It’s 2009. Why is George Bush still our president?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
<glares at Nancy Pelosi>
Heckuva job, Nance. Heckuva job.
Because 1) The American people were too stupid to get rid of him in 2004, 2) Nancy Pelosi and her ilk didn’t have the political will to impeach him.
l would posit that the american people were stupid to elect him in 2000. there were plenty of us out there in 2000 calling him bad news…and don’t get me started on gore’s capitulation, nor small k kerry’s in 04.
like de Tocqueville said: “in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
I can’t blame the American people so much in 2000 because most had not seen him in action. But in 2004 after four years it should have been obvious. Of course, given that in 2008 48% or so of Americans voted for a ticket that would bring Sarah Palin within a heartbeat of the White House – well, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Perhaps I should have said judgment, not intelligence.
they do seem to be mutually exclusive when it comes to politics, eh.
Yup.
I can’t blame the American people so much in 2000 because most had not seen him in action.
Oh, I can. I definitely can.
In 2000 I watched Republicans pillory John McCain in favor of George W Bush for reasons that to this day remain completely unfathomable to me. I know why the guys at the top of the party did it – the combination of bending at the knee to an aristocrat and the general dislike of John McCain – but I still don’t get why the rank-and-file Republicans went so ga-ga over W.
My own family went apeshit over W and I can’t ever get a coherent explanation of why. He was clearly a dope – a “born on third base and thought he’d scored a touchdown” level of dope. On top of being a dope, he had no record of accomplishment, he had never done anything on his own without his father’s connections or his family name, and his political accomplishments approached zero before he was elected to the Presidency.
I don’t get it. But I blame them – my family and people like them – they really should have known better. I told them that W was going to be a terrible president and they laughed me off. Of course, I was expecting “terrible” in the sense of “push us into a recession and maybe pick a useless war of the Grenada or Panama variety”, proving that even I underestimated the dolt.
And what is your family’s position on Bush now?
it could be worse…he could be in office until march 4th were it not for the 20th amendment.
interesting that it was ratified in the waning of herbert hoover’s term, eh.
19 days left and counting
direct link to 2nd citation: inaugural blog…it’ll save you the scrolling search.
George who?
The really sucky thing is that the world’s timelords added an extra second to 2008. One extra second for Bush to fuck things up is just wrong.