this joke writes itself -- dubya wants a THINK TANK after he leaves the oval office

over-compensation, anyone?!?

March 13, 2006 | Issue 42•11

WASHINGTON, DC—With many of his administration's policies facing growing public disapproval, President Bush is reportedly becoming more concerned with how he will be portrayed by future revisionist historians. "Just last summer, the president never reflected on how apologists would spin his increased lobbying for an unpopular war, or how future far-right generations would justify his failed domestic policy initiatives," presidential scholar Dr. Robert Dallek said. "He reportedly asked an aide if, decades from now, the deluded would see him as great, like Ronald Reagan, or merely as a fully redeemed elder statesman, like Richard Nixon." Margaret Meehan, a spokesman for the National Board Of Historical Revision, offered no comment on any future portrayal of "America's most beloved and accomplished president."

Dubya probably has The Carter Center in mind. It has a pretty good reputation and has done a lot to burnish Carter's image over time.

You mean the dark, airtight kind that she could be sealed into?

here's something for ozzy osbourne to do, should he ever visit texas again AND this plan actually gets carried out!

haha - that's exactly what I thought of. those pics are great.

thanks to Matt Yglesias for posting this story ... this "joke" has just gotten funnier:

the moron who wrote dow 36,000 is going to head up dubya's "think tank"

I don't think you guys quite appreciate the position that conservative think tanks have played in US political life since about 1974. While most liberal and progressive organizations are chronically starved for funding, these think tanks provide a ready-made, well-paid reservoir of people who come to work every day in order to figure out how to strengthen conservatives's hold on power.

Among other things, they develop extensive wish lists of existing laws they would like to undermine or repeal and new regressive laws they want to pass, along with ideas of how to warp the public debate and how to purchase the votes they will need. Also, how to most effectively game the courts to load them with reactionary judges. This creates a very powerful infrastructure for shaping public opinion and for imposing the will of the wealthiest 1% on the rest of the country.

Since these think tanks started, the liberals have been playing catch-up -- and consistently failing at it.

It doesn't matter that Dubya has all the brains of a flashlight. He will only be used as he was used in the presidency, as a delivery system. And it doesn't matter that Yglesias was howlingly wrong about Dow 36,000; that was just a temporary propaganda tool that did its work when it was first released. He probably never believed what he wrote anyway.

Stop thinking you are smarter than these guys. They are playing a game you fail to appreciate and consistantly lose because you don't understand the rules.