Oh, please hurry and further desecrate that sacred mountain. Tom Cruise may be thinking of remaking "North by Northwest". Can just see him dangling from one of Shrub's nostrils. At the base, one could depict Cheney firing upwards.

Here's a couple more:

1) He took more vacation than any other President because hardly anything happened while he was "the decider".

2) He prepared the nation for 911 after being briefed about OBL's determination to attack by making sure the briefer "covered his butt" (A direct "action man" quote!)

3) He waited a week or so after Katrina to "make sure" the hurricane was really going to hit.

4) He ignored financial crisis warning signs from Nobel prize winning economists because he believed he can "make his own" reality.

Hey, making this $hit up is fun!

Oh, and don't forget, he pioneered the signing statement just in case a law doesn't work out so he could get a do-over and ignore Congressional intent! Boy, that Bush was a boy-genius! -Kevo

How are Obama's promises to close Guantanamo and vigorously oppose torture as state policy going?

The last one should be amended to read:

* After 9/11, the anthrax mailings, and the DC sniper, President Bush kept America safe from terrorist attacks on American soil.

*He has impressed the need for proper stocking wear in airports

Yes....Gilligan & Skipper's eight year tour came to the rescue and changed the island for the better for sure....howyadoin!

How are Obama's promises to close Guantanamo and vigorously oppose torture as state policy going?

Newsflash

Obama's not the president yet, genius.

But, he has tapped rule of law and anti-torture (wow, to have to state the explicitly is scary) nominees for his cabinet.

How are Obama's promises to close Guantanamo and vigorously oppose torture as state policy going? -- gregor, @12:29

How about you ask the same question on January 11, 2017? Or, at the very least, on January 11, 2010? Like, you know, after Obama had actually been a president for a while?

Some enterprising moderniste artist needs to make a giant sculpture of GW Bush, indeed - in excrement.

After the Enron collapse, there were no collapses for six years, until now.

Am I the only one who feel's like this list, which is complete sarcasm, would almost be a more reasonable serious list than Barnes'?

Gregor seems to be one of those conservative commenters on Jon Swift's blog. It is hilarious to see that there are actually people who believe that Jon is sincere in 'defending' the Bush Administration.

Is that another shortcoming of conservatives? A lack of humor other than being on the receiving end of Redneck jokes.

Looking a little closer to Fred's list, it's even more ridiculous than the headlines picked from it.

Bush jettisons Kyoto Protocol: The treaty was a disaster, with [...] economic decline the certain result. Everyone knew it. But only Bush said so and acted accordingly.

According to Fred's logic; President Bush actually planned the financial collapse we are experiencing at the moment by boycotting the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.

We need to again appeal more to the right-wing's love of commemorating themselves with statues, buildings, stadiums, and the like.
Rushmore? Well, maybe.
Instead, how about resurrecting San Francisco's idea of naming a sewage treatment plant for Georgie. The idea could be expanded to include meat rendering plants, prisons, or asylums.

I made a small monument to him today, but I had to flush it down the loo after I finished the paperwork for it.

Does that count?

In what turned out to be disturbing upon reflection...

In the model of Barnes, I took this list at face value for a good 20 seconds of reading. Clearly the device and method used were good enough to get me wondering if Swift wasn't doing this from a conservative standpoint or as satire.

Sad sad state of conservative affairs we're in.

"Instead, how about resurrecting San Francisco's idea of naming a sewage treatment plant for Georgie."

Unlike Georgie boy, a sewage treatment plant is actually useful. And we shouldn't make people in asylums feel any worse than they already do.

Maybe prison would be appropriate, it would really be a deterrent to criminals. After all, who would want to be in the "George W. Bush Correctional Institute"?

Typically I don't read links such as the one you had to Fred Barnes' WS article praising Bush. In this case I felt compelled to because I figured you must be unfairly taking Barnes' comments out of context. If anything you have understated Barnes' delusions. I thought conservatives simply spoke in euphamisms and would never actually assert directly something as absurd as that waterboarding as torture is debatable.

The list doesn't work as humor because in almost every case worse events followed the one that was supposedly the humorous nadir. The economy is still shrinking, for example. Attorney-gate followed Plame. It is more satiric to list the nadir of his bad leadership as "he kept American anxious the Obama inauguration."

Domestic terror: The cities have are the real places of terror--when was the last time anyone went shopping in downtown Camden after dark? Or East LA? Funny how terror means foreigners who scare wealthy white people. The real terror of gangs and poverty still threatens urban America--and of the trillions squandered in Bush's GWOT, almost nothing was spent in countering real domestic terror. Thousands die every year. Shot, frozen or sent to prison never to return.