Great article on Bush administration legacy

[veronica_rich]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=1145594977718&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1465

It's not the only article to address the failure of the Bush presidency thus far, but it is one of the better ones insofar as it's comprehensive and sweeping without being confusing or too academic for the average reader to understand.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

With Reagan, it was those around him making the actual policies who were dangerous - as we now know, the man didn't actually know what was going on half the time, because he was partly mentally "gone." And those men WERE dangerous, deregulating everything they could get their hands on to make smaller industries more accessible/profitable for their buddies.

Nixon ... I've always kind of felt sorry for the guy. He didn't do anything previous presidents hadn't done, with respect to the spying on the opposing party. He inherited the war and except for Cambodia (which was a dumbass move), I think he actually did try to bring it to some conclusion.

But THIS crew right now - my GOD, I've never seen such blatant greed and evil and arrogance. I've been trying to figure out for a while what would stop these assholes, and all I could come up with was if enough people banded together and refused to pay income tax. If enough people did it, there wouldn't be enough cops to arrest us, or prisons to hold us. (Of course, the problem with this is most people have it automatically deducted by their employers, so it would fall to people like me who have to keep track of and pay my own employment taxes.)

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Last week's issue of the New Yorker had a new article by Seymour Hirsch. The bombing of Iran is imminent.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Of course it is. That and anti-gay marriage are the only things they have left.