Something about Glass Houses and Stones...

Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. Ex-President Clinton, "Bubba" to his friends, has decided it's time to unleash his expert opinion on why the country is in such horrible shape. In this Yahoo article, he offers us many gems.

Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."

The Iraq war diverted US attention from the war on terrorism "and undermined the support that we might have had," Bush said in an interview with an ABC's "This Week" programme.

Clinton said there had been a "heroic but so far unsuccessful" effort to put together an constitution that would be universally supported in Iraq.

I'd always assumed Clinton read MoveOn.Org's site, but this kind of confirms it. Those couldn't be more well-packaged if they'd come out of the Mall Courtesy Christmas Packaging Kiosk. Naturally, it's everything the Left wants to hear from their darling law breaker of a President. I can't understand a group that dismisses actual crimes committed by a man like Clinton that he was found guilty and disbarred in his own home state for, versus imagined crimes of a sitting President that they can find absolutely zero evidence on. That may just be me, of course.

On Hurricane Katrina, Clinton faulted the authorities' failure to evacuate New Orleans ahead of the storm's strike on August 29.

"If we really wanted to do it right, we would have had lots of buses lined up to take them out," Clinton.

Oh, you mean like these buses, Bill? The Left really needs to watch what talking points they feed him, especially ones with such accessible evidence that it was their own Party kin who helped facillitate this little fiasco.

On the US budget, Clinton warned that the federal deficit may be coming untenable, driven by foreign wars, the post-hurricane recovery programme and tax cuts that benefitted just the richest one percent of the US population, himself included.

Bubba and I may actually agree on part of that. The bloated federal budget, along with the idea of it getting more bloated by hurricane relief, gives me no comfort. Of course, Bill isn't alone with the tax cuts mantra. Good Old Eleanor Clift, who I believe still has a Tiger Beat pinup of President Clinton, gleefully agreed on the tax issue.

If there’s an upside to Katrina, it’s that the Republican agenda of tax cuts, Social Security privatization and slashing government programs is over.

It's as certain as Death and Taxes (ironically) that any excuse for the Left to talk up more taxes, like say a disaster, will bring them giddily out of the woodwork. This point should be enscribed on a plaque and hung in every public office in America. The only consideration for the Left is how much of your money they can squeeze out of you at the point of a gun and then what they can spend it on. Never will they consider this "your" money. It's theirs to spend on socialist programs and don't you forget it. Please shoot Ms. Clift an email if you disagree with that line of thinking. Should she actually respond, I'm sure it would be an entertaining read at the very least.

Update: The Media Research Center has a good summary of Clinton's spoon feeding of talking points from Tim "I'm really non-partisan" Russert and George "Pretty Boy" Stephanopoulos. It still amazes me how brazen our former Prevaricator in Chief can be to wag his finger even after everything that he's done and been convicted of and pretend that he knows better than the rest of America.