God bless Australia

We and the Canadians (for the most part) seem to have missed out on the gene, but there’s nothing like the Brits and the Australians for sheer biting invective.

Some examples:

In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.
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This is a trash presidency, founded on lies and knavery, fraud and ignorant ideological crackpottery.

Karl Rove is another faux-Texan wheeler-dealer sometimes described as Bush's brain, a courtier most often seen superglued to the presidential right ear. Pink and pudgy, he looks like one of Disney's three little pigs, although infinitely more smug.
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Compared to this lot, Bill Clinton was John the Baptist.