God's work? Not so much...

Atrios kindly points out that 4 years ago today, the Worst President Ever cockily taunted the Iraqi insurgency with his moronic “bring ‘em on” comment. Happy Dumbass Chutzpah Day everyone!

He also links to Peter Baker’s Post article in which he delves into Bush’s unsinkable optimism in the face of so much bad news. Baker quotes one Michael Novak, a theologian that has worked with Bush, as saying Bush believes he is doing God’s work. To me that sounds somewhat delusional when you consider the list of “accomplishments”, thoughtfully provided in the piece, which this Administration can claim.

The polls reflect the events of Bush's second term, an unyielding sequence of bad news. Social Security. Hurricane Katrina. Harriet E. Miers. Dubai Ports World. Vice President Cheney's hunting accident. Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. The midterm elections. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Alberto R. Gonzales and Paul D. Wolfowitz. Immigration. And overshadowing it all, the Iraq war, now longer than the U.S. fight in World War II.

That is some fucking list. No wonder a majority of Americans, not to mention the rest of the planet, loathes him. More to the point, if this is indeed God’s work, then the Almighty is on a thirty month pisser of Biblical proportions; a serious, Old Testament style, turn your wife to a pillar of salt, rampage. With hurricane season starting up, it might be a good time to build an ark.