The Right Analogy for Bush

In retrospect one of the dumbest things liberals did regarding George W. Bush was compare him to Adolph Hitler.

For one thing it's an insult to Hitler. Hitler may have been evil, but at least he was good at being evil. The tens of millions whose deaths were attributable to his horrors attest to that.

On the other hand, Bush is not good at doing evil. If Bush had been in charge of the Holocaust the national language of Germany today would be Yiddish. (rimshot) There is nothing Bush  and his people have touched, not one thing, which has worked out, whether you thought his aim was good, bad or indifferent.

Iraq? Not working. Afghanistan? Not working. The dollar? Not working. The trains don't run, and the planes don't run on time. His supporters had excuses for all of it, and all of them are now fleeing his legacy, but it's like you put one of these morons in charge of anything and they immediately put on a dunce cap.

So the right analogy for Bush isn't to Hitler, it turns out, but Mussolini. Mussolini, in many ways, was a joke.  About the only thing he did well was to accumulate power. This moron's vaunted army needed 8 months to take out Ethiopia! Instead of making Italy feared, he made it the laughingstock of Europe. In some ways it remains so, two generations later.

Which is not to say Benito Mussolini was a good guy. He was evil, he did evil things. He just did them poorly. And that's the Bush legacy as well. Complete, total incompetence on every front.

Here you have the mightiest armed force in the history of mankind and we're losing in Afghanistan. We're losing in Iraq. And we're losing the force. It's likely to turn out that his entire economy was a scam, a Ponzi scheme of phony loans bundled for sale to gullible Chinese investors. His Attorney General didn't just politicize the Justice Department, he got caught at it. And so many of his supporters turned out to be sexual perverts of one sort or another, it's enough to turn a good Baptist into an atheist.

Everything about these idiots leaks like a sieve. Liberals descry his claimed dominance of the media, but the blogs route around it and everyone who cares to know, does know. His buggery of the middle class is turning an entire generation into lifelong Democrats. He is making America the land of Ozymandias. And even if you're a Republican, you're starting to agree. He has left the cupboard entirely bare for you. It's like apres' moi, le deluge.  But until then  laissez les bon temps roules.

It will take most Americans the rest of their lives to repair the damage George W. Bush and his Administration have done to them, to their reputations, to their wealth, to their environment,  to their economy, to their government. This game he's playing, pretending he's going to get an honored retirement in a Texas library and then plot the return of his allies in four years, is a pipe-dream.

So maybe even the Mussolini comparison is not apt. Because as a human being George W. Bush makes Mussolini look like George Washington.

Maybe the right comparison is O.J. And all of us -- Democrats, Republicans, young and old, are his Browns and Goldmans.