Comments on: “I was really wrong about George Bush”

By: RSmitty

RSmitty — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:25:24 +0000

Wow, a computer-blackout weekend and I miss this backdoor compliment by being noted as an important exception to Jason’s tirade! SWEET! Thanks, J!

Since I am seeing this for the first time, there is some unintended humor here, at DL around this post. The post immediately before this is Nemski’s Wonderful Christmas Time, so in scrolling order, I get Jason’s tirade then Wonderful Christmas Time. Man, I LOVE Delaware Liberal (go ahead, comment rescue that as your endorsement).

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:57:29 +0000

Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins….
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hee hee heeeeee
thanks for that.

By: Pooping Left Wing Troll

Pooping Left Wing Troll — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:13:28 +0000

I have poops that love America more than GWB.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:10:23 +0000

Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins….

Fucking shame that Schwartzkopf and Gilligan don’t have any honorable ancestors.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:54:07 +0000

Pieces of human garbage say they still would vote for Bush over Kerry. Whatever else they say about Bush in addition to that is so much flibble-flabble.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:46:57 +0000

Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins…. but didn’t have anything to say about George Bush (or if they did, Dave wasn’t hearing it).

After it became clear that Bush was losing public opinion, Dave did begin issuing some muted criticisms – mostly along the lines of “Bush isn’t conservative enough.”

As if the Treasury-raiding and Unitary Executive thing wasn’t part and parcel of conservatism.

By: jason330

jason330 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:41:24 +0000

Asswipe.

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:34:33 +0000

Why, thank you for your kind words, Jason! But you really shouldn’t hold back so much; tell us how you really feel!

By: Truth Teller

Truth Teller — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:08:05 +0000

U.I. Talk about enablers the ones that piss me off are Nancy and Harry for the past 2 years they gave this Lame Duck son of a bitch everything he asked for. In 2006 we gave them the power to impeach the bastard and what did Nancy do she and Harry went along to get along wire taps an kept funding the war Fuck them too

By: anonone

anonone — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:29:11 +0000

It is like they hated America for a time

You’re too kind, Jason. They still hate America.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:17:06 +0000

Nancy,

I have nothing but contempt for Lieberman but I also understand the tactics behind keeping him in place in the Dem caucus. We’ve just seen how totally self-serving the Senate Republicans are, and even in the new Senate there still aren’t enough of us to stop their willy-nilly sabotage of our nation. Obama and Reid are going to need every possible vote from the members of the Senate and Lieberman does tend to be more progressive on domestic issues. In politics some is better than none.

In another era Lieberman would simply be an annoying old man without principles or ethics. In these times he enjoys the linchpin position because the Republicans have enabled him. We’ve gotta live with it for two more years, or maybe even four. Hopefully by 2012 the good people of Connecticut will have come to their senses.

It will be interesting to see if historians treat Lieberman as the sock-puppet he became. From my vantage point he looks like a total dupe.

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:56:04 +0000

What is also scary is a sell-out like Lieberman being coddled by the DC DEMs.
We aren’t advancing any change agenda by allowing ‘known’ screwballs to retain positions of influence.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:35:26 +0000

Yes, I guess I feel the most anger towards the so-called moderates and enablers. They’re the ones that talk sense sometimes, but then vote with Bush anyway. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive someone like Colin Powell, who used his good reputation to get us into the horrible mess in Iraq while supposedly opposing it in private. I’m afraid we’ll never get a real accounting of what went on in the last 8 years, so that means we’ll be doomed to repeat it when the Cheney, Addington, Yoo acolytes get into positions of influence.

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:56:24 +0000

I hesitate to personalize this as a GWB problem and would substitute Bushco as the subject but I guess the ‘buck stops here’ applies.
Burris is brutally partisan and deserves every microspasm of hateful, reactionary contempt a person can muster for his behavior.
But Castle….Castle, in a pretense of moderation directly abetted this modern American free-fall. Castle voted with Bushco/RNC policy 85% of the time (93% on Iraq). Castle, most insidiously, sat on the Finance Committee and did nothing but embrace the crazy upward spiral of concentrated wealth and its vehicles (unregulated hedge funds, mortgage bundled derivatives etc.- example –
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/events/bkd_speakers/papers/linnan.pdf).
To the rational person, the plummeting of the markets from these heady heights is instinctively seen as a natural result of ‘the pendulum’s swinging back’.
This is where liberals should take claim of ‘American Conservatism’. It was the liberals who knew in our guts that disaster awaited and some of us spoke up, if ineffectively.
Liberal gut-churning was a signal that the RNC was leading us straight to hell. We can be forgiven for not being able to understand just how corrupt things were on the other side of the aisle until Abramoff and Enron broke through the media’s iron curtain.
What rational person could have understood just how far greed could contort a political party into a force of evil.

By: Mike Matthews

Mike Matthews — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:56:09 +0000

It is like they hated America for a time and I can’t get past that.

But I thought it was only us treasonous liberals who hated America?!?! Great post, J!! George Bush has EARNED all the hate and derangement that’s come and will come his way.