George W. Bush Is Still Bad

[douglas9]

On Thursday evening, just hours after Christine Blasey Ford’s gut-wrenching testimony about being sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, the Washington Post reported that a familiar face was lobbying Republican senators to forge ahead on the nomination—former president George W. Bush. In an interview with McKay Coppins of the Atlantic, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) confirmed that he’d spoken with Bush about his vote:

Flake confirmed to me that George W. Bush called him “and a number of” his colleagues to lobby on behalf of Kavanaugh. https://t.co/7O6I4TnXdQ pic.twitter.com/aACSQRkHNm

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 29, 2018

The nation’s 43rd president left office nine years ago in the midst of the worst economic crisis of the last half century. His foreign policy agenda had resulted in a series of horrific, expensive, and unending wars—one of which is now old enough to enlist itself. He sanctioned torture while wrapping his administration in a warm embrace of faith-based discrimination.

The best that could be said—and it’s not nothing, truly—is that he left quietly, and for eight years during President Barack Obama’s presidency, stayed quiet. He went to a lot of baseball games. He did not publicly support Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election. When he did show up at the inauguration, in January 2017, he reportedly turned to Hillary Clinton and said, “that was some weird shit.” At the funeral for Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain—whom Bush allies had once accused of having fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman—Bush offered Michelle Obama a piece of candy.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/george-w-bush-is-still-bad/

[MyOwnPeace]

1. It's only happening...........

because IQ45 makes even "W" look good!

My GOD, how could it ever have come to this..........................

Look, THIS is our best chance - one that we can control:

GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!!!

[onecaliberal]

2. Yes war criminals are typically bad. You don't come back from that just because you don't

Behave like dump.

[Gothmog]

3. W was a horrible POTUS

W is still a horrible person. Kavanaugh worked for W and was nominated by W. W was a hoorible POTUS and Kavanaugh is a partisan hack

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Yes, he is; and most of the people who worked for him are still bad, too.

It's just that Trump and his cronies are so galactically awful that W is starting to look somewhat less bad in comparison. But we shouldn't forget how his administration was a breeding ground for this one.

[dalton99a]

5. Never forget

[Solly Mack]

6. Duh

Someone had to think about it?

Consider it?

Weigh it?

Against what?

Bush is a war criminal. Seriously. Just how fucking far are people willing to go for their need of redemption stories?

[BeckyDem]

7. Of course he is. No matter what trump does, GW will always be a dumb piece

of shit warmonger who was always unfit for office. Fuck him.

[SharonAnn]

8. Kavenaugh's wife Was GWB's secretary in TX, during campaign, and at White House

He may feel very supportive to her as well as him.

[Harker]

9. And Francisco Franco is still dead. n/t

[D23MIURG23]

10. W is the former worst president in history.

He and his administration were a logical step in the progression toward the shitshow we have now. Every time the GOP takes a loss they get ideologically crazier and more criminal. The only saving grace we have now is that dump doesn't have the huge popular mandate that W had after 9/11. The dems are standing up this time and the media largely doesn't buy the narrative that criticizing dump is unpatriotic.

I shudder when I think about the next person the GOP manages to elect to the presidency. Hopefully they get so badly damaged by the scandals and prosecutions of the dump era that they never manage another one.