The asswipes that started this mess we're all in are gonna walk

[Swede]

with their futures secured with tax payers money. They will leave the mess for someone else to clean up.

[sharp_stick]

1. That's always been the republican way of life

[SoCalDem]

2. We always let them retreat..It's like a James Bond Movie

or the old serial westerns.. The villain always escapes ..to fight another day..

The sickening part is that it's NOT a movie..real people end up dead or broke or both, and the villains just retreat with all their ill-gotten loot and plot for a few year..and whoosh..they always come back for seconds and thirds,..

[Cleita]

3. It doesn't have to be that way.

Right now they seem to be untouchable, but one of these days they will have to retire and that's when everyone who has ever been affected by their policies needs to sue the crap out of them and do anything in their power to indict them for crimes committed while they were in office.

[Olney Blue]

4. Your post has hidden optimism- that a "clean up" is possible.....

Let's hope so!

[Swede]

6. There will be better days.

There side kill and inprison everyone, we seem to forgive and forget.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Yup ... same as it ever was ...

Americans are fools.

[leftofthedial]

7. that's what the bush crime family has always done

con, steal, get away with it (usually abetted by their victims)

[ClayZ]

8. Jane Smiley: A Ten-Step Program

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051217/cm_huffpost/012451_200512171432
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1. Hobbling the government with debt by combining an expensive, prolonged war with perennial rounds of tax cuts.

2. Destroying the bureaucracy by making it impossible for neutral, expert, or objective bureaucrats to keep their jobs, replacing them with incompetents.

3. Destroying the integrity of the election system, state by state, beginning with Florida and Ohio.

4: Defanging the media by paying fake reporters, co-opting members of the MSM (why did the New York Times refrain from publishing stories unfavorable to the Bush administration before the 2004 election?) and allowing (or encouraging) huge mergers and the buying up of independent media operations by known conservative media conglomerates.

5. Destroying the middle class by changing the bankruptcy laws and the tax laws.

6. Destroying the National Guard and the Army by deploying them over and over in a futile war, while at the same time failing to provide them with armor and equipment.

7. Precipitating Iraq into a civil war by invading it.

8. Accelerating the effects of global warming by putting roadblocks in the way of mitigating its effects.

9. Denying healthcare and prescription medication to an increasing number of Americans, most specifically by ramming the prescription drug legislation through Congress, but also by manipulating Medicare and Medicaid so that fewer and fewer citizens are covered.

10. Encouraging the people in the rest of the world to associate the US with torture, military incursion, and fear, by a preemptive attack on a sovereign nation, by vociferously maintaining the right of the US to do whatever it wants whenever it wants, and by refusing to accept international laws.

Or, to put it another way, the Bush administration apparently wishes for and is working toward a chaotic Iraq, a corrupt American election structure with openly corrupt influence-peddlers like Delay and Abramoff in charge of policy, a world in which people suffer and die from weather-related catastrophes, a two-tiered economic structure in the US (with most people in the lower tier), and the isolation of the US as a rogue state from the other nations of the world.
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[Swede]

10. Can you believe the Clinton administration is only 5 years ago.

It's like vandals took over.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

11. Ya Know What?

No. I can't.

Hadn't thought about it till ya just asked, but holy shit, it feels like the Clinton Era was at least a decade ago. It seems so distant it's scary. It's even more scary how much has changed in those 5 years.

[Swede]

9. That is what really pisses me off.

Some guy in Virginia or somewhere got 50 years for selling pot for fuck sake! These guys get millions of stock options.