“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
It’s one thing to, at Christmas, give your kid an Atari.
It’s another thing, at midlife, to gift yourself a Ferrari.
But when you’re the U.S. President,
You’ve got to be wary of those emoluments,
And don’t go accepting $400 million jets from the Qataris.
“Democrats are coming around to a new mantra: winning the argument is less important than winning elections. If the path to victory means embracing economic populism, they’ll do it. If they have to make room for new faces, then sayonara, old friends. If they need to tack to the center on some social issues, so be it. If winning requires doing more podcasts, or embracing Instagram influencers, or campaigning on permitting reform, they’ll give it a try. Because now that Democrats have seen what a second Trump presidency looks like, they’re relearning the lesson they should have known all along: only winning is winning.”
“Well, tariffs are taxes, and when you put a tax on a business, it’s always passed through as a cost. So, there will be higher prices. The only trade that means anything is the individual who buys something. That’s the only real trade. And that by very definition, if it’s voluntary, is mutually beneficial, or the trade doesn’t occur.”
“It appears that Trump does care about the internal character of regimes he deals with. Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether, Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the American context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad. And he wishes to spread those values around the world. … Whatever you say about this policy, it is not amoral. The primary difference between the Trump doctrine and traditional American values promotion is that the former, rather than seeking to impose a moral world order, aspires to create an immoral one.”
“This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants. This is not, ‘Hey, if you lose, we are shipping you out on a boat out of the country.’”
— Television producer Rob Worsoff, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, confirming that he’s working with the Department of Homeland Security on a reality television show.
“While many have speculated that the Qataris have offered Trump the luxurious plane to curry favor with the famously transactional president, there may be a simpler rationale: they just don’t want it anymore. … The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs… Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.”
“The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants,” Politico reports.
According to new Axios Harris Poll 100 survey results, Elon Musk’s polarizing political activism appears to have come at the expense of his largest companies, as Republicans expressed more favorable opinions than did Democrats. Tesla was in 8th place in the 2021 reputation ranking of America’s 100 most visible companies, but last year tumbled to 63rd and now is near the very bottom at 95th. It placed dead last in “character,” while placing near the bottom in areas like “ethics” and “citizenship. Six other automakers place higher, with the highest being Toyota at No. 4 and the lowest being Ford at No. 60.
“Pope Leo XIV spurned J.D. Vance on Sunday, offering him a quick greeting after his inaugural mass while holding extensive private meetings with other world leaders,” the Daily Beast reports. “The first American pope shook Vance’s hand during a brief, 17-second exchange during the procession line after the mass.”
“The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya,” NBC News reports. “In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago.”
A new J.L. Partners survey found 46% of Republican voters are ready to back Vice President J.D. Vance as President Donald Trump’s successor, while no other named prospect got more than double-digit support. Just 8% would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while 7% supported Vivek Ramaswamy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) each received 6% support.
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