Will the Bushes please just go away?

Please, TradMed, stop it with the “ooh ooh Obama doesn’t play nice with Republicans” crapola. Bush treated Congressional and Senate Republicans far worse than Obama has so far — as you all know, or should.

The legacy of America’s Hephaestus, Alexander Haig: an unaccountable Executive; Ronald Reagan’s presidency; and the disastrous reach into the twenty-first century of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, returned from the never-extinguished wreckage of the Nixon years to shape America’s destiny as their own.

So much for that message discipline and failure to leak tour, Karl. Dickie Boy is peeved: In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby – and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn’t budge.

It is ON, beyotches.

Absolutely no shame, no remorse, no public pangs of conscience…and none expected: Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, spoke last week at Loyola Marymount University as part of a campuswide 1st Amendment Week. In his remarks, he reiterated his belief that government leaks can cause serious harm, and that newspapers should respect government secrecy….

Firedoglake is pleased to welcome Donald F. Kettl and his timely book, “The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them.”

Recent commentaries are concluding the only way to account for pervasive catastrophe the Bush/Cheney regime left us to blame it on his personal inadequacies. But I think that misses the true damage represented by the Bush/Cheney legacy.

Speaking this morning from the White House on the continuing war on Gaza, Condi Rice illustrated once again why she may be one of America’s worst, most ineffective and disingenuous Secretaries of State.