Comments on: Cognitive Dissonance — The Swearing-In Edition

By: bgates

bgates — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:36:33 +0000

#8 – you misspelled the word after “incompetent”.

PS from Jan 20-2001-Jan 20 2009 we had an unbroken string of AGs who never pardoned a terrorist and Treasury Secretaries who paid all their taxes.

#18 – Bush forged closer ties with India without hurting relations with China. That’s a pretty nice balancing act among the world’s three biggest countries. No major terrorist attacks in the US since 2001, and several plots broken up without any harm done to my civil rights or yours. Freeing 50 million from tyranny.

As far as “compared to what”, let’s revisit that subject in four years.

By: Richard A Fay

Richard A Fay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:21:59 +0000

The most likely third option is to just continue attacking President Bush at every opportunity. Why not ? They’re still making movies about Nixon, and he’s been dead for years.

By: Black & Gold Brad

Black & Gold Brad — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:58:05 +0000

Jon –

Bush fucked up civil liberties? Would that be the warrantless wiretapping that Obama voted for?

And yes, I keep forgetting how the ‘world’ was ‘less fucked up’ with Saddam and the Taliban in power, AQ Khan selling nuclear technology all over the place, Libya churning away with their WMD program, and Al Qaida in its ascendency and largely unchallenged. Um, yeah.

Seems the BDS’ers are definitely clinging bitterly.

By: rosignol

rosignol — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:01:08 +0000

Hey, jon… are you old enough to remember the ’70s?

I’m thinking ‘no’. If you were, you’d have a lot more perspective on just how bad presidential fuckups can get.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:32:25 +0000

Economy: Bush fucked up.
Security: Bush fucked up.
Civil liberties: Bush fucked up.
Making the country better: Bush fucked up.
World better: Bush fucked up.

Is it really deranged to suggest that Bush wasn’t so good for the country? You can play “Compared to What?” all you want, but I really have a hard time suggesting that this administration was anything other than a failure of epic proportions that has set forth a precedent and agenda that will drive us faster toward a deeper economic black hole, hasn’t correctly focused on our real enemies, undermined our good standing in the world, and really didn’t give a damn. Bush Derangement Syndrome will soon be reclassified as clarity, regardless of the excesses of many of its earliest case study subjects.

By: arhooley

arhooley — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:56:18 +0000

Well, Keith Olbermann has made the adjustment. His “Bushed” segment will be called “Still Bushed.” I kid you not.

By: DebnDenver

DebnDenver — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:56:19 +0000

a third option? uh….ACCOUNTABILITY???

By: jacksonhunted

jacksonhunted — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:51:48 +0000

There is a third option, but BDS sufferers won’t admit it. BDS was a strategy. Make outrageous statements, tell outright lies, and froth endlessly and eventually the public believes there has to be something to the madness. Add to the mix a president who thought it above him to respond to these crazy left-wing bastards and it worked out pretty well for them.

The only upside is that they fear what they have sown.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:40:27 +0000

I guess, re #8, that we can expect them to continue to cling bitterly.

By: venividivici

venividivici — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:21:11 +0000

Now that President Bush is the ex-President, having peacefully and willingly turned over power to the opposition party, what becomes of sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome?

They become sufferers of ODS, Obama Disappointment Syndrome?

In my dream, they all kill themselves.

By: kaba

kaba — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:45:44 +0000

BDS won’t end. It has just had a change of address to the leadership of the House, Senate, and Justice Dept. The show trials and stonings will begin in 3…2…1

By: Brian Tiemann

Brian Tiemann — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:13:31 +0000

Dead to rights. I should have put it thus:

History is the most frustrating caricature of science: you never get to re-run an experiment under the same conditions.

If only we could be sure that the one variable we’re interested in exercising is the only thing that’s changed from one trial to the next…

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:45:37 +0000

“History is the most frustrating caricature of science: you never get to re-run an experiment.”

What are you talking about? We repeat historical experiments all the time! After all, if something doesn’t work, it can’t be the *theory* that was wrong.

The sad part is that we keep repeating the *same* experiment!

By: frank martin

frank martin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:36:08 +0000

Looks like another federal bailout opportunity to me. Weve just got to help these poor people get over the loss of their walkin-talkin voodoo doll on which they pinned their daily self important psychodrama.

By: Midwestern Progressive

Midwestern Progressive — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:30:13 +0000

I’m just happy to see him go. No derangement here. Just glad to see the small man leave office, after surrounding himself with incompetent sychophants and spending years governing for the benefit of the GOP rather than the American citizenry.

Good riddance to him.

By: Andrew Ian Dodge

Andrew Ian Dodge — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:27:35 +0000

Well considering their classy booing and jeering of him as he left office I don’t hold out much hope.

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:50:48 +0000

“Oh no. They’ll be proud of BDS. The were simply “speaking truth to power”* and “taking back the country.”

*And I hope never to hear that stupid, self-indulgent phrase again”

Oh, don’t worry, you won’t. The left and the press (but wait, I repeat myself) will fawn all over themselves for “supporting the President as he brings Americans together” (or something), while voices of dissent (i.e., us) will be “divisive” and “negative”.

“Speaking truth to power” is a virtue and a duty only when it’s liberals complaining about conservatives.

By: Brian Tiemann

Brian Tiemann — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:50:32 +0000

What, you mean like how once it becomes clear that the globe is not actually warming, it’ll be because we all were so good about buying Priuses and carbon credits?

History is the most frustrating caricature of science: you never get to re-run an experiment.

By: Larry J

Larry J — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:06 +0000

No, they’ll claim their vigilance was what kept ShrubChimpyBushHitler from going through with his evil plans. BDS is as BDS does.

By: rbj

rbj — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:27:14 +0000

Oh no. They’ll be proud of BDS. The were simply “speaking truth to power”* and “taking back the country.”

*And I hope never to hear that stupid, self-indulgent phrase again