I dare anyone to tell me something overtly positive about the legacy of this President Bush. From assisting in deepening the differences between rich and poor, allowing the nations infrastructure to go to hell and emasculating us in the eyes of the world with his amateur and silly foreign policy, he has weakened and hobbled us as a nation.
A willing disciple of the Republican experiment of redoing the social order with "free market economics" (his own father referred to them as voodoo economics" to his libertarian bend on the reduction of government. Bush has left the house in a mess and pretty much maxed out the credit cards. Any good parent would be practicing tough love and throwing the kid out of the house with the clothes on his back and an i-Pod stuck in his ear. But we don't do that. We let this disaster careen down the highway out of control and racking more destruction as we label him a "lame duck".
From the Republican viewpoint, the rank and file true believers and far right conservatives are sorry to see him go. After all, what I detail above as failure, they see as kind of a progress back to a better time, pre-Franklin Roosevelt to be exact. And while we allow them their beliefs, I question their logic and sense of fairness, might I say, their sense of Christian concern for their fellow man.
This transformation of our political, social and economic atmosphere to a contentious and virulent field of battle. We've lost all control on the system which should at the very least respect the rights of elected officials to express opposition to the majority opinion. It wasn't working that way. Bush in the final look was the apex of a movement that used the politics of the personal to control and intimidate opposition in to silence or at least rendered them ineffective. The amazing breadth of this tactic is that it included opposition within the Republican Party as well as the Democrat's.
One can only hope that the opposition will take control of the White House and congress and use the opportunity to turn this ship around. If they squander the chance for a opportunity fr revenge we are apt to live with a version of the Hatfields and McCoys for long time
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