George W. Bush And History

[babylonsister]

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/75036/geroge-w-bush-and-history

George W. Bush And History
Jonathan Chait

* May 18, 2010 | 5:02 pm



Jonathan Bernstein ponders the Bush administration's lack of basic competence in historical context:

We're still early in the building of the history of the Bush years, but here's my guess. We'll find that what we saw was pretty much what was happening. He didn't act aggressively when faced with potential policy disaster -- whether we're talking about the summer of 2001 and terrorism, or 2003-2005 in Iraq, or 2004-2008 and Afghanistan, or 2007-2008 and the economy, or Katrina, or anything else. We're going to find that he strutted around a good deal, but was otherwise passive and indifferent, and easily manipulated by those around him. And my guess is we're going to find the big things that went wrong (terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, torture, the economy) joined by dozens of smaller things that slipped through the cracks for eight years. One last time: I'm not talking about ideology or policy, just the basic skills of the presidency. ...

Just how bad was the Bush Administration? As bad, alas, as its president, and I'm afraid that all evidence to date points to him being one of the very worst.

Bernstein article here:

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/just-how-bad-was-bush-administration.html
Just How Bad Was the Bush Administration?

[jotsy]

1. Some already have a pretty decent grip on the gravity of it.

In very telling form.

<http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/broken_government/pages/by_the_numbers>

[Vincardog]

2. Just How Bad Was the Bush Administration? As bad as you would expect from one lead by a D student

who only got that on the basis of other people's work and a LOT of money.

[katandmoon]

3. Good thing Obama shitcanned all his appointees and prosecuting the criminals in his administration

Oh wait....

[Rex]

4. Look at that idiot! As Rome burned, he tried to read My Pet Goat

to kids. All the while knowing, wait not knowing, wait knowing about the terrorists attacks and still just sitting around and being worthless.

George W Bush = most worthless president in history. Did more for the uber-rich than any other POTUS. Will alway have an * after his name.

[opihimoimoi]

5. W Bush is STUNNINGLY INEPT IGNORANT AND was not ready for PRIME TIME

His 8 year record is one of epic failure

He had failed in all of the major categories that matter...from global climate change to natural disasters to keeping the Nation Healthy Wealthy and Wise

We don't see a rush for new parents to name their kids GEORGE

Inspire people? Hardly....

W was the worst of all our past presidents

He was so bad the PUB PARTY LOST THE HOUSE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENCY

AND... they will continue to lose elections for a long time...

[damntexdem]

6. He already flunked history.

And he didn't know much about biology, or the French he took, or science books. ;-)