"I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe."

Mostly cloudy, with a 90% chance of fail.

Fred Barnes: Ann Coulter, with tenure.

In his latest gem, ....

Hey now, I can appreciate sarcasm as well as anyone else. But calling a bucket of rancid, worm0infested cat-vomit "a gem" seems, well---a bit overgenerous, don't you think?

I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe.

I've never been to the Umpteenth Concentric Circle of Hell (it doesn't exist in a reality-based universe, by the way), so I wouldn't know what the weather is like there---or, if they even have weather. I understand that they do, though, have full-sized portraits of Giuliani in Palin-piggy lipstick, a floor-length leather evening gown, and spiked-heel jackboots---which is probably what gets buffoons like Barnes all drooley-mouthed in the first place....

He and Cliff May live in perpetual Tule Fog. They, both, are in constant danger of being run over by Reality Big Rigs coming down the Grapevine.

barnes was smart enough to quit at 10...

meanwhile...

this week..

white house spokesperson dana perino was a guest on the daily show...

she was asked about the white house issued report titled...

100 things americans may not know about the bush administration...

stewart pointed out to perino that..

a. the list not numbered from 1 to 100...

and..

b. there weren't even 100..

http://blog.indecision2008.com/2009/01/09/dana-perino-appears-on-the-daily-show/

the part i refer to starts at 6:00

f.y.i...

you'll note...

perino isn't the least bit embarrassed..

There is an Ann Coulter-like quality to Barnes' piece, except that she would have called it "ten ways Bush pissed off the liberals". At least that appears to be how Barnes measures success.

"I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe."

Heavy, heavy fog with gale-force gusts of hot air.

battered spouse syndrome. masochism. deliberate obfuscation. flat-earthing. whatever, he's a dick, this piece puts the final dick nail in his dick coffin, and any member of the media who pays for his opinions wants to join him in dick heaven.

11. He never soiled himself in public.
12. He didn't get a blow job from a White House intern.

"I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe."

The sky is pink and the moons are retrograde.

Well, I agree that he was braver than Ronald Reagan, but then, it doesn't take much, does it? Reagan was the quintessential loudmouthed bully who spouted terms like "evil empire" and "mad dog" while quietly giving Iran everything it wanted under the table. And when his administration was caught in a brazenly illegal misappropriation of taxpayers' property in said arms deal, he conveniently forgot that he had ever heard anything about it.

I'm not sure what relations he improved over here in Japan. They were pretty burned when they took North Korea off the evil axis list without ever addressing the kidnapping of Japanese citizens (often teenagers) to train Pyongyang's spies in the language.

They're none too impressed with the tanking of the economy under his watch.

Something interesting that I missed during the campaign because I don't usually read the HuffPo.

I'm linking to an article that appeared on Nov 2nd, asking various "pundits" on both the left and right (and center) who was going to win the election, the margins and what Congress was going to look like.

Barnes was the only one who predicted an McCain win, but it was interesting to read who predicted what and how shockingly close the results were to some of the predictions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/election-predictions-pund_n_140149.html

How about this for #11:

While Bush was in office - we ONLY got hit by ONE terrorist attack.

I laughed a little reading your article, but the original article brought me close to tears. Can anyone really be this idiotic? Barnes isn't just everything wrong with the modern Republican party, he's about as close to being everything wrong with humanity you can be without actually killing someone with your own hands.

Or consider Fred's prediction prior to Fallujah - Newspapers of an Iman had been shut down - Fred said this was great, because it would force the hand of the leader and all would be over in three days.

But, please do not disturb Fred, as he is currently listening to Shrub's new recording of "I did it MY way".

Fred Barnes' defense of Bush is everything writers here say it is. Forecast: continued balmy. But let's give Barnes credit for two things:

1. He actually believes all that nonsense.
2. He gives us his appraisal now instead of insisting one isn't qualified to judge Bush without first waiting 40 years. I don't know about you, but such an exercise would pre-empt me.

The four-decade moratorium on criticism, endorsed first by Michael Barone, is based largely on the record of Harry Truman, the president Bush thinks he's most like. But, as other observers have noted, where is Bush's Marshall plan, his formula for winning a Cold War, etc.?

Getting back to Barnes: Two years ago, he wrote a book highlighting the things Bush almost accomplished.
At least, the just-published list of ten is what Bush actually did,
or what Barnes claims he did.

