The Economist: "The frat boy ships out.":

[bushmeister0]

I thought the Economist was a conservative mag, WTF? Get a load of this . . .

"George Bush has presided over the most catastrophic collapse in America’s reputation since the second world war . . .

America is embroiled in two wars, one of which Mr Bush launched against the tide of world opinion. The Bush family name, once among the most illustrious in American political life, is now so tainted that Jeb, George’s younger brother, recently decided not to run for the Senate from Florida. A Bush relative describes family gatherings as 'funeral wakes'.

Frank Bruni, who covered his election campaign for the New York Times, wrote in 2002 that 'the Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster.'

Other facets of Mr Bush’s personality mixed with his vaulting ambition to undermine his presidency. Mr Bush is what the British call an inverted snob. A scion of one of America’s most powerful families, he is a devotee of sunbelt populism; a product of Yale and Harvard Business School, he is a scourge of eggheads. Mr Bush is a convert to an evangelical Christianity that emphasises emotion—particularly the intensely emotional experience of being born again—over ratiocination. He also styled himself, much like Reagan, as a decider rather than a details man; many people who met him were astonished by what they described as his “lack of inquisitiveness” and his general 'passivity'.

His lacklustre attorney-general Alberto Gonzales, who was forced to resign in disgrace, was only the most visible of an army of over-promoted, ideologically vetted homunculi."

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12931660

And it goes on . . . I love the term "ideologically vetted homunculi." There are so many names you could put under that list.

Is it really over? Is this piece of crap really out of here? I won't believe it until I actually see him get on that plane, which won't be televised, I guess, because everyone will be watching Obama, who wants to see any more of *?

[PM Martin]

1. Speaking of kissing rear end!

The Economist is just playing for the in crowd.

[bushmeister0]

3. Well, come to think of it. They are actual "conservatives."

Unlike W. & Co. who were radicals.

Your classic conservative wants to preserve what he has and all he could see W. doing was blowing it all away. The Economist endorced Obama, as well. A pretty good indication of not only McCain's crappy campaign but the world tunred upside down by 8 years of boy Nero.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Though they supported Bush in 2000, in 2004 they supported Kerry

They may tend right wing, but they can't stand incompetence once it's been proven (they called him 'incompetent' on their cover).

On the whole, they seem to say "vote against the incumbent party": http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12499760 (they supported Obama this year)

[donco6]

2. Two great new words just in your clip.

Ratiocination - the process of exact thinking. Very apt useage.

Homunculi (sing. homunculus) - a theoretical "little adult" that grows into a full size man.

I think "scathing" just doesn't do this article justice. Mordant, acrid, caustic . . . wow.

[Mist]

4. Since "homunculi" also means "diminutive," the word points to the overall

smallness of many of the people chosen to work in the * administration. Small in outlook, small in achievements, small in education (the notorious Regent U.), smallness of ability to think, smallness of outlook.

[Solly Mack]

5. A thing of beauty

[roamer65]

6. I can't wait for the squabbles between Jebby and the Moron to go public.

:evilgrin:

The only hope Jebby has for a political future is to publically throw his moron brother under the bus.

[ixion]

7. The "Bush Family" or BFEE has done more to destroy America than ANY Middle East terrorism group

they should be exiled, IMO, and most certainly never allowed anywhere near a positon of power.

[canetoad]

8. Vaulting ambition...

"I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on th'other. . . ."

[TexasObserver]

9. "an army of over-promoted, ideologically vetted homunculi."

[onethatcares]

10. perfect anti campaign sign re: jebby

"how do we know he's not like his brother?"

In ten foot tall letters dripping with blood.