Slacker! Â
The always in the know Mike Allen reports former President George W. Bush has settled on a format for his upcoming memoirs. Allen reports that:
“…his book will revolve around 12 tough decisions he made as president. Planners for his presidential library in Dallas are considering a similar format.”
Making Richard Nixon’s Six Crises look like nothin!
Bush spoke in Canada, giving us a little taste of the torture apologetics to come:
“I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say, ‘We have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’ — this mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the alleged killer of a guy named Danny Pearl [who died] because he was simply Jewish — ‘and we think he has information on further attacks on the United States.’ I want to draw people in to that environment and let them determine what they would have done if their most important job was to protect the country.â€
In the same appearance Bush claimed he’d be quiet about the Obama administration, but apparently “drawing comparisons” does not count as criticism.
Roosevelt Gone Aground  
The dream of a Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library on an Oyster Bay, Long Island appears dead. Plans fluctuated between building on a flood plain, or above a tidal pool, and they never had any “Papers” for the “Library,” but they blame the economy’s collapse.
Or maybe it was all just a mad dream.
For My Next Trick, I Disappear! 
More than a year ago, a local resident tried to pin down the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s James Bruns on how it planned to pay for the estimated $120 million library. co
“Mike Giardina asked, “How much money does the TRA have in the bank?â€Mr. Bruns said they have pledges of $1 million.
Mr. Giardina: “And in the bank?â€
Mr. Bruns, “I’m not going to divulge that.“
Mr. Gardina: “You have zero. You have no website. Come on.â€
He’s Back! 
Pop strumpet Brittany Spears, wearing a saucy salute to our former leader:Â will the fairytale like success of plucky outsider Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon spark a new generation of Nixon loathing and remembrance?
We can only pray.
Another dreaming of riding the hoped for tidal wave of Nixon mania is the breathlessly awaited The Watchmen film. The epic graphic novel features Nixon’s superhero sparked Vietnam victory, which then allows constitutional tinkering so he may go beyond two terms.
Not On Our Watch! 
Defying the Washington Consensus, a majority of Americans favor investigation of alleged Bush Administration crimes.
Cuddly recollections of Gerald “Decent Man” Ford notwithstanding.
Please Send Checks 
From Ronald Reagan’s Favorite Newspaper comes word of posthumous woes for the real estate legacy of the man he almost beat in 1976, Gerry Ford.
 Human Events reports that Ford’s former Arlington Virginia home, dead in the market since at least 2006, has had it’s sale price chopped again, to $800,000.
 And the economic meltdown haunts another storied Ford property, his Colorado ski home. Strenuous efforts to spread presidential pixie dust have come to naught. They’ve now knocked $2 million off the price, bringing it down to a low, low $13 million.
Where it lingers still.
