The conservative punditocracy that has spent the past eight years propping up a president who gave us an illegitimate war and leaves us with an almost unimaginably bad economic crisis apparently grows weary of defending this spectacular failure of a president. And so they’re trying to bring Franklin Roosevelt down to George W. Bush’s level.

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A verdict on Bush now can be seen as premature, it seems reasonable to assume that his place in history will hinge upon his handling of three catastrophes that all happened on his watch: the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of America’s financial system.

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B'bye GOP...

Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash.

And everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision.

From the New York Times, 1 January 2009 post, by Paul Krugman:

So the reign of George W. Bush, the first true Southern Republican president since Reconstruction, was the culmination of a long process. And despite the claims of some on the right that Mr. Bush betrayed conservatism, the truth is that he faithfully carried out both his party’s divisive tactics — long before Sarah Palin, Mr. Bush declared that he visited his ranch to “stay in touch with real Americans” — and its governing philosophy.

That’s why the soon-to-be-gone administration’s failure is bigger than Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation…

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As George W. Bush prepares to leave office, he and his staff appear to be attempting to rewrite history to cast him in a more favorable light — but it seems that history may have the last laugh.

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Rachel Maddow takes aim at George W. Bush’s history re-writing efforts.

Maddow aptly assesses that the ‘Bush Legacy Project’ is on a fools errand.  Thanks, in part, to the “Google Machine” and the “Internets,” it will be extremely difficult for the  administration to polish the turd that was the Bush presidency.

Rachel is such a gem.  If you’ve got about ten minutes to spare, view the below clip.

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George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends. Seriously…

From The Raw Story, 28 November 2008 post, by way of Agence France-Presse:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

“I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.”…

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