Kuttner, Boston Globe: "Bush on Display"

[Hand]

IN TWO WEEKS, Election Day will render George W. Bush a lame-duck president, and he can begin thinking about his presidential library. Imagine what an honest rendition of that library might look like.

Such libraries typically begin with the early career -- in this case The Foggy Years, the heroic service in the Air National Guard, and the falling upward economically. A gallery could commemorate all the Texas businessmen who helped young George turn business blunders into windfalls.

This would lead into an exhibit on Governor Bush, the Uniter not the Divider, his collaboration with Texas Democrats, and the unity theme in the 2000 presidential campaign. From there, you'd go directly into the Hammer Room, and observe Tom DeLay excluding Democrats from the legislative process in Congress.

The next salon would be the Rogues Gallery, featuring each of the several congressional scoundrels of the Bush era -- DeLay being forced to step down as Republican House leader, the hapless Representative Bob Ney pleading guilty but refusing to give up his seat, Representative Randy Cunningham devising convoluted scams that led to prison time, as well as an elaborate interactive diagram on the multiple connections with corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff. A nearby exhibit would commemorate corporate felons close to Bush, beginning with Enron officers....

It gets even better from there! :toast:

Bush on Display

[C_U_L8R]

1. From "lame duck on display"

to "dead duck on the lam"

Paraguay is calling you George


NSA caveat... you spooks do know
that "dead duck" is a figure of speech... don't you?

[applegrove]

2. Wow!

[acmavm]

3. Oh my, that does put bush**s career in perspective, doess't it?

As an aside, I sure would love to see that production of 12 angry men with George Wendt and Richard Thomas. They are both wonderful. I bet it would be great.

[Demeter]

4. Maybe Bush Should Just Open a Bar

a dim and smoky, sleazy joint. All his buddies and enablers would feel right at home, he could get free drinks, drugs, whatever. He'd never have to see a book again, unless Laura keeps some lying around the house, but he'd never have to see her or the house, either. It would be the perfect retirement for a perfectly awful human being, or reasonable facsimile thereof.