#30. The Dixie Constitutionalists: So when Natalie Maines triggered the stupidest country music hullaballoo since Roy Clark called Porter Waggoner a communist on an episode of Hee Haw, we at least got a good documentary - although we lost a little bit of our First Amendment Soul. The right-wing fall-out was a national embarrassment as far I was concerned, and it told the rest of the world just how insane we were….er….almost…
#29. Freedom Fries. I forgot about that one. The France backlash (including Rumsfeld’s “old Europe” tag) was just plain sad. Bill O’Reilly and his band of Idiots fueled this ridiculous “anger” towards a friendly nation who’s biggest crime was joining 90% of the globe in condemning Bush’s War allowed Congressmen – grown adults – to suggest people pour French wine down the drain. That’ll do it. Um, the wine has already been paid for geniuses, and they were already spending the money…on health care and education. I also thought it was crazy when Larry Bird tried to change his home town’s name to Freedom Lick, Indiana.
#28. Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 1: Colin Powell cannot be forgiven for going to the U.N. chock full of hooey and props and lies about WMD. Now, one could argue that he was just doing his job, but come on. He knew there was no “there” there. So Powell has spent the last four-plus years trying to lay low, waiting to make his redemption wash away those images of him and the vial filled with baking soda. He did so, in a pretty big way, by endorsing Obama right around the same time his old bosses were putting their arms around John McCain. But then, there’ll always be that video of him in a Village People skit during the height of wartime.
#27. Stupid Comments on the 7’s and Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 2: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” So said George W. Bush in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster about Michael Brown, the former horse show judge made head of FEMA, who was overseeing the biggest government failure since Mission Accomplished. Brown, after video was later released showing him trying to at least get Bush to acknowledge that the storm was a real thing and not the radar screen was not a video game, went on to fall on the sword and try to be a role model for others. It did not work.
#26. Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 3 - Scott McClellan: Or did it? Scott McClellan was my least favorite WH Press Secretary as he was there for most of the lying during the Golden Years of the Plummeting Approval. But McClellan took one David Gregory beat-down too many. He left the job and turned coat. He wrote a somewhat scathing book about his former hero/boss – although not quite making news – that did one good thing, it showed how loyalty in the Bush administration flows one way only. Under the bus you go Scotty!
#25. George Tenet. This choice was a slam dunk!
#24. Mark Foley: If Bush can be proud of any one accomplishment it might just be his introduction of Amoral Ambiguity as the platform of the Republican Party. Never has Washington been so infused with social and policy hypocrisy. The Party of Fiscal Conservatives have long been bigger tax and spenders, but during the W. years we got to meet some of the worst kinds of Bush-ocrites. Remember Foley? He liked to email young Pages with naughty sex stuff. Even while he was writing, and Bush was signing, a bill toughening penalties on sexual predators on the web.
#23. Larry Craig. Then there was Larry. He loves his wife. He hated Bill Clinton (called him a “naughty boy”). He hated Barney Frank (pushed to have him kicked out of Congress for being involved with gay prostitution ring). He loved singing with Trent Lott. He hated same-sex marriage. He hated hate crime punishments. He loved the gay sex.
#22. Jack Abramoff: The crimes of Jack will make your head spin. Just one more W. buddy who will be unavailable for golf for 5-8 years after Bush leaves office.
#21. Toby Keith: I figured I’d bring this chunk of the list full circle. Toby was a democrat. Then came 9/11. And as if somehow the terrorists scared a donkey into an elephant, Toby became the country music poster-boy for the Bush Administration. Singing for the troops, threatening Sadaam Hussein in only the way a guy on the Dreamworks Nashville label could, and going all-indignant on the Dixie Chicks. Then, like only a pop guitar slinging video-of-the-year award winner born in a town called Clinton, and with a record and movie about to drop could – he up and turned against the war and did not endorse the soldier.
#29. Freedom Fries. I forgot about that one. The France backlash (including Rumsfeld’s “old Europe” tag) was just plain sad. Bill O’Reilly and his band of Idiots fueled this ridiculous “anger” towards a friendly nation who’s biggest crime was joining 90% of the globe in condemning Bush’s War allowed Congressmen – grown adults – to suggest people pour French wine down the drain. That’ll do it. Um, the wine has already been paid for geniuses, and they were already spending the money…on health care and education. I also thought it was crazy when Larry Bird tried to change his home town’s name to Freedom Lick, Indiana.#28. Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 1: Colin Powell cannot be forgiven for going to the U.N. chock full of hooey and props and lies about WMD. Now, one could argue that he was just doing his job, but come on. He knew there was no “there” there. So Powell has spent the last four-plus years trying to lay low, waiting to make his redemption wash away those images of him and the vial filled with baking soda. He did so, in a pretty big way, by endorsing Obama right around the same time his old bosses were putting their arms around John McCain. But then, there’ll always be that video of him in a Village People skit during the height of wartime.
#27. Stupid Comments on the 7’s and Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 2: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” So said George W. Bush in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster about Michael Brown, the former horse show judge made head of FEMA, who was overseeing the biggest government failure since Mission Accomplished. Brown, after video was later released showing him trying to at least get Bush to acknowledge that the storm was a real thing and not the radar screen was not a video game, went on to fall on the sword and try to be a role model for others. It did not work.
#26. Once They Were Lost Now They Are Found Pt. 3 - Scott McClellan: Or did it? Scott McClellan was my least favorite WH Press Secretary as he was there for most of the lying during the Golden Years of the Plummeting Approval. But McClellan took one David Gregory beat-down too many. He left the job and turned coat. He wrote a somewhat scathing book about his former hero/boss – although not quite making news – that did one good thing, it showed how loyalty in the Bush administration flows one way only. Under the bus you go Scotty!
#25. George Tenet. This choice was a slam dunk!
#24. Mark Foley: If Bush can be proud of any one accomplishment it might just be his introduction of Amoral Ambiguity as the platform of the Republican Party. Never has Washington been so infused with social and policy hypocrisy. The Party of Fiscal Conservatives have long been bigger tax and spenders, but during the W. years we got to meet some of the worst kinds of Bush-ocrites. Remember Foley? He liked to email young Pages with naughty sex stuff. Even while he was writing, and Bush was signing, a bill toughening penalties on sexual predators on the web.#23. Larry Craig. Then there was Larry. He loves his wife. He hated Bill Clinton (called him a “naughty boy”). He hated Barney Frank (pushed to have him kicked out of Congress for being involved with gay prostitution ring). He loved singing with Trent Lott. He hated same-sex marriage. He hated hate crime punishments. He loved the gay sex.
#22. Jack Abramoff: The crimes of Jack will make your head spin. Just one more W. buddy who will be unavailable for golf for 5-8 years after Bush leaves office.
#21. Toby Keith: I figured I’d bring this chunk of the list full circle. Toby was a democrat. Then came 9/11. And as if somehow the terrorists scared a donkey into an elephant, Toby became the country music poster-boy for the Bush Administration. Singing for the troops, threatening Sadaam Hussein in only the way a guy on the Dreamworks Nashville label could, and going all-indignant on the Dixie Chicks. Then, like only a pop guitar slinging video-of-the-year award winner born in a town called Clinton, and with a record and movie about to drop could – he up and turned against the war and did not endorse the soldier.
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