George W. Bush: Huge Douchebag or the Hugest Douchebag?

Beware the historical legacy of George W. Bush, which right now, even as you read this, is being "prepared" by operatives of the Bush Crime Family.

Mark these words today and be chilled to your very marrow: in twenty years or less, there will be serious discussion in the right-wing media about putting Bush on the dime (the Bush Crime Family has always hated FDR) or Mount Rushmore. Sadly, in twenty years Stephen Colbert's tongue-in-cheekiness will be lost in the sands of time, and people could very well be asking with a straight face, "George W. Bush: great president or the greatest president?"

Conservative philosophe Glenn Beck on August 1, 2007:

He feels the pain of every wounded hero, every lonely, grieving parent this war has caused. He is a man who understands the heavy cost that we are paying. But who believes with every ounce of his being that we are in the fight for our very survival, a fight that's importance can only be judged fairly decades from now, and I believe a fight he is willing to be judged harshly for until that time comes, even if he's long dead.

Republican mouthpiece Scott Hennen after meeting with his Holiness himself on August 2, 2007:

I wish I could quote him exactly or play a recording of the conversation. Because the George W. Bush I met with in the Oval Office today is a very different person than the man you see in our media. He is a great President. We are very blessed that he is our Commander in Chief. History will judge him well.

And of course, one of the ringmasters of the inner sanctum of the vast right-wing conspiracy, ladies and gentleman, Bill "I haven't been right about anything yet, but it's bound to happen some time" Kristol gives a coup d'grace on July 15, 2007: "Bush will be viewed as a successful president." Sounds pretty confident for a guy who hasn't been right yet. Hmm, maybe he knows something that we don't.

But that's just the frontal assault by the usual suspects. It goes deeper than that. Think Armstrong Williams. Think Judith Miller. Think Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack. Take for example, a new book by Purdue University professor Bert A. Rockman (go ahead, give that "Rrrrrock-man" a little Burgess Meredith in Rocky III there when you say it, it's OK). In The George W. Bush Legacy, Rrrrock-man et al note some of Bush's "bold steps," including:

. . . influencing the direction of the judiciary, expanding executive power, institutionalizing the 2001 tax cuts and going beyond them, delivering policies and appointments for favored base constituencies, and increasing the size and reach of the national security state . . . .

Oh it can happen, and the same stubborn, determined, deluded gang of wacky misfits that rammed Iraq into our yawning pieholes is already hard at work making sure it does happen. Under rocks and in the shadows, the "preferred" legacy of George W. Bush grows. While time heals all wounds and the nation forgives and forgets, the Bush malignancy gathers strength and consolidates message. Soon, it will be indistinguishable from the truth. Ultimately, it will become the truth. What are you doing to stop them?

The best single thing you can do to understand why Bush perpetually thinks he has a mandate from God to do whatever he decides needs doin' and why crafting a legacy of mythological proportions is so paramount to the Bush Crime Family, read Kitty Kelley's biography, The Family. Stop right there with the snickering about Kitty Kelley. The vast right-wing conspiracy Swift-boated poor Kitty real good, but disregard the titter of a compromised media, Page A-26 is here to tell you that The Family is a piercing, definitive examination of the Bush pathology. Kelley astutely describes how Dumbya came into the presidency with his legacy foremost on his mind. That is the hallmark of the Bush Crime Family -- they are myth makers.

Now that it's been brought to your attention, start noticing every time Bush or one of his sicophants mentions the words history or legacy. It's a lot. Long after this generation has forgotten what its lyin' eyes saw, the lies that the Bush crime family are planting today will have sprung up and completely choked off all connection to the truth.

And in a completely unrelated story, Karl Rove announced his resignation today (calm down, not effective until August 30). While this seems good, it's actually not. With a slimeball like Rove, it's better to keep him out in the open so you can keep an eye on him. He'll now be free to play his dirty tricks unfettered by any rules of engagement (but completely covered by executive privilege).

Some pundits, like Howard Fineman of Newsweek, think that Rove is going to head up some underground strike force to target Hillary Clinton and keep the Terra' meter pegged to eleven. No doubt. You can be sure that Mr. Dirty Tricks, who learned at the knee of the master, Lee Atwater, will continue to divide this country against itself in order to serve the Republican agenda. Ol' Karl still has a few McCain-South Carolina tricks up his sleeves, but for now, he'll just be doing stuff like that for fun. That is, when he's not "spending time with his family" of course.

Others like Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post think that Rove may take a leading role in establishing the Bush Presidential Library (will they have a copy of My Pet Goat?) as a base of operations for prosletizing the Bush mythology.

Bingo Froomkin. Here's Rove at a joint appearance with Bush yesterday morning to make the weepy announcement: "I look forward to . . . being your fierce and committed advocate on the outside . . . ." You can bet your sweet ass on that one. Karl Rove will spend the rest of his life aggrandizing Bush into Jesus II.

"Karl Rove is movin' on down the road" Bush said at the press conference. Yeah, well, let's hope he gets hit by a bus. Maybe then our grandchildren might have at least one chance in hell of knowing what actually happened at the dawn of the 21st century.