The One Billionth Blogger ...

...to say that I'm glad Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. I don't expect miracles from the guy. He's inheriting New Orleans post-Katrina. Bush has made a wreckage of the United States. I know some conservatives. I'm a recovering conservative myself. And I know that Bushloyal conservatives feel that he's being handed a raw deal by the media (note to self: blog entry on The Myth of the Liberal Media), but that history will look more kindly on G.W.Bush.

Ha! Ha!

It's a laughable idea, so I laugh. It's been said so many times that it no longer has any impact, but that doesn't make it less true: George W. Bush is stupid. He's not mentally-incompetent-stupid. I'm sure he could balance a checkbook. He can fly a fighter jet, for goodness sake. He's not a village idiot (bumper stickers notwithstanding). He's just a dumb guy. He's gullible. He's ignorant. He's narrow in scope. He's manipulable.

Most important: he's history. Fuck 'im. I'll leave his legacy to the historians, who will fill his chapter with debacle and devastation: Iraq, Gitmo, Patriot Act, Katrina, Credit Default Swaps, et al.

Still recovering from my conservative youth, I have to say that perhaps the worst thing that Bush has done is put us on the path to Socialism. Nationalized banks, government majority-owned insurance companies, and now General Motors coming to whinge at the federal hindtit? What the hell? My 18-year-old conservative self reminds me from the past: let the weak die. It's the natural order. If GM, Chrysler, or Ford aren't able to turn a profit making a product that almost every human on Earth wants, fuck 'em (if you'll excuse the continued thematic use of F-bombs). If I, as a taxpayer, am going to share in GM's loss, I better fuckingwell share in their profits.

Notice the anger?

As Trudeau asked recently in Doonesbury, what's the deal with nationalizing risk while continuing to privatize profit?