Petulant Asshole

Today was George Bush's last press conference. If you want to watch the whole thing you can start here. I think Keith Olbermann's bit on it was pretty good:



The most notable thing I saw was when talking about torture and eavesdropping (near the end), he seemed to blame all the things he did on the press. "You remember what the enviroment was like in Washington [after 9/11]? I do. When people were hauled up in front of Congress. When members of Congress were asking questions..." and "All these debates will matter not if there was another attack on the homeland"

You see, he did these things because the press and Congress was mean to him after 9/11. You all made him feel so bad that he had to do these things so you wouldn't be mean to him again. You see how it is your fault, not his? He was just connecting dots. He was just doing what he thought you wanted so you wouldn't be mean to him again.

An Update: I really should have noted something about Bush's statement of "All these debates will matter not if there was another attack on the homeland"

Apparently, if there was another terrorist attack after 9/11, GW thinks no one would care one bit about all that controversy over torture, eavesdropping, etc. Had there been another attack, well then the gloves would have came ALL the way off. I can only imagine what that would have been like.