Harding and Pierce Can Rest Easy

Well "Shut my mouth wide open!" as my not so saintly grandpa used to say. No sooner than I posted the previous post and skittered over to Firedoglake do I see this...

From Academia

In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.

Okay, so really in academia it's the Kagan family against the world. Somebody alert David Horowitz. Bush is almost as unpopular at all colleges as John Yoo is at Berkeley.

Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history...At least two of those who ranked the current president in the 31-41 ranking made it clear that they placed him next-to-last, with only James Buchanan, in their view, being worse.

This is good news for Warren G. Harding and Franklin Pierce (a George Bush relation on his mother's side) fans.

“Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians. “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches. His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”

"His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”

Couldn't have said it better myself.