EXPERTS CALL BUSH PRESIDENCY WORST DISASTER IN NATION’S HISTORY

[underpants]

http://www.borowitzreport.com/default.asp

Cost of Damage Estimated In The Zillions Four and a half years after he was first sworn in as president, experts in the field of disaster assessment today called the presidency of George W. Bush the worst disaster in the history of the United States of America.

Dr. Lorraine Cresser, who heads the Institute, said that the University of Minnesota experts decided to place the current administration at the top of the nation’s list of huge disasters after assessing the damage the White House has caused over the past four and a half years, both at home and abroad.

“After taking a good look at the wreckage the Bush presidency has created, we would estimate the cost of the damage at somewhere in the mid to high zillions,” Dr. Cresser said.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Rep. Hastert said that based on what he had seen of the Bush presidency lately, “It looks like a lot of it could be bulldozed.”

But hours later, the Speaker backtracked somewhat, telling reporters, “Like most Republicans in Congress, I have been drinking very heavily for the past several days.”

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1. What's a zillion?

[Champion Jack]

6. One one hundredth of a Gazillion

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Now taking bets to see if his approval rating drops below 45% this week

I'm saying it WON'T, but if it DOES, I will go out on a limb and guarantee that it WILL NOT DIP BELOW 40.

INEPTITUDE + CORRUPTION = Longevity (as in "two terms in office").

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. I think his approval rating was 38 percent before Katrina hit. . . . nt

[Verve]

4. There are too many uninformed stubborn people in this country that will

keep his ratings high. I hope I'm wrong but I believe we're living in the land of the idiots.

[speedoo]

5. Folks, this is sarcasm.

This guy is making things up.

Don't you remember him from last years election campaign?

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. With the excruciating suffering and death

(still allegedly being contrived by federal agents,) of so many of the most innocent people in Bush's New Atlantis, that hilariously satirical and all too prophetic article in The Onion, doesn't seem at all funny any more.

There's bound to be a lower limit even for the blackest satire, when the outrageous enormity of it all is so comprehensively overtaken by reality.