The new fashionable question to ask is whether the country has ever had a worse President than George W. Bush. That was the topic in yesterday’s Washington Post and it was the topic on Scarborough Country tonight. It’s so bad that Pat Buchanan gave defenses like, “The jury is still out”, “he on the verge of a failed Presidency”, and “it’s too early to tell.” Clearly the Establishment sent out the memo to jettison this bunch of crooks. At the White House it must be all hands on deck.
And I obviously agree that Bush is about the worst President ever. But he has some solid competition. Bush’s main problem is that he has NOTHING positive to counterbalance his most major fuck-ups. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and opened diplomatic channels to China. LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Coolidge’s record is pretty slim. He did pass the Kellogg-Briand Pact, but that is some thin gruel. But Coolidge had the good sense not to seek re-election. Warren Harding is horrible, but he died in office during his first-term. I think we need to look back to the 19th-Century to find a President as uniformly awful as Bush. James Buchanan failed to avert the civil war. I think that is an act that is pretty hard to top. I don’t think Bush has quite gotten to that level of incompetence. But he has two more years. In my book, George W. Bush is the second worst President of all time.
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