Then Corn decides to get mean about it:
The Bush-Cheney years have been marked by ineptitude, miscalculation, and scandal. A successful presidency? Bush will be lucky if he gets a public elementary school in his adopted hometown of Crawford, Tex., named after him. He has placed this country in a hole.
It's actually a good catalog of everything El Jefe Maximo has screwed up.
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Today's Raleigh News and Observer has a nice article about Elizabeth Edwards (the smartest of the 2004 Democratic candidate quartet), her battle with cancer and her new book (including a couple of short excerpts):
Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for catching this article in the National Review Online, containing this quote:
We all know torture is bogus. There is no scenario in which we will torture the guy with the launch codes for the missile aimed at the orphanage. That whole scenario is just a bunch of crap.
Hell, even Corn can't list all the stuff ol' Alfalfa Male has screwed up. The Wilshire 5000 - one of the broadest measures of the equity market - is down 10% from its March 2000 peak. The real trade-weighted value of the dollar is down roughly 15%. We've added $3 trillion to gross Federal debt.
It's unbelievable that anyone give Kristol air time, considering how completely wring he's been on everything. But this is how the media operate now - keep in mind that a generation after he disgraced the nation, Oliver North has a TV show.