He won't go away! A handful of aides are still spinning for the former president.

[babylonsister]

What a motley crew; why would anyone believe any of these cheerleaders?


No quit: the campaign to boost Bush
By MIKE ALLEN | 3/11/09 4:28 AM EDT


A handful of aides are still spinning for the former president.
Illustration by Matt Wuerker


The defense never rests. When President Barack Obama released his own policy this week on former President George W. Bush’s practice of attaching controversial signing statements to legislation, a reporter quickly got a tip from a Bush loyalist: the cell phone number for a White House lawyer in the past administration.

“The spin is bogus,” said William Burck, a former deputy White House counsel, in pushing back against early news accounts framing Obama’s action as a slap at his predecessor. In fact, Burck insisted, the new policy is no different from Bush’s.

Even though Bush is keeping quiet in Texas before heading out on a lucrative speaking tour, an informal network of former aides is keeping his views in the political bloodstream, defending his legacy in TV appearances and backgrounding reporters about his record.

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer calls the Bush pundits “a loose confederation of people united in our belief in what President Bush did, and we’re freer now to talk about some things than we used to be — good and bad.”

The Bush defense forces include Fleischer; former press secretary Dana Perino; Bush political czar Karl Rove, who has contracts with Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek; economics guru Tony Fratto; the prolific Peter Wehner, former director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives; and the graceful speechwriter Michael Gerson, who writes an opinion column for The Washington Post.

The former aides are armed with many of the same arguments that they tried out on reporters when they strolled the hallways of the West Wing.

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[WI_DEM]

1. Nothing those failures can say can help resurrect the standing of a monumental failure like Bush

[LynneSin]

2. But here's the crazy thing - Bush has pretty much disappeared

I mean seriously; how often do we hear about that numnuts in the news actually showing up somewhere and doing something. The guy has seriously vamoused

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I'm glad he has disappeared and as far as I'm concerned, he can stay

that way unless charges are filed against him for the criminal acts he committed while he was in office. The best part of the inauguration ceremony (for me, at least) was when Bush boarded the helicopter, it lifted off and everyone waved goodbye to him. I don't think I have to explain my emotions at that moment with anyone on this board.

[Javaman]

7. he* knows fully well, he's* radioactive. nt

[MrPerson]

3. ...and Mike Allen - Bush fellator.

[babylonsister]

5. True that. nt

[Javaman]

6. Dead Enders. nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. bush what? who?

[babylonsister]

9. "They're reminding people of what they used to like about *"

Mike Allen on m$nbc just now.

:rofl:

Keep reminding, because there was NOTHING I like or liked about the idiot son.