
On Thursday, Bush gave a speech in New York about the financial crisis, and it was a laughable ode to the free market.
Bush just attacked another country over the weekend, this time Syria.
Not enough that he’s got our troops bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not enough that he’s attacking sites in Pakistan.
Before Bush launched the Iraq War, I had a bumper sticker that said “No War for Oil.”
That’s the understatement of the year, to be sure.
But hearing Bush speak Friday morning was not exactly a “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” moment.
Bush tried to be reassuring.
With Wall Street prostrate and coming cup in hand, you’d think that Bush and Congress would exercise some leverage and good sense so this won’t happen again. But no.
A 2006 interview with John Dean of Watergate fame, talking about why Bush and Cheney are more dangerous than Nixon was.
Bush has vowed to sprint through the final five months of his Administration, and you better believe him.
There was our Spectator-in-Chief excoriating Russia for its preemptive strike into Georgia. You could practically hear the world snorting.
Here’s the news flash from Wednesday’s New York Times: “Al Qaeda is more capable of attacking inside the United States than it was last year.”
That’s not my conclusion.