Renee's Book of the Day: Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity by Leland Gregory

Our friends K&M are visiting from the Washington D.C. Don’t you love how when your friends are on vacation, you feel like you’re on vacation too? I went to work today, but I really didn’t get much work done. Otherwise, we ate a lot, hung out, saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s “History of America Abridged” show, ate even more… you know how it is.

K&M are actually in town for five days to visit possible wedding sites around the San Francisco bay area and Napa. There is no shortage of fun things to talk about around here.

As a thank you to E and me, they brought a small gift: a book, of course. In keeping with the DC theme and our many years of political distress, they brought us Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity by Leland Gregory.

Bushwacked is full of anecdotes and quotes, mostly of Bush-related stupidity but also including that of other governmental figures. Each page features one story, quote, or exchange with comments. While some people find these anecdotes funny, I have trouble reading them without getting angry. After seven years of G.W. Bush, I am just done.

Here’s a random page:

“I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that’s responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be, a literature country and a hopefuller country.”

-George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., January 11, 2001