Theo-con... Kos coined that one today. Bout sums it up.
The Richard Reeves story "IS GEORGE BUSH WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?" ran, and is still running after almost a week, in the Yahoo "Most Popular" for the longest period of any story since I've been watching that grouping. Anyone notice that? Go ahead and be sure to click the above link so that maybe the story won't fall off list. [Oh, seems you have to email it to freep it...uh... duh]
For those that missed it, those who want a re-read, or those who might want to freep it back to life before it falls off that grouping, let me remind you of this amazing poll of historians conducted by the presitigious George Mason University.
Reeves: "These were the results: 338 said they believed Bush was failing, while 77 said he was succeeding. Fifty said they thought he was the worst president ever. Worse than Buchanan." Their findings below:
- He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
- He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
- He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
- He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
- He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
- He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
- He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
- He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.