Comments on: Year End Navel Gazing

By: MarkH

MarkH — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He asks how has Bush affected me personally.

When 9/11 happened I suppose I wasn’t affected *personally*, but we are a nation, not a countryside populated by individuals.

I feel less safe.
I used to live in a Modern Democracy, but now it feels like fascism is creeping in.
I apparently owe about $70,000 more than last year (my part of the national debt).
I, like many, felt our election system was the world’s best, but now it just feels like shit.
We were admired the world around, but now we’re laughed at for having ‘elected’ a boob.
I used to feel good about the military and New Orleans, now a good part of both is simply gone.

The list goes on and on.

By: rose

rose — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thousands of our children are dead. Thousands of their children are dead. We have become what we abhorred.
The better question would be, how can this person not be affected by such things.

By: pissed in NYC

pissed in NYC — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think that the democrats take the house but not the senate, but the republicans will have a one or two vote majority in the senate at best. As for other things: Did your gaydar scream when you saw Michael Scanlon and read about his life guard buddies in Reheboth Beach? Mine did too. Given that Jeff Gannon let himself go and there was an obvious audience at the white house (and other places), I’m just thinking that maybe Scanlon was useful for lots of reasons. Maybe we find out.

By: P J Evans

P J Evans — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hope for next year:
We get Cheney and Rumsfeld out before they blow up the world. Then we can investigate/impeach/imprison as needed.

I also hope that HuffPo can do something about the obnoxious trolls infesting it: there are far too many of them. (That comment is one of the better behaved trolls!)

By: bob h

bob h — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

With a disengaged, incompetent government, we are simply at the mercy of contingent events. Que sera, sera.

By: credjam

credjam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bush resigns.

By: pro choice lib

pro choice lib — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To the Bush supporter at Huffpo:

1. cost of fuel gouging by Bush buddies has cost my family a good paying job, plus the skyrocketing cost of fuel and energy to heat our home.

2. Because Bushco/GOP congress let contributions to the pension fund slide for the past 5 years my retired dad may be out his pension, or at least his health insurance.

3. Because of the GOP/Bush Medicare drug scam my retired parents will get less coverage while Bush’s buddies get to scam the system.

4. Because of the Iraq occupation, the debt ceiling is being raised again. And yes Bush voter if you are in the middle class you will pay for it, and so will your grandchildren.

5. Anyone affected by Bush? Ask people in NOLA and Florida and the gulf coast. That is, those who aren’t dead already.

6. Anyone affected by Bush? Ask anyone waiting for VA treatment because they were kicked off of active duty rolls. You know, to save money for Dear Leaders great war.

By: other_jane

other_jane — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it counts as something that Bush KoolAiders don’t quite have the same goose in their step. If the best Bush defense is “Prove that he’s personally fucked up your life, because things don’t look any worse to me,” well it sure is 10,000 leagues away from “best president ever.”

Here’s hoping justice prevails in 2006.
Take care everyone!

By: Frank Probst

Frank Probst — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To all the Bush haters, Your life is not so bad under Bush and you have remained safe. Could any of you point to specific incident in your life that worsened under the Bush administration caused by a Bush Policy. As a conservative I would like to know.
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I was written out of the Constitution in my home state of Texas, and my cousin was shipped off to Iraq to fight in an unprovoked war. Your turn: How did Bill Clinton’s blowjobs personally make your life worse?

By: farang

farang — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to respond to that HuffPo commentator, that as a Liberal,

1: “Your life is not so bad under Bush, and you have remained safe.”

I was safe before Bush, I never worried about my own government monitoring my emails, calls or mail, my Social Security I’ve paid into for decades and decades was safe, unlike under Bush who threatens it’s safety daily. I didn’t waste $38 Billion a year of my taxes on a damn “Homeland Security Agency” that issues color warning charts.

Tell New Orleans how safe Bush keeps us.

2: “Could any of you point to a specific incident in your life that worsened under the Bush administration caused by a Bush Ploicy.”

Personally , I don’t live in New Orleans, nor Afghanistan, nor Iraq. So, personally, no.

However, I do believe there was a $150 billion surplus our government was running when Bush was installed by his republican cronies on the USSC, we were balancing our budget, unemployment was low, we were actually paying down on our Debt, not just making the “minimum payment due” like Bush is doing, while opening more and more “credit card debts.” This seems the Only strategy Republicans know for “balancing” the budget: Borrow and Spend. Euros were 81 cent, now they cost me $1.20. My dollar shrinking, attacks on my retirement, feds spying on us, a bubble economy

yeah, I feel “safe” now, mr. conservative.

I’d ask: are there ANY restrictions, in your mind, on the Executive branch breaking laws?