The inimitable Bill Scher normally posts a round up of the Sunday morning gasbag shows on Liberal Oasis each Monday morning. He watches these shows on Sunday while everyone else nurses hangovers, thus sparing us the pain.

Rather than try to reach for, and then fall short of, Bill's high standards, I at least thought that yesterday's Fox News Sunday (aka Making Colonoscopy Seem Like Fun in Comparison , hosted by Chris Wallace) warranted a followup commentary. Digby, apparently, http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/ , felt the same way.

Digby, one of my favorite bloggers, was generous in her account of watching George H.W. Bush break down and cry crocodile tears during his fond reminiscences of the Persian Gulf War. Compared to this Iraq War and to his own son, the Persian Gulf war and George H.W. Bush do seem a little less awful than they actually were. Old "Poppy" Bush, though desperately trying to defend his son's excellent adventure in Iraq on this Fox News Sunday episode, could not disguise his sadness and disappointment for very long. Chris Wallace--now, here's another guy who probably reduces his elderly dad to tears on a regular basis--just sat and watched the old guy weep.

There, there, Poppy.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't work up even a scintilla of compassion for Bush the Elder. On the contrary, I am at least consoled by the fact that the Bush family name has now been permanently soiled by association with the Boy King, that it is a name that will forever live in infamy.

You can see the footage for yourself by going to Digby's site, and clicking through the posting. You make the call.

Do you feel bad for George H.W. Bush?

Am I just a big meanie?