==Life without Bush== by Mark Morford

[madokie]

What's a liberal critic to do without his most beloved target?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/01/30/notes013009.DTL&nl=fix

Oft is the question asked of me of late, either a bit sneeringly and with a spittle-flecked tone of right-wing "take that"-ism, or gently and ironically, with prodding humor and genuine curiosity overlaid with all sorts of Obamafied goodvibes: Now what, Mr. Liberal Columnist?

The Bumbling One has left the building. The banal demon has been forcibly sucked back into the horror-movie canister from whence he escaped eight years ago, and reburied in the back yard of your darkest Ann Coulter nightmare. Dubya, W, Shrub, the Decider, Chimp, Junior, Boy King, Smirk, he ambles no longer across the stage of our collective outrage. The easy punch line is no more.

It raises the ultimate question for anyone in my line of work: What's a left-leaning columnist (or satirist, political cartoonist, opinionator, et al) to do without the best and finest target in a lifetime? How will I ever survive without the Shrubster to kick around so effortlessly? Where, pray tell, will I ever find such a wicked wealth of material again?

It is no trivial query. As everyone from Jon Stewart to Steven Colbert to Maureen Dowd knows, Bush and his cadre of flying monkeys presented a beautifully, frighteningly, wondrously easy target, so rich with absurdities and shamefulness and uncanny, phlegmy evil, it was a bit like a foot fetishist at a pedicure expo, an alcoholic strolling through Oktoberfest. How could you not get completely drunk on the whole obscene spectacle of it? ...

[Warpy]

1. Aw, Mark, you've still got ample GOP buffoons out there

all intently grandstanding and trying to prove they're the party of fiscal responsibility after letting Stupid squander for 8 years like a meth head with a stolen credit card.

In addition, you've still got Palin, who appears congenitally unable to pass up a microphone or camera, the gift that keeps on giving to comedians of all types.

I really don't think anybody's going to cry long for lack of material.

[qtel86]

2. thank you

you are right

[Orsino]

3. Yep. Satirists are gonna have to work for a living now...

...without */Cheney to write their material.

And that's a good thing.

[Submariner]

4. Conservatism is a mental illness so there should be plenty of

targets like Boner, McConnell, and their leader the drug addled pedophile Limbaugh.

[Winterblues]

5. I noticed that Jay Leno never missed a day bad mouthing Bill Clinton

For at least the first six years of the "Torture pResident" and it was Bill Clinton this and Bill Clinton that and not a word about the Decider. I am pretty sure there is a lot yet to be said about Bush*.

[madokie]

6. I can think of a few choice words that can be said

like fuck you bush and the war criminal vp you rode in on and on and on and on. Chances are with the age I am and all I will never be able to forget about these traitors in this lifetime.

[rurallib]

7. Limbaugh, 41 senators, 177 in the house and 20+ governors

not to mention all fundies like Ted Haggard should continue to provide plenty of ammo.