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Et oui, plus que deux jours et on sera débarrassé de Bush (et dans mon Sarkozy Derangement Syndrome, je fantasme qu'on va aussi un peu moins voir le Bush français, du moins en politique internationale, même s'il continuera à occuper toutes les couvertures du Point avec une omniprésence bigbrotheresque digne d'Atatürk).

Le Parc d'attraction George W. Bush.

Jonathan Schwarz a une modeste proposition pour la carrière post-présidentielle de George W. Bush.

Un bon Shorter Ramesh Ponuru qui pleure devant la Glace Yes Pecan et le copinage Spider-Man/Obama. (Voir aussi ces autres propositions pour une glace dédiée à Bush : Cluster Fudge, Yellow Cake Surprise, Impeach Cobbler, imPeachmint, Guantanmallow, etc.

hilzoy relit le discours inaugural de Bush 2001.

Il faut aussi bien sûr relire l'article le plus célèbre et si tristement cassandre de The Onion : Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'. C'est parfois troublant d'exactitude :

Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession.

"We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two," Bush said. "Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there's much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent. And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."

Edito de The Nation en mars 1933 à l'arrivée de FDR :

Shall we assume that the Democrats, who now take office, offer a better prospect for America? The indicated liberalism of Roosevelt in the present desperate emergency, his power policy, more enlightened than any we have yet had, his nomination of a Cabinet superior to any within a generation, his apparent determination to tread new paths, are auguries of hope. But we should not forget certain fundamentals which The Nation has often reiterated: In recent times, certainly, the two major parties have been as like as peas, sterile, guided by approximately the same economic philosophy, motivated by the same quest for legal—and some not so legal—loot.

Mais la plus joli épitaphe sur l'irresponsabilité bushienne est cette formule anti-kantienne de Wolfowitz en 2000 :

"No U.S. president can justify a policy that fails to achieve its intended results by pointing to the purity and rectitude of his intentions."

Not the Onion : Des associations anti-avortement appellent à boycotter les Dunkin Donuts parce qu'ils ont dit être pour la "liberté de choix" (des variétés de donuts)...