I will not waste five minutes on a former President that has no power to affect what is happening NOW.

Nothing can rehabilitate George Bush. The worst president in history doesn't make the second worst president in history one whit better.

A guy swaggers into office on a thin electoral win/popular loss and treats it as if he had an overwhelming mandate to push extremely partisan policies?

A guy and his team who came in with unbridled contempt for their predecessor, thought they new everything, were warned about specific threats, derisively ignored those warnings, cut resources and personnel to those areas, and then got caught flatfooted by the very thing they were warned about?

Always point that out when they try to pass it all off as "Trumpism".

Has helped put us in this position we're now in. As long as this continues, and Republicans keep getting more corrupted, without significant consequences, it will only get worse , like now we may have the Russian mafia and Putin who has their person , their puppet corrupting our government for them.

He started a war for no reason. He let people suffer after Katrina. He’s a monster. And he knows all he has to do is act cute and make a nice speech and we’ll forget all that.

But if dubya wants to come out and tell moderate republicans not to vote for the shit stain, I won't get in his way.

Dubya isn't a good dude suddenly because the GOP managed to find someone somehow exponentially shittier. Trump is like the Kwisatz Haderach of the GOP, but Dubya was the herald.

But it hurts this old Dune fan. So please pardon me.
The term/concept "Kwisatz Haderach" was personified in Paul Atreides, thence interpretted as "one who can be many places at once". It is true that the rough beast now slouched into the American Bethlehem is the product of a terrible GOP plan in similar fashion to the Bene Gesserit's perverse breeding program, but really, how can he be many places at once when in truth he is nowhere?

“ how can he be many places at once when in truth he is nowhere?”

Suspensors.

Should pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps?

Thank you for the OP.

Tikki

I like your comments.

W is just a little less outrageous, but largely the same type of sociopath.

Btw, since FOX's inception, no Repub president won their first term by capturing the popular vote.

They are a level near the top of the pyramid. A pyramid built upon a huge base of what they view as expendable, cheap, labor.
Ru-pervert Murdoch has had his day in the sun. Too bad he didn't burst into an agonizing inferno like blood sucking vampires are supposed to do.

He and a number of his staff weren't able to travel internationally for fear of being arrested and brought before the world court, then the international court unanimously found them guilty?

Ya... Good times.

I like that.

Most importantly, damage to the Middle East, our reputation, and expectations of our own behavior and values. None of it ever really healed back to their better previous condition.

If I did not know better, I would say dubya hired the orange asshole to make him look slightly better in the eyes of history.

The question is, can we shake off this infestation called republicans? If not, it is surely the end for all of us - that is, the U.S.

What I would say to his face, if I could:

I'd tell you to go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
If you could perform that feat
You'd take pleasure in your behind

I'd like to say eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war

Though I can never make you think
Or feel, or understand
I'll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely prison cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Until you're sick, heartbroken, and old

When you finally leave this earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You're going straight to hell.