Letters to the Editor
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This separates "politician" from "statesman"
Most every honest person knows that Armey's candid opinions are pretty accurate, as far as they go. Sadly, the pure politician will suppress what he/she knows to be true, in order to pursue other interests. Those interests generally span a VERY narrow range: all the way from personal power up to some sort of group power.
On the other hand, a statesman will sacrifice his/her personal power or group power, criticizing others and their actions when warranted, political concerns notwithstanding.
Many are pure politicians; some are politicians and statesmen at the same time; still others are pure statesmen. The biggest problem, by far, occurs when the pure politicians wrest power from those latter two groups, who grow faint from the idea that being honest, honorable and patriotic might allow the pure politicians to criticize them. (No, Armey doesn't get bonus credit for honesty now -- his test came when he held power in Washington. He flunked that test and earned his failing grade at the time. No do-overs are allowed, so he is no statesman at this late date.)
Doing what's RIGHT is, by definition, the right thing to do. Sadly, though, people with a conscience always seem to be at a disadvantage against those without conscience. Hang the political considerations, because those are always changing. Show some backbone -- don't cave in like Colin Powell and most of the Senate, who aided and abetted this President's rush to war, against what they now say is their better judgment.
Let's hope Republicans like Sen. Voinovich have finally had enough, at long last. Get on the right side of history, senators -- approve SOMETHING that puts you on record opposing Bush's misguided Iraq strategy!
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sad google, very sad
And what makes it worse now, is you didn't improve your search, you made it worse to please a single person. proven is that almost every other seach engine still shows the truth... being that george w bush is in fact a miserable failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Google_bombs#On_other_search_engines
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Ummmm hummm
I guess you could say he was for the war before he was against it. What does that make him folks? Altogether now...
Fliiiiiip floooooper, fliiiiiiiip floooper!
Bah!
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Antonym of flip-flopper
What is the antonym of a "flip-flopper?"
As someone more clever than I once said, someone who believes the same thing on Wednesday as he did on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday.
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Still a "miserable failure"
For what it's worth, Google-ing "miserable failure" now leads to articles about how Google no longer links "miserable failure" to Bush...
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Sick of wingers coming to their senses after getting off the corruption dole
You know, fuck Dick Armey. And fuck everybody else who cheered on our act of terrorism in Iraq (close to 1 million dead who would be alive today but for the US). I don't know why we raise up voices of people who participate in a murderous fraud that, even before it began, was clearly a bad idea and based on lies. Are they supposed to carry more weight because they were wrong? Meanwhile, everyone who said this was a fraud from the start is still as "fringe" as they were then -- the usual price for being right.
No wonder the left always loses.
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Still a miserable failure...
I got bored after reading through 12 pages after googling "miserable failure".... and George Bush is still mentioned in the same sentence as miserable failure... 12 pages.... Ok... most of it is how the 'Google bomb' that linked George Bush as a miserable failure is no longer the case...but every citation still has George Bush and miserable failure in the same sentence.
Oh... and one more thing... If he's not a miserable failure, what is he?
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Republicans disowning Bush's failure as if he wasn't their success
Now we all get to hear Republicans say how the Bush administration doesn't represent "real conservatives" like Ronald Reagan. Republicans will try to convince the voters that the disaster represented by the last 6 years of Republican rule wasn't a result of them successfully implementing their policies and ideas.
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Still a Miserable Failure in Yahoo!
Maybe Google has adjusted their search criteria, but the Bush bio at whitehouse.gov is still the #1 search result for "miserable failure" in Yahoo! Haven't tried the other search engines, but it shows you can't hide from the truth.
Helm
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Woulda
Thanks, Dick, for saving us the trouble of coming up with your epitaph. This will do nicely:
"Had I been more true to myself and the principles I believed in at the time, I would have openly opposed the whole adventure vocally and aggressively"
And while you're in "woulda" mode, maybe you could take it upon yourself to send condolence letters to the families of all your former constituents whose relatives have been killed or maimed in this "adventure." You could use this self-penned epitaph as your opener.
But why be wordy? Just substitute "Oops." It will probably go over about as well.
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Epiphany! Epiphany!
Armey and his lemming-lot do no service to clear thinkers by suggesting now that had he been more ethical and relied more on his "moral compass" four years ago he would not have followed Shrub over the cliff. Tell that to some greiving mom or wife staring at a photo of a dead son or husband soldier. My God. Is this man so powerless now that there are no street corners for him to scream from? Can't he now use, on a regular basis, what remains of his now unwisely used power to be overtly opposed to this slaughter and continue to bang the drum until the Shrub is uprooted?
What does he think of his friend lying to him to go to war? Is that not an Impeachable offense? He says he's "disapointed". Disapointed? My God, every dead soldier and Iraqi civilian obliterated in this hurbis is placed squarly onto his own sick soul. He and his ilk should rot in hell for this ego-based pre-emptive halucination. Every damn one of them. Epiphany? Four years and many, many souls too late you idiot.
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No Metter What Google Says ...
George W. Bush is still a "miserable failure".
If Dick Armey had honestly felt that the Iraq clusterfuck was a good idea back before it began and had come to feel differently after seeing it unfold, I could respect the posiiton. As it is, he's just a partisan whore who's opinion is of no consequence.