He Kept Us Safe (Except When He Didn’t)

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/02-6

He Kept Us Safe (Except When He Didn’t)

by David Michael Green


I'm really sick to death of hearing the Bush administration people brag about how they kept us safe from terrorists, matrimonially inclined homosexuals, and other really mean people.

Sure, I understand why they do it. And, no, I'm not referring to the fact that regressives seem to be congenital liars, or that, because they themselves are so existentially frightened, they understand instinctively just how the politics of fear work.

No doubt all of that is part of the equation. But I think the bigger reason that we are continually exposed to this insane mantra is because, despite their delusional tendencies, even conservatives recognize the paucity of plausible alternative claims.

I mean, would you want to go to the public bragging about having booted two wars, one based entirely on lies, and both strung out now about twice the length of America's involvement in World War II? Would you run for office touting your party's achievements at doubling the size of the national debt? Would you point to Hurricane Katrina and say "Heckuva job, Bushie", expecting the public to agree?

The truth is that, yes, regressives almost always lie, and, yes, they love to play the politics of fear, but the key reason that they brag about having kept the country safe during the Bush years is because it's the only claim they can plausibly make without being laughed out of the room.

In fact, though, they should be laughed out of the room for making what is in reality the most absurd claim of all. And then they should consider themselves damn lucky only to be laughed at.

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Maybe it's true that regressive freaks can no longer plausibly run around bragging about how great the boy king was on economics, or fighting bad guys abroad. Woo-hoo. Yep, we've come a long way, for sure.

But surely it is a measure of this society's profoundly pathetic and unyielding political immaturity that these lunatics can still get away with lauding the former president with the monumental claim of keeping America safe, when in fact he did just the opposite.

What kind of country is it where so manifestly absurd and oxymoronic a line as that goes unchallenged?

[BeFree]

1. Well

There hasn't been one deadly anti-abortion terror act in his whole term.
He kept us safe from those terrorists!! Now they are un-hinged! Terra, Terra, Terra! Red alert!!

[TrogL]

5. There's been plenty of anti-abortion violence on his watch

Just no fatalities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence

[LiberalAndProud]

2. [Bush] Did. Not.

]Likewise, the folks running hither and yon squawking about how they kept us safe are actually the only ones in the entire history of this country who, simply, did not. Did. Not.

It's just too true. Sadly, irreversibly true.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Beyond the immediate damage of 9/11, Iraq, Katrina and the lives lost

we'll be paying for the fallout from all those things, as well as a lot of other Buscho "mistakes" and clusterf***ks (i.e. torture) for years (decades?) to come in one way or another and we all will be LESS safe because of it all.

[opihimoimoi]

4. PODIUM HOGS GONE WILD.....They Fool to Rule.....They Dominate, Demonstrate, Control

their way up the Peter Ladder.

The entire 8 years was filled with BULLY CRAP....

The Bad signs of a BULLY are:::::

Insensitive, lack of empathy, quick to anger, haughty, decietful, cheat is cool, poor reading habits, rejects reality, etc etc

The cronyism is setting us back 20 years....heckofa............