This asshole, again, with the presumptuousness and the Abraham Lincoln fetish. Umm, a little respect for the current President George Bush and his accomplishments would be nice? It’s really just common manners to wait until you’re officially the black president before embarking on these quote-unquote historic presidential lunches. OH, but *god forbid* the MSM ever question “The One.” [CBC News]

War President George W. Bush is still running America, and he’s still losing national support. We haven’t thought about this guy since 2005, or whenever that hurricane hit, but he must be screwing up mightily for the first time. A new American Research Group poll gives him a 19% approval rating — the lowest in modern history and a considerable drop from last month’s stellar 34% in the same poll. It seems this has to do with the economy, which devious mortgage squatters have hijacked and immediately foreclosed in the name of George W. Bush. [American Research Group]

This morning at the frightening CPAC conference, our favorite President George W. Bush destroyed the Democrats:

“They tend to think Washington has the answers to our problems,” he went on. “They tend to believe our country only succeeds under the expansive federal government. They tend to be suspicious of America’s exercise of global leadership — unless, of course, we get a permission slip from international organizations.”

Those damn liberals — first they want to take over the Washingtons, then they want to find “answers to our problems”! Vote Republican, and we’ll blow up the Capitol and create a free market over the splayed limbs of Russ Feingold. [NYT]

President George Walker Bush spent his Tuesday in Saudi Arabia (they finish Tuesday earlier over there because the sun comes at different times), and boy boy boy did he have a whale of a time. He got to watch ponies dance, play with curvy fun swords, look at magical books that brown people read — why the Saudi King even let him try on some pretty dresses! Those lovable wire photographers at the AP caught it all, so check out party pix after the jump. MORE »

Today’s Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed from Dr. Daniel G. Amen, neuropsychiatrist to the stars, that kinda hypothesized why Hillary’s a bitch, Rudy’s an ass, Bush is stubborn, Clinton’s a sex fiend, and Cheney is all of the above: They have the crazy brains. And if we don’t test the presidential candidates’ brain health forthwith, well, prepare to get nuked, Random Non-Threatening Country: “A president with brain problems could wreak havoc on the U.S. and the world at large.” In other news, the last 40-odd years of the presidency happened. [LA Times]