TW: W. Bush and Cheney are making the rounds as they near enshrinement into the Franklin Pierce/James Buchanan/Herbert Hoover pantheon of miserably bad POTUSes. Do they express any regrets, of course not. Why would they, right? It was not their fault, it was tough circumstances and a "toxic political culture". Pretty rich stuff emanating from the mouths of a guy like Dick "F You" Cheney and W. "How Did We Here" Bush.
From Politico:
"Faced with a faltering economy and a precarious national security position, President George W. Bush made the best of a bad situation and sought to unite the country in spite of Washington’s toxic political culture.
That’s how Bush views his tenure in office, according to a recent round of exit interviews he and Vice President Dick Cheney have done as part of an effort to wind up their administration on a positive note...
“I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived,” Bush told ABC’s Charlie Gibson, glossing over his long record as a deregulator, which stretches back to his time as governor of Texas...
“[Bush] I’ll be frank with you. I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history,” he told Gibson. “I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.” [TW: A truly insightful thinker until the bitter end indeed]"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16800.html
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