Cause nothin says pwned like a Pooh Bear cartoon….

Yeah. Shame on us. What is a little stopping on the Constitution among friends? ;-P

Maybe if he wouldn't have completely disregarded this country during his time in office, we'd be a little nicer to him now.

Let me sing a song for him as he goes:

Hit the road jack, and don't you come back no more, no more, hit the road jack.

Sorry…tell that to the over 4000 dead American soldiers, sailors & marines! Mr. Bush is directly responsible for that failure of governance!

Silly people don't you know that as president you can institute a bummer free zone??? And that includes people talking shit?

I didn't realize Barbara Bush had gotten a job writing for the Wall Street Journal.

Make no mistake, I'm all for talking smack, esp to this Prez (of my own party no less), but "EMO bullshit"??? WTF is that??? What, are you gonna smack him to death with your Hot Topic sweatshirt and copy of Twilight, choreographed to the sounds of Radiohead? Thhhhppppttt.

I made a sad face when I saw Pooh with a bloody knife and Eeyore's head. :(

That said, on January 20, 2009, I'm a-gonna be singing "DING DONG THE BUSH IS GONE!!! WHICH OLD BUSH? THE WICKED BUSH!!! DING DONG, THE WICKED BUSH IS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!!!!" Yep, with all those exclamation points, too.

MiKem - people get killed in wars - I doubt you would say that FDR was directly responsible for the 300,000 american soldiers that died during World War II. You might not remember this but Bush got permission to send our troops to war - just about all of the democrats voted for it - Hillary, Biden, and if Obama had been a senator at the time he would have voted for it too as he never breaks with his party. The Iraqis had invaded Kuwait and agreed to a number of terms in the ceasefire. They broke all their promises so we had every right to go back in there. Maybe we shouldn't have or you could argue that we should have been smarter about it but there was no failure of governance. Sorry

Leeeeeave Dubya alone!!! LEAVE HIM ALOOOOONE!

(eyeliner begins to run)

He is the one person who continued to stand by us!!! HE IS A HUMAN BEEEEEEING! auuuuugh!

(breaks down into hard sobbing)

THE ONE PERSON, OOO STOOD BY UZZZZZZ!!!!

Pooh killed the symbol of the Democratic party.

Me thinks Cord is a closet Republican.

What I don't get is why people are still bitching…you won the election. I'll support the president come Jan 20. Now move on

Hello, pooh is clearly supposed to represent Sarah Palin carrying the severed head of a defenseless animal here.

Some people just don't understand. With Obama in office, we will be paying more taxes. Why don't people see this? Why are all the celebs for Obama? Do they really want to pay more in taxes? You can kiss small businesses Buh-Bye…

in the words of whoopi, your taxes are going to go up no matter what. and lest we forget taxes actually BUY STUFF PEOPLE!! better public schools for one after that no child left behind bullshit. bush's buy our love tax rebates only put america as a whole farther in debt. hate onnnnnn hate onnnn he deserves it.

"Do they really want to pay more in taxes?"

The way this kind of thing is phrased gets under my skin… whoever you're voting for, it's do you really want xyz obviously bad thing.

I'm sure there's a name for that kind of fallacious argument somewhere.

In other news, fallacious sounds dirtier than it is. Or does it.

Kristin, if you really, truly investigated Obama's tax plan, you would discover that very few small businesses would suffer, in fact, they may actually benefit. Please don't let fear be your research partner. Look it up yourself.

Well I too fucking tired to type my whole entire comment about the false belief that Obama will bankrupt small business, but it involves my dad and factcheck.org. Anyways, yes nellie. THANK YOU!

i love LOVE when republicans start bitching, democrats smack down with a dose of truth and reality, and their whiny response includes the phrase "you people won so lets move on". i'm not naming any names. but see somewhere up above

if WSJ didn't start the bitchfest we wouldn't have to finish it folks

silly bush! when you use the umbrella that way it makes the rain go towards you!

WSJ, Disk, Kristin, et. al. :

Quit with the blame-shifting and self-victimization already and move on.

Things do change, with or without your prior approval.

disk:
People die in wars?
Yeah well some wars do not need to happen: like IRAQ.
And Obama DID oppose the war, from the beginning.

