7.24.10 – WTF?!?!

I read Paul Krugman’s recent article last night (probably why I had trouble getting to sleep) about how Republicans have always loved George W. Bush and his policies, but hated his low approval rating (I was a non-profit fundraiser when he was running for the presidency and having to hear from local Republicans who seemed giddy that the “jock” took time to shake their “geeky” hand – high school day dramas repeating over and over again). In an unbelievable way the GOP are apparently trying to revise history in order to paint Bush (and themselves) as the hero instead of the villain. Around the section of the article where the GOP pundits are trying to say that the Bush years were years of “vibrancy” caused me to think WTF?!?!. There are many words to describe the George W. Bush presidency, but vibrant would not be one of them.

What’s really scary is that they just might get away with it. I can’t go to the gym, or most any public place with a television set, and not experience Fox News blaring away (i.e. GOP Propaganda Central). Bush showed time and time again that if you repeat the same monosyllable phrase enough times, enough people will believe it no matter how false it may be.

The insane part is that in no time in our history have we been so able to access so much information. We don’t have to wait for the 6:00 o'clock news or the morning paper, we can go online and read blogger entries from Iran or countless other countries. Yet how many people actually do this? People are losing their jobs because of posting, what their employers’ view as, unprofessional photos on Facebook pages, so someone is doing some research.

Now if enough people can remember that George W. Bush was president when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, that the TARP bailouts came under his watch, and that he came in with a surplus economy and left us with a huge deficit we might be okay. Please, remember this.