41 versus 43

I was not a fan of George H. W. Bush. But, it's like the refrain, "Where's Nixon, when you need him?" GHWB certainly looks good in retrospect!

At the Carpetbagger:

The Shakespearean drama between Bush 41 and Bush 43 continues to grow increasingly bitter. The New York Daily News' Thomas DeFrank, for example, noted over the weekend that aides to the first President Bush are becoming more and more candid in their criticisms of Jr.

Indeed, one of the worst-kept secrets in Bush World is the dismay, in some cases disdain, harbored by many senior aides of the former President toward the administration of his son - 41 and 43, as many call them, political shorthand that refers to their numerical places in American presidential history.

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Of course, as Salon's Tim Grieve noted, all of this is fascinating as a family drama, but none of this is particularly helpful now: "If 'everyone' who worked for Bush I knew all along how bad Bush II would be, where were they, exactly, in 2000 and in 2004?"

They're all dishing now, with biting sarcasm and obvious observations about what a joke of a president 43 is. Of course, everyone knows this now. If they were so convinced of 43's ineptitude before, couldn't they have offered a few subtle warnings to the rest of the country?

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