Is it just me, or is it the arrival of Spring outside making the news look old and tired? Or is it just so much of the same old, same old these days, it's hard to get too worked up over anything?
Russia sucks, they're undermining the Brits with Iran. That's all but convinced me that it's Bush's naivete that resulted in a host of problems from Iraq to Gonzalez. Bush is the guy who claimed to have looked into Putin's eyes and whatevuh. Well, he had better look again.
In hindsight, Bush just didn't have enough serious life experience to have refined his judgment and it's hurt us when it counted for six years. That doesn't mean I don't believe his motives are good and he does the best he can. And I'd still take him over Gore or Kerry any day of the week.
I've been looking for a new house in my free time, so sorry if blogging has been light. Found a place I'd love to buy last night ... but I have to talk myself out of it. An old 1860 something farmhouse on about six acres with a stream, small pond, outbuildings, etc. It's pretty much what I've always wanted. My favorite house was of the same vintage, but they're so much work. This one would be great with a business partner maybe and has plenty of bedrooms, etc. But I don't see myself going that route. It'd be a major restore project and I'm not sure I want to do that, again.
I'll probably look for something smaller in the end.
Here are some links:
Trial lawyers like John Edwards cost us a trillon dollars?
"In hindsight, Bush just didn't have enough serious life experience to have refined his judgment and it's hurt us when it counted for six years."
Nonsense. He ran a corporation, a baseball team, and the State of Texas straight into the ground. Nobody else had the experience to wreck this country so thoroughly. Not even Kenny Boy.
Posted by: scarshapedstar | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Bush's problem is that he surrounded himself with loyal Bushie yes men, he made appointments based only on loyalty and never considered relevant experience or competance. In fact, he seemed to relish appointing people who were obviously unfit for their posts as a way to stick it to the Democrats.
I don't doubt if Bush had appointed his drivers and cooks to be us attorneys that the wingers would have loudly applauded this as genius and defended his right to run DOJ into the ground.
Posted by: nowinger | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Bush promised to run this country like a corporation. The CEOs are getting paid money hand-over-fist, there's zero accountability until you get caught, the board of trusties repeatedly is given the finger, and you can't get ahead unless you suck the manager's dong.
Looks like a corporation to me.
Posted by: Zifnab | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:44 AM
The day of reckoning always comes sooner or later.
If the USA was a publicly traded company dependant on investor confidence Bush would have been sacked years ago for tanking the stock price by his incompetant leadership.
Posted by: nowinger | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:51 AM
i see where the liberal dolt has decided that overpaid CEO's are a problem now: a problem that *bushitler* caused!!!!
this must be one of those deals like "homelessness": a problem that did not exist, even a little, while clinton was president. now that a republican is prez, it's a huge social problem demanding all our resources to fix.
should a democrat win in '08 - not likely - the problem will, of course, vanish overnight. saaaaay, back when enron was the true personification of evil, bent on their sinister plans for world domination, what exactly did bubba do to stop them? to make them be nice? to quit paying their satanic CEO so much?
would that be "nothing"? why yes, it would. odd, that. i thought bubba was our special FRIEN'. fightin' for US. feelin' our PAIN. wtf?
Posted by: bloodrage bob | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 12:36 PM
I think our Leftist friends missed the most important sentence in Dan's post. "And I'd still take him over Gore or Kerry any day of the week." Lordy day in the evenin' and amen to that.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 12:50 PM
Bush inherited a stock market bubble, recession, downsized military, corporate scandals, second Infitada and a jihadist/al-Qaeda problem that had been allowed to spread around the world unimpeded. All other things being equal, if he was a Democrat he'd be considered by the media to be one of the top 5 presidents ever for how the country bounced back. Instead we get wave after wave of laughable manufactured "scandals" like the most recent one where the executive branch is firing and hiring its own political appointees.
Posted by: joe | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 08:26 PM
AND, your great stammering leader is going to veto a bill to fund the war that he started. Guess he doesn't care about the troops. Better get those prayer-circles working overtime, cons.
Posted by: BobInStamford | Friday, March 30, 2007 at 09:43 PM
That's an insanely comment. The most shitbag president since James Buchanan & you still think Bush is better than Al Gore would've been? Jeeezuz.
Posted by: Rix | Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 02:19 AM
"Is it just me, or is it the arrival of Spring outside making the news look old and tired?"
It's not the arrival of spring, Dan...it's the realization that your party is lost in the Wilderness and has sold you and the next generation down the river. Enjoy.
Posted by: DanInPink | Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 04:40 PM