Our previous post about Obama has us thinking about his predecessor, George W. Bush. To humorists, satirists and comedians, he was the gift that kept on giving. The Bucket created plenty of photo-toons, features and articles about ol’ Dubya during his presidentin’ days and we’re going to reprint these gems on a regular basis so we can all bask in his Bushy goodness once more.

Here’s one of our favorite photo-toons from our December 5, 2004 issue. Yes, this is from those halcyon days right after the 2004 election where amazingly 62 million Americans voted to retain Bush as President even though he started a costly war on false premises with no exit strategy, plunged the nation into tumultuous debt, rolled back numerous environmental regulations in favor of industry, presided over an economy that had lost almost a million jobs, misled the nation about the cost of his healthcare bill which did nothing to alleviate high costs…well, we could on and on and on and on but we all know what happened. We’re living with the results right now. Make no mistake, thanks to the madcap misadventures of Dubya, we’re all living the high life…er… make that 1% of us are living the high life. Thanks, Dubya!

New Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings holds up a drawing President Bush made for her as a welcoming gift.