Krugman: The Fraud Years (Bush)

[pampango]

As the Bush II administration fades in the rear view mirror, there’s a tendency — indeed, an avid desire on the part of many people in the media — to blur the reality of what happened, to make it seem as if were just an ordinary time when a Republican happened to be president.

But it wasn’t. We were lied into war; torture became routine; raw dishonesty about everything from national security to the distributional effects of tax cuts became the norm.

And then there were the people. I had almost forgotten, but Bush nominated Bernie Kerik to run Homeland Security. Let me repeat that: he nominated Bernie Kerik to head Homeland Security.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/the-fraud-years/?_r=0

[Major Nikon]

1. Ned Flanders, er John Bolton was a real pearl

...and who can forget that dipshit Brownie.

Wasn't really that worse than the clowns Saint Ronnie picked, though. In fact, many of them were the clowns that Saint Ronnie picked like Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz.

[calimary]

10. A real Garbage Alley of vermin.

I was always amused at how they chose a noted Sovietologist (contradicta) as National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. Her expertise was in the dynamics of a country that no longer existed. Well after the Soviet Union ceased to exist and became Russia - what do we need? Why not a Soviet expert? Fabulous. And a complete sycophant at that. She was one of dubya's "vestal virgins" - women who fluttered around him and fawned over him and fussed over him and worshipped him. Others included harriet miers and karen hughes. Disgusting.

[Scuba]

2. ... and a flotilla of other issues.

In 2009 Kerik pleaded guilty[2] before U.S. federal prosecutors to 8 charges including criminal conspiracy, tax fraud, and lying under oath.[3] Kerik was sentenced to four years in federal prison on February 18, 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik

[DeeDeeNY]

3. His election itself was a fraud

[Enthusiast]

9. PLUS ONE, a huge bunch!

[Hekate]

4. Thanks for the memories, Professor Krugman. Lest we forget, lest we forget. nt

[George II]

5. Unfortunately we can't read the entire column unless we're "subscribers". Too bad, it was looking..

...REALLY interesting. Maybe it'll show up tomorrow somewhere.

But, I have to say that I haven't forgotten a moment of the bush administration.

[n2doc]

6. That is the whole article n/t

[Jefferson23]

7. I think Krugman is being too kind, the msm has not ever fully come to grips

honestly about what those bastards did.

[KauaiK]

8. Lest we forget, Roberts, Alito and his father gave us Scalia

[CTyankee]

11. I think Krugman has just "had it" with Bush revisionism or just Bush entirely...

he might have cabin fever, being the the Northeast and all, just like we all do. I know I'm ready to bite the head off any Republican I encounter and that's not good really...