–no earthquakes
–no Ebola epidemic
–no EL meteor/asteroid strikes
–no tsunamis
–no nuclear reactor “China Syndrome”
–no invasion of the eggplant that ate Chicago
–no monsoons
–no total eclipses of the sun
–no fire and brimstone raining down from heaven
–no rampaging herds of elephants
–no swarms of locusts
–no invasion of ETs. . .

How can you say that BushCo has done nothing to improve life in these United States?????

Sounds like it’s a good time to buy stock and housing on the cheap, start an insurance company, hire a bunch of very qualified people who are now unemployed and take a trip to Iraq. You people see doom, I see opportunity.

I see plenty of opportunity as well. Not only in the economy, but particularly in foreign policy. The future’s looking real bright about now. In fact, I was remarking on New Year’s eve, that this would be the first New Year in my lifetime when I’m really looking forward to next year being vastly better than the last.

However, I’m not going to thank Bush for creating such a “high opportunity margin” situation. Screwing everything up is still a bad thing, and in the interests of not letting wingnuts screw everything up again, it needs to be pointed out.

Nah conservatives have just been scientifically proven to be stupider than liberals. Have fun in Iraq. Go now, fly away, let not the opportunities you seek go wanting. Speak of it no more but hie thee away on the wings of your altruism of course tempered with the ever present conservative GREED. Let not that pesky reality thing constrain your boundless conservative optimism. Do not deprive Iraq of your peerless essence.

True enough and a good point but if Kel was using that standard then the number in Bush’s last year would not be zero.

$30.1 trillion in market value wiped out

Note Bolten and Hadley never mentioned Hurricane Katrina in their NYT historical revisions. America noted Bush’s “deep knowledge and concern” in that domestic event.

The White House never released an internal time line with action taken regarding Katrina. They fought Congress’ request for e-mails between Andy Card and Frances Townsend. Bush’s promised robust investigation report was simply a bust. Much like his Presidency.

January 2nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
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It all depends what you want to classify as a domestic terrorist attack. The KKK lynching a black man? The Symbionese Liberation Army holding hostages at a bank? The Right-to-Lifers blowing up a doctor’s office? A bomb at the Mexican Consulate in New York? Gangs beating an Ecuadoran immigrant to death?

If any of these acts were committed by Muslim groups, we’d immediately label them “terrorist.”

Where can we sign up to shovel coal on them?

It is pretty obvious that he doesn’t care about the future of the US as a nation. He doesn’t give a damn about the middle class. His only cares are the have-mores war profiteers Zionist pigs.

In order to have a rational measurement that Bush could take credit for, it would have to be:

Number of terrorist attacks prevented: 0

That’s not an accomplishment either. In fact, it wouldn’t be worth mentioning except for all of the basic constitutional rights that have been violated in order to make this lack of an achievement possible.

Are you THAT hung over?

Yes, I am (was) way freaking hung over.

But not, apparently, as hung over as you and all the others that failed to realize that the topic of the thread was 2008.

To mark the passing of Bush’s last full year in office, ThinkProgress rounded up statistics on some of the most significant effects of Bush rule in 2008:

But hey, whatever. Not only are conservatives better shots, we also hold our drink better. :)

Few officials have had a closer view of the Bush presidency over the past eight years than Bolten and Hadley, who are among the handful of senior staffers who entered the White House with Bush in 2001 and will exit with him on Jan. 20. [...]
Last week, in lengthy interviews in the spacious chief of staff’s office in the West Wing, Bolten and Hadley reflected on their White House years and painted an affectionate portrait of the president. As two of the top officials who have had to defend controversial administration policies for the duration of the Bush presidency, they voiced frustration over their inability to improve Bush’s popularity and to counter the administration’s image of arrogance. But in a wide-ranging conversation lasting more than two hours, the two men also rebutted what they consider common misconceptions of the George W. Bush era, such as the president’s alleged insulation from bad news and the view that Vice President Cheney wielded unbridled behind-the-scenes power.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101958.html?hpid=topnews

getcher boots on…

January 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Rise for Fourth Year in a Row -
http://www.splcenter.org/ blog/ 2008/ 10/ 29/ anti-latino-hate-crimes-rise-for-fourth-year/

1000+ anti-gay hate crimes in 2008
http://current.com/ items/ 89652191/ 1000_anti_gay_hate_crimes_in_2008.htm