10 Reasons Why George W. Bush Was a Successful President
The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious reasons the Wonkette listicle is infinitely more gratifying and less anger-rousing. Here, then, is their take on the 10 Reasons Why George W. Bush Was A Successful President:
- Bravely insisted that random Arabs be tortured everywhere
- Boldly blocked any attempts to get a handle on Climate Change eight whole years ago, because what’s the rush
- Completely fucked over the U.S. Constitution and stacks of federal law, because why not, Nixon was probably a good dude
- Always 100% behind Israel, because Israel has never, ever been wrong about anything in History. It’s where Jesus lives
- No Child Left Behind: This stupid program of busy-work madrassa-style rote learning, this doofus Big Government federal intrusion into the lives of your five-year-old children as American literacy and math scores have dramatically plunged, is Bush’s “fifth success,” according to this alleged Conservative editor
- Bush “promotes democracy” by literally destroying the people and infrastructure of various countries with oil reserves. This is bold
- The Medicare prescription drug benefit program, which is a Socialized Medicine congressional program, is also a great victory of the conservative George W. Bush who wanted to take old people’s social security and put it in the stock market
- Bush installed two middle-aged wingnuts on the Supreme Court, which is a great victory against those stupid enough to be born poor or black or female. But just imagine if Bush’s real choice, Harriet Miers, had become his favorite fancy judge ever
- Barnes: “He strengthened relations with east Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) without causing a rift with China. On top of that, he forged strong ties with India.” OMFG, so the Bush Administration managed to not fuck up some of the basic, standard, major relationships with American allies in Asia. GENIUS
- THE SURGE. Thanks to George Junior W. Bush bravely ignoring EVERYONE from his own father to every living American diplomat and general, Iraq is now a peaceful, free and prosperous nation and American Troops returned home as Victors during the Victor/Victory Parade of July 4, 2007. Good-bye, Terrorisms! Even Afghanistan is free today!
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