Just When I Think He Can’t Get Any Dumber

Warning: if you can’t deal with some serious existential pain or if you’ve gotten all primal-screamed out over the last seven years, you’re better off skipping to the results threads.

Never let it be said that Bush lacks the capacity to amaze. Gaze upon this, courtesy of Politico:

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. The Commander-in-Chief feels that the best way to “be in solidarity” with the fallen is to stop playing golf. Nothing about actually attending a funeral or two, nothing about personal consolation, and certainly nothing about, oh, ending the fucking war. The big guy feels their pain, because he no longer plays golf. What a martyr.

Can it possibly get worse? What a foolish question!

Asked a question that was submitted online about skyrocketing gas prices, Bush said the problem doesn’t have “a quick answer.”

“It took us a while to get to where we are — very dependent on oil,” he said. “So my answer … is that the best thing we can do is to increase supply and to drill for oil and gas in environmentally friendly ways at home and build more refineries.”

Allow me to alter the quote to make an unfair analogy:

“It took us a while to get to where we are — very dependent on drugs,” he said. “So my answer … is that the best thing we can do is to increase supply and to grow more poppies in environmentally friendly ways at home and build more meth labs.”

You may, of course, play this game at home with any unhealthy dependency of your choice. It’s fun!

Yes, just one more — it was a two-page interview, and believe me, I’m seriously limiting myself here. This is his reaction to a slow government response to a recent natural disaster:

“We’ve been disappointed by the response. It’s taken these people too long to move. It’s almost as if they’re in a state of denial. But we’ll see. We’re beginning to make some progress there in terms of getting our aid in.”

Irony is dead. Why does the man feel the need to stomp on its desiccated corpse?

Tags: George W. Bush, Politico interview