Everyone Including the Shareholders" Bush like
a love-lorn acolyte.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, one of our Florida GOPpers, hung up twice on the President-Elect, thinking she was being punked and pranked and pwned. (Politico) Oh, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Tch.
The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the
intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on
the line and said, you know ... the weapons of mass destruction is a
reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my
administration, and um ... You know, that's not a do-over, but I wish
the intelligence had been different, I guess.
Remember back in the day when we only got to hear the tapes with the expletives deleted?
But we always knew there would be more and now they're here! For the best round-up of Nixonian quotables for the aspiring Republican pol, see Amygdala. The thing about Nixon you have to
like---if, that is, you subsequently lived through Reagan and Bush---is
that he didn't bother to conceal his ruthlessness or cynicism under a genial mask
or a crimp-browed chimp-like smirk of good-natured puzzlement.
