Time to say bah, not baa

[Chiyo-chichi]

By Bob Hammel, (Bloomington, Indiana) Hoosier Times columnist

http://www.tmnews.com/articles/2006/02/19/sections/columnist/columnist13.txt

"Hillary Clinton offended some people last week by calling the present Bush administration "one of the worst" ever.

I'm among the irked. Why, Hillary, why "one of"?

We have upon us the governing version of the perfect storm. Runaway debt, disastrous foreign policy, disastrous domestic policies on oil and education and treatment of the rich and the not-so, repudiation-by-ignoring all precedents about checks and balances, and constitutional limits, and accountability to the public via press conferences, and such bungling and lying to the point where one is hard to separate from the other.

Bloomington has an inordinate share of exceptionally qualified U.S. historians. I asked one of the best not long ago if Our Guy is not just the worst of our lifetime but the worst ever. He ran other possibilities through his mind, mumbled names like Buchanan and Harding, and others like John Adams for a single misstep or two, before giving up the hunt.

Bush. This Bush. Hands down, the worst. Ever."