miss me yet – Moe Lane

#rsrh It’s the reaction to this piece on George W Bush that’s hysterical.

The piece itself? Straightforward. George W Bush is out of the White House, he’s danged cheerful about that, he’s finding it refreshing to be out of the spotlight, and hey, he’s been doing oil painting lately. I’m gathering that it’s restful. In short… George W Bush did what a lot of people on the Left loudly demanded: he went away*.

And they hate him for it. There’s perhaps less vituperative comments on the Boston Herald article than I expected (I’m less surprised at the general lack of asinine comments on [H/T] Ann Althouse’s post), but they lack in quantity they make up for in sheer affronted whining. How dare Bush be happy! Doesn’t he understand how important it is that Bush play the role that the Left has always demanded of him? And how dare he not be there for them to scream about in 2012! Barack Obama needs him to be there!

…how is barack obama going to win if he doesnt have bush there…

*No, the occasional speech – or article about it – doesn’t count. The man was President for eight years. There’s a floor to how far out of the public eye you can get.

#rsrh ‘That’s the definition of a man…’

‘…without an exit strategy.’

Yeah: like @BrianFaughnan, I miss him, too.

#rsrh Today’s straight line…

…comes to us, courtesy of Slate’s John Dickerson. He’s (very gingerly) writing about how President Obama’s now learning that, hey, maybe it was easier to criticize President Bush than it is to do a better job than him – no, really – and in the process Dickerson lets off this line:

As he benefits from policies he once opposed—such as the surge in Iraq, which helped make tomorrow’s speech possible—Obama proves that even a smart politician with the best of intentions can be wrong.

Indeed. And if one of those can be wrong, imagine how badly our current President can screw things up.

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Moe Lane

(H/T: AoSHQ)

‘Miss Me Yet?’ PPP says… almost.

Any other Democratic pollster I’d mock, but PPP’s Tom Jensen has earned a certain forbearance:

Americans are now pretty evenly divided about whether they would rather have Barack Obama or George W. Bush in the White House. 48% prefer Obama while 46% say they would rather have the old President back.

[snip]

These numbers suggest some peril for Democrats in making Bush a focus of their messaging this fall.

To put it mildly. Continue reading ‘Miss Me Yet?’ PPP says… almost.

Saying ‘yes’ to the third picture will give you nightmares. #rsrh

Fair warning. And, for the record: we’re not at that point.

Yet.

Via Mind Numbed Robot, and it’s odd that I missed all of this when it came out.

Great moments in Democratic recycling, February 2010. #rsrh

I meant to link to this Hawaiian good-luck symbol from (I believe) the NRCC yesterday:

…and I also remember seeing somewhere someone pointing out that back then the unemployment rate was around 6% and change. On the bright side, we’re probably not going to see double that this year.

[pause]

I think.

Shoot, I was missing GWB before it was cool. #rsrh

January 20, 2009 for me.

I’ve made no secret of it, either. Lord knows that former President Bush wasn’t perfect by a long shot, and Lord knows that the libertarians have a point when they grit their teeth on the subject, but I knew that we were in for a long four years even before the current President was sworn in.

See RedState, The Other McCain, The Camp of the Saints, No Sheeples Here, Troglopundit, & probably a bunch more people before it’s all over.