Instead of rethinking a strategy for governing, the failed conservative project seems to be busily working at rewriting the last 8 years of failed government. While we certainly have evidence of the failures all around us — especially in the detrius of the economy broken by their ideology — we need to always be prepared to remind our wingnuts AND their press enablers that revisionism will always get a serious pushback. To wit:
No word yet whether the highlight reel will include the President’s assault on labor or the 6 million fewer Americans that have health insurance since he took office; or the nearly 2 million lost jobs and the more than 2.5 million homes have that been foreclosed on so far this year; or the national debt nearly doubling to over $10 trillion thanks to repeated irresponsible tax cuts for millionaires in a time of war.No word yet whether the talking points on the unnecessary and mismanaged war in Iraq will note the over 4,200 dead Americans soldiers and over 30,000 more wounded; or how we are less safe as a result after yanking critical military resources from the central front on terror in Afghanistan. We can expect some self congratulation on the President’s education program, but not for the millions of children left behind thanks to its underfunded mandate. No word yet whether the systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming will make the list. Or how about all the sweeping deregulations written by and for their biggest supporters from the big drug, financial, insurance and oil companies that delivered record profits for each industry at our expense? And what of the deep recession the nation has struggled through for the last year? The White House memo reportedly proclaims that Bush “responded with bold measures to prevent an economic meltdown.” Indeed, another “Mission Accomplished.” The millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and homes this year or saw their retirement evaporate on Wall Street apparently owe the President a debt of gratitude.
As they say, read the whole thing. And never let anyone forget that they failed at all of it.