Actually, the Remarkable Thing is This Was on MARKETWATCH

Yes. The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch. They're hosting a pretty mindblowing indictment of the Bush presidency. It's so true - everyone (except for a few brickheads) is really looking forward to Tuesday. Marketwatch's Washington bureau chief Rex Nutting on...

Seven most horrible things about Bush presidency
Commentary: An alternative to commander-in-chief's view of his time in office

The remarkable thing about President George W. Bush wasn't that he was a horrible chief executive; it's that he was horrible in so many ways.

Contrary to the president's own assessment of his tenure earlier this week, it was an astonishing eight years - and not in a good way. The country suffered two recessions, and two shooting wars. The government botched its response to a brazen attack by terrorists on two cities, and then four years later utterly failed to react when another city was consumed by a natural disaster.

The president took on tyranny by embracing torture. He fought a war for freedom by trampling human rights. He enriched the already rich, excused their excesses, and then bailed them out of trouble and handed us the bill.

He politicized everything, promoted incompetents, and -- whenever things got tight -- appealed to our basest instincts of fear, greed, ignorance and hate.

Bush had all the luck of Jimmy Carter, the attention to detail of Ronald Reagan, the adaptability of Lyndon Johnson, the abiding respect for the Constitution of Richard Nixon, the humility of Teddy Roosevelt, the rhetorical skills of Calvin Coolidge, the fiscal restraint of Franklin Roosevelt, the cronyism of Warren Harding, and the overreaching idealism of Woodrow Wilson.

In a nutshell, those seven most horrible things are:

7. Bush politicized parts of the government that should be nonpartisan.

6. Bush squandered the budget surplus. 

5. Bush comforted the comfortable and afflicted the afflicted. 

4. Bush rewarded incompetence.

3. Bush lied us into war. 

2. Bush has exposed himself to war crime charges. 

1. Bush weakened our democracy.

Go read it. It's on the desktop of almost every business exec in the country.

Comments

[Aaaargh]

See, the thing is, all those things are PLUSES for the WSJ while there's Rethuglican in the White House.

They're just moving the goalposts back for Obama so they can shout "Rule of Law" and start impeachment proceedings against him for nothing in particular.

[Bruuno]

No, here's the most remarkable thing of all:

Despite the US Supreme Court, despite the entire Republican party and its supporters, despite mainstream media, despite the "loyal opposition", there were some of us who knew this was coming BEFORE
it happened.
An IQ of 80 was sufficient to see it coming.

[lawton]

I agree Bruuno. I actually predicted this mess a few days after the Florida debacle. It could not have played out any other possible way. The 2000 election was a major, major, fucking crime that begged to be topped. Bush and Cheney have out done themselves on this aspect of it. Their actions since have made Florida just a fly speck on the wall.