{"id":11141,"date":"2007-06-15T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11141.html"},"modified":"2007-06-15T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:30:13","slug":"george-w-bush-he-didnt-screw-up-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/george-w-bush-he-didnt-screw-up-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush: He didn’t screw up on purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salon’s Tim Grieve was listening to White House Counselor Dan Bartlett, who recently announced his departure, reflect on his experiences in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Bartlett’s perspective<\/a> was so amazing, I initially thought he was kidding.<\/p>\n

“The good thing about this president — and I think this is the reason why he was reelected — is that, when he’s finished here, and at the same time I’m finished here in a couple of weeks, I can look in the mirror and say, ‘I think we did what was best. I think we looked at all the issues. We tried our best to do the right thing for the country.’<\/p>\n

“And I think the president will have the same mind-set when he returns to Texas at the end of his presidency. And at the end of the day, that’s all you can expect. You may not always agree with him. But I think he’s demonstrated that he’s doing something — the things that he is doing, however bold or aggressive or wrongheaded that some people think they are, he’s doing what he thinks is best for this country<\/b>.” (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Bartlett is praising the president for not intentionally<\/i> undermining the United States government. (Indeed, Bush won a second term, Bartlett said, because he “tried” to do the right thing. This will no doubt help separate him from those other presidents who tried to do the wrong thing.)<\/p>\n

It’s good to know. Even when it seems as if Bush might be some kind of Manchurian President<\/a>, deliberately weakening the country, Bartlett wants us all to know that Bush is “doing something” and he thinks his decisions are what’s “best for this country.”<\/p>\n

Talk about your soft bigotry of low expectations….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salon’s Tim Grieve was listening to White House Counselor Dan Bartlett, who recently announced his departure, reflect on his experiences in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Bartlett’s perspective was so amazing, I initially thought he was kidding. “The good thing about this president — and I think this is the reason why he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}