WHAT HEELS!: If It Weren’t For The Honor Of The Thing …
The Associated Press reports that “[s]corching rhetoric and negative campaigning aren't confined to the long presidential contest. They're spilling over into other segments of public life,” citing as evidence “[r]etired corporate chieftains are grousing about their successors; [e]x-Federal Reserve chairmen are second-guessing steps taken by the current Fed chief; [a]nd President Bush is being nipped at by two former presidents.”
AP notes: “It's an upending of tradition. Former presidents didn't publicly challenge the policies of sitting ones. Former Fed chairmen were seldom seen or heard. And retired CEOs were usually just that, retired, and spotted on the golf course, not on CNBC.”
Here’s another upending of tradition: Schools, airports and roadways are often named after presidents. But The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has something else in mind for Bush 43: The group has filed paperwork at San Francisco City Hall to get an initiative on the ballot this November to “change the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant on Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration day,” reports San Francisco Business Times:
Leaders of the movement are optimistic that they'll collect at least 7,200 valid signatures that would put the measure before voters. The measure would Supporters anticipate they'll be successful, given their “informal polling.”
“We believe this is an appropriate and enduring legacy, for no other president in modern American history has accomplished so much in such a short time,” according to the group's web site. …
“We're leaving it up to the people to interpret the proposed ballot measure as a compliment or insult,” said Wayne Pickering, chairman of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco.
Well, when even Robert Novak is calling this a “failed presidency,” you gotta figure Bush’s legacy is in the toilet, anyway.
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