Bush, Master of Lowered Expectations

[Yavin4]

That's his biggest key to his success. He's the kid that flunks every class but manages to get a C- on an exam and everybody celebrates. He runs everything into the ground. Then, when things bounce back a little, Bush gets credit for the turnaround.

Examples:

(1) We lose over 3 million jobs in the past three years but we get one month where 57,000 jobs are created and everyone thinks that the economy is booming.

(2) We don't find any WMDs in Iraq. We find some plans and a lab, and that more than justifies launching a pre-emptive war and spending billions to rebuild Iraq.

(3) The Dow was over 11,000 when Bush took office, and it's fallen every year since to a one-time low of 8300. This year, because of historically cheap debt, it has bounced back to about 9500, and everyone is calling it a bull market.

This is how Bush looks successful. His entire life is graded on a curve.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. "His entire life is graded on a curve."

Which doesn't say a whole lot for us Americans, does it?

[Serial Mom]

2. his only success is a life of privilege

he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple (hence his dumbass trifecta joke)

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

3. The Age of Embarrassment. Underachiever Bush

The Age of Embarrassment. Underachiever Bush.

from JAN 2001


this was the original link -
http://www.msnbc.com/news/509305.asp?0nm=N11J

http://www.bartcop.com/10embar.htm


The Age of Embarrassment

The price America pays
for putting an
underachiever in the White House


By Jill Nelson
MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR

Jan. 3 — Forget all the rhetoric during the campaign from George W. Bush about morals, virtue, honor and restoring America to her former glory. The Age of Embarrassment is upon us, and if you think you were humiliated by Bill Clinton’s shenanigans in the Oval Office, baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

THIS IS the era to cringe as you see the latest Republican retread nominated for a cabinet post. You can’t help but blush when a right-wing, racist, Republican senatorial candidate from Missouri loses the election to a dead Democratic opponent and then is rewarded by the president-elect by being nominated U.S. Attorney General. Not to mention the déjà vu all over again that struck when Donald Rumsfeld was nominated for Secretary of Defense, one mo’ time. If you can remember back that far, this is the man who began his political career with Richard Nixon and graduated to being Secretary of Defense in the Ford Administration, is a supporter of space-based defense systems — remember the joke that was Star Wars?

NO VISIONARIES HERE
Watching Bush announce his cabinet choices over the last few weeks, I suppose it’s possible for those who did not vote for him to avoid feeling sick, disgusted, or outraged. But it’s been totally impossible to avoid being embarrassed.
It’s as if we’re watching some bad national sitcom, very loosely based on Oedipus, in which the First Son tries to prove himself to his ex-commander-in-chief father. And how does he go about doing this? By surrounding himself with aging father surrogates — first and foremost Daddy’s main man, Dick Cheney, who, heading the vice-presidential search committee, ended up having himself chosen for the job.

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