bush rehabilitation watch

Bush Rehabilitation Watch, 11/14/2011.

Newsbusters (via Hot Air) has the details. Short version: the realization that our current President is actually a pretty bad communicator of what I will charitably call his faction’s “ideas” is starting to sink in among our Beltway would-be overlords. Particularly among the circadian media. It then follows that, should a member of said media happen to want to get President Obama re-elected, it would be necessary to do some of the heavy lifting him- or herself. Alas, there isn’t a block and tackle in existence that can lift Obama’s domestic policy out of the Swamp of Fail, so if you’re a self-appointed agitprop specialist for this administration you’re left with talking up the President’s foreign policy, which at least has the virtue of not having anything to do with Obamacare.

But, wait! How can any of these people talk up Obama’s foreign policy ‘successes’ without also talking up George W Bush’s, given that the former is pretty much (badly) imitating the latter? That’s a silly question: they open up their mouths and start talking. You don’t think that they really meant all that old talk about how awful Bush’s foreign policy was, do you? No, that was just pap for the room-temperature IQ Left – pap designed to get the media’s Democratic Beltway buddies some sweet, sweet House and Senate chairmanships. But now things are serious. Just ask Tom Friedman. Continue reading Bush Rehabilitation Watch, 11/14/2011.

#rsrh In which I brag.

(Video canceled in order to tell all y’all how awesome I am, for given values of ‘awesome.’ Rather sad values, at that.)

I called this. I so totally called this.

I said it first on Inauguration Day, 2009 (on RedState, too): and I said it again in November 2010, twice. I knew that it was going to happen, and so did you. But here’s the kicker: ThinkProgress didn’t. And that’s why they’re so personally and professionally ineffectual – just like most of the Online Left. They don’t know themselves and they can’t be bothered to know us… and, fortunately, we don’t have the poisoned luxury of either type of willful ignorance, ourselves.

The best part? I can point and laugh… and they won’t change their behavior one iota. Pride’s a harsh master, eh, what?

Moe Lane

PS: Please, no applause: just throw money.

…although I think that Project Valour-IT could use the cash more, frankly.

Bush Rehabilitation Watch, 11/18/2010.

E.J. Dionne’s turn at MiniTrue: apparently old W. was/is compassionately conservative, multicultural, diverse, tolerant, and a bunch of other nice things that E.J. Dionne doesn’t think that those mean icky nasty Tea Partiers are. Big change from 2005, when Bush apparently habitually “sought to divide the country;” or when Dionne wrote about the Bush administration that “None has looked so principled, even when it said one thing while doing another.” Or how about 2003? – That’s when Dionne accused Bush of hypocrisy on compassionate conservatism itself, saying “The dissonance between the president’s moderate, compassionate words and his spending priorities is jarring.”

And then there’s this post-Katrina gem:

…His policies are failing, his approach to leadership is detached and self-indulgent, his way of politics has produced a divided, angry and dysfunctional public square. We dare not go on like this… Instead, Bush put patriotism to the service of narrowly ideological policies and an extreme partisanship… Careful policymaking and thinking through potential flaws in your approach are not his administration’s strong suits… The source of Bush’s political success was his claim that he could protect Americans. Leadership, strength and security were Bush’s calling cards. Over the past two weeks, they were lost in the surging waters of New Orleans… his best hope lies in recognizing that the Bush Era, as he and we have known it, really is gone. He can decide to help us in the transition to what comes next. Or he can cling stubbornly to his past and thereby doom himself to frustrating irrelevance.

Continue reading Bush Rehabilitation Watch, 11/18/2010.