Bush is not a failure. Bush is a success.

[ensho]

progressives/dems have got to stop calling smirk a failure. Buzzflash today calls him a colossal failure.

the neo cons, with smirk as front man, have had nothing but success. they have obtained their objectives and are still working to obtain others.

the neo cons are quite happy. money has been made and will continue to be made - by the dump truck full.

what their successes have done to the united states is another matter.

the united states is a sucked dry neo con business victim.

dems should point out what successful criminals the neo cons are. so successful everyone is afraid of them.

bottom line.


(buzzflash's opening headline prompted this)

[Crazy Dave]

1. We all thought nothing would ever be worse than the Reagan, Bush 41 years

Boy were we ever wrong. On the bright side at least Cheney isn't running.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. that's why dim son was the perfect front man for them

he looks and sounds dumber than dirt and stupidity plays better in Peoria than unadulterated evil.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Er, no. The neocons have failed badly under Bush. Some regard him as an inept fool

that ruined their perfect schemes. Others see him as an acceptable standard-bearer who was a victim of his subordinates' failures. Few see Bush as a successful President, though some do exist.

Perhaps you have confused neoconservatives with the military-industrial complex?

[ensho]

4. neoconservatives and the military-industrial complex are one and the same

out of the money stream republicans think he is a failure for repugs.

[sshan2525]

6. Semantic waste of time.......

One man's success is another's failure. Blah, blah, blah. The bottom line: Bush needs to go, the repukes need to be replaced and the Dems need to stop acting like repukes.

[leftofthedial]

5. BIG success

at destroying America and enriching the wealthy.

[libodem]

7. Yeah

Mission accomplished. Make the 30 year 'Master Plan' of the think-tanks successful. Destroy America. Make us all slaves to the National Debt. Allow the leisure class to sit on their asses and live off trust funds. Meanwhile accuse Obama of being an elitist, country club, gin swilling, arm candy man. Twinkle twinkle little star...what you say is what you are.

[SergeyDovlatov]

8. True. Remeber them yupping in 2000 about having a permanent republican majority.

Bush made sure that will never ever happen!

[baby_mouse]

9. He's also really smart and Machiavellian.

It's all part of his big secret super-plan. We misunderestimate him at our peril.

[ProSense]

10. Yeah, war crimes and death = success. n/t

[XOKCowboy]

11. Halliburton profits through the roof, Oil companies with record profits,

Insurance companies and Big Pharma in charge our medical care, "defense" industries with record profits and corporate tax rates at an all time low.

Yep. Bush was a complete success for his buddies.

[Dukkha]

12. cheating twice to get elected is not success

he's a loser no matter how you look at it

[maxsolomon]

13. he got the oil majors back into iraq

he killed 100's of 1000's & bankrupted the nation doing it, but securing american corporate access to iraq's oil reserves was the goal of cheney's energy task force, and by extension the ONLY goal of his administration.

so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

[caraher]

14. That's the whole point. Many "failures" are in fact part of the plan

From the viewpoint of Cheney and his cohort, tragedy for Americans is frequently exactly what they wanted. Their careers are based on cashing in on disaster. Nobody in that circle is clamoring for accountability when they profit immensely from no-bid contracts. The real mission in Iraq was always to create a long-term military presence; a quagmire accomplishes exactly that. (I've lost track of the number of times supposed critics have said we should leave Iraq BUT we can't leave now, we can't leave it a mess, if we go things will spiral out of control.) Cheney's monosyllabic statement about the pain real people suffer because of this mess ("So?") says it all. These folks are conscience-free kleptocrats; chaos and fear are not failures in their eyes (recall Rummy and "messy" democracy).

Look at New Orleans. They've taken Katrina as the opportunity to reshape the political and economic map to their liking by responding ineffectually both to the hurricane and the rebuilding. Brownie did indeed do a "heckuva job" from the perspective of Blackwater. Exploiting disaster is Plan A.

These people are not incompetent. They are all too competent at feathering their own nests and ignoring the human cost. And their ideology gives them cover (i.e. government itself is intrinsically incompetent in their rhetoric (military excepted), so the less competent their own response is running the government the more they can push their meme and turn over money to unaccountable private sector/"faith based" programs). Military aside, the government truly is at the point where they can drown it in the bathtub.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Also, don't forget tax cuts for the rich, shredding the Constitution, appointing extremist judges.

And, of course, transferring the nation's wealth into the hands of a few, disenfranchising thousands of voters, rolling back environmental protections and preventing programs like SCHIP that would actually help people from passing.

Bush has been a great success, by his lights. His single failure is his inability to destroy the New Deal, as shown by his Social Security failure. But he has saddled us with so much debt that he may in the long run do that, too.

And don't forget, we still have the attack on Iran to look forward to.

Failure? He's not through yet.

[L0oniX]

16. Bush is a success only in bizarro world. n/t

:evilfrown:

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. So long as there is blood, there will be mosquitos.