The Legacy

MANIFESTO

Steve Benen points out

Bush's record when it comes to disregarding warnings is right up there on the list of his most humiliating failures, isn't it? When warned that bin Laden is "determined to strike" inside the United States, the president humored the intelligence official and told him, "You've covered your ass, now." When warned that a hurricane was poised to destroy New Orleans, the president was satisfied that FEMA would handle the crisis. When warned about a looming financial crisis, Bush's White House paid more attention to the banks that told the president not to worry.

Benen doesn't say this in this particular post, but he and others have frequently opined that, for the Bushies, ideology trumped the facts every time.

President Petulant was just interviewed by ABC's Charlie Gibson wherein he asserted that he was unprepared for war (an astonishing admission after all these years), but the truth of the matter is that ideology carried the day for these morons every time. Let's never forget that the Bushies truly thought they were capable of creating their own reality in the dark days of 2004. There's no way that Feckless Leader can now conflate the reality as he then saw it in with the way things have turned out.

He's become a truly pathetic human being whose reach consistently exceeded his grasp to the detriment of the country. And after all the nonsense he's gone through and put us through, he seems genuinely surprised that it all didn't turn out so well. Perhaps he misinterpreted God's message. He wouldn't have been the first to do so.

UPDATE — Greg Sargent has more on President Prevaricator's revisionism.