Comments on: Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Watch, End of An Era Edition

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:30:42 +0000

Thers notes ongoing Bush-Jesus comparisons. That Jesus is in his lion form is either more or less crazy. Your choice.

By: Martin James

Martin James — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:25:35 +0000

Lemuel,

We did. I experienced those years as more of a neo-con coup than a personality cult.

By: lemuel pitkin

lemuel pitkin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:17:10 +0000

with Bush I never felt the country was caught up in a personality cult.

We experienced the years immediately after September 11 rather differently, then.

By: Martin James

Martin James — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:12:31 +0000

The thing I miss most about Bush after about 18 hours of Obama is that with Bush I never felt the country was caught up in a personality cult.

By: Dave Weeden

Dave Weeden — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:44:15 +0000

Sincere flattery?

By: MarkUp

MarkUp — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:37:50 +0000

Fear sells even amongst the best and, uh, brightest.

By: Martin Bento

Martin Bento — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:04:35 +0000

For the last 2 years, many of us have been agonizing as Pelosi meekly backed off of hitting Bush too hard where it counted: impeachment off the table, no hardball on Iraq withdrawal, accepting defiance of subpeonas. Just in the last couple of days, Pelosi is on fire and in defiance of Obama: prosecute the baastids, and restore the rich’s taxes too! Methinks Ms. Pelosi was among those who feared what Bush might do if pushed into a corner, and is only now free to act like a Congresswoman. Go Nancy!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:37:11 +0000

but I do know people who were absolutely convinced that Bush was going to engineer some sort of national crisis and cancel the ‘08 election I'm one of those people, and I ran for office in November. I'm not disappointed at being wrong, or coming in dead last (that many people voted for me? wow!). I'm disappointed that about 40% of the people in the district didn't bother voting for any of the candidates for this race (like they voted for president, senate, then got down the page and said "I don't know any of these people, and I don't even know what the job does, screw it, I'm done").

By: herr doktor bimler

herr doktor bimler — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:55:26 +0000

I was intrigued to learn that CT holds proprietorial rights over R.Bubba. What are the penalties if he goes elsewhere to exercise his blunted snark and relative venomlessness?

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:18:42 +0000

a manner far exceeding the blunted snark and relative venomlessness of this site’s very own r.bubba

I think I get massive troll points for the amount of complaining Edenbaum’s ape does without me lifting a finger.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:08:27 +0000

The system is the conspiracy. It isn’t “the economy, stupid” It is “the stupid economy.” Built as it is on a foundation of sand: sand equaling corruption, greed, non-sustainability, global destruction, and enslavement of any thing sacred, holy, or good. Bush stole 2 elections and was complicit in all the s—- that has gone down the past 8 years. Obama can’t save us-we have to do it ourselves.

By: roy belmont

roy belmont — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:04:20 +0000

I was attacked, ridiculed, and disemvowelled, and otherwise generally abused personally in a manner far exceeding the blunted snark and relative venomlessness of this site’s very own r.bubba, say, at the still-august Making Light, for suggesting, and then defending the legitimacy of that suggestion, and then defending the legitimacy of that defense, for suggesting the Iraq invasion likely had more to do with the interests of Israel than the interests of US oil companies, which companies were then being carried mostly entirely to blame for that invasion.
But I can see yet, now, as well, and sympathize greatly with, the cathartic aspects of having all those snarling little wingnuts defanged and on their back foot now.
Only just that I can’t share in the general leftish glee as to that well-deserved comeuppance. Because it looks to me pretty much like 3-card monte with the fate of the world, still.

By: joel hanes

joel hanes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:26:29 +0000

I was one of those who left comments on various blogs discussing the possibility that Bush would engineer some way to avoid handing over power. I can’t say I ever “believed” this would happen, nor was I convinced that this would happen, but I thought it a distinct possibility. In fact, I went so far as to bet $25 with Ed Brayton that such a thing would ensue. I have never been happier to lose a bet.

So: I was wrong.

I went over to RedState to post an “I was wrong” comment, but one cannot comment on that blog without creating a login account, so I demurred.

By: Anatoly Vorobey

Anatoly Vorobey — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:42:10 +0000

djw,

So now the score is something Looney left 17, sensible ol’ me 1.

That’s a very good point. My score is probably about the same, so yeah, no gloating from me either.

I hate Bush for making me lose to the looney left so often.

By: nick s

nick s — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:32:08 +0000

Every other time I underestimated the Bush administration’s mendacity or incompetence, I was wrong and they were right.

Brad DeLong’s description has gone through a few variants, but it remains a mainstay in this regard: “The Bush administration is worse than you imagine possible, even after you take account of the fact that it is worse than you imagine possible.” (I think it’s more elegant with zeugma: “worse than you imagine possible, even accounting for the fact that it is worse than you can possibly imagine.”)