GWB's greatest hits

[lparsons]

Since we are down to the last few (hooray!) days of the administration of president Shrub Junior, I thought I would compile a list of my favorite GWB moments, in no particular order. Images and soundbites will come later.

• 2005 - political capital after squeezing out a very narrow - more accurately an openly questionable victory in 2004, GWB declared that he had "earned political capital" that he intended to spend
  
• 2005 - social security choices for young workers shortly after declaring his "capital", GWB offered up another shiny turd of a policy suggestion. Instead of workers investing in social security, he suggested workers should be able to invest some of their social security money into the stock market. Can we imagine just how fantastic that would have turned out?
  
• 2001 - vacation, vacation, vacation GWB sure worked hard in the pre-9/11 days. Between January and September of 2001 he took nearly as many vacation days as Bill Clinton took in 8 years.
  
• 2001 - 2008 still on vacation But of course 9/11 changed everything. Except for GWB's need for vacation, apparently.
  
• 2008 but I'm not playing golf Except he is. He said that it would be disrespectful to the soldiers if he was caught playing golf. So he tried a little harder to avoid the press while golfing instead. That didn't work out so well, though...
  
• 2005 Heckuva job, Brownie Really, who could be more qualified to manage emergency response than a former horse judge?
  
• 2003 the hero in chief GWB's awe-inspiring landing of a fighter plane on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Just like his days in Nam. Except he didn't land the plane, and never fought in Nam.
  
• 2003 Mission Accomplished The banner on the carrier said it all. Except we didn't exactly accomplish the mission, did we?
  
• 2004 Mission Accomplished, part deux Oh, the mission still isn't accomplished? Well then there is only one thing for the great POTUS to do - deny any connection to the banner. It was put up by those craft sailors instead, right?
  
• 2005 Bring em on Really, what more is there to say about perhaps the dumbest thing ever said by a sitting president? Couldn't he have just gone back to reading My Pet Goat instead?
  

[lparsons]

1. Forgotten moments...

I forgot to include

• Bush vandalizing (signing) the flag (don't remember the date, but its in a top 10 here)
  
• 2006 I'm the Decider When he was answering to public cries for Rumsfeld to be kicked from his post as secretary of defense
  
• 2005 Talon News If you can't get the coverage you want from the regular press, then just seed the press corp with people who will say what you want
  
• and of course...
  
• 2002 - 2006 we invaded Iraq because... ... you can fill in the blanks on this one. Bonus points if you can come up with multiple unique answers for each year.
  

[bushwhacker23]

2. Here's a great video compilation of old Georgy. Check it out!

http://tv1.com/playlists/123

[lparsons]

3. And how could I forget

• 2004 and neither do we "Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and neither do we.”