According to some, Bush didn't fail us...

....Americans failed him.

Failed him by not buying into his glorious plan for a Thousand Year Reich?

Failed him by saying no to his wonderful glorious plan for his Eternal War On Terra?

Failed him by questioning his motives for giving his corporate buddies unfettered access to our budget surplus and the treasury?

Failed him by laughing at his obvious stupidity and cringing at his actions on the world stage?

Failed him by voting Democratic?


Ok. I can handle that.

Joshua Marshall takes it further:
"Let's first take note that the 'blame the American people for Bush's screw-ups' meme has definitely hit the big time. It's not Bush who bit off more than he could chew or did something incredibly stupid or screwed things up in a way that defies all imagining. Bush's 'error' here is not realizing in advance that the American people would betray him as he was marching into history. The 'tragedy' is that Bush "bit off more than the American people were willing to chew." That just takes my breath away.

Now come down to the third graf. Bush gets repudiated in the mid-term election ... "And now ..." In standard English the import of this phrasing is pretty clear: it's the repudiation of Bush's tough policies that have led to the international axis of evil states rising against us. Is he serious? The world has gone to hell in a hand basket since the election? In the last three weeks? The whole column is an open war on cause and effect.

This is noxious, risible, fetid thinking. But there it is. That's the story they want to tell. The whole place is rotten down to the very core."