THE Bush/Cheney Legacy . . . Stupid is as Stupid does!

These two are the Best and the Brightest we could find?

By l.t. Dravis

After the Bush/Cheney administration sat around and stroked itself for 7½ years while the economy of the United States cracked and collapsed under the weight of skewed tax policies, wasteful deficit spending, short-sighted deregulation policies, some pundits seem surprised that the world doesn’t care anything about anything George W. Bush has to say.

Why would anyone, much less a pundit, be surprised that Bush has absolutely no credibility?

Most Americans agree that the Bush/Cheney administration has been ‘managed’ by the most inept, most corrupt, most out-of-touch, lying bunch of political hacks ever to crawl on to the public scene in the history of the United States of America.

How George W. Bush and Dick Cheney could ever have been elected and re-elected to the White House is a question most thinking Americans cannot understand, much less answer.

Bush and Cheney got everything wrong . . . from how tax cuts for the wealthy would impact the economy to how their oil industry friendly energy policies would impact our economic interests around the world to the economic and political damage caused by the deception they laid on the world to justify starting the Iraq war to the ultimate destruction of our banking system as the collective result of 7½ years of short-sighted, self-serving Bush/Cheney policies.

Could any two men be any stupider than George W. Bush or Dick Cheney?

Could any two human beings on the face of the earth have screwed things up worse than these two?

Aren’t these the two who put Alberto Gonzalez into the Attorney General’s office?

And, aren’t these the two who allowed Gonzalez to stumble around for years while he destroyed morale by playing games with the careers of United States Attorneys for political purposes?

If that wasn’t enough, aren’t these the two yokels who decided that that rambling old fool, Donald Rumsfeld, was the best qualified person in the nation to be Secretary of Defense?

And, aren’t these the two who cheered Rumsfeld on while thousands upon thousands of American troops were maimed and killed by the old man’s unbelievably incompetent ‘management’ of the Iraq War?

If you think it isn’t fair to couple Cheney and Bush together as dual dolts, let’s look at them individually.

So, why would anyone care about anything Dick Cheney might say?

Isn’t he the genius who told us that Iraqis would greet us as liberators?

And, who would trust George W. Bush to tell the truth about anything?

He’s the fool who told us just a few months ago that the economy was just find and that he wasn’t even aware that gasoline had reached $4.00 a gallon at the pump.

Dear Lord . . . could these two be any stupider?

Kinda makes you wonder whether these two might suffer from some form of weird brain damage, doesn’t it?

So, what is the Bush/Cheney legacy?

Read on . . . let's let the facts speak for themselves:

THE ECONOMY

• After 7½ years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ‘running the country’, we face the worst economic crisis in the history of the world
• Our National Debt now exceeds $10 Trillion – so each man, woman, and child in the U.S. owes China and other countries more than $32,600.00
• The Federal Budget Deficit is approaching $500 billion for this year alone
• The U.S. Dollar is trading at all time lows against foreign currencies
• Oil sells for $88.33 per barrel today, compared to $33.51 per barrel on the day the United States invaded Iraq
• Gasoline sells for over $3.00 per gallon compared to $1.45 per gallon when George W. Bush was inaugurated in January, 2001
• Home values have declined by as much as 30% to 40% across the country
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down nearly 5,000 points this year over its highest point last year
• Five million Americans face home foreclosures today
• Major financial institutions, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, and others have had to be bailed out by taxpayers
• Major U.S. corporations like Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors are edging closer and closer to bankruptcy
• The National Unemployment rate continues to climb - month after month
• A crumbling infrastructure with airports, bridges, dams, highways, pipelines, schools, and sewer and water systems falling apart with no plan and no funding

FOREIGN WARS

• 4,180 precious American lives have been lost in Iraq 5½ years after the U.S. invasion and occupation
• Nearly 31,000 have been Americans wounded in Iraq
• 65,000 U.S. troops are currently held in place in Iraq by arbitrary stop-loss measures
• $700 billion has been borrowed by the Bush Administration of an estimated $3 trillion to fund the Iraq war (compared to the Bush Administration’s pre-war estimate of $50-60 billion to fight the Iraq war to conclusion)
• An estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties have occurred since the U.S. invaded Iraq
• Nearly 5 million Iraqi refugees now live inside and outside the country
• Efforts to fight al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan have been compromised by the diversion of troops, equipment, money, and strategic focus on Iraq

WHAT NEXT?

So what do we do now? Blindly elect another President, Vice-President, and another batch of Representatives and Senators, then get back to 'Dancing with the Stars’ and ‘American Idol’ while we hope for the best?

Isn’t that what we did in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006?

How’s that working out for us?

Look . . . we’re Americans . . . we don’t have to get ripped off by our so-called leaders. We have the power to put a stop to this cycle of incompetence and graft!

The founding fathers didn’t constitute the government of the United States of America to be the playground of multi-millionaire politicians, lobbyists, and crooks who play at governing and steal us blind while we sit back and download our iPods and play the ‘Legend of Zelda’ and ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’.

The power of government comes from ‘consent of the governed’ (that’s us) which means we’re supposed to assign and monitor the powers we give to Representatives, Senators, and the President.

If every Congressperson, every Senator, the President, the Vice-President, and the Cabinet knew we were monitoring their initiatives, schedules, voting records, work habits, and their sleazy 'behind the scenes' deals, they wouldn’t have time or energy to waste on lobbyists, special interests, or self interests.

Would they?

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