And the headline tells you everything you need to know:
After Returning From Four Days At The Olympics, Bush Criticizes Congress’s ‘Vacation’

Who knew being the Leader of the Free World could be so darned relaxing?

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Brad from Sadly! No picks the 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency - a dubious honor for which there is obviously much competition.
But really, my favorite is the Sadly! No photo:

A metaphor for our last seven-plus years, right there.

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And you wonder why it’s taken so long to get traction in this lovely little war.
Getting lost in the media furor over McClellan’s memoir is the new autobiography of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, who is scathing in his assessment that the Bush administration “led America […]

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People sometimes wonder where the bit about ”The Leader” or “Our Leader” or “Teh Leader” comes from. Above is one example.

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They’re laughing at us, you realize.

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Because, you know, Our Leader knows the true meaning of the word “sacrifice“:
Q Mr. President, you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to […]

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Via Atrios - Happy Mission Accomplished Day:
[Chris] MATTHEWS: What’s the importance of the president’s amazing display of leadership tonight?

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So Teh Leader does a cameo on “Deal or No Deal” Monday, quipping: “I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days.”
Cue the New York Post:
This was one deal NBC could have refused.
President Bush’s videotaped cameo on Monday’s “Deal or No Deal” didn’t spur much interest - tying the show’s worst-ever Monday-night performance.
Monday’s show averaged 10 […]

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Teh Leader continues to set new records every day:
President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The […]

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Hm. Via Kevin Drum, we see this ABC News interview last week with Teh Leader, in which Martha Raddatz asks Bush why, as violence in Iraq was spiraling out of control in 2006, he kept insisting that we were winning:
BUSH: Well, yes. I think we — and I wanted — that’s as much trying to […]

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As Matt Y. notes, the NYT/CBS News poll out today showing that 81 percent (!) of Americans polled think the country is on the wrong track is extraordinarily bad news for John McCain:
McCain desperately needs the support of the 15-25 percent of dead-enders who think Bush is a good president.
Absolutely. McCain can never be the […]

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Ain’t we got fun:
Senators joined the House on Thursday in approving subpoenas to force President Bush’s political adviser and other aides to testify about the firings of federal prosecutors.
His committee, by voice vote Thursday, gave Leahy authority to issue subpoenas for Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and her deputy, William Kelley. The House […]

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Don’t you sometimes think you’re living in an echo chamber, where things said five years ago bounce back at you, sounding only slightly different?
But most striking was Bush’s accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in […]

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Co-worker just mentioned this and it jogged my memory:
Driving up to Lititz on Sunday to see some friends who have a new baby, I passed a house right along 501 before you get into the downtown with a sign in the front yard:
Thank you, President Bush.
I started to laugh.
I don’t recall this, but maybe someone […]

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Via Will Bunch, we see that Teh Leader has just notched the worst approval rating of any president in recorded American history:
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 14% approve and 79% disapprove.
Bunch provides some […]

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The Decider hits a milestone:
Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they “strongly disapprove” of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48%, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in […]

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Via Matt Yglesias, we see that the Decider thinks waterboarding isn’t torture so long as it’s done by “highly trained professionals are within the law.”
Here’s a way I think we could end this whole controversy.
The Decider doesn’t want to come out and say we’re waterboarding, though as Yglesias notes, everyone knows we are waterboarding. The […]

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Our Glorious Leader:
President Bush compared Congress’ Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying “the world paid a terrible price” then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.
Because Ahmadinejad has the Wehrmacht at his dispoal and he’s about to march on Poland.
Honsetly, I know […]

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Tom Murse liveblogging it over at his place. Just finished up; sounds like the Leader had a friendly crowd - no surprise, given the locale. Still, the wires at this point are reporting on the protests here in Lancaster County - as the Era did in its report this afternoon. And when the protests get […]

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So the Leader is coming tomorrow, and it threatens to be one of those massive non-events.
It’s big news, obviously, any time the president comes to town. But what’s he going to say? I mean, what is he possibly going to say?
Besides invoking 9/11 and “teh terrorists” about 5,000 times apiece.
There are protests planned both this […]

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