Weisberg wonders whether he is saving it for his memoirs. "Bush's genius has been setting expectations low. I think Sarah Palin may have helped him out here – the bar has just dropped to the basement."

According to Bruce Bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a US Treasury official under George Bush senior, Bush Jr has left the attacks on Obama to his former Vice President, Dick Cheney.

"I can't help but notice that Cheney has more than filled the gap in terms of making obnoxious and irresponsible statements about the current administration's foreign policy," Bartlett says. "Bush may simply feel he has nothing to add to what Cheney is saying."

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Or as usual Dubya has no idea about what's happening...

Impeach, impeach, inpeach... see toon at top.

While he's been absent from the national scene, Bush's team has been busy. Some of the most polarising figures from his 2001-2009 presidency have found second lives in the political world.

Karl Rove, the operative who might as well have put "mastermind" on his business card, became a master money-raiser for the midterm elections in plenty of time to make Democrats apoplectic all over again.

Dick Cheney, the Bush vice-president whose influence rivalled if not surpassed Rove's, has tormented the Obama administration at many turns.

Not Bush.

He has given the occasional innocuous speech, has tended his presidential centre, has helped with Haiti earthquake relief and has offered glimpses of a life that has him walking Barney the dog in his Dallas neighbourhood with a poop bag, "picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years".

Decision Points puts Bush back in the public eye. He'll be all over TV this week and beyond, from news and opinion shows to Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/08/george-bush-memoir-decision-points

see toon and story at top...

Why would hundreds of the leading minds in the fields of national security, intelligence, and information technology want to be lectured to by former President George W. Bush, who, after all, misused intelligence to launch a war with little preparation for what would come afterward? And why would the US division of one of the world's largest software companies arrange—and perhaps pay—for Bush to address such an audience?

These are questions that this firm, SAP National Security Services, doesn't want to answer.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/george-w-bush-speech-sap-ns2-summit

Answer? Because? Because when the president asked for crooked dumb loaded intelligence, the president has a crooked dumb loaded purpose in mind... http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/11276

See toon at top... see also: Downer Lies?

Former President George W. Bush said on Thursday that "there's pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled" in the 2016 American presidential election, forcefully rebutting fellow Republican Donald Trump's denials of Moscow trying to affect the vote.

While never mentioning President Trump by name, Bush appeared to be pushing back on Trump's attempts to have warmer relations with Russia, as well as his comments on immigration.

The White House did not immediately comment on Bush's remarks.

"There's pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled," Bush said at a talk in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. "Whether they affected the outcome is another question."

Bush also said that "it's problematic that a foreign nation is involved in our election system. Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results."

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump win. Numerous investigations are under way to determine whether Trump's campaign aided the Kremlin in its efforts.

Trump has repeatedly denied any "collusion" with Russia.

Speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bush called him "zero-sum."

"He's got a chip on his shoulder," Bush said of Putin. "The reason he does is because of the demise of the Soviet Union troubles him. Therefore, much of his moves (are) to regain Soviet hegemony."

Bush also stressed the need to back NATO and other alliances the U.S. has with the world.

Putin "is pushing, constantly pushing, probing weaknesses," the former president said. "That's why NATO is very important."

Bush also criticized Trump's decision to scrap a program implemented by former President Barack Obama's administration that allows young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who were brought here as children to remain in America.

Read more:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-george-bush-russia-20180208-story.html

After having destroyed the Middle East with his stupid dangerous little war against Saddam that killed many people, this former idiot-in-chief, now just an ordinary idiot, should shut up. Putin is doing a far better job at preventing the US world game of throne stealing everything on the planet. 

Read from top. See also: http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/11276

When Democrats start to have fond memories of George W Bush, then you know that the USA has gone to the dogs or to the Hawks (of war)...

While it may have significant popular support, much of the anti-Trump “Resistance” suffers from a severe weakness of message. Part of the problem is with who the Resistance’s leading messengers are: discredited neoconservative poltroons like former president George W. Bush, unwatchable alleged celebrities like Chelsea Handler, and establishment Republicans who routinely slash and burn the middle class like Senator Jeff Flake. Furthermore, what exactly is the Resistance’s overriding message? Invariably their sermonizing revolves around vague bromides about “tolerance,” diversity, unrestricted free trade, and multilateralism. They routinely push a supposed former status quo that was in fact anything but a status quo. The leaders of the Resistance have in their arsenal nothing but buzzwords and a desire to feel self-satisfied and turn back to imagined pre-Trump normality. A president like Donald Trump is only possible in a country with opposition voices of such subterranean caliber.

Remember when Trump steamrolled a crowded field of Republicans in one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history? Surely many of us also recall the troupes of smug celebrities and Bushes and Obamas who lined up to take potshots at Trump over his unacceptably cruel utterances that upset their noble moral sensibilities? How did that work out for them? They lost. The more that opposition to Trump in office takes the same form as opposition to him on the campaign trail, the more hypocritical and counterproductive it becomes. Further, the resistance to Trump’s policies is coming just at the moment when principled opposition most needs to up its game and help turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock. It’s social conservatives who are also opposed to war and exploitation of the working class who have the best moral bona fides to effectively oppose Trump, which is why morally phrased attacks on Trump from the corporate and socially liberal wings of the left, as well as the free market and interventionist conservative establishment, have failed and will continue to fail. Any real alternative is going to have to come from regular folks with hearts and morals who aren’t stained by decades of failure and hypocrisy.

A majority of Democrats now have favorable views of George W. Bush, and that’s no coincidence. 

Read more:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-pathetic-inadequacy-...