“Flush With Pride” For George W. Milhous Bush

(I was going to use the headline, “Our ‘Leader’ Will Be De-Turd With This Honor,” but even I draw the line sometimes – hat tip to one of my senior field correspondents)

Nothing much to add, only to let out a huzzah for the residents of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s city for this idea (the conservative fits of umbrage and character assassination will begin momentarily)…

A renegade voter movement to rename a San Francisco sewage plant after President Bush is flush with support in the liberal West Coast city.

A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has reportedly picked up more than enough signatures to put the ballot initiative to the San Francisco public in the November election.

If the measure passes, it would rename the city’s Oceanside Treatment Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

That’s not exactly a presidential library, but sponsors of the ballot measure say it’s a fitting tribute to a president who made a big mess.

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…the Chronicle reported this week that the commission, which apparently hatched the idea one night over beers, has collected 8,500 signatures — 1,300 more than the 7,168 needed to get a measure on the November ballot. If officials verify that those signatures are from registered city voters, proposition rename-the-sewage-plant is a go.

Ba-dump!

According to the San Francisco elections department, it only takes a simple majority of 50 percent-plus-one to adopt such a measure.

Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition and unsuccessful mayoral candidate who ran last year under his nickname "Chicken John," said the initiative would turn "every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief."

We always knew that Dubya was a “little tin god.” Now, perhaps he’ll be a porcelain one as well.