The Bushies' Crazy Ex Syndrome

Usually when a president leaves office he and his administration have the good graces to go off somewhere and quietly wait for history to pass judgment on their legacy.

Not so with the Bushies.

Having thoroughly bankrupted every aspect of this country, Bush cronies from Karl Rove to Alberto Gonzales to Andy Card now sit and snipe at the president at every opportunity. Most egregious is former VP Dick Cheney; he the accomplished crystal baller whose every prediction about the war in Iraq was so very spot on. His flip flop on strategy from the time he was Secretary of Defense to when he was Vice President is unprecedented. But having gotten it all so very wrong, Cheney lacks the decorum to merely fade away. Like a crazy ex-girlfriend who stalkishly screams from the street corner to your window “you’ll be sorry if you leave me,” Cheney insists President Obama is soft on terrorism and his closing of Gitmo will invite disaster. This despite the fact some 420 of the original 775 detainees have been released without so much as ever being charged. This despite the fact that President Obama continues the Bush policy of air strikes along the Af/Pak border. This despite the fact the President intends to press the war in Afghanistan which the Bush administration left to fester.

But Cheney’s criticisms are at least grounded in arguable ideology. Not so for former Chief of Staff Andy Card who took offense at Obama literally rolling up his sleeves and getting to work. Says Card: “I’m disappointed to see the casual, laissez-faire, short sleeves, no shirt and tie, no jacket, kind of locker-room experience that seems to be taking place in this White House and the Oval Office.”

As opposed to the casual, laissez-faire kind of locker-room experience Bush brought to the Katrina response or the war in Iraq?

And scandal-plagued Alberto Gonzales isn’t worth taking the energy to blog about.

There is, obviously, plenty to be concerned about regarding the Democrats and the President’s first days in office. But we don’t need advice on how to handle this new relationship from the ladies who blew the last one.

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