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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReminder that these two men defined the first decade of this century in horrible, yet lasting ways.

Even as Trump, Bannon, Putin, and all the rest of the nationalist, far-right, and white supremacist assholes of the globe march forward with their nefarious schemes, we must ALWAYS remember the damage that the Bush-Cheney administration (and yes, the Reagan-Bush and Nixon-Kissinger eras before them, as well congressional Republicans from the era of Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and Tom DeLay up to and including the present moment) did - damage that we are still paying for, and will be for a long, long time.
Of course, we can't leave out Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, the Koch Brothers, ALEC, the war-loving neoconservatives, the Religious Right assholes, Fox News, talk radio...and so on and so forth, ad nauseam. They are all guilty as sin here. And what's worse, the rest of the country - including us Democrats, liberals, progressives, and left-wingers, sad to say - have essentially let them get away with murder.
Now, I'm not the kind of person who wishes bad will on anyone, generally speaking, but when I think about all these cruel, mean-spirited, cold-hearted, ugly-souled people on the Right, and the business elites whom they eagerly and faithfully serve - for which they have been rewarded handsomely, of course - well...
/rant
leftstreet
(40,681 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,328 posts)GP6971
(38,015 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)What a coincidence!
And they're so much worse than you've stated. People not only in other countries have died. Americans have died as well. I'm speaking of needless deaths, because of them.
MFM008
(20,042 posts)maggot is making Bush look like a sane statesman.
Cheney still is Darth Vadar.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I see them all goons..they don't give a rats arse who they hurt....IRAQ clear example..unilateral campaign..never again...
For me - first, the drift to war.....Drift - by Dr. Maddow...drifting toward a questionable war, again..more than questionable to me - this so-called president is trying to antagonize and instigate war..where ever he, his so-called cabinet, and the republican can profit...
Secondly, the Russian - WH connection and our elections....
Third, our economic stability - republicans are drooling over their tax plan....and they are complicit in pay to play......
1st, 2nd, 3rd - and not necessarily in that order - just my need to compartmentalize the issues...
I would hope ALL Democratic reps and senators turn their backs on him....
pat_k
(13,376 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . I'm all "Eehhhhhhhhhhhhh, let's not blue-sky the DimSon. He's still responsible for a shit-ton of damage. Just ask 5000 military families and hundreds of thousands of Iraq/Afghanistan families how great he was."
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Bush in a heartbeat too. Doesn't mean I admire either Bush or Nixon.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)We're still waiting to see what Trump is going to do.
gopiscrap
(24,733 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)90-percent
(6,956 posts)and they proved that the NAZI BIG LIE propaganda methods work just as well in the 21st century as it did back in Germany in the thirties. And , as Thom Hartmann frequently mentions, there was about a year after Hitler was made lord god king germany bufuu where it was not a fascist totalitarian police state. Germany had million people protests in the beginning, too.
If the GWB White House are all living in freedom, that is complete proof our President can get away with pretty much anything if he lies effectively.
And our national security bureaucracy is just itching to go medieval on us uppity protesting citizens asses.
-90% Jimmy
ffr
(23,399 posts)Let it never be forgotten that we are where we are today, straddled with nearly $20T in public debt because of the lost opportunity that was the 5 to 4 call on the 2000 election. Bush was handed a nearly $5T budget surplus going through to 2009, which would have paid off the entire public debt and made the United States a creditor nation. All he had to do was sit on his hands and not change tax policy.
Instead, he changed tax policy with the BS Republicans 'lower your taxes' meme, turning what should have been and was forecast to be a $0.00 in 2009 with a negative $10.8T in debt.
So when an asshole republican repeats that verbiage about lowering your taxes, just remember that debt is DEFERRED TAXES with interest.
/rant
Duppers
(28,469 posts)bdamomma
(69,532 posts)going to say it all republican white men I hope they choke on their greed.