Jan 15 2009
Last Days of Dumbya
The last Cabinet meeting, the final news conference. Sure looks like Bushie is finally getting ready to leave Washington. And none too soon. After eight mostley bad years, most folks will be relieved to wave goodbye to this master of disaster.
Even during his last press conference, Dumbya had a hard time admitting any mistakes. The ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner was one he fessed up to. Not the idiocy of starting a war in which 4,000 Americans were killed, just the banner itself. Typical Bushie. Yes, he finally admitted that no weapons of mass or any other kind of destruction turned up. If that’s the case, why go to war with Hussein at all, since he posed no real threat to the U.S.? Oh well, logic was never his strong point either. Guess those smoking gun mushroom clouds were just a slight delusion. Whoops.
The thing that Bushie always brags about is that no terrorist attack on the U.S. has occured on his watch since 9/11. True enough. Of course that elides over the fact that it was on his watch that one of the most destructive attacks on the U.S. happened. Sometimes it works, if you don’t bother to think too much about it.
What is the last hope of a very unpopular president? Why, that old favorite the ‘historical legacy.’ The belief that in the future, historians will judge a president, in this case Bushie, much more favorably than he is now being judged. If one can’t win in the present, maybe the future will be kinder. One of the favorite examples is Harry Truman. Very unpopular when he left office in 1953, now considered one of the better presidents of the 20th centruy, with his down-to-earth simplicity as a bonus. That’s what Dumbya in his secret heart of hearts is probably hoping for. The hugely unpopular bumbler in affairs domestic and foreign of today will, maybe twenty or thirty years down the road, turn into a solid, unwavering hero who saved the country from terrorists. That’s the dream. On the other hand, there’s the Herbert Hoover story. Hoover was damn unpopular too, after presiding over the beginning of the Great Depression, and being defeated by FDR in 1932. Hoover did do many worthwhile things after he left the presidency, but he is still considered a failure in that office. Now, consider Dumbya. Consider Truman and Hoover. Now, which one is it most likely to have his fate repeated in Bushie’s future. We won’t know for a while, but the smart folks will put thier money on Hoover/Bush, and expect a big payoff. Bye bye Dumbya. Good riddance to bad Rubbush.
