A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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June 10, 2008My Bush Historical GradeIt's WAY too early, of course. It seems to take fifty years for this to become clear, partly because it'll take that long for us to know if Iraq is an W or L, mostly because partisan feeling and disappointment take a long time to fade. That said, in my books, Bush was scraping a bare A- (biggest problem in my books was uncaringness about budget imbalance) until 9/12. After that, I give him an 'F'. After that, he stopped caring about facts, being willing to concede mistakes, and started to look for excuses to push his power as far as possible (see his immediate attempts to create a KGB-like spy agency to spy on the citizenry), and make it as unaccountable as possible (see his NSA efforts and Blackwater). He also messed up both wars by letting bad things happen to people who dared to point out occupations aren't optional for successful invasions, that lots of money would be needed for the war, or pointed out things were getting worse in Iraq once the inevitable cycle of violence started spiraling. Although he has done alot to rescue the situation by sending Petraeus, he has no idea why it worked, gave absurd timeframes, and gave him what I'm tempted to call political anticover, it was so clumsy. After 4 1/2 years in office, he additionally fortunately lost his eptness at pursuing his aims in office. Now, well, as an example, I give him >80% credit for the Columbian FTAA failure. Telling Congress it HAS to pass a bill has always been a good way to make it fail, and it doesn't help when your biggest argument for a FREE TRADE BILL is security and it's a Dem Congress. Posted by Jon Kay at June 10, 2008 01:39 AMComments
In today's episode of pile on the not soon enough to be ex-president we have today's Um...are you aware that "ept" is not a word? The fact that the word "inept" exists does not mean the word "ept" exists. Posted by: Chris Clukey at June 10, 2008 12:27 PMIt's WAY too early, of coursePosted by: c3 at June 10, 2008 07:22 PM > Um...are you aware that "ept" is not a word? Yeah, but I'm inept enough not to care. :-)
After 4 1/2 years in office, he additionally fortunately lost his eptness at pursuing his aims in office. Now, well, as an example, I give him >80% credit for the Columbian FTAA failure. Telling Congress it HAS to pass a bill has always been a good way to make it fail, and it doesn't help when your biggest argument for a FREE TRADE BILL is security and it's a Dem Congress. ROTFLMAO I'd expect to see this kind of thing on KOS not "A weblog of centrist voices in American politics". Posted by: Dennis at June 11, 2008 04:05 PMLet's keep mind that the "Nazi lying sack of sh!t" is all in YOUR mind. When I lived in the DC burbs, I used to pay attention for some reason to what bills passed and what didn't. Precious few passed when Congress was told they MUST pass that bill. It'd have to pass in some other form. It's doubly true when they were held by different parties. Being a Dem, I can tell you we're extra-dubious when told the big reason for a non-military, non-foreign-aid bill is security. Politics IS psychodrama. |
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