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September 13, 2026 This F*cking Guy: George W. Bush

In our 47th episode of This F*cking Guy, What A Day’s Jane Coaston joins Erin to relive the destruction caused by the witless war criminal, George W. Bush. From his early years of drunken antics, relying on his dad’s help to trip upwards, to leaving MANY children behind as Governor of Texas, to squandering his 9/11 approval ratings by invading Iraq and permitting war crimes, to gaslighting the media about his preparedness for Hurricane Katrina, this may be our most moronic man-child guy, yet.

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Bush reacts to latest Middle East violence (AP Archive)

George W. Bush after rehearsing a speech, 2001 (Reddit)

George W. Bush’s Paintings Cannot Redeem Him (Hyperallergic)

Shoe-Throwing Reporter Tells Tale Of Torture (NPR)

Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge (CNN)

Sharon Bush denies Kitty Kelley account (NBC)

Kitty Kelley defends sources of new Bush book (Today)

Kitty Kelley's bad magic (Chron)

Man Says He OK'd Bush for Guard (Washington Post)

Go East, Young Man (Texas Monthly)

The Guard Years (The New Yorker)

Bush fell short on duty at Guard (Boston.com)

Author Examines the Legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale Game (Valley News)

Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics (The Harvard Crimson)

Bush's Life-Changing Year (Washington Post)

George W. Bush DUI Arrest Record (The Smoking Gun)

George W. Bush on his DUI arrest (Salon)

Bush's Disdainful Presidency (Consortium News)

Was Dubya Drunk? (Slate)

How team Bush took an airbrush to the Chosen One’s misdeeds (The Times)

Little Did We Know (Texas Monthly)

What Price Baseball? (Austin Chronicle)

Governor Deadbeat (Austin Chronicle)

Bush and the Texas Environment (Texas Observer)

Capitol Offenses (Texas Obserber)

The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education (DOAJ)

Death in Texas (The New York Review)

Read My Chips (Austin Chronicle)

Years ago, Texas hustled to get kids on state health care. Now it’s kicking them off. (Texas Tribune)

CHIP Enrollment (texas.gov)

Texas Governor George W. Bush’s Record on Taxes (Citizens For Tax Justice)

State's budget crunch haunting Bush (Chron)

Gov. Rick Perry says in 2003, Texas cut $10 billion from the budget yet increased spending for public education and health and human services (Politifact)

Devil May Care (Talk Magazine)

Bush’s revealing interview (The Baltimore Sun)

Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears (University of Delaware)

Hoyer, Waxman Ask Rumsfeld For Investigation into CPA Hiring (Steny Hoyer)

Getting the Facts Straight (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

How Projected Surpluses Became Deficits (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

The Changing Budget Picture (The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

From Riches to Rags: Causes of Fiscal Deterioration Since 2001 (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)

Fiscal Fact Checker: What Caused the Swing From Surplus to Deficit? (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)

Phase II Report (govinfo.gov)

Senate Intelligence Committee Unveils Final Phase II Reports on Prewar Iraq Intelligence (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)

Committee Study ofthe CentralIntelligenceAgmcy 's Detention and Interrogation Program (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)

Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together with Foreword by Chairman Feinstein and Additional and Minority Views (congress.gov)

Senate Session 10/25/01 (C-Span)

Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Judiciary Committee concerning “The FBI's Use of National Security Letters and Section 215 Requests for Business Records” (U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General)

Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary concerning reauthorizing the USA Patriot Act (senate.gov)

The Contentious ‘No Child’ Law II: Money Has Not Been Left Behind (EducationWeek)

No Child Left Behind: An Overview (EducationWeek)

Reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act with More Funding, Better Enforcement, and Additional Supports for Struggling Schools (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)

Department of Education--Contract to Obtain Services of Armstrong Williams (Government Accountability Office)

GAO: Armstrong Williams PR Contract Violated Law (EducationWeek)

Why Armstrong Williams Wants Us To Forgive and Forget (Center for Media and Democracy)

Reading First: Scandalous and ineffective (The Center for Public Integrity)

Ultimate Sacrifice: Bush Quit Golf For The Troops (Crooks and Liars)

George W. Bush Announces Mission Accomplished (C-span)

W.’s Greatest Hits (Slate)

George W. Bush ‘Didn’t Care’ When People Made Fun of Him as President, Jenna Bush Hager Says: ‘He Loved It’ (People)

Top 10 failures of the Bush administration (The Center for Public Integrity)
Bush 'Not Insulted' by Thrown Shoes (ABC)

Bush administration scandals (EBSCO)
Enron's Close Ties to Bush (ABC)

9 US presidents who faced sex scandals before, during, or after their time in office (Business Insider)

A Woman Accuses Bush of Rape, Later Dies of Aparent Suicide (Daily Kos)
For Bush, Thrill Was in Father's Chase (NY Times)