Go the fuck away. Please GO AWAY!

Guess who's not going to watch that farewell speech. Well, yeah, me, but I suspect I'll be joined by millions and millions of others.
. . . jim strain in san diego.

If he's doing all this to ensure his legacy with the public, shouldn't someone tell him that his speech will most likely run behind, not only the major networks, but the All-Nougat Channel in the ratings?

he's come to resemble one of those reconstituted rock bands that have been on a farewell tour since 1982. - Gail Collins

Is she thinking KC and the Sunshine Band doing "I'm your Boogie Man"?

I plan to put my fingers in my ears at 8:00 tonight and go, "LALALALALA" for an hour. Better yet, the teevee will stay off and I'll make use of the time reading Reining in the Imperial Presidency.

Maybe I am wrong, But I really think Bush does believe it.

He is so confident that he KNOWS that he did the right thing. It is only a matter of time before the rest of us realize how good a President he was.

After all, he helped the economy grow for 52 straight months. It isn't his fault the economy fell apart on his watch. It wasn't his fault that 9-11 happened on his watch. It wasn't his fault that Iraq turned out to be such a mess.

When history looks at his administration then HISTORY will realize that Bush was right and that the 60% of us who think he is terrible were wrong.

I really think Bush believes his own BS

You've covered your ass, you can leave now. (sound of jet engines roaring in background)

Good bye, good riddance. Now get your lame, sick, arrogant, sorry, murderous, ignorant ass off the tube.

PS: Dear GOP (Greedy, Oil and blood stained Putz)Dictator bu$$h:
Say 'hello' to your nearest competitor, the "Watching Paint Dry" channel when comparing your ratings tonight.

At the center of the stage is a locked phone booth. It's lit brightly, with George Bush standing in it, sporting his usual lost and quizzical look. From beneath the stage floor, underneath the booth and through a trap door used by the likes of David Copperfield, a hungry wolverine is released into the enclosure. The next 10-15 minutes of the show is how I'd like to remember George Bush. Free tickets to the stadium for everyone he tortured, all the dead relatives of slaughtered Iraqis and veteran's families.

Someone above has the greatest idea for his epitah:

He covered his ass, and now he is gone.

But a couple of hundred years from now, after the world economy collapses, taking down the entire system of nation-states with it, and the world is controlled by feudal warlords, and it is generally accepted that democracy did nothing except protect the weak who deserved to die anyway, George W. Bush will be regarded as a visionary. You read it here first.

Gosh, you guys are going to miss him. You could be defending Holder or Gaithner, or Richardson but all you want to talk about is Bush. I wonder why ?

I'm wondering if this has less to do with Bush's specific legacy and and more to do with the conservative machinery that went all in with him.

I can easily accept that Bush could care less what we think of him. But he's left his party in tatters and movement conservatism a shambles.
Now, they can't get away from him fast enough to be of any use. If conservatives can convince enough Americans that Bush wasn't as bad as he appeared, it follows that they aren't either.

I plan to put my fingers in my ears at 8:00 tonight and go, "LALALALALA" for an hour.

Good news MsMolly. He's only supposed to talk for 10-15 minutes. I guess he's hoping William Bennet and other blowhards will repeat or embellish for the next 45.

Meanwhile my Tivo guide shows that ABC is the only channel not showing Bush. Ugly Betty never looked like a better option.

Posted by: neil wilson on January 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Neil, I think you're half right. Bush believes i the rightness of what he's done, but he knows we don't. This media blita is to convince us of what he already knows, but the more we don't bite, the less sure he seems of himself. Think of the last holdout in 12 Angry Men, before he finally cracks and says "not guilty." Only in this case, he IS guilty. He might not know it or believe it yet, but he will. I'd hate to be the member of the house staff that'll be assigned to make Bush's suicide look like an accident - scrape the brains of the walls, find someone willing to make it look like he died in his sleep, etc.

Yes, Mike K, we will miss the easy blog posts. I mean you can't make this sh*t up! And why aren't we spending our time defending Future AG Holder and Future SecTreas Geithner? See, when you get smart, dedicated people appointed to positions, they don't need more defending, they can do it themselves. See how that works? Neither Eric Holder nor Tim Geithner needs my help.

Doesn't it seem that we have all been so pre-conditioned to think our President is lying to us, that we have a hard time trusting Obama, even if he is on our side. Obviously, we are all used to being lied to by politicians a large portion of the time, but this President has taken it to such heights - that I don't believe ANYTHING he says. I think it will take Obama quite a while to build that trust back.

Please don't quote Gail Collins. You'll only encourage her.

Oh, and I am willing to bet that every single regular on the blog, every staffer for the Monthly and even Steve and Hilzoy would trade easy criticism and blog hits for, I don't know, a competant, constitutional, functional government that wasn't the laughingstock of every reasonably advanced society on the planet. And I define 'reasonably advanced' as those possessing stone tools. It took Rome 300 years to go from colossus to vilage idiot. It's taken us seven. Seven. So yes, I think we're all willing to give up the cathartic complaining about Bush for a respite from the squandering of our hard earned inheritance.

Bush's entire political career has been nothing but an attention-seeking popularity contest of which the final conceit is claiming that it's not. His tell is not so much the number of "farewell" events or interviews he's doing, but in what he claims were his "mistakes" over the past eight years. As Jon Stewart brilliantly remarked the other night, he really has no idea why people are mad at him. As far as he is concerned, his worst errors were ones of mismanaging his image: the "mission accomplished" banner; his sometimes cowboyish "rhetoric"; not seeming concerned enough about Katrina. His presidency, ultimately, was about creating a simulacrum of tough, manly, decidery leadership for which he would be adored. It can be summed up in the Crawford ranch -- a set piece that allowed him to manage this image, but has no connection to any kind of authentic reality. His failures, then, have been moments that cracked that image rather than mistaken policy agendas that have damaged the country. Torture? Does it make him look tough? Yes? Then it was good. Katrina? Could've tried to look a little more compassionate there, so that was a mistake.

Five. more. days. Thank God.

"It's just - it's pathetic, inn'it, self-pity."

- George W Bush 1/12/09, during his last press conference, commenting on - actually I'm not sure what the f^%$ he was commenting on.

Danp: Meanwhile my Tivo guide shows that ABC is the only channel not showing Bush. Ugly Betty never looked like a better option.

That reminds me, I'd better cancel my Season Pass recording of tonight's Countdown. I don't want to accidentally preserve even one minute of Shrub's verbal diarrhea.

Drawing on history, the stirring final words of Bush's famous farewell address will ring forever:

"Engage in entangling alliances and embrace the military industrial complex.

Who am I kidding?
I still wish I had thrown that first pitch of the 2001 World Series harder. DAMN IT!"

Sparko -- thanks for reminding us about the 01 World Series remark. That about sums it up, doesn't it? Most nerve-wracking moment of the presidency? Being afraid he might look bad if he flubbed a pitch at a baseball game. Realizing on Sept. 11 that he should have taken all those warnings about Al Qaeda and plane hijackings more seriously? Meh.

Bush Legacy Project.

Every time I hear that I throw up a little in my mouth. What does it really mean?

Cheap Subject Glory?

A Bulgy Reject Chops?

Chapel Subject Orgy?

Preach Objects Ugly?

related fake news

SUB-ROSA NEWS

MADOFF'S FAREWELL SPEECH

Sub Rosa's investigative reporter, Tracy Richards, has obtained a draft of what appears to be the final remarks of accused financier, Bernie Madoff, before being sentenced to prison (or fleeing to Brazil?). Mr. Madoff first states that he is sorry if he offended anyone or caused monetary loss. Other highlights of the draft:

Madoff claims that he has been unfairly criticized when his period of financial administration was really a success. Many investors enjoyed excellent results and, except for some disgruntled elites in Europe, his financial institution was widely respected throughout the world.

He understands that some people disagreed with his policies or actions, but that he had the ultimate responsibility and did not flinch from making the hard decisions.

His financial plan would have had continued success had it not been interrupted. He had taken bold action but had an exit strategy involving some unnamed sovereign funds. History will take a favorable view of his legace.

Madoff did concede some mistakes, which he called disappointments. One of these was his failure to send substantial relief funds for Katrina victims. He had been assured by the government that its response had been timely and quite sufficient.

What many did not understand and appreciate, Madoff maintained, was that, post 9-11, he had kept the country safe from incursions by Russian oligarchs and Nigerian financial schemes. In these times of globalization, his financial institution had kept our money in our homeland.

homer www.altara.blogspot.com

Since Dim Son's whole raison d'etre has been to best Poppy, I think he's doing all this to inch his approval ratings just high enough.

And it seems to be working. I read yesterday, I think, that his Legacy Tour has increased his favorable ratings from 27% to 34%, or something like that.

You say 'kill,' I say 'no'
You say 'war' and I say 'no, no, no
Oh, no'
You say 'goodbye' and I say 'now go'
'Now go, now go'
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say 'now go'
'Now go, now go'
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say 'now go'

'Now go-o-o-o-o-o'

Maybe he just loves spending time in front of cameras, answering questions, and reflecting on his service.

Not TOOOOO ironic, given Bush's allergy to giving televised press conferences during his presidency, especially ones where the press could ask questions later.

WILL THE AMERICANS PAY A PRICE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH'S POLICY ON GAZA?
President George W. Bush may be right when he says that Barack Obama's most serious challenge may be another 9/11 type attack on the U.S. soil. Bush should know because he has caused enough pain around the world, first by attacking Iraq then supporting Israel on their failed war against Lebanon and now the blatant support for attack on Gaza.

Those in Gaza, Iraq or Lebanon who have lost a parent, a brother or a sister in the conflicts could very well take up arms and plot and plan revenge against the U.S. This will be unfortunate because a majority of Americans do not approve Bush's foreign policy and have at least this time, openly opposed Bush's support for attack on Gaza. Even the Orthodox Jews have protested Israel's behavior in Gaza.

But unfortunately the U.S. public may end up paying the price for Georoge W. Bush's policies as angry young Arabs suffering in these conflicts do not distinguish between Bush & the U.S.

I hope Barack Obama can move the Middle East peace process forward quickly so the Gaza nightmare does not come back to haunt the U.S. public.

He seems to get a little more incoherent with every interview.

You could be defending Holder or Gaithner, or Richardson but all you want to talk about is Bush. I wonder why ?

I was going to point out the obvious, that they don't need defending, but northzax beat me to it. Bush, however, really does need someone to point out reality to him because he seems to be so lost inside his bubble that if someone doesn't help him out, he'll never emerge. And as he said, sometimes you have to boomerang the message until it sinks in, so the more people point out his failings to him, the sooner he'll get with the program and off his meds.

Obama seems to gotten the message and is now following Bush's lead, just as I predicted. I just didn't think it would be this soon.

Holder has a lot of friends so he is OK. I don't know about the other guy. He got reimbursed for the taxes, then didn't pay them. That's more than a bad memory. Why not just appoint Summers and let the feminist professor freak out ?

He's only supposed to talk for 10-15 minutes.

Kind of like how much material he brought to the debates.

Priorities..., I've got laundry to do.

mike k: Obama seems to gotten the message and is now following Bush's lead

you don't say...

Poll: Americans believe Obama will deliver despite down times - USA Today/Gallup 1/15/09

G. W. Bush's disapproval rating, 61%, is the highest for any president leaving office since World War II.

gop: embarrassment-free since well..forever..

how is that going?