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The Agitator — ... Speaking of rhetorical smackdowns, the Economist sends President Bush back to Texas bloodied and beaten. And they’re right. ...

Buh-Bye
Hit & Run — A few early reviews of our most recent ex-president's eight-year performance: The Economist sends Bush back to Texas with a boot to the ass: HE LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history. At home, his approval rating has been stuck in the 20s for months; abroad, George Bush has presided over the most catastrophic collapse in America’s reputation since the second world war. The American economy is in deep recession, brought on by a crisis that forced Mr Bush to preside over huge ...

Donnie Fowler: GOP Unanimously Rejected Clinton Stimulus, Too
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Here's another curious fact as the Republicans reject the American people's call for an end to gridlock partisanship. No House Republicans voted for Bill Clinton's 1993 economic stimulus package just like every single one of them rejected President Obama's this past week. It seems those guys just want to keep on keeping on with the progress our nation has made the last eight years. As I noted yesterday, President Obama's tax cuts are larger than George W. Bush's combined tax cuts in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Yet -- somehow, some way -- the GOP ...

First, do no harm
The Sideshow — ... line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased." And William Rivers Pitt has one on Death Talkers: "Where is all the fear and violence gaining inspiration? The same places it has been for a while now. Those right-wing media people keep talking, and people keep getting killed. Coincidence? Ha." Via MTA, which has much more. Thanks to Charles for supplying the real picture of George Waker Bush respecting the office. Charles Pierce himself was at the FDL Book Salon last ...