Excellent News

When your chief executive becomes unpopular due to the catastrophic failure of his policymaking and leadership, it's always good to read that he's increasingly surrounding himself with an insular group of long-time loyalists: "Six years into Mr. Bush’s presidency, the corps of loyal Texans who accompanied him to Washington from Austin remains a powerful force inside the administration, a steady source of comfort for an increasingly isolated president." Good times. I found this part especially hilarious: "Mr. Johnson says the most painful accusation is hearing Mr. Bush called a liar."

For me, the most painful thing is the way Bush is constantly trying to mislead people.

Comments

he said, ‘Well, you’ve just got to get used to it. Because that’s what we have here.’ ”

There is, of course, an alternative: y'all could fuck off back to Texas.

Posted by pseudonymous in nc | February 21, 2007 1:22 AM

Oh, come out and say it. It's not that hard: Bush is constantly lying.

Posted by moonbiter | February 21, 2007 1:54 AM

It'd all be just swell if he'd merely risen to his natural gifts- running an Arby's somwhere east of Midland.

Posted by Trevor | February 21, 2007 2:54 AM

"Mr. Johnson says the most painful accusation is hearing Mr. Bush called a liar."

Y'all are misunderstanding the Texas accent here--the most painful accusation is hearing Mr. Bush called a lawyer . . .

Posted by rea | February 21, 2007 6:17 AM

Did Al Capone's friend's object to hearing Capone called a liar? I think not. Bush's friends should just suck it up. When you're a gangster getting called a liar is the least of your concerns.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | February 21, 2007 8:23 AM

Re Dubya

Liar is a rather mild description of Dubya. Actually he is a coke snorting, pot smoking, draft dodging, lying drunk.

Posted by SLC | February 21, 2007 8:41 AM

Good to see TNR writers calling a bunch of over-promoted insiders a 'hackocracy' (read the article). But in their case, of course, Mr Peretz is simply giving them an opportunity to show what they can do.

Posted by otto | February 21, 2007 8:48 AM

What Mary McCarthy famously said about Lillian Hellman is true of Bush: his every word is a lie including "and" and "the".

Posted by J | February 21, 2007 9:10 AM

For me, the most painful accusation is hearing Mr. Bush called a president.

Posted by Buce | February 21, 2007 9:21 AM

One of the most annoying things about the English language is that 'lie' is such a dirty word and can basically never be used. There are so many other ways to say that a statement is untrue, misleading, incorrect, in error, technically false, etc, that the word 'lie' is never employed other than as an insult. You'd just as soon find the President described in print as a pigfucker as a liar, even on noted liberal fanatic Matt Yglesias's site.

Posted by neil | February 21, 2007 10:27 AM