Bush: The Self-Correcting Presidency

[Pryderi]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/opinion/21douthat.html

But if Bush is destined to go down as a failed president, come what may, he looks increasingly like an unusual sort of failure.

America has had its share of disastrous chief executives. But few have gone as far as Bush did in trying to repair their worst mistakes. Those mistakes were the Iraq war — both the decision to invade and the conduct of the occupation — and the irrational exuberance that stoked the housing bubble. The repairs were the surge, undertaken at a time when the political class was ready to abandon Iraq to the furies, and last fall’s unprecedented economic bailout.

Both fixes remain controversial. But for the moment, both look like the sort of disaster-averting interventions for which presidents get canonized. It’s just that in Bush’s case, the disasters he averted were created on his watch.
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HEY DUMBASS! The disasters weren't "created on his watch", HE CREATED THE F#@%ING DISASTERS! You you also neglected to mention Hurricane Katrina that BECAME a disaster because of Bush's incompetence. Oh...and 911 HAPPENED ON HIS WATCH A MONTH AFTER HE WAS WARNED!

Why does this jackass blogger, Ross Douthat have a place in the NY Times to print his swill? He sounds like a freeper!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I'd go with Self-Immolating Presidency myself.

[ixion]

2. self-correctly, my lily white arse

nothing has been 'corrected', and we continue to descend into tyranny.

[bemildred]

3. He seems quite ignorant about US history.

Presidents more or less routinely attempt to salvage their great mistakes, you can tell that is going on when the press starts babbling about their "legacy".

[Zoeisright]

4. Wow. That's quite probably the most ignorant blogger ever.

And that's saying a lot.