Bush's Legacy of Failure by Robert Sheer

[leftchick]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/13544


That idiotic "what me worry?" look just never leaves the man's visage. Once again there was our president, presiding over disasters in part of his making and totally on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect between his worldview and existing reality. Be it in his announcement that Iraq was being secured on a day when bombs ripped through that sad land or posed between his treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman to applaud the government's bailout of a failed bank, George Bush was the only one inexplicably smiling.

Failure suits him. It is a stance he learned well while presiding over one failed Texas business deal after another, and it served him splendidly as he claimed the title of president of the United States after losing the popular, and maybe even the electoral, vote. It carried him through the most ignominious chapter of U.S. foreign policy, from the lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to an unprecedented presidential defense of torture.

The totally unwarranted assurance was there this week as the once proud dollar fell into the toilet and the debacle of Iraq and Bush's other failed Mideast policies pushed oil prices to record highs. The Europeans, who didn't support the U.S. imperial intervention, are doing much better, not having to pay for guarding besieged oil pipelines while U.S. taxpayers are saddled with trillions in future debt, not to mention 4,000 U.S. military deaths and 30,000 U.S. injuries in a war the administration had promised would be paid for with Iraqi oil revenues. Even in Baghdad last week there wasn't enough oil to keep the lights on for more than a few hours.

But the president is happy because his legacy issue, the war on terror, is intact. No matter that this week the Pentagon was forced to release a report conducted over the last five years that concluded, after surveying 600,000 official Iraqi documents captured by U.S. forces, that there is "no smoking gun" establishing any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. The report was so embarrassing that we taxpayers who paid for it were not going to be told of its existence, even though the explosive conclusions were totally declassified, until ABC News forced its posting online.

[damonm]

1. K&R - the man's gross incompetence needs to be WELL remembered.

[driver8]

2. However, junior's friends are getting rich and he will be handsomely

rewarded once he is out of office.

Why should he give a fuck about anyone else? He has done his job...well, the job he was "installed" in office to do.

[Winterblues]

3. Bush* is absolutely delighted with himself

He has put it to the Democrats time and time again and will be regarded as a Republican Hero down the road. His way has been very much "In Your Face" afterall he is "The Decider" and Democrats have allowed him to be exactly that...all the while hanging their heads and saying wait until we get through his Administration and we will show the world...I can only hope but the evidence is lacking..

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. "Failure suits him" Indeed it does! So does delusion.

[Bozita]

5. Wow! Scheer's last line sums it up brilliantly. ...

"In the years to come, as millions lose their retirement income and homes, we will have occasion to remember Georgie Porgie, who kissed the taxpayers and made them cry before he ran away."

[Bozita]

6. kicking for merit

[leftchick]

7. thank you

Robert Sheer is always well worth the time to read.

:)