🚀 go-pugleaf

> After all this time and all those millions of dollars wasted, no one
> has ever proved that the Clintons did a single thing wrong. Bill
> Clinton lied about a pathetic, squalid affair that was none of anyone
> else's business anyway, and for that they impeached the man and
> dragged this country through more than year of the most tawdry,
> ridiculous, unnecessary pain.

Clinton lied under oath, something most people go to jail for

> "The puzzle is where this depth of feeling comes from," mused the
> ineffable Krauthammer. "Whence the anger? It begins of course with the
> 'stolen' election of 2000 and the perception of Bush's illegitimacy."
> I'd say so myself, yes, it would. I was in Florida during that
> chilling post-election fight and am fully persuaded to this good day
> that Al Gore actually won Florida, not to mention getting 550,000 more
> votes than Bush overall.
>
> The night Gore conceded the race in one of the most graceful and
> honorable speeches I have ever heard, I was in a ballroom full of
> Republican Party flacks who booed and jeered through every word of it.
> One thing I acknowledge about the right is that they're much better
> haters than liberals are. Your basic liberal is pretty much a
> strikeout on the hatred front. Maybe further out on the left you can
> hit some good righteous anger, but liberals, and I am one, are
> generally real wusses.
>
> To tell the truth, I'm kind of proud of us for holding the grudge this
> long. Normally, we'd remind ourselves that we have to be good sports,
> it's for the good of the country, we must unite behind the only
> president we've got, as Lyndon used to remind us. If there are still
> some of us out here sulking, "Yeah, but they stole that election,"
> well good. I don't think we should forget that.
>
> But, onward. So George Dubya becomes president having run as a
> "compassionate conservative," and what do we get? Hell's own
> conservative and zilch for compassion. His entire first eight months
> was tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the
> rich. Then came 9-11, and we all rallied. Country under attack, most
> horrible thing, what can we do? Ready to give blood, get out of our
> cars and ride bicycles, whatever. Shop, said the president. And more
> tax cuts for the rich.
>
> By now, we're starting to notice Bush's bait-and-switch con. Make a
> deal with Ted Kennedy to improve education, and then fail to put any
> money into it. Promise $15 billion in new money to combat AIDS in
> Africa (wow), but it turns out to be a cheap con -- no new money. Bush
> comes to praise a job-training effort, then cuts the money. Bush says
> AmeriCorps is great, then cuts the money. Gee, what could we possibly
> have against this guy?
>
> Then suddenly, in the greatest bait and switch of all time, Osama bin
> Laden doesn't matter at all, and we have to go after Saddam Hussein,
> who had nothing to do with 9-11. But he does have horrible weapons of
> mass destruction. So we take out Saddam Hussein, and there are no
> weapons of mass destruction. Furthermore, the Iraqis are not overjoyed
> to see us. By now, quite a few people who aren't even liberal are
> starting to say, "Wha' the hey?"
>
> We got no Osama, we got no Saddam, we got no weapons of mass
> destruction, the road map to peace in the Middle East is blown to
> hell, we're stuck in this country for $87 billion just for one year,
> and no one knows how long we'll be there. And still poor Krauthammer
> is hard-put to conceive how anyone could conclude that George W. Bush
> is a poor excuse for a president.
>
> It is not necessary to hate George W. Bush to think he's a bad
> president. Grown-ups can do that, you know -- decide someone's
> policies are a miserable failure without lying awake at night consumed
> with hatred. Poor Bush is in way over his head, and the country is in
> bad shape because of his stupid economic policies. If that make me a
> Bush-hater, then sign me up.
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