We Need A Bullhorn and Some Rubble

I bet Bush spends a lot of time looking at pictures like this. He probably does that a lot these days. I sure as hell were if I were him and my reputation were in tatters. While he certainly isn't going to rebuild or repair his reputation he could be doing something, but he isn't. Several times Obama has made the statement that all president elects are supposed to make, 'There is only one President." Could somebody tell Bush this and that President is him?

If I were forced to name one thing that Bush was good at it would be the photo-op. It is a shame that there are no good photo-ops for Bush during this economic mess, no piles of rubble for him to climb to buck up the troops, no clear cut bad guy for Bush to promise to bomb or bring freedom to.

Ryan Avent says it much better than I.

He very easily could have asked Congress to send him a stimulus bill, even a modest one, amid an intensification of what will likely be the worst recession in thirty years, if not longer. It would have made a difference. It would have made the season a little more bearable for the growing numbers of unemployed, and it would have made Obama’s task a little less daunting.

Instead, he’s spending his waning days weakening environmental rules, helping his cronies get jobs in the professional bureacracy, and preparing his pardons. What a stupid, despicable man. History can’t judge him too cruelly.