Drunk With Patriotism? And/Or Beer?

Last month, a secret video made the rounds, depicting George W. Bush at a fundraiser announcing that America’s economic woes were due to the fact that “Wall Street got drunk.” But now it seems Bush has forgotten that America even has any problems — and perhaps that’s because he’s gotten so plastered at the Olympics that he blacked out on them. Gawker has a tremendous gallery of Bush looking kind of wasted in front of the rest of the world (and his extremely embarrassed children). I think the backwards flag might be my favorite.

George W. Bush Is A Very Bad Man

I mean, there’s no question about it anymore, is there? Never mind running the country — is this a guy you’d really trust to, say, drive your mom to the airport? Certainly, there is little expectation from any segment of the population that future generations will look back on the Bush presidency as a golden age for the country, but even super-lefty Democrats from California like Nancy Pelosi have said that impeachment is off the table. Well, unfortunately for the rest of the party, Dennis Kucinich is too short to see the surface of that table, and today kicked off his purely symbolic impeachment hearings against the president. You know why.

(There are more sound clip highlights from Kucinich’s explanation for his hearings here.)

Yet even though these proceedings are destined to go nowhere, don’t you kind of admire Kucinich for trying to pull them off at all? That is the kind of hardcore spite I can really admire.

Less Than Four Months To Go…

I could sit here all day and recap the incredible litany of wrongdoing by George W. Bush and his administration — all apparently fueled by the kind of arrogance that could lead to the President saying something as jaw-droppingly stupid as this within range of any recording device. But I don’t have to recap it: Slate has created an amazing interactive Venn diagram showing all the Bush cronies facing possible criminal investigation (or actively involved in them now). Good thing Alberto Gonzales left his White House job: he’s going to need that free time for depositions.

Yo, Harper!

So you’re a nearly-ex-President and you’re at kind of a big event and you embarrass yourself by identifying a fellow world leader in a way some might regard as overly casual.

But probably no one noticed, right? Wrong. Isn’t it about time for someone to take his annual four-month vacation at the ranch?