Comparing George W. Bush to Caligula?

From today’s House Judiciary Committee meeting on the impeachment of George W. Bush.

Rabkin (George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin and Bush apologist) said. “You should all remind yourselves that the rest of the country is not necessarily in this same bubble in which people think it is reasonable to describe the president as if he were Caligula.”

And he’s right, that’s a ridiculous comparison. Caligula wasn’t afraid of horses.

The free market zealots: an analogy

Imagine a city experiencing a robbery spree and the free marketeer mayor decides the obvious solution to people having their homes broken into is to ban locks on the front doors to your home.

When the crime spree gets worse, he claims that his logic isn’t flawed, it just didn’t go far enough so he suggests they should now ban doors.

Welcome to McCain-enomics (the horrifying sequel to Reaganomics and Bush-enomics)