“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
Republican lawmakers are so performative, they’re artsy,
But as for governing, they’re not much of a party.
Though they’re ignoble and sophomoric,
They occasionally do the historic.
Like the firing of a House Speaker — lying Kevin McCarthy.
“Why is your husband such a pig? Why would he get on TV and make an asshole of himself? Because he’s a deep state prick? Because he doesn’t represent the people? So what we’re gonna do is we’re going fucking follow you all over the place. We’re gonna be up your ass fucking nonstop. We are now Antifa. We’re gonna do what the left does because your fucking faggot of a husband gets on TV, ‘Oh, the bad guys, they did stuff. I’m gonna vote for Kevin McCarthy,’ — a piece of shit.”
– Anonymous caller’s voicemail message to the wife of an unnamed Republican congressman who voted against Jim Jordan for House speaker.
“The fact that you and I are living in a world where it is at least notionally possible that Jim Jordan would become the speaker of the people’s house and in line to the presidency of the United States is so utterly fantastic, not because Jim Jordan is some, transdimensional warlock. But because he’s an idiot… These Frankensteins were never supposed to get off the table.”
“It’s been 5 years since we have seen one another. I look forward to the reunion. I hope Donald does as well.”
— “Donald Trump will back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial, setting up a potential face-to-face showdown with fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, who is expected to testify,” the AP reports.
“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not an operation, not a round of fighting, at war. I am initiating an extensive mobilization of the reserves to fight back on a scale and intensity that the enemy has so far not experienced. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price.”
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted by the Times of Israel.
“Republican 2024 presidential candidates blamed the Biden administration for the attacks Hamas terrorists launched against Israel on Saturday, pointing to the deadly developments as evidence of U.S. weakness on the world stage and claiming that the administration is partially responsible.”
“President Joe Biden, the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising committees brought in more than $71 million combined in this year’s third quarter,” Politico reports. “It’s a large, though not record-breaking, amount that has allowed Biden to launch a major TV and digital advertising campaign earlier than past presidents’ reelection efforts.”
Percentage of Israeli Jews who said the surprise attack from Gaza was a failure of the government of Prime Ministers Bibi Netanyahu. Among coalition government supporters, 79% blamed the leadership.
The US economy added 336,000 nonfarm jobs in September, nearly double the 170,000 jobs economists had predicted and surpassing the upwardly revised 227,000 jobs in August, according to government data released yesterday. The latest figure is the largest monthly increase since January. Most of the jobs in September were added in leisure and hospitality (96,000), government (73,000), and healthcare (41,000). Average hourly earnings in September were up 0.2% month-over-month and 4.2% year-over-year, slightly down from estimates of 0.3% and 4.3%. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.8% from the previous month. See all data here.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “In all, the Georgia GOP has spent more than $1 million on legal fees since the beginning of last year, most of it for the Trump election interference case.”
“President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden’s 2-year-old German shepherd, Commander, has been involved in more biting incidents than previously reported at the White House,“ CNN reports. “While the US Secret Service has acknowledged 11 reported biting incidents involving its personnel, sources who spoke to CNN said the real number is higher and includes executive residence staff and other White House workers.”
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