== It's Not Bush's Fault!= By Mark Morford

[madokie]

It's so wrong of nasty libs to blame every social ill on Dubya. After all, he means well. Right?

I get this a lot, from the distraught and Bush-embarrassed right, whenever I happily cough up Dubya's name in a column that would seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with our bumbling, neck-groping disaster of a whimpering leader:

Hey (I'm paraphrasing here) you gay-loving yoga pervert communist! What the gosh-golly hell does George W. Bush possibly have to do with (fill in the blank) cancer rates/MS Windows/electric sports cars/Christina Aguilera? Why do you insist on sneaking in little slaps and stabs at the beleaguered monkeyman even when writing about problems and issues that (seemingly) have nothing to do with him -- like, say, iTunes or vibrators or global warming? Why, in other words, do you blame every social ill on Dubya? It's so not fair!

It has become the default wail, the last remaining lament available to a frazzled and bitch-slapped GOP, a group now completely unable to dredge up a single defensible position for Bush in the wake of so much scandal and abuse and wiretap, failed war and environmental devastation and global meltdown:

It's not all Bush's fault! He cannot be blamed for, say, teen sex and bad sitcoms and Mel Gibson! As for national policy, well, Bush inherited years of complicated problems which clearly overwhelmed his unsophisticated brain and attacked him like a swarm of angry multifaceted mosquitoes which he could only flail and swat at like a terrified child! In other words, Bush is merely one little man swimming in a massive swirling tide of corruption and misprision and difficult-to-pronounce countries. Leave him alone! ...

Read the rest:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/08/23/notes082306.DTL&nl=fix

[Heidi]

1. I love Mark Morford.

:kick:

(I'll come back later to kick again and recommend. :hi: )

[madokie]

2. I first come across his writings by accident

I even sent him a link to du hoping he might join up and start posting here. And who knows, maybe.

[Heidi]

3. Here's my favorite Morford column _evah_.

Enjoy! :hi:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/08/01/notes080103.DTL&nl=fix

[madokie]

6. timeless, and enjoy I did, thanks

:hi:

[NMMNG]

4. K&R

:applause:

[fed-up]

5. happy to give this the 5th R! nt

[Broken_Hero]

7. Ha!...:)

Nominated...:rofl:

[B Calm]

8. I wish people here in the midwest could read his articles in our

local paper...

[madokie]

9. the folks over at the tulsa world would shit down both legs

if they were to even read any of his articles, but yes it would be nice.

[Heidi]

10. Recommended, and

:kick:ed!

[Brazenly Liberal]

11. K&R for my favorite columnist

I love Morford. If I was single and he was desperate, you never know what might happen!

[GreenTea]

12. I don't know of any thinking person who doesn't love this guy....

Mard Morford (SF Chronicle) - The only other person I read as religiously is the great Paul Krugman (NY Times).

[Reckon]

13. Repubs should stop their whinning..... n/t

[TahitiNut]

14. I seriously disagree with Morford.

Mark says, "George W. Bush may have attained the ignoble status as one of the least popular presidents in American history, but the fact is, he's accomplished something far more impressive: He's proven himself to be one of the most systematically, comprehensively toxic."

Bushellshit.

He is the most systematically, comprehensively toxic president in American history. He has no peer in that sewer. None.

[ljm2002]

15. Morford is great!

This column was really good, thanks for posting.