Potemkin villages were, purportedly, fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. Conventional wisdom has it that Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper river in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress' eyes.
Now read
Brian Williams account of what happened last night, when our failed president was preparing to give his
will-this-save-my-ass speech:
last night there was rejoicing [...] when the power came back on for blocks on end. [...] The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans.
Hence, Bush's new moniker. Well deserved, I might add.
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