What should the Bush era be called?

[Independent_Liberal]

I'd like some opinions on this. The Nixon era was called the Watergate era. What would be the best name for the Bush era? I'm thinking about calling it the Enron era since everything seems to be tied to Enron. What would you guys call it?

[napi21]

1. The Dark Days. n/t

[funflower]

31. Exactly. Our own little Dark Ages, complete with crusades, attacks on

women's rights, and inquisitions against science.

[NoSheep]

57. Ditto to Dark Ages.

[Mme. Defarge]

87. Looking forward

to the age of indictenment!

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Most likely the Iraq era or something to do with terrorism, 9/11

n/t

[DemInDistress]

3. death and destruction era.....

[babylonsister]

4. Wow. Enron. That hasn't even been discussed with this

mal-administration lately.
Add Enron to the lengthy list.
Good idea to name it: treasongate sounds
right to me.

[unrepuke]

50. I'm up with Treasongate - and it really irritates the righties

[BlueIris]

68. See, I like Traitorgate. It's got assonance.

And as my beloved George would say, "great frame."

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. The Greed Years. Wait, that would fit all republican regimes. If the shoe

fits.

[Erika]

6. The days of U.S. shame

as a world player.

[Montauk6]

7. The Cash, Flash & Trash Years

[Deb]

8. The Curtain Years

It just seems to fit on so many levels.

[pnorman]

9. There may be something at this site

that would suggest something: http://whitehouse.org/news/2005/102605.asp

pnorman

[tavalon]

10. The end of the American experiment

or the American fascism era.

[BlueIris]

13. Actually, I wonder if "Bush: America's 'brush' with fascism"

Will be the way history remembers him. As if a government brushes up against fascism, and then can simply back away, untarnished.

[tavalon]

18. And frankly, at this point

it isn't just a brush. They've been studying the books and finding out that it still works.

[enid602]

25. yes

Yes. Even if we are rid of him, this monster still has so many tentacles. Knight-Ridder and PBS come to mind.

[Erika]

16. Yes, the great American experiment

has failed under corrupt capitalism.

[mtowngman]

11. a nightmare

maybe we'll wake up, didn't f/911 start like this?

[BlueIris]

12. I think people will obliquely refer to it with curious, apologetic terms,

things like, "That Time," "Those Years." It will be remembered as the time too fucking awful to even have a name. Which will, unfortunately, make it easier for Bush supporters to rationalize their bad deeds.

Or--the handle for the scandal which gets him axed will be the moniker which signifies the years of Bush's bloody regime. I don't think that handle has been created yet. "Fitzmas" isn't going to do it for the Popular media. Maybe the whole "Dick Cheney's cabal was soley responsible" concept will be their spin and the term they will use will be "Cheneygate" or just "Cheney."

[babylonsister]

19. I hope it's not just Dick who gets caught out. I want the little wee

dimson to be at fault, because he is our supposed leader who has fucked up so royally.
I want history to recall that.

[tavalon]

28. Or shame

much as the Germans still do about their, um, little indiscretion.

[Carla in Ca]

14. D E A D !

n/t

[DBoon]

15. The Thousand Year Reich

it will last as long as the last one as well

[dalaigh lllama]

17. The Bush Error

and we are fighting a war on Error

[LuCifer]

20. The Second Stone Age

We'll all be living back in caves if these dirtbags are allowed to proliferate much more...

[yorkiemommie1]

21. the Miserable Failure years

i've never been more miserable in all my many years.

[shenmue]

22. Purgatory

Where we pay for our sins before we are allowed to go on to something better.

[MazeRat7]

23. "Shaved" - Since its all about appearance and completely unnatural. (n/t)

[applegrove]

24. Creepy-something!

[Liberal In Texas]

26. The US Fascism Failure.

At least I hope it will be a failure.

[firefox]

27. The Age of Ruin nt

[Ioo]

29. The Dark Ages II

[JJackFlash]

30. The Disastrous Years

He has such an amazing reverse midas touch - he's a walking disaster.
It's all downhill for America from here.

[Jed Dilligan]

32. The Beginning of the End? nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. The End.

[Union Thug]

34. The Era of the Living Dead

[norml]

35. "The Zero Years" or even "The Double Zero Years"

Which began with The Triple Zero Year.

[gumby]

36. The Days of Doom.

[Aristus]

37. Un Saison D'Enfer.

A French title makes it that much more appropriate.

[tiptoe]

38. MassMurder Era

[proud patriot]

39. Democracy Under Seige Era

[fishwax]

40. I refer to it as "our long national nightmare"

[prescole]

41. Age of regression to the mean nt

[Aimah]

42. Death and Destruction n/t

[specimenfred1984]

43. It's Already Been Said "Culture of Corruption"

It nails them as the crooks they are.

[kansasblue]

44. Heckuva time

[Deja Q]

45. The end

[leftofthedial]

46. Fucked Up

[DanCa]

47. The Era of the Red God

Because whatever diety these posers worship. It isn't jesus christ.
The Worship some kind of rogue god of war madness richess and embryos.
Peace reason and tolerance be damned.

[WhiteTara]

48. Bloody

[FVZA_Colonel]

49. Dawn of the Damned.

eom.

[peace frog]

51. Fascism With A Smile

You want fries with that Third Reich, sir? Have a nice day!

[LynneSin]

52. Hell on Earth

Because if you don't make 500k/year then that was pretty much the way these past 5 years have seemed!

[Delphinus]

70. Agreed. n/t

[Kickin_Donkey]

53. The Fourth Reich ...

The Great Unraveling

Second Robber Barons Era

Bush's American Century (the first lasted only about 25 years, from 1945 to about 1970)

Neocon era

Imperial Era

Second American Empire

The Beginning of the End

The Terror (reference to French Revolution)

Second Civil War

World War III (Let's hope it doesn't come to that.)

[Fovea]

54. I'm right there with

the 4th reich.

[Piscis Austrinus]

55. The American Devolution

Actually there are several possibilities...

The Spray-Painted Age (the Gilded Age, but with no class)

The Unspeakable Years

The Great Slumber (contrast to the Christian "Great Awakening")

I just hope we never look back and wish we were living in this time again!

PsA

[newyawker99]

78. Hi Piscis Austrinus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[HR_Pufnstuf]

56. A Bushaster.

nt

[TreasonousBastard]

58. Days of Whine and Croesus...

or Days of Crime and WoeisUs.

Or just

The Dark Ages

The Beginning of the End

[msu2ba]

59. The Age of Unlightenment....n/t

[Stephanie]

60. Five Years of Fraud

and counting.

[BlueIris]

66. Five years sounds about right.

I was hoping they wouldn't scrape past six, but it looks like they might make it that far.

I am not, I repeat NOT giving Bush past 5 1/2 years, however. Randomly, and completely without evidence, I am picking the date of, er, April 16 for his resignation. That's right, April 16. Why? I don't know. It just came to me. It'll be in the Spring of '06, he'll do it at a big press conference outside the WH, and declare it an act of patriotism, still trying to spin himself the hero until the very end.

[Qanisqineq]

61. Hell

[Skittles]

62. The Bend Over Years

:o

[Swamp Rat]

63. The American Empire...

... the brief period right after the end of the Republic.

Bushler is not done yet folks... :hide: :yoiks:

[DoyBoy]

64. the