Legacies? How About "Good Riddance to the Swine?" »

Tony Auth's political cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer's January 14th edition is the quintessential picture that is worth a thousand words. It tells you almost everything you need to know about the uniquely evil Bush/Cheney regime -- i.e., its lies about Saddam Hussein's WMD, its illegal torture at Abu Ghraib, its illegal wiretaps, its pathetically immoral and incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, its ideological trashing of politically incorrect scientific findings, its oversight failures, which contributed to Wall Street's collapse and Cheney's devilish torching of the Constitution. Moreover, it deftly pencils in the world's feeble response to such evil: the hurling of shoes at Bush from all corners.

As such, Mr. Auth's cartoon serves as a one-stop reminder of the catastrophic Bush/Cheney "Time of Troubles" at the very moment when these swine give interviews designed to spread a final round of self-serving lies -- in a futile attempt to salvage their legacy of evil.

Surely, Bush's narcissism was the source of his hapless idiocy. Columnist Frank Rich certainly was correct when he observed: "The man who emerges is a narcissist with no self-awareness whatsoever. It's that arrogance that allowed him to tune out even the most calamitous of realities, freeing him to compound them without missing a step." Let's face it, George Herbert Walker and Barbara Bush raised a smart-assed punk and gullible Americans twice elected him President of the United States.

But, ponder this. Twenty-seven percent of Americans still think Bush has done a good job. Who are these people? Most appear to come from one of three cohorts: the "white males," the "poorly educated," or the crackpot "biblical literalists." Presumably, many of Bush's true believers distinguish themselves by belonging to all three. (Have the religious nuts, who believed that God sanctioned Bush's invasion of Iraq, also asked themselves why God permitted such an interminable, indecisive war? Have they asked themselves why God would permit Bush to be shamed -- to the delight of most of the world -- by an Iraqi journalist who hurled shoes at him?) Perhaps, Hendrik Hertzberg captured this true-believing 27 percent best, as living proof "that you can fool some of the people all of the time."

If the hurled shoes represent the world's token rebuke of Bush/Cheney war crimes, the decisive electoral victory by Barack Obama constitutes the most significant rebuke of President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Americans seem capable of delivering. God knows these swine deserve much worse: impeachment, conviction, eviction from office followed by criminal indictments resulting in guilty verdicts and years of incarceration.

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