You've got to be kiddink wif me.

[trinityvixen]

I'm watching clips of Bush's last press conference. I'm...agog. Keith Olbermann's commentary is so apt:

"[Bush] ranged from reminding the viewer of the angriest of Richard Nixon's press conferences to recalling Hillary Clinton choking up with emotion at a diner in New Hampshire, to finally, ultimately, sounding like the buzzed guy at the bar, running the gamut of emotions from regret to buying a round for the place, to challenging everybody there to a fight."

I'm pissed off, sure, but I'm speechless in the face of such pigheaded determination to deceive himself and others about what happened. He fudges facts so he looks like less of an asshole, fine, that's typical, but then Bush rants about how they love him and America in India, China, and Africa--he likes that last one especially because they are dependent on our aid and wouldn't dare question him. Not like those liberal fart-artists in Europe. Who wouldn't even take in our prisoners from Abu Ghraib after they kicked up all that gosh-darned fuss about how we treated them! (It is, as I said to feiran like faulting people who don't want to adopt abused pets because they weren't there to rescue them before they were abused.) And don't get me started on his commentary about 9/11. He actually thinks it's a bad thing that government employees were "dragged in front of Congress" to explain the intelligence failure that lead to that tragedy. (Of course he thinks it's a bad thing; he was ultimately found to have been at fault for ignoring intelligence about the attack! Given his administration's casual relationship with legal precidents and, you know, laws moreover, I'm not surprised he's averse to the idea of accountability.)

This man is delusional. I agree that the question of malicious vs. ignorant is a meaningless discussion: regardless of whether the Bush Administration is full of people intentionally fucking up or people too incompetant to do their goddamn jobs, they did a bunch of ridiculously bad shit with complete disregard to the consequences. The third option--they are all fucking insane--wasn't really one I'd considered. Sociopaths, sure. (Definitely in Cheney's case.) But Bush is fucking NUTS.

Or back on the sauce. Or, worse, not back on the sauce and still behaving this way.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And you sort of wonder if it wasn't on purpose, even, until you realize this man is deranged and not nearly clever enough to remember that that particular malapropism has been featured in innumerable books dedicated to collecting and organizing his mountain of verbal gaffes. He just thinks it's a real word.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Obama and he are going back-and-forth on this thing. Bush can't possibly be hurt by doing ANYTHING at this point short of refusing to cede the office, so he should just DO IT. But I'm almost as annoyed at Obama for punting so many things until after he takes office. He has a mandate that W never had; he needs to start pushing.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Lol. Basically, everyone thinks the situation requires immediate action as far as how the bailout money is spent. This is true. But Obama keeps saying that we only have one president at a time and he won't make any demands on the money one way or another. He has asked, from what I can tell, for Bush to request the discretion to use the funds from Congress or something--to at least get it ready for use sooner. I think. It's rather complicated. But the long-and-short is both could be doing more to get the money into circulation to stem the bleeding in our economy.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Just getting the bailout money into circulation nownownow is not the best of plans, really. If we were going to "stem the bleeding" via fiscal and monetary policy, we would need to have acted a year to a year and a half ago, back when the Fed was still denying the possibility of a recession. Flooding the system too much now risks hyperinflation.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I understand that. We still would do better to act more quickly rather than less. Cautiously, carefully, but sooner rather than later.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

And that's exactly it -- bailout measures and spending measures are DEEPLY unpopular with the average American, who's been brainwashed to think that all government is Evil and Wrong, and that economic stimulus will necessarily be a millstone around our necks for the future.

Bush wants to make sure Obama, and the Democrats, take as much of the political flak for it as possible. He'll volunteer nothing.

Bush does not care about America. He is simply using this as an opportunity to spike the adversary.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Lunatics, aside from the Joker, have no sense of humor. I admit to being possibly intractable on this matter, but the man is either senile or psychotic to be behaving this way. (Or, as I said, back on the sauce.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Alcohol is no scapegoat, just an explanation. The fact that he would make the VERY BAD DECISION to start drinking again is as indicative of his entrenched narcissism as anything else. The fact that he seems as though he's drunk all the time makes me despair that no one ever thought that that should count against him as president.