Shakesville: You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round, Like a Record, Baby, Right Round Round Round

You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round, Like a Record, Baby, Right Round Round Round

| posted by Melissa McEwan | Tuesday, December 09, 2008

In the waning days of the eight-year coup by rightwing extremists known as the Bush administration, the despicable lot of miscreants are still doing the only thing they've ever been good at: spinning.

In case any Bush administration officials have trouble summing up the boss' record, the White House is providing a few helpful suggestions.

A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide for discussing Bush's eight-year tenure during their public speeches.

Titled "Speech Topper on the Bush Record," the talking points state that Bush "kept the American people safe" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained "the honor and the dignity of his office."

The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success.

That would be hilarious, if it weren't so tragically sad.

Leaving aside the (totally expected) contempt for honesty and the profound gall of waxing romantic about an administration during which two wars were launched and an American city drowned, just for a start on the list of deadly failures, I'm wondering if this: