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Mary Cheney’s Legacy
GayPatriot — Many bloggers, including this one, have written about the legacy of the outgoing President and Vice President. As one of the leading gay conservative blogs, it falls on us to address the legacy of the outgoing Vice-President’s lesbian daughter, Mary. Since most gay leaders are of the liberal persuasion and believe the (R) after a politician’s name renders him or her repugnant, few will take the time to praise the Vice President or his daughter. Yet, each has contributed significantly to improving the image of gay people in America. Mary lives ...

So, slow news day?
Firedoglake — ... To this: Everything considered, I give the Bush administration a B-. Four letters off, but it's a start. (picture via krystalynn)

Na na na na, hey-hey-hey, goodbye!
Rising Hegemon — ... so important that only Dick could move them? Must be his line of CIA Operative trading cards. In any case, I guess the old "history will vindicate me" line is not off to a good start when even Assrocket at Powerline tries to walk it back. From this in July 2005: It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. To this: Everything considered, I give the Bush administration a ...

Grading on the Curve
Balloon Juice — ... With the end of the Bush Presidency come the end of term assessments, and who better to provide a critique of the Bush administration than the folks from the bias free zone at the Powerline? Let’s get right to it: ...

History Will Vindicate George W. Bush?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Conor scoffs at Powerline's Bush retrospective. Powerline: …at present it looks like a good bet that history will record Iraq as a successful foreign policy initiative, and possibly one that started the long process of reforming the Arab world, to everyone’s great benefit. Clinical. ...

Twenty Bucks, Same as in Town: Inaugural Edition
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Meanwhile, over at Powerline, John Hindlicker was looking not forward but backward to the Bush Years, offering this screed in defense of Der Fuhrer: ...

Goodbye To All That
Jules Crittenden — ... heard already. Boos from the crowd around the big screens by the World War II monument; ”Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, good-bye” chanted at the helicopter.  It’s OK. Anyone who has been in any kind of public life knows that jeers from gutless wonders are a form of praise. Much like having your policies adopted by the opposition. Their views, as we saw, never really mattered, and I’d suggest their jeers, not Bush and his accomplishments in time of war, will become the footnote to history. Hinderaker at Powerline  wrote an appreciation of Bush the other day, weighing the record of ...

Book ‘Em, Zhdano
Sadly, No! — ... President Bush: An Assessment Woot. You know, for years, Hindy has been stealing stuff from us when he thinks no one is looking. By inductive reasoning, we can determine that there must have been a post here while I was away to which he added some essment, and that it was titled, President Bush: An Ass Jokey jokey ha ha. But back to Hindy: President Bush leaves office mostly unloved, with some poll respondents saying that they consider ...