And to the author of this article: Cry me an effing river. After a pointless war, tax cuts to corporations, shitting on the Constitution, stealing elections, I have ZERO sympathy for W and Daddy's friends.

Obama is going to have a lot to deal with.

lol @ the victimization comment…

You're starting to reminds us all of our mothers. Stop it please.

"i'm not naming any names. but see somewhere up above"

thhhhppppppttt, see us Dems are SOOOOO more mature than those evil Repubs, na-ner-na-ner-na-ner

LAVA IS LAME

Bush deserves to be disgraced, but I think the public does, too. So, you start speak out against him when he is about to leave the office anyway? Why did it take everyone 8 fucking years to give a shit? People only care when the pain is theirs and the destruction is right in front of them. Look, few voted in Canada and Stephen Harper (another Bush-lover) is governing because our country wasn't doing too bad. It's like we await complete liquidation.

I love Eeyore. I love him.

Bush is a big boy. He can take care of himself. I highly doubt he's crying and won't leave bed because people make fun of him. If he cared so much, all he'd have to do is ACTUALLY LISTEN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT and we'd heart him. So WSJ, quitcha bitchen.

Also, can I please say how much I love the phrase "Please don't let fear be your research partner"? Nellie, you are my hero.

Sure people die in wars, but like someone above said, certain wars go on for too long for no reason. My father in law was on the front lines of Vietnam and he's still pissed. He fought in a pointless war and he came home in one piece, but a lot of his friends didn't. Fine, maybe Bush had good intentions going into Iraq (I'm not sure what they may have been) but the citizens of this country want to know why we're still there. It makes no sense. Also, the economy is not 100% Bush's fault, but maybe 40%. He turned a blind eye while all his corporate buddies were making millions. He should have worked to tighten restrictions on banks. He was too busy counting cash with all the oil bigwigs. Too many things just don't add up.

Nellie, for future reference, the correct capitalization of that last statment is as follows:

LOOK IT UP!

sar, I thought we were going to start using

"Google it you dumb fuck".

I love LOVE how democrats think their "truth and reality" is the only truth and reality without compromise. Congratulation to Obama. I'll support him. Because that what you do for the POTUS. But with dems leading every part of the government now, there should be NOTHING for them to complain about for 4 years.

*that is what you do*

wtr - the same can be said for Republicans too. Look at how the crowd at McCain's speech Tuesday night BOOED everytime he even mentioned Obama's name. When Obama mentioned McCain's name, the crowd actually cheered. And I'm sorry, with the landslide victory Obama pulled out I don't think Republican party is as strong as it once was.

**Dissent is the highest form of patriotism**

stunner, a lot of them are looking to Palin for 2012…that alone tells you what kind of disarray they're in.

said it before, I'll say it again. the GOP has to stop pandering to their "base" of racists and anti-choice folks and start moving more to the center if they want to have a political future in this country. People's attitudes are changing (take this election, for example) and they need to change too.

and mcccain, had he been allowed to "be himself", would have won over a lot of centrist folks, but he sold his principles for the nomination.

While I don't condone the way the crowd reacted to Obama's name being mentioned in McCain's speak, may guess is that it was a display of raw emotion. I can't imagine what the reaction would have been in Grant Park if it had gone the other way. And you are right. . .the same can be said for some republicans.

I totally agree. I've been saying all through this election season that McCain sold his soul to the Republican Party. I feel bad for him, in a way. He wanted this so badly that he didn't care what it took to make it happen. He really is / was a great man and I would have been semi-happy had he been elected.

George W. Bush screwed up my state, then the country. Under his rule, the poor got poorer, the middle class became an underclass, benefits for the most vulnerable (children and seniors, the mentally ill and mentally retarded)were slashed beyond belief, we became involved in a war under false pretenses and with dire consequences, lost the respect and cooperation of the world community……..meanwhile, Fat Cat CEO's got fatter, the wealthy became wealthier, the government became Big Brother, and W did whatever the bloody hell he wanted. Congress didn't approve his choice of judicial nominee or FDA appointment? He just went ahead and appointed them while Congress was out of session. He didn't like what legislation was passed? He just vetoed it. That assclown never gave a second thought to the system of checks and balances our Founding Fathers put in place, he just treated the US like an aristocracy and sat on his damn throne. I don't have to be nice to that jackass.

