Obama’s freshly-confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder told senators that he was open to declassifying White House legal memos if no support for their original classification could be found, signaling a likely showdown with former President George W. Bush over executive privilege.

What’s Bush gonna do - hold his breath until he turns blue?

But I have done my bit - the George W Buch Catbox.

Ugh, and I have to live in this state.

God, brainfarting this early in the morning.  Make that “The George W Bush Cat Litterbox”.

Hmm - wonder if you could make money printing his image on, um, inappropriate objects?

Hmmm ... So Shrub gets his name on the Midland County Courthouse (West Bumfug, Texas) but he has to share it with his dad? My my, how the mighty have fallen. Well, with any luck he’ll finally get that square in Baghdad named after him, as Richard Perle predicted.

Sorry if I’m overflowing with schadenfreude this morning but ex-presidents—especially two term ones—usually aim a little higher than this.

Amazing: even after he has left office, y’all still have Bush Derangement Syndrome.

That’s like saying that naming a street after Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg would be outlandish. Even when you have a 25% approval rating (it’s down to the low 40s even in Texas), there are still likely to be pockets out there in tumbleweed country that are enthusiastically supportive of this incurious, destructive shitstain.

The holdouts are Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Austin Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
That’s our Lloyd!

I think anyone whose trial was held there would have a prima facie case for dismissal based on prejudicial venue.

Hmm, don’t think I’ve ever peed on a courthouse before…

Heh, even after Bush has left office, he still has people who hate America enough to defend him.  Amazing.

Amazing: even after he has left office, y’all still have Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The man started a war against a nation that neither attacked us nor had the means by which to attack us.  He’s killed over 4500 American troops, maimed 3X as many, while begrudging them a 3.5% raise—3% was plenty for him, though he never once allowed questioning of Halliburton’s gross misuse of their no-bid contract funds.

This does not count the 2 million Iraqis that have been killed, maimed, orphaned, widowed or displaced.  It doesn’t count it b/c the man doesn’t give a shit about those people and made sure that no one reported their numbers.  It took him years to ever mention them, even in a watered-down number.

He allowed a perfectly good American city to be drowned by ignoring a predicted disaster for days and by staffing important government positions with unqualified idiots.

He shat upon the Constitution and made us into the USSR-lite with rendition and torture.  He imprisoned people without habeus corpus—>were they really terrorists?  Are they really who we think they are?  Were mistakes made?  We’ll never know, b/c a right that has been recognized since the 14th C is simply quaint under his administration.

As are our international treaties.  The Geneva Conventions are law, according to the Constitution, not quaint.  Not to W and his administration, though.

Do you get it yet, Dana?  We do not hate Bush b/c we hate Bush.  It’s not an irrational circular reasoning issue.  It’s not b/c he’s a Republican.  We hate Bush because he did unforgivable and hateful things.

Personally, reinstating the ban on stem-cell research was enough for me.  My grandfather died of Parkinsons, thanks in part to losing 12 years he didn’t have to the idiocy of Reagan and Bush the first.

I still hope to see W and Cheney tried for their crimes and hanged by the neck until dead.  Rice and Rummy, too.  Nothing deranged about it, Dana, just a desire for the return to justice and the rule of law.

Thank you, Caren.

*applause*

Don’t fret, it’s just Midland. Let them do whatever they want.

Problem is that Houston Intercontinental Airport is also named George HW Bush Airport. Now I have to give 41 credit that he actually bought a house here and lives in it from time to time. His previous presence in TX was a mail drop and a priority lease on a hotel room at a private club.

I want it to go back to being Houston Intercontinental. Sam Houston was a weak abolitionist who favored a slave buyout as Lincoln had talked about and spoke against succession.

BTW, In local lingo IAH (aka GHWB airport) is known as “the big airport”. Hobby Airport is just called “hobby”. Don’t sell Hobby Airport short; it is the third largest in Texas

I still hope to see W and Cheney tried for their crimes and hanged by the neck until dead.  Rice and Rummy, too.  Nothing deranged about it, Dana, just a desire for the return to justice and the rule of law.

I’m irrational enough that I want the poetic justice of having them face what they’ve done. I want Bush abandoned in the 9th Ward with no way to prove who he is, and him have to live the next 20 years in the mess he created. I want Cheney’s health care turned over to some no-bid contractors who give him cut price care, leaving him in agony. I want Rumsfeld left in Sadr City to face the people whose relatives were slaughtered by his desire for better bombing targets.

However, in the real world I’d be happy with war crimes tribunals in The Hague, with whatever sentencing is decided on there. Dana, is there a reason you’re opposed to justice?

However, in the real world I’d be happy with war crimes tribunals in The Hague, with whatever sentencing is decided on there. Dana, is there a reason you’re opposed to justice?

He’s a Republican.  They do righteousness and retribution - they don’t have a clue what justice is, along with peace or the human weal.

