Fuck you, George W Bush. You are the reason why this country is still suffering in 2011 and beyond

[mtnsnake]

Obama has very little to do with the morbid situation we find ourselves in some 2 1/2 years after you left office as the worst president in history. You and Cheney are the ones who are totally responsible for this mess, and Barack Obama will be re-elected in 2012 because Independents and swing voters know it.

It's amazing how Blago will probably go to jail, Clinton was impeached for a blowjob, yet you and your fat-cat Republican cronies are living the good life even though you are completely responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings in a war you started over oil...let alone all the many other atrocities you committed on the environment and elsewhere during your 8 miserable years in office.

If only that useless blunderfuck Fitzgerald got the right people convicted, the world would be a much better place than we find it today. You and Cheney should have been put behind bars ages ago! Fucking assholes.

[tosh]

1. K&R!!!

[ClayZ]

2. K and R

[Kahuna]

3. How many times did we say they were plundering our treasury?

They robbed this country blind and now the repukes are trying to pretend they do not know why we are broke.

[valerief]

33. I said it so often it sounded like a stutter. nt

[monmouth]

4. Fitzgerald, what is he doing these days other than staying

under the radar?

[Dawson Leery]

5. Fitzgerald is a run of the mill political appointee.

[Lionessa]

6. Obama has had time to step up, but instead he keeps rolling over. Yes, GWB and

Clinton both had big hands in the trade deals and economic decisions that caused the current situations, also GHWB and Reagan. Unfortunately, it is now Obama's ball, and he's playing for the rich and the corporations.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

41. Cough,cough...

...there was precious little that Clinton and Gore could change in the NAFTA other than ease some of the environmental issues having to do with putting up factories in Mexico, ie... sewage, pollution and so on. NAFTA was all Poppy Bush and David Rockefeller. How quickly we forget that Poppy "fasttracked" the NAFTA legislation in 1992, meaning it went into law within 6 months regardless of who is/was in the White House.

[rhett o rick]

7. I would love to blame everything on Bush/Cheney, but

the Democrats did nothing to limit Bush/Cheney, worse they enabled Bush/Cheney to run amok. The whole system is rotten to the core.

[OwnedByFerrets]

15. +1000

[progressoid]

16. Yup.

Other than a few holdouts, our side either rolled over or was complicit.

[MissDeeds]

24. They enabled them

and failed to bring them to justice. "Impeachment is off the table" and "we have to look forward", you know. Sooo proud of our leadership on that score.

:puke:

[nonperson]

36. Bernie is the antidote to societal core rot

Can we please get a write-in campaign going for Bernie in 2012?

[rhett o rick]

50. I am in. nm

[TxVietVet]

8. Amen.

[CrispyQ]

9. While I agree with your sentiment that Bush/Cheney should be behind bars,

Bush was just an accelerator. We were well down this path before Bush. Some of us hoped Obama, with the House & Senate, would at least be a brake, but we continue to barrel toward the same damned cliff.

[babylonsister]

10. Well, well, well! Welcome back, mtnsnake, nice to see you're

as feisty as eva. :hi:

[ImNotTed]

11. Excuse me, but Fitzgerald successfully prosecuted Libby

Not his fault that Shrub commuted the sentence.

[rhett o rick]

25. LOL, Libby, what a joke. The lowest guy on the totem pole. nm

[Enthusiast]

27. Zactly......nt

[marlakay]

12. A month ago I saw a pic of him at baseball game

he was happy and smirking, god it made me sick! I bet all of his crew are laughing their asses off at us.

[CrispyQ]

13. Laughing their asses off at us all the way to the bank.

Cheney will need a wheelbarrow to haul off his ill gotten loot. Fucker.

[Enthusiast]

28. Of course they are.

Scum, total scum. Any horrible outcome for Bush and Cheney that the imagination can conjure up will not be equal to and insufficient to the level of their malfeasance.

[OwnedByFerrets]

14. K and R

[Kurovski]

17. K&R. (nt)

[Raine1967]

18. RIGHTEOUS! n/t

[center rising]

19. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about a blowjob.

[Major Hogwash]

20. $8 Trillion in 8 years.

And they want to know why we trust Democrats!

*slaps forehead*

[steelmania75]

21. Since it took 8 years for Bush to totally screw up the nation, give Obama 8 years to try to fix it.

That's how I look at it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

42. Actually it took less than two years to fuck it up -

then he just kept on fucking it up for the next 6.

9/11 (the abandonment of the hunt for Bin Laden); Afghanistan; Iraq; tax cuts for the rich - those were ALL done in his first two years (ok, Iraq was two years + a couple months - but he PLANNED it long before he started it). The new laws that poured so much cash into military contractors - that was early on, because they had to have them in place before the wars stated in order to maximize profits. The Patriot Act; the Gestap...Department of Homeland Security; the War On Terror (c); no-fly lists; 'free speech zones'; color coded terror alerts - in less than two years they fundamentally changed the relationship of the government to the people, and it has NOT been changed back, but gotten worse with TSA abuses. Concentration camps; torture; extraordinary rendition - do we KNOW that those have stopped? Gitmo is still there; so is the prison at Bagrham. Illegal military trials of detainees - back in full swing.

