“I was really wrong about George Bush”
…is something I really would have liked to write 4 years ago. I’d rather have been wrong about Bush than have this country in the situation that Bush has put it in.
I wish Bush would have proven me wrong and been a decent President and not the complete fuck-up he seemed to be. As it turns out I was right to despise him and revile his stupid ass all along. I was acused of having “Bush Deraingment Syndrom” by smarmy asswipes like Ryan Silberstien and Hube – and they were right. Bush filled me with dread, as it turns out, for good reason.
I didn’t misspend a second of the past 8 years hating Bush and what he was doing to the country. Not only was my loathing of Bush correct, but my loathing of his enablers like Mike Castle and Dave Burris turned out to be spot on too. Dave Burris once called John Atkins a peice of human garbage. He was right. If Dave Burris looks in the mirror tomorrow he could say the same thing and be right again.
I once thought that people like Dana Pico, Burris and Castle basically wanted the same things for the country that I did. I thought they wanted the place to be peaceful and prosperous but had a different way of trying to get there. I was wrong about that. They wanted the complete fuck-up that was George Bush to be President and they got it. Al Gore was a stiff. John Kerry was a windsurfer.
I know two Republicans that knew that Bush was a stupid ass crazy son of a bitch from a the get go. Their names are Randy and Tyler. I’m very angry at all other Republicans right now for being stupid assholes who cheered on Bush while he wrecked the country. I can’t forgive them. It is like they hated America for a time and I can’t get past that.
One more thing. Fuck Mike Castle with a hockey stick. I hate his damn guts right now. Unlike Republicans like Burris and Pico who are a moronic peon windbags – Castle was in a position to do something about how fucked up and stupid Bush was, but he didn’t do anything. He helped Bush get elected twice. Let that sink in for a second.
Sorry about all the profanity in this post.
It is like they hated America for a time and I can’t get past that.
But I thought it was only us treasonous liberals who hated America?!?! Great post, J!! George Bush has EARNED all the hate and derangement that’s come and will come his way.
I hesitate to personalize this as a GWB problem and would substitute Bushco as the subject but I guess the ‘buck stops here’ applies.
Burris is brutally partisan and deserves every microspasm of hateful, reactionary contempt a person can muster for his behavior.
But Castle….Castle, in a pretense of moderation directly abetted this modern American free-fall. Castle voted with Bushco/RNC policy 85% of the time (93% on Iraq). Castle, most insidiously, sat on the Finance Committee and did nothing but embrace the crazy upward spiral of concentrated wealth and its vehicles (unregulated hedge funds, mortgage bundled derivatives etc.- example –
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/events/bkd_speakers/papers/linnan.pdf).
To the rational person, the plummeting of the markets from these heady heights is instinctively seen as a natural result of ‘the pendulum’s swinging back’.
This is where liberals should take claim of ‘American Conservatism’. It was the liberals who knew in our guts that disaster awaited and some of us spoke up, if ineffectively.
Liberal gut-churning was a signal that the RNC was leading us straight to hell. We can be forgiven for not being able to understand just how corrupt things were on the other side of the aisle until Abramoff and Enron broke through the media’s iron curtain.
What rational person could have understood just how far greed could contort a political party into a force of evil.
Yes, I guess I feel the most anger towards the so-called moderates and enablers. They’re the ones that talk sense sometimes, but then vote with Bush anyway. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive someone like Colin Powell, who used his good reputation to get us into the horrible mess in Iraq while supposedly opposing it in private. I’m afraid we’ll never get a real accounting of what went on in the last 8 years, so that means we’ll be doomed to repeat it when the Cheney, Addington, Yoo acolytes get into positions of influence.
What is also scary is a sell-out like Lieberman being coddled by the DC DEMs.
We aren’t advancing any change agenda by allowing ‘known’ screwballs to retain positions of influence.
Nancy,
I have nothing but contempt for Lieberman but I also understand the tactics behind keeping him in place in the Dem caucus. We’ve just seen how totally self-serving the Senate Republicans are, and even in the new Senate there still aren’t enough of us to stop their willy-nilly sabotage of our nation. Obama and Reid are going to need every possible vote from the members of the Senate and Lieberman does tend to be more progressive on domestic issues. In politics some is better than none.
In another era Lieberman would simply be an annoying old man without principles or ethics. In these times he enjoys the linchpin position because the Republicans have enabled him. We’ve gotta live with it for two more years, or maybe even four. Hopefully by 2012 the good people of Connecticut will have come to their senses.
It will be interesting to see if historians treat Lieberman as the sock-puppet he became. From my vantage point he looks like a total dupe.
It is like they hated America for a time
You’re too kind, Jason. They still hate America.
U.I. Talk about enablers the ones that piss me off are Nancy and Harry for the past 2 years they gave this Lame Duck son of a bitch everything he asked for. In 2006 we gave them the power to impeach the bastard and what did Nancy do she and Harry went along to get along wire taps an kept funding the war Fuck them too
Why, thank you for your kind words, Jason! But you really shouldn’t hold back so much; tell us how you really feel!
Asswipe.
Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins…. but didn’t have anything to say about George Bush (or if they did, Dave wasn’t hearing it).
After it became clear that Bush was losing public opinion, Dave did begin issuing some muted criticisms – mostly along the lines of “Bush isn’t conservative enough.”
As if the Treasury-raiding and Unitary Executive thing wasn’t part and parcel of conservatism.
Pieces of human garbage say they still would vote for Bush over Kerry. Whatever else they say about Bush in addition to that is so much flibble-flabble.
Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins….
Fucking shame that Schwartzkopf and Gilligan don’t have any honorable ancestors.
I have poops that love America more than GWB.
Burris’s ancestors rose up out of their graves to speak to him about John Atkins….
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hee hee heeeeee
thanks for that.
Wow, a computer-blackout weekend and I miss this backdoor compliment by being noted as an important exception to Jason’s tirade! SWEET! Thanks, J!
Since I am seeing this for the first time, there is some unintended humor here, at DL around this post. The post immediately before this is Nemski’s Wonderful Christmas Time, so in scrolling order, I get Jason’s tirade then Wonderful Christmas Time. Man, I LOVE Delaware Liberal (go ahead, comment rescue that as your endorsement).