It is official: Today begins the last full week of the presidency of that congenital fool, George W. Bush. Do you remember America in January 2001? America in January 2008 doesn't look much like that country of eight years past. Today's America is bankrupt--the federal government is trillions of dollars deeper into an abyss of debt it can never repay; a growing majority of state governments are dead broke and so are a growing list of county and city governments; businesses large and small are seeking Chapter 11 protection or Chapter 7 break-up; and tens of millions of families face life without savings or income. Today's America has been bled white by two ruinous wars that have won us nothing and that continue without even a hint of abating. Our Consitution is in shreds; our liberties are mere ghosts of once real living things. Who would have thought that a great democracy could deteriorate so much in a mere eight years?
Let us celebrate that we've survived thus far and cross our fingers in hopes that we'll make it through this last week of misrule by a fool. And let us also hope that prosecutors across America have taken Vincent Bugliosi's urgings to heart and are even now preparing indictments that will bring this fool to the dock where he will be forced to account for his eight-year crime spree against the American people.
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