The Fall of the House of Bush

Update: I misheard or got bad info. Babs wasn't rapidly released from the hospital. But my comments still apply.......

I’m not a Joe Klein fan, but he’s got it right here:

That we have slightly more than one President for the moment is mostly a consequence of the extraordinary economic times. Even if George Washington were the incumbent, the markets would want to know what John Adams was planning to do after his Inauguration. And yet this final humiliation seems particularly appropriate for George W. Bush. At the end of a presidency of stupefying ineptitude, he has become the lamest of all possible ducks.

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In the end, though, it will not be the creative paralysis that defines Bush. It will be his intellectual laziness, at home and abroad. Bush never understood, or cared about, the delicate balance between freedom and regulation that was necessary to make markets work. He never understood, or cared about, the delicate balance between freedom and equity that was necessary to maintain the strong middle class required for both prosperity and democracy. He never considered the complexities of the cultures he was invading. He never understood that faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness. He is less than President now, and that is appropriate. He was never very much of one.

  Time

Mommy Dearest Barbara Bush was just admitted and rapidly released from the hospital. I hear this morning that she’s “fine”. Of course she is. There wasn’t anything wrong. She’s just trying to distract or garner sympathy for the mental cripple she spawned. Oh, yes she would do such a thing.

Former first lady Barbara Bush was expected to be released from a Houston hospital on Wednesday after complaining of stomach pain

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Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Bush's husband, said all the results for tests she had undergone had been negative. McGrath said former president George H.W. Bush was with her.

Bush disclosed she was suffering from an overactive thyroid ailment known as Graves' disease when she lived at the White House.

The disease causes teary eyes and double vision.

  CBC

But then, so does alcoholism. A grave disease.