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Someone in the GOP needs to take Bush-Cheney apart, to show how they created the debt crisis we are in, by throwing away a surplus on unaffordable tax cuts, launching two unfunded wars, and one new unfunded entitlement. They need to take on the war crimes that has deeply undermined the soul of the United States. They need to note the catastrophic negligence that gave us the worst national security lapse since Pearl Harbor (9/11) despite being warned explicitly in advance, accept weak and false intelligence to launch a war they were too incompetent to fight or win, sat back as one of the worst hurricanes all but took out a major city, and was so negligent in bank regulation that we ended up with Lehman and all that subsequently took place.
These were not minor errors. They were catastrophic misjudgments which took an era of peace, surplus and prosperity and replaced it with a dystopia of massive debt, a lawless executive branch, two unwinnable wars, and a record of war crimes that had their source in the very Oval Office.
When will the Republicans hold themselves accountable for the things that have persuaded so many that this bunch of fanatics and deniers are unfit for government? When will they speak of Bush and Cheney and repudiate them?
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/08/the-gops-real-problem/
Berlum
(7,044 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)misjudgments, I think it was all deliberate.
They want perpetual war (see PNAC), massive debt to justify killing all social programs and a lawless executive branch so they can carry out whatever they want.
Nailed it.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...and protects the warmongering, tax dodging, traitors.
They were looking for any excuse to get into a war.
Siwsan
(26,290 posts)This is the most invisible past administration I've ever experienced. Yea, Cheney chimes in, on occasion, when someone flips his switch, but otherwise.......... crickets.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)even acknowledge a mistake or failure. Rather they deflect the blame for what they themselves have done by lying, distorting, dissembling, prevaricating, or being disingenuous, mendacious, or otherwise bringing hypocrisy to an art-form.