How long do you give someone to reclaim his honor?

[BlueMTexpat]

22. The real embarrassment (and more shame) is that the world outside the US may have

to force justice upon us because we are apparently unwilling or unable to do the necessary dirty work ourselves. I've seen more than one recent documentary locally on the subject of *'s torture policies. Here's one example (in French): http://danactu-resistance.over-blog.com/article-arte-torture-made-in-usa-un-documentaire-de-marie-monique-robin-76794033.html The drumbeat may be faint so far, but it is a growing one.

Even PBS (one would have expected this of other media, but hopefully not PBS) generally suppressed the airing of a similar documentary, "Torturing Democracy," until after * was out of office. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/arts/television/16pbs.html

Of course, torture and going to war based on lies were not the only * transgressions. Implementing a huge tax cut for the rich and especially, letting WS buddies run rampant without any controls, caused the national financial crisis and helped to precipitate one for the rest of the world.

If only * or Cheney had sent photos of their crotches to someone! :sarcasm: As it is, Cheney even shoots someone and gets away with it while * lives in comfort in his TX mansion. It's amazing how quickly he rid himself of his brush ranch - a false person in every respect.

[Enthusiast]

29. You know Cheney was drunk when

he pulled the trigger. That's why they didn't call it in until in the AM after he had time to sufficiently sober up. And this is only a tiny glimpse into the deep level of evil that he is.

Imagine, the fire he started in the White House office room while destroying evidence. The MSM completely ignored it.

[fasttense]

23. Yes, the bushes have caused permanent damage to our country

But, who put them there? It was none other than the Dancing Supremes. They are responsible for selecting the bushes to destroy America. They have, and continue to, run amok with our Constitution. They have selected the president and ignored the will of the people. They have made corporation more powerful than voters. They are responsible for the majority of the mess in America. Why We The People continue to allow them to destroy our democracy from their perches on the bench is a mystery to me.


All the evil around us can be tied directly back to the Supreme Court of lawlessness. No where in the Constitution does it allow for these 9 unelected, so called judges to decide what is or is not Constitutional. They are responsible and no one is holding them to account for their crimes.

[Enthusiast]

30. We must remember who put the supremes there. nt

[Enthusiast]

26. K&R! Great post!

The GOP fucks want us to stop blaming Bush. But it is still his fault. That will never change.

[GeorgeGist]

31. Tell me it isn't so!

The Jedi Master of 11 Dimensional Chess has met his match. And it's a Shrub!

[DesertFlower]

32. it will take decades for the country to recover

from the mess bush/cheney caused.

[Name removed]

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[MrNJ]

37. it's easier to blame somebody else.

than looking in the mirror...

[slackmaster]

39. WE MUST BLAME THE BUSH FAMILY FOR 10 GENERATIONS!

It's the Klingon way of justice.

[nonperson]

35. K&R for your title alone

And your content deserves a K&R too.

[RaleighNCDUer]

38. Aw, don't pussyfoot around it - tell us how you feel.

(I am, of course, in complete agreement.)

[edhopper]

40. Yes on Bush

But it's the Obama DOJ that refused to prosecute any one from the Bush Admin. It's the Dems who had the opportunity when things collapsed to institute real financial reform and break up the too-big-to-fail companies.
Instead the Bushies get off scott free and we get this;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/dodd-frank-fail-hoenig_n_885900.html

"Financial Reform Destined To Fail"

Bush put us here, but Obama and the Dems are doing little to get us out.

[RevStPatrick]

43. Personally, I think "Obama and the Dems...

...are doing little to get us out" because at some point shortly after he was elected, Obama was shown a video like this one, but from a different angle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdBXh-ltaA

My 2 cents, and that's all it's worth...

[edhopper]

44. That's an interesting theory

But that they are corporate shills beholden to Wall Street is a simpler answer.

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. Yeah I would say they offered the carrot before the stick

Promise of a post-Presidential cushy job as a member or director of a board of executives in a large multinational as Blair was taken care of with the Carlyle Group. Knowing he and his family will be set for life as a member of the super-rich. Pick a charity de jour to keep your image up and he's laughing.

[liberal N proud]

45. K&R

[midnight]

46. K&R

[butterfly77]

48. Kicked&Recommended...

[butterfly77]

49. Bush says

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/bush-on-tarp-i-couldnt-ha_n_781060.html

He had nothing to do with it..


On at least one policy front, however, it seems likely that the Obama White House would have welcomed Bush's presence in the national political conversation. For the second time in as many days promoting his book "Decision Points," Bush offered a hearty defense of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which was initiated under his watch to save failing banks but was used to tar Democrats in the 2010 elections.


"If you are the pres you don't have time to gamble and I didn't like using taxpayers money to bail out the people who got us in trouble. I didn't like it at all. But when you are president you are faced with stark choices and I couldn't have lived with myself had the country gone into a deep depression," Bush said, during a radio interview with conservative host Rush Limbaugh. "People's lives would have been affected, people thrown out of work. There are a lot of people not in work today and all of us are concerned about that. But the situation could have bee