god to george w. bush, “take a hint.”

Bill Maher speaks for us:

Now, I kid, but seriously, Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you anymore. There's no more money to spend. You used up all of that. You can't start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

Yeah, listen to your mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit card's maxed out, and no one is speaking to you: mission accomplished! Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away.  Like you did with your military service. And the oil company. And the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or spaceman?!

Now, I know what you're saying. You're saying that there's so many other things that you, as president, could involve yourself in…Please don't.

I know, I know, there's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela, and eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church.  And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

But, sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. 

Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire metropolis to rising water and snakes.

On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans…Maybe you're just not lucky! 

I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.  So, yes, God does speak to you, and what he's saying is, “Take a hint.”

Comments

[chris]

Maher is spot on with this one, this is Bushlers lowest moment right now and to think how he strumed the gutair and ate cake, (literally) while New Orleans sank, Condi shopped and big Dick was vacationing as well when another tragedy struck, this time with ample warning but with an apopletic adminastration. Not even his 'base' can easily help him out with such a low approval rating. I don't think Bush is unlucky, just lazy.

[sparky]

Apparently God wanted Bush to have electricity last night for his speech!!

Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News reports:

"I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out by looters, was nonetheless bathed in light, including the empty, roped-off gas pumps. The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to certain conclusions."

[chris]

As Republican 9/11 Commission chair Thomas Kean said Thursday, "What makes you mad is that it's the same things we saw on 9/11. Whoever is responsible for acting in these places hasn't acted. Are they going to do it now? What else has to happen for people to act?"

[ExDem]

This is a poor time for Thomas Kean to play partisan politics and start laying into the incompetent city and state governments that left those people stranded in New Orleans. I wish people like him would just focus on the recovery for now, and deliver their criticisms later. This isn't the time for Republicans to try and score points just because Mayor Nagins or Gov. Blanco are Democrats.