George W. Bush was a great president?

“It sure makes things easier when you reject your own campaign rhetoric about how the surge — the Petraeus plan — shouldn’t happen and wouldn’t work,” McConnell said at the Commerce Lexington Public Policy Luncheon. “[And] it makes it easier to talk about fulfilling a campaign promise to wind down our operations in Iraq when the previous administration signs the security agreement with Iraq to end our overall presence there.”

Mitch McConnell
Quoted in POLITICO

Seriously, is there a bigger asshole in the senate than Mitch McConnell? If someone can come up with a more worthy candidate for the title that poor, pathetic old Mitch, please let me know. So, he wants Obama to give credit to George W. Bush for the surge of troops into Iraq in the waning days of that disgusting administration? This is just too funny for words. Bush commits the worst military blunder in American history by invading the sovereign nation of Iraq by way of falsified evidence; nearly five-thousand American servicemen and women are killed – not to mention as many as a million Iraqi men, women and little children – and now we’re all expected to be grateful to the half-witted little bastard. I couldn’t make this stuff up in fiction.

This reminds me of the neighborhood bully who gets busted trashing the local convenience store after closing time. As part of his sentence he is ordered by a judge to clean up the mess he has made of the place. One could hardly blame the store’s owner for being “grateful” to the thug for the nice job he’s done putting everything back in order. But the current scenario is a bit different. Iraq is not “back in order”. “Major combat operations” are not over. Far from it. The war in Iraq is not over – any more than the war in Viet Nam was over in 1973. It actually ended two years later.

The Republicans are attempting to rewrite history. There is now a conscious effort being made on their part to recast George W. Bush as a great president. Can you believe that? That is why they are working so hard to keep the Bush tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy in place indefinitely. That is why they are trying desperately to portray the catastrophic “Operation Iraqi Freedom” as a great success. Will their latest propaganda blitz be successful? Yeah, it probably. Given the gut-wrenching stupidity of the American people….

Some are now predicting that the Democrats will lose forty-seven seats in the House this Election Day. When that happens they will have the power of the subpoena. After years and years of digging through Bill Clinton’s trash, the most they could puke up was the fact that he lied about having an affair with a half-witted intern. That was all they needed to bring his presidency to a standstill. They are already talking about crippling this administration through endless investigations. Fasten your seat belts, boys and girls. This ought to get interesting. If the American people are foolish enough to go back down this road, they’ll deserve everything that happens to them.

So let’s hear it for Dubya, for he’s a jolly good fellow! Don’cha miss him, folks? We may not be able to get him back, but we can easily bring back the policies he represented. I am confident that a whole hell of a lot of you will vote Republican on Election Day next! Why? Because you’re good, decent, patriotic Americans!

I need a drink.

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TOM DEGAN is a fifty-one year old video artist who in 2006 became so thoroughly disgusted at the state of America’s national political dialogue, he decided to take time off to become a freaking civics teacher. When you’re not reading him here, check out his awesome blog “The Rant”