We ran as fast as we could but still were not able to escape the awfulness of it all.

We couldn’t successfully campaign to get T.V. monitor above our treadmill at the gym switched to hoops on ESPN this evening so we were forced to watch Hardball on MSNBC and the playback of the video of Bush on his regrets. His list: The “dead or alive” and “bring it on” remarks and the “Mission Accomplished” banner.



We nearly fell off the treadmill….

That’s what he regretted? Was this some kind of joke? Is this how he is going to spend his last days in office… kissing liberal ass..? for what….? Talking tough?

The man spent 8 years in Washington D.C. single-handedly destroying the Republican brand and he’s reduced to apologizing for speaking from the gut when our nation was at war and for a banner that was meant as a salute to this nation’s armed forces for indeed toppling the regime of Sadaam Hussein, all so that Bob Herbert of Newsweek might say nice things about him? Excuse us, Bob Herbert of the lying, intentionally misleading and journalistically negligent Newsweek.

8 years of “compassionate conservatism” and bipartisan crap like No Child Left Behind, CFRA and Amnesty thinking that might buy him some cross-aisle goodwill and he’s going to apologize for Olberman-fodder? Wonderful.

8 years and a half-assed attempt to reform social security and another half-assed attempt to pull the Raines in on Freddie and Fannie (oh yes we did), presiding over the nationalization of the banking industry and putting future generations on the hook for these colossal bailouts and he’s apologizing for wanting to salute the troops?.

Herbert did say that Bush looked like he had checked out already… like a quarterback in the locker room after the game explaining to reporters the interception he threw to lose the ballgame and we can’t argue with him on that account.

Well, guess what? You’re still on the clock for another 69 days, Tex and that means it’s Pardon Season and while you may be making the rounds in legacy-building mode, there are a few people we’re going to suggest be on that list if harbor any hopes of salvaging your sad domestic legacy in these parts. Let’s just say a couple of border patrol agents and a man whose nickname is synonymous with small, motorized two-wheelers better be at the top of the list.

Yeah, bring it on.