Mr. MBA President

 

The cynic in me wonders if there's some sort of method to the madness. Maybe they really do want the economic base to be so gutted that the incoming Obama administration is handcuffed if not fully accessorized with cement shoes.

Or maybe it's just history repeating itself--Mr. MBA and failure go way back. Indeed, his only "success," if it can be called that, came in baseball, a licensed monopoly (and even then, value was added mostly by some eminent domain arm-twisting mixed with sweetheart deals and political connections to construct a new stadium financed largely with taxpayer dollars.)

As the economy lurches towards January 20th, it looks like a fair swath of the GOP is washing their hands of the whole affair (as Krugman noted last night.), the latest example of course being their come-what-may dismissal of the domestic auto industry ... to be fair, you could hardly find a more dismal trio of industry representatives than Moe, Larry, & Curley Wagoner, Mulally, and Nardelli, but again citing Krugman, their Stoogesque performance shouldn't blind us to the potential loss of over a million jobs in the midst of an ongoing financial crisis. That's not just pouring gasoline on a fire--that's pouring gasoline onto a fire using a firehose.

Actually, the REAL cynic in me wonders if this was part of a broader plan that might well have succeeded if it hadn't blown up at the last moment in Team Bush's face. Suppose they had managed to keep a lid on things until the third week of January, 2009...Obama gets inaugurated, the wheels fall off, the incoming Democratic administration is left holding a fetid, rotting, stinking bag of failure, wingnuttiastan howls and bays about "irresponsible libruls," hacks like Cokie Roberts sing the chorus...setting the stage for 'nut "redemption" in 2012 and consignment of Obama as this century's Jimmy Carter.

Which could still happen: shoot, my own mom has taken up the wingnut chant of blaming Obama for the economic mess, even though he hasn't yet been sworn in...logic not being at all necessary, even tangentially, to the belief structure.

I guess we'll see what happens.

Comments

[pansypoo]

this tack will only work on the hopelessly fux gnews/lamebaugh heads. and those numbers are dwindling.

[The Other Sarah]

we tried to tell y'all he was a cosmic fail engineer.
I want this on record NOW: Rick Perry as a US President will be no better than Bush. Not one iota.
So STOP HIM -- unless the other choice is Palin, of course.

[lib4]

Touching on your wingnut mom (no pun intended)comment
Isnt it funny how:

9/11 happens AFTER Clinton yet its Clinton's Fault
Economic Crisis happens BEFORE Obama yet its Obama's Fault

Ahhhhhhh the wonders of the deranged responsibility free Republican mind

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

The Other Sarah - can we throw Palin AT Gov'nor Good Hair? Two for one? :)

Elspeth

[MapleStreet]

A couple of thoughts: Read "Bushwhacked" by Molly Ivins (?sp?) which firmly predicted that this would happen.

A the same time, the entire world is in economic meltdown. Additionally, we are in 2 "wars of terror". So the ability to lead any new initiatives is problematic at best. In the states, their revenues are falling due to the bad economy.

Report on TP says worse unemployment rate om 16 years. As I remember it, 16 years ago was when another Bush lost the election, presumably on his poor handling of the economy.

On Barbara Bush's (nee Pierce) side of the family, he is a direct descendant of President Pierce who did so poorly that his own party didn't renominate him for a second term.

[marceaumarceau]

Whats mildly amusing about this election cycle is the fact that McCain got screwed out of the presidency by Bush yet again. All lil Bushie had to do was keep the economy going for just a few months longer, just keep the tarp covering the imminent tangled wreck that was wall street on a few more months, and McCain probably would have won the election (by a squeak, but nonetheless). If McCain doesn't kick Bush in the balls just once sometime in the next couple of years, it will be a wonder.