Laundry list
Exchanging emails with Jonn about last week¹s revelation that the Bush Administration doesn’t take the religious right as seriously as it’d like them to think, our conversation quickly devolved into a list of how a once distressingly popular US President can find his way to a mid-thirties approval rating - and, at the same time, make sure his country becomes one of the most-feared laughingstocks in the world.
We’d like to think that our conversation makes a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to why 43 remains the worst. President. EVER. The call-and-response follows:
AL: Well, Bush would always pay lip service to the social conservatives¹ issues -- much to the chagrin to more mainstream Republicans.
I guess that's how you get to a 30-whatever approval rating: Alienate half of your base. Then alienate the other half.
Oh, and do a real half-ass job with a war. That helps, too.
JE: And screw up the economy, don't forget that.
And throw away your country's entire international prestige, just to shore up your gung ho base.
And try to appoint your Number One Biggest Fan to the Supreme Court.
AL: Make sure you don't catch that Osama guy.
And turn a brain-dead woman into a right-to-life crusade.
And if there is a really, really bad natural disaster in the south, fly over it in an airplane. But ignore it for a week first.
JE: Refuse to fire the Septuagenarian incompetent who has single-handedly gutted both the US military and a large chunk of the Middle East.
Declare a three-country axis of evil, and then watch helplessly as two of them develop nukes.
AL: Appoint an attorney general that recently lost his Senate race to a man that died in a plane crash a month before the election. Four years later, replace him with your lawyer.
When abroad, treat foreign leaders like they're your college roommates.
JE: Lock up a bunch of people without trial, and then spend so much time arguing about your constitutional prerogative to do so that it doesn't occur to you to bother to check if they're actually guilty.
The worst thing is, this post will almost inevitably be out of date very, very soon.
We’d like to think that our conversation makes a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to why 43 remains the worst. President. EVER. The call-and-response follows:
AL: Well, Bush would always pay lip service to the social conservatives¹ issues -- much to the chagrin to more mainstream Republicans.
I guess that's how you get to a 30-whatever approval rating: Alienate half of your base. Then alienate the other half.
Oh, and do a real half-ass job with a war. That helps, too.
JE: And screw up the economy, don't forget that.
And throw away your country's entire international prestige, just to shore up your gung ho base.
And try to appoint your Number One Biggest Fan to the Supreme Court.
AL: Make sure you don't catch that Osama guy.
And turn a brain-dead woman into a right-to-life crusade.
And if there is a really, really bad natural disaster in the south, fly over it in an airplane. But ignore it for a week first.
JE: Refuse to fire the Septuagenarian incompetent who has single-handedly gutted both the US military and a large chunk of the Middle East.
Declare a three-country axis of evil, and then watch helplessly as two of them develop nukes.
AL: Appoint an attorney general that recently lost his Senate race to a man that died in a plane crash a month before the election. Four years later, replace him with your lawyer.
When abroad, treat foreign leaders like they're your college roommates.
JE: Lock up a bunch of people without trial, and then spend so much time arguing about your constitutional prerogative to do so that it doesn't occur to you to bother to check if they're actually guilty.
The worst thing is, this post will almost inevitably be out of date very, very soon.
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