{"id":4768,"date":"2016-06-21T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T06:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2016-06-21T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T06:09:55","slug":"rewind-stay-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Stay The Course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the unfrigginbelievable file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was just announced that none other than ol&#8217; Dubya, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/george-w-bush-is-helping-gop-with-non-presidential-races\/\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush, has come out of retirement to help GOP Senators who are having trouble with their failing campaigns<\/a> this fall because of the toxicity of the Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump. Isn&#8217;t that like calling in an arsonist to put out a fire? It&#8217;s amazing that just ten years ago, most sane Americans were thinking the Republican party couldn&#8217;t get much worse than good ol&#8217; Dubya and the Bush administration. For those of you with anemic memories who actually have forgotten how horrible George W. Bush was, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/07\/5_reasons_george_w_bush_is_still_one_of_the_worst_presidents_ever_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">short list <\/a>and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/50-reasons-you-despised-george-w-bushs-presidency-reminder-day-his-presidential\" target=\"_blank\">longer list<\/a> to remind you that he&#8217;s the worst President since Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, conservative Republicans being conservative Republicans, can never admit that they&#8217;re ever wrong about anything. So rather than change direction, they just plow over the cliff and into the abyss. Good luck with that Dubya thingee, GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our December 7, 2005 issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4769\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4769\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushcheneyrumsfeldricestaythecourse.jpg\" alt=\"President Bush shouts his mantra 'Stay the course!', while joyriding his Republican made vehicle, America, off a cliff with Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. \" width=\"549\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushcheneyrumsfeldricestaythecourse.jpg 549w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushcheneyrumsfeldricestaythecourse-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 85vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush shouts his mantra while joyriding his Republican made vehicle, America, off a cliff with Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the unfrigginbelievable file&#8230; It was just announced that none other than ol&#8217; Dubya, George W. Bush, has come out of retirement to help GOP Senators who are having trouble with their failing campaigns this fall because of the toxicity of the Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump. Isn&#8217;t that like calling in an arsonist &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Stay The Course!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,49,8,85,3],"tags":[50,112,252,22,20,27,52,147,9,115,458,199,21,98,596,235,116,19,92,260,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}