Wow. That was a little cathartic!

sar, sorry if I sounded like your mom. ;-)

Sometimes, however, I think whiny comments deserve a parental-style smackdown.

I've been griping about Bush since way before he stole the election.

Poo, I mean someone who plays teh victim reminds me of my mom. :) Reminds me of almost every mom I know. *How can you do this to me! Your own mother!*

"People only care when the pain is theirs and the destruction is right in front of them. Look, few voted in Canada and Stephen Harper (another Bush-lover) is governing because our country wasn't doing too bad. It's like we await complete liquidation."

Respectfully disagree. Harper may be the most conservative option we've got, but he's nowhere near on the same level as Bush. And I am by no means a Harper fan, but he hasn't done a bad job these past few years, and the options (Dion, Layton) weren't that good. I'm not unhappy he got re-elected, actually, and I am a rather flaming liberal.

What kind of destruction is Harper going to wreak on the country in 2 years with a minority government that we should be up in arms about?

That's actually a sincere question.

Janice, I actually agree. Harper is a lot sharper that Bush and the left-wing candidates were not nearly as sharp as Obama. I really don't have any innovative information, he's just clearly regressive:
- "Conservative government would table a bill revoking gay marriage"
-He supported US President George Bush's war in Iraq, calling the Canadian position "abrasively neutral."
-He said: "These [federal government] proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of 'child poverty' and for more business subsidies in the name of 'cultural identity'. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects. …"
http://www.canadians.org/wordw.....an-10.html

I was really dissapointed in the turn-out of voters. So many are taking Canada's situation for granted. Hats off to you for actually voting.

That link is from Jan. 10, 2006. In Dec 2006, after equal marriage was legalized (under his government) he said he would respect the vote.

Your link also says this: "On December 22, Harper pledged to protect Canada's north from incursions from US submarines." –not to argue that he's not pro-military, but he's also not a total sheep to Bush.

I do agree that he would have dragged us into Iraq, and I thank Yoda every day that Chretien was smart enough to keep us out.

I have a hard time knowing what that last quote means, since there's no context for it, and it doesn't name any of the programs it refers to.

The link, which also isn't exactly unbiased, seems to be pointing out that Harper is a hypocrite for going more liberal now than he has in the past.

I don't even think I'm necessarily disagreeing with you, but although Harper is a fiscal conservative, I think socially on some issues, he is more progressive than even Obama, and it's kind of a mischaracterization to call him Canada's Bush.

Also, you have to admit, Stephane Dion has all the charisma of a bowl of oatmeal.

And thanks for the kudos. It wasn't that thrilling considering the outcome was (unfortunately) pretty predetermined this time around. Hopefully next time the options are a little more inspiring.

Maybe not more progressive than Obama, but like Obama, respects the trend towards liberalization, whether or not he agrees with it.

Okay, enough posts in a row from me.

yeah i hated bush way before this, too.

mollygood, great picture to accompany the story.

Janice, you make very good points (as usual!). I just chose that link because it was about the first one that came up on Google. I was drunk and I rushed it and the arguments were crappy… and irrelevant. Here's a good link… and I'm just going to copy and past because I am fucking late for an appointment.
"1. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives gave tax cuts to the rich
2. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives adopted policies that are disastrous for the environment.
3. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives brought its foreign policy in line with the US administration of George W. Bush and intensified Canadian involvement in the offensive war in Afghanistan.
4. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives limits access to information and undermines democracy.
5. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives has made indefensible cuts to the arts and cultural sector.
6. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives has set back the cause of women.
7. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives has set back the cause of aboriginal people
8. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives promotes a repressive and merciless justice system.
9. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives promotes the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) that puts Canada’s autonomy at risk.
10. The government of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives has not respected electoral law."
http://www.cmaq.net/node/31003

Oh, and I agree that the other candidates were not that appealing. Better, but still stale.