The list is an enjoyable diversion. But that celebrating of "enhanced interrogation" creeps me out.

It's quite humid up Bush's ass, I'd imagine.

How's that "Rebel In Chief" book selling, Fred?

#13. he never threw up on the prime minister of japan.

Points #2 and #3 are as anti-American as you can get and #1 could be argued as sabotage.
But Barnes has built his years-long case and books on pure fabrication and when you do that you can correct yourself eventually or continue to lie to cover or support your previous lies. You just have to keep piling it on in order to keep 'substantiating' the crap you've spewed before.
It's how Bush governed and Barnes adopted the style.

You know when I first read this I thought you were joshing us. How does a guy like Barnes get paid for writing that nonsense? He delivered his second inaugural address? Yea and I took a good crap this morning.

Hmm. Bush's #1 achievement should obviously be: He took more vacation days than any other sitting President.

I look forward to seeing Barney's list of Obama's achievements. At the rate he's going, Obama will achieve more in his first 6 months than Bush did in 8 years. Of course, he's been left such a big mess that it'd be hard for a responsible, functional adult to NOT achieve something.

Fred must think the pay for ghost-writing Bush's memoir is going to be going to be really, really good.

(No, Fred doesn't have the gig yet, and Bush isn't shopping his book yet, but Fred must think you can never kiss ass too early or too often.)

Obviously, the inside of Fred Barnes thoughts, ideas and intellect:

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Yeah, I see Barnes as a great thinker - NOT! -Kevo

That's Fred W. Barnes.

"I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe."

Balmy, of course.

Liberals rule; conservatives drool. Fred's just one more example.

The single biggest accomplishment on Bush's watch was the Marine Monuments he created last week.

Barnes wouldn't count those because that's not a conservative value

On the other hand, do we really give Bush credit for something he's been waiting on until the end of his presidency? Obama would have done signed those into law anyway within his first term.

"6. He delivered his second inaugural address."

Huh? Did I miss something? Did Shrubby deliver his version of "I have a Dream" or "Ask not what your country..." or "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" or even "Sir, we've hit an iceberg"?

I just don't believe it. This reads like a parody.

He improved U.S. relations with Japan, South Korea, and Australia.

As compared to when Clinton was president and we were engaged in a furious cold war with those countries, and, more than once, came to the brink of all-out war.....

Seriously, claiming "improved relations" with long-term US friends and allies as an achievement? That's like taking credit for brushing your teeth.

6. He delivered his second inaugural address.

Again, as compared to Clinton, who never delivered his second inaugural address....oh, wait, no, he did. And so did every other president who won a second term.

What was No. 11? Successfully tied his shoes?

I wonder what the weather is like in Fred Barnes' universe?

Barnes is pissing down everyone's leg and telling them it's raining.

The bizarre thing is that a long, long, time ago, Fred Barnes wrote mostly sane, sensible stuff for the New Republic. Same with Morton Kondracke. There was no hint of the hilariously pathetic Bush-licking sycophancy to come. It's like Rupert Murdoch personally performed some sort of lobotomy on both of them.

"9. He improved U.S. relations with Japan, South Korea, and Australia."

He's got to be kidding. According to ALL available polling huge majorities (>2/3) of the population in all 3 countries disapprove of the US government and its policies under Bush. While residual good feeling persists towards Americans, and America, Bush substantially degraded US relations with these 3, and practically every other country on earth.

While Bush enjoyed "good relations" with ex Aussie PM John Howard, Fred Barnes doesn't appear to have noticed that Howard and his Bush-pandering party were unceremoniously booted from office some time ago, due in no small part to the toxic Bush association.

Barnes is really grasping at strawmen if he's citing improved US relations anywhere in the Pacific Rim.

I'm sure that Barnes looks at one moon, and a beautiful blue sky.

Leftists on the other hand look at bleak and forbidding skies except for the huge neon sign they worship as a deity which continually flashes: " America is the source of all evil. Always, without fail blame America first"

Always, without fail blame America first

These days, the overlap between actual right-wingers and parodies of same on the Venn Diagram just looks like a circle.

Well, like they say in Washington, "Hang a lantern on your problem." Or light 'em up like the Las Vegas Strip, if you have a record like this Administration's...