Our Addlepated Chucklehead-in-Chief

Dan Froomkin notes in his blog today in the Washington Post that Bush really has an expansive view on how he will be remembered. If you read the piece, you may be struck by the fact that George Bush regards himself as a promoter of democracy and peace, qualities that probably nobody outside of the West Wing, and probably damn few of those within the West Wing, sees in him. (You probably should stand by for a flood of "I told him not to do that (or to do that), but he didn't listen to me because he was totally under the control of Dick Cheney and anyway, Bush was an incurious idiot" books from former members of his administration, starting next year.)

This is my favorite piece of hubris from Chimpy:

"I would think that -- first of all, I don't believe there's such a thing as an accurate short-term history. I'm still -- I read a lot of history these days. I like to read a lot about Abraham Lincoln, for example. And if they're still analyzing the 16th -- the history of the 16th President, see, then I -- the 43rd guy just doesn't need to worry about it."

First off, nobody, other than a besotted Kool-Aid Drinker, would compare Chimpy McFlightsuit favorably to Lincoln. Chimpy is not qualified to polish Lincoln's headstone.

Second, Incurious George might note that nobody is seriously examining the historical legacy of the presidents who are comparable to performance with him. He is most closely compared with Franklin Pierce, arguably the worst president before Stupie came along, and hardly anyone is writing books about Pierce. There is no market for books about presidential buffoons, other than case studies of "why these guys were such blatant fuckups." The only reason anyone writes about Grant is because of his generalship; he was a doofus of a president. And when was the last time you saw a book about Harding on the bestseller's list.

Der Monkey Fuhrer is more than likely mentally ill, for he seems to be seriously afflicted with delusions of grandeur, let alone adequacy. His major claim to fame is that he has done the best he could to make the Bill of Rights into a dead letter. And he has a chance of becoming the first president ever to be convicted of crimes against humanity.

50 to 100 years from now, C-Minus Augustus will be, at best, an obscure answer in trivia contests. Historians will be asking the same question that a British newspaper asked in 2004: How could the American people be so fucking stupid as to elect that idiot.