Justice would be seeing George Bush ranked as one of our better presidents, which will be the case afte a couple of decades of reflection.  He has done the right thing for America far more often than not.

Dana, what calculus allows you to reach that conclusion?
Seriously. Name a field of governance, and I’m certain you can get a detailed list of how he messed it up.

Also, what 50% of presidents (one of our better) do you see as worse? Name a field in which they outdid W in poor performance.

PiaToR: He’s a Republican.  They do righteousness and retribution - they don’t have a clue what justice is, along with peace or the human weal.

Dana: Justice would be seeing George Bush ranked as one of our better presidents, which will be the case afte a couple of decades of reflection.

Q.E. fucking. D.

BTW, Dana - there’s a US jobs report due out tomorrow. It’s almost certain it will contain bad, bad news.

We look forward to your energetic fan-dancing to make it all about Obama and nothing to do with your hero.

Dana—Specific examples please. Early on in Shrub’s tenure I had an uncomfortable exchange with a friend whose political ideologies are a 180 departure from mine. In short, she’s a Texan and I think just thought Daddy’s politics would do as she admits to paying no attention to current events or the political process.

I could ignore most of what she said and attempted to keep things out of the political realm in our conversations but couldn’t bite my tongue any longer when she said “I don’t see why you are upset, I just don’t think he’s doing anything wrong.” This, by the way, was when he was working to convince anyone who would stand still for a minute that we NEEDED to INVADE IRAQ because they had those BIG BAD WMD’s

My point? Too few Republicans pay attention to anything even remotely resembling the current reality but are more than happy to give baseless praise to Shrub. He’s not a great man, he’s not even a good man. He’s an unintelligent, arrogant, insecure, narrow-minded, misogynistic prick…

So again…What the HELL makes him a good president today, tomorrow or a thousand years from now?

Justice would be seeing George Bush ranked as one of our better presidents, which will be the case afte a couple of decades of reflection.  He has done the right thing for America far more often than not.

Bartender, I’ll have what he’s having.

Dana,

Having just come from work where I learned today that our hours are being cut back from 40 to 35 a week until further notice, I’m kind of keen to hear your explanation of how Bush Jr was better than half our previous Presidents too.

I have to wonder if Mad Magazine has finally stopped running those “Vote for Alfred E. Neuman” mock-campaign posters after 2000.

They were hilarious. My favorite, vintage ‘76 or ‘80, was the one showing Alfie in a hard hat, plugging one ear with one hand—Caption: “America Is On the Brink of Ruin! Vote For Alfie and He’ll FINISH THE JOB!” His other hand, you see, was on a dynamite plunger….

But it all rings hollow after the past 8 years. There is this awful echoing silence, kind of like that dynamite actually did go off.

Dana,

During the “Let’s try to redeem my legacy tour”, Bushco kept up the claim that “home ownership” was something they had really pushed for during their administration.

Home ownership is back at 2000 year levels.  Fail, yet again.

There is no redeeming feature from this administration.  There’s no way to put W anywhere but at the absolute bottom of the Presidential pile.

See, Dana, I feel every single person has meaning and value.  No person is fungible, to quote Dick Cheney.

Every single person killed, maimed, widowed, orphaned, and displaced from Iraq is on my national soul.  It was done in my name.  It was done based on lies.  There were no WMD and no imminent threat that demanded military action there.  That’s why we went in on our own for the most part…most of our allies knew we were lying and wanted to wait for further proof from the UN.

There was no reason to take our eyes off Afghanistan or Bin Laden.  There was no reason to destroy Iraq, break our army, deplete our treasury, give no bid, no oversight, no auditing contracts to Cheney’s friends and employers.  It’s evil, it will always be seen as evil.  In fact, as W’s papers are declassified, it will come to be seen as our time of going crazy.

I’m hopeful that Barack will get us back on track.  I’m not thinking he’s going to be the most awesomest President ever, but at least he wants to respect the Constitution, has started a much more transparent administration, and made an executive order that people cannot be hired for a position unless they have the proper training and experience.

No more horse traders in charge of FEMA.  There was no reason for us to lose a perfectly good American city.

C’mon Dana, what do you think he did?  Have you seen the reports of food recalls?  Of lead in toys, even from major manufacturers?  W did not keep us safe, he endangered us by staffing important regulatory agencies with corporate wonks and idiots.  He POLITICIZED the Dept. of Justice.

He did prove definitively that trickle down doesn’t work and that tax cuts for the rich only serve to widen the gulf between rich and poor.  I suppose we could thank him for that, you know, right before he swings for war crimes.

I liked Condi when I was at Stanford.  She’s not stupid.  She sold her soul to have the office next to the President, though, and she deserves to pay the price.

I learned a long time ago that it’s a bad, bad idea to name anything after anyone living.  A particular municipality named a couple of streets, public buildings, and I think a park after its biggest developer, which proved a huge embarassment when the developer went to prison for bribery, corruption, money laundering, and coke dealing.  Par for the course for Miami in the 80s, though.