I’m usually the first one to criticize government. Ask anyone who has ever met me.
I despise the IRS. I mock the TSA. I criticize the ATF. I love to call out members of Congress by name for a verbal browbeating. I think most of the legislation coming out of Washington is bad for the country. The Republicans want to legislate too much on issues of personal morality. The Democrats want us all drooling and dumb, unable to fight our way through life ourselves.
But the Bush bashing is getting ridiculous. The anti-Bush crowd makes the anti-Clinton crowd look positively magnanimous.
Just visit whywehateBush.com.
Here’s a list of why they think people hate Bush:
1. Bush and his oligarchic companions sabotaged American democracy so they could pillage taxpayer resources.
2. Bush and his cabal of henchmen lied to the American people about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and they continue to obfuscate the truth while their companies cash in, Iraqis suffer and American soldiers die.
3. Bush is bad for business and the economy. He is only interested in enriching himself and his friends.
4. Bush is bad for the future. He is compromising the prosperity of tomorrow’s America by shortchanging today’s children.
5. Bush is bad for the environment.
6. The Bush Administration has manipulated the media to the point of undermining the Constitutional guarantees of a Free Press.
7. Bush has tried to undermine the United Nations, a democratic institution created in large measure by Presidents Eisenhower and Truman. Without even understanding what the UN does, Bush has called it “irrelevant” when it fails to fall in line with his dictates.
8. Bush is inarticulate and projects a stereotype abroad of Americans being ignorant and myopic.
9. Bush torpedoes global agreements on everything from racism and global warming to biological weapons and land mines, and then expects the world to line up behind him.
10. Bush took positive patriotism and global support in the wake of 9/11 and forced it behind his own narrow self-interest in Iraq. He hijacked 9/11 for his own benefit.
11. Bush stands against everything America stands for.
That’s all fine and dandy. I’m not Bush fan No. 1, that much is certain. But people, where do you live? What are your priorities? A lot of your complaints are silly, and the vitriol you spew reminds me of myself when I was 5, except that I was more mature when I threw a tantrum. You’re all holding hands and rocking back and forth and popping Wellbutrin as quickly as you can, crying in your soup and watching that fat piece of shit Michael Moore over and over again while you rehearse your tired mantra that Bush is fighting an illegal war in Iraq, yadda yadda yadda.
Please.
The problems with American government don’t flow from Bush. He’s not the source of the river of corruption in Washington. He’s not the reason that Americans are hated in many parts of the world. George W. Bush is a man with a shitty job doing the best he knows how, as far as I can tell from the information available to me. He has at least 52 million supporters right here in the United States. Get over it.
If you want to make this country better, pick a cause worth fighting for. Bush will be gone in a few years. Why don’t you spend your time getting ready for the next leader of the free world? Your whining and self-commiseration is doing no one any good.