Four more years?

Bushworld © 2008 Robert Sommers

So let me get this straight. Your party has had eight years to totally fuck up everything and you've done an excellent job at that. You inherit a record surplus and leave us on our knees with record deficits and debt. You cut taxes at the same time you embark on the biggest spending spree western civilization has ever seen, launching us into a protracted struggle on the other side of the world with no end in sight. Dick Cheney runs oil policy in the basement with Big Oil Inc. like a mafia don. We snub our noses at the world on warming and submarine Kyoto. You manage to tear down the separation of Church and State, appoint evil Federalist Society judges to the Supreme Court and pander in every way to the radical right. Now you run an even more conservative tandem and say that you are mavericks? Eh? I don't think that the problems that we face as a country are going to be solved by more conservative thinking. You were able to basically destroy about everything you touched and now you want to finish the job.

How about giving us a swing at the pinata this time? You had your shot and I'm frankly not impressed. For all of Clinton's personal peccadilloes, we seemed to be making and saving a lot of money during his time in office. He even learned to work with a Republican congress. A quick study of the prospective Madame Veep leaves me inclined to think that we are poised to institute some form of Christian Sharia in this country. Smite the sinners! If the Yukon Clampetts ever get their Klondike kin back to the White House lawn I think they will make Billy Carter look like Mr. French.

God help us all.