“Come on, Mr. President, this can’t be fun for you anymore.
“You can’t spend any of our money because you used it all up. And you can’t start another war because you’ve used up the troops. And when it come to reacting to hurricanes, you made your old man look like St. Francis of Assisi.
“Your job has turned into the Bush Family nightmare: helping poor black people.
“The cupboard’s bare, the credit card’s maxed out and no one’s speaking to you — mission accomplished!
“Now it’s time to do what you do best: lose interest and walk away, like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team.
“Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or spaceman? […]
“Because you’re the first American president to lose a whole city. Jimmy Carter never lost a city. Herbert Hoover was a lousy president, but he didn’t concede an entire metropolis to rising water and snakes.
“You’ve performed so poorly you should give yourself a medal.”
— Bill Maher, Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2005
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Thank you very much, Sir Bill Maher! If I believed in some kinda god, I’d ask him to bless you with a long and happy life, but instead I can only hope that you avoid small airplanes, walking alone at nite and above all unknown motel rooms!
Riot on Maher! Your astute observations always make me giggle with glee. I wish I could do your job- railing at idiots while laughing in their dumbstruck faces. I just want to kick their lying asses. Your way is better. Keep up the good work. America needs you.
The cracks are apparently starting to show. I wonder what the Administration why use next to whitewash over it all to hide the fact that they’ve sold the country and divided up the profits among the major US Corporations.
Bush and co. not worried. they have the paperless electronic machines which the fed are paying for. who can resist a freeby. and Louisiana just happens to be currently in the bidding process. Diebold appears to be the winner.
But, Bill, the best is that Kenyon (a sub. of SCI) was awarded contract to collect the dead. A refresher — SCI was the company involved in the Texas scandal “Funeralgate” while Bush in office. This also the trial Alberto Gonzales ruled that Bush was not required to testify. Would have made for some good sound bites during the 2000 election.
Needless to say, if all holds true the body count for Katrina in NO will prob. not reach 1000. SCI has a formula for making bodies disappear. Comes in handy when you don’t want them counted.
Wasn’t Herbert Hoover an engineer (of water projects, no less). I agree with Bill M., that Bush is a horrible president…just don’t think using Hoover was quite appropriate because of Hoover’s engineering background.
The really interesting point about the Herbert Hoover crack is that he, as Sec. of Commerce, was actually very effective at preparing for and giving aid to thousands of people devastated by the 1927 flood in NO. In fact he managed to get water, food and aid to people stranded on top of levees with model T era trucks, horses and a tin can with string to people faster and better than Bush and his loveless cronies with humvees, amphibioius vehicles and satelite phones.
We have debated this here in the Pensito Review electronic garret and come to the decision that Andrew Jackson is the only president who comes close to having a record as bad as GWB’s. Jackson ordered the genocide of native people who were technically (and really) American citizens.
Bush started a war for no other reason than his aristocratic whim, and as a result, thousands of American service members and innocent Iraqis have died.
Hoover had bad luck which was compounded by the misplaced belief that capitalism would quickly right itself after the Depression.
I wouldn’t even put him on the list of the top five”worst” presidents, which might go like this:
1. George W. Bush
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Richard Nixon
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. James M. Garfield
Trump’s cheated multiple times on multiple wives, it’s true.
He’s cheated the Tax Man out of millions, not just a few.
But just when you thought
There was something that couldn’t be bought,
Turns out he cheats at golf (only at his own courses), too.
“He’s never won a championship at a course he doesn’t own and operate. He’s played in Pebble Beach, he’s played in the Tahoe one, where there are rules and judges and cameras. And in those, he’s never finished in the top half. So he wins when anybody who disagrees that he won is out of the club. That’s how he gets it.”
— Sportswriter Rick Reilly called BS on Donald Trump after the former president declared himself the winner of both the club championship and senior club championship at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida, the HuffPost reports.
“RFK was never a serious threat to win a lot of votes, but with each passing day his candidacy looks increasingly like a dagger pointed at the heart of MAGA. And his choice of running mate is wild. … Yesterday, Kennedy announced that his VP will be Nicole Shanahan, who isn’t just the least-qualified, most preposterous character ever to appear on a presidential ticket polling above 5 percent. She’s also going to be catnip to a particular kind of low-intensity Trump voter.”
“And this is very important and very important to me. I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul. …. We’ve lost religion in our country. All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many, it’s my favorite book, it’s a lot of people’s favorite book. This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make America great again is our religion. Religion is so important, it’s so missing.”
— Donald Trump is celebrating Easter by selling copies of his latest product, the God Bless the USA Bible, for $59.99 each.
“Wow! Ronna McDaniel got fired by Fake News NBC. She only lasted two days, and this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear. It leaves her in a very strange place, it’s called NEVER NEVERLAND, and it’s not a place you want to be.”
— Donald Trump made fun of Ronna McDaniel after NBC News ended its contract with her following an internal uproar across the company, The Hill reports.
President Biden’s campaign slammed Donald Trump as “weak and desperate – both as a man and a candidate for president.” The statement continued: “He spent the weekend golfing, the morning comparing himself to Jesus, and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn’t have. His campaign can’t raise money, he is uninterested in campaigning outside his country club, and every time he opens his mouth, he pushes moderate and suburban voters away with his dangerous agenda.” It concludes: “America deserves better than a feeble, confused, and tired Donald Trump.”
“Donald Trump’s idea to implement a 10% tariff on all imported goods would spike prices by as much as $1,500 annually for American families,” Semafor reports. “Published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the report estimates that yearly costs would rise by $90 for food, $90 for pharmaceutical drugs, and $120 oil-related products like gasoline.
Punchbowl News: “Congress approved more than $71 million in earmarks for lawmakers who voted against the most recent minibus spending bill, according to a Punchbowl News analysis. This is a prime example of what former Speaker Nancy Pelosi says: They voted no but took the dough. We have a simple spreadsheet of the lawmakers who landed projects and then voted against the $1.2 trillion spending package.”
In a head-to-head presidential election match up, a new Quinnipiac poll finds President Biden leading Donald Trump nationally, 48% to 45%. When the match up is expanded to include independent candidates, Trump edges Biden, 39% to 38%, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at 13%, Jill Stein at 4% and Cornel West at 3%. Pollster Tim Malloy: “Way too close to call on the head-to-head and even closer when third party candidates are counted. The backstretch is months away and this is about as close as it can get.”
A new Fox News poll finds 59% of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, up from the previous high of 57% in September 2022. Voters oppose a 15-week ban by 11 points (54% oppose vs. 43% favor), which is in direct contrast with results in 2023 when it was favored by 12 points (42% oppose vs. 54% favor).
“President Joe Biden has gained ground against Republican Donald Trump in six of seven key swing states, and significantly so in at least two of them. The results make for the Democrat’s strongest position yet in a monthly Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll. …. The shift was significant in Wisconsin, where Biden leads Trump by one point after trailing him by four points in February, and in Pennsylvania, where the candidates are tied after Trump held a six-point lead last month. They are also tied in Michigan.”
Thank you very much, Sir Bill Maher! If I believed in some kinda god, I’d ask him to bless you with a long and happy life, but instead I can only hope that you avoid small airplanes, walking alone at nite and above all unknown motel rooms!
Excellence In Bushbashing. I wish you were on network TV.
J
Riot on Maher! Your astute observations always make me giggle with glee. I wish I could do your job- railing at idiots while laughing in their dumbstruck faces. I just want to kick their lying asses. Your way is better. Keep up the good work. America needs you.
The cracks are apparently starting to show. I wonder what the Administration why use next to whitewash over it all to hide the fact that they’ve sold the country and divided up the profits among the major US Corporations.
Bush and co. not worried. they have the paperless electronic machines which the fed are paying for. who can resist a freeby. and Louisiana just happens to be currently in the bidding process. Diebold appears to be the winner.
But, Bill, the best is that Kenyon (a sub. of SCI) was awarded contract to collect the dead. A refresher — SCI was the company involved in the Texas scandal “Funeralgate” while Bush in office. This also the trial Alberto Gonzales ruled that Bush was not required to testify. Would have made for some good sound bites during the 2000 election.
Needless to say, if all holds true the body count for Katrina in NO will prob. not reach 1000. SCI has a formula for making bodies disappear. Comes in handy when you don’t want them counted.
Wasn’t Herbert Hoover an engineer (of water projects, no less). I agree with Bill M., that Bush is a horrible president…just don’t think using Hoover was quite appropriate because of Hoover’s engineering background.
The really interesting point about the Herbert Hoover crack is that he, as Sec. of Commerce, was actually very effective at preparing for and giving aid to thousands of people devastated by the 1927 flood in NO. In fact he managed to get water, food and aid to people stranded on top of levees with model T era trucks, horses and a tin can with string to people faster and better than Bush and his loveless cronies with humvees, amphibioius vehicles and satelite phones.
We have debated this here in the Pensito Review electronic garret and come to the decision that Andrew Jackson is the only president who comes close to having a record as bad as GWB’s. Jackson ordered the genocide of native people who were technically (and really) American citizens.
Bush started a war for no other reason than his aristocratic whim, and as a result, thousands of American service members and innocent Iraqis have died.
Hoover had bad luck which was compounded by the misplaced belief that capitalism would quickly right itself after the Depression.
I wouldn’t even put him on the list of the top five”worst” presidents, which might go like this:
1. George W. Bush
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Richard Nixon
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. James M. Garfield