And I thought the big Bush disaster would be Iraq

[edhopper]

And he would be remembered as the President who presided over the worst foreign policy error ever. Of course the drowning of NO during Katrina would help make him the WORST PRESIDENT EVER. But now as he tap-dances as we face the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression, as he stays blind to the biggest housing collapse in history, I think his legacy will be aa the president who destroyed the US economy.

[tekisui]

1. Nero tapdances while America sinks.

[bushmeister0]

8. The great fire of Rome might have been urban renewal for the rich

What can we learn from history?

"On the night of July 19, 64 A.D., a fire broke out among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Rome's mammoth chariot stadium . . . History has blamed Nero for the disasterstarted the fire so that he could bypass the senate and rebuild Rome to his liking.

There is some support for the theory that Nero leveled the city on purpose: the Domus Aurea, Nero's majestic series of villas and pavilions set upon a landscaped park and a man-made lake, was built in the wake of the fire.

'It would have been seen as very inappropriate on the part of the elite in Rome,' says art historian Eric Varner. 'They would have been happy if Nero had built the Domus Aurea out in the country, but to do it here in the city really was an extraordinary kind of statement.'"

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_rome/index.html

Is all this talk about another depression a new Rome fire for the elites? Burn down the current structure built in the aftermath of the Great Depression and rebuild it the way business wants?

Another result of the fires was that Nero blamed the Christians for it and focused the people's attention on them rather than him and the rumors of his burning the city to build his fancy new palace.

You know, the Jews/Mexicans/terrorists/fill in the blank must be behind this market crash . . .

[babylonsister]

2. I think he deserves that we bestow all of the monikers on him. nt

[movonne]

3. I think that was the plan....everything they did was to destroy this

economy...and the longer we stay in this war the worse it gets...

[lonestarnot]

4. America in the broader sense, not just the economy.

[drmeow]

5. I think Bush's legacy

at least in the free world (whether we still qualify or will still qualify for much longer remains to be seen) will be as the worst American president on every possible front in all of US history. He will be credited with destroying EVERYTHING about this country.

[stellanoir]

6. He pretended to play the guitar whilst people were still drowning in NOLA.

If that ain't like Nero, nothing is.

Just take your 600 dollar bribe on your 20,000 dollar debt and be pleased.

Okay?

The guy bankrupted every business he ever touched.

What else could we have anticipated?

[Mandate My Ass]

7. Iraq was just a method to achieve the third-worldization of the US economy

It was the main siphon, so to speak. These people are worse than the worst low-life gangsters that ever walked this earth because at least they don't clothe themselves in false patriotism and piety.

[indepat]

9. So many disasters to choose from, so many supporters, enablers and talking-heads

marching in step to their drummer's every disastrous beat. :cry:

[Ronnie]

10. Hope this works. I rarely do it.

[leftrightwingnut]

13. LOL! That is beautiful! Thanks!

:hi: Where did you find that?

[Ronnie]

15. Either here or Bartcop.

I saved it months ago.

[leftrightwingnut]

11. And he's stubborn. He won't lift a finger to change anything no matter how bad it gets.

Denial, denial, denial. And the firm belief that the unrestrained, tax-relieved economy will fix itself.

Maybe we all just need a bigger tax rebate. :sarcasm:

Kind of like sending MRE's to the starving. Only fixes the symptoms, not the problem.

[spanone]

12. he'll have one impressive portfolio of major-big-time fuckups...and acres of dead behind him

[Generic Brad]

14. He will go down in history as the most successful failure ever

Hi string of failures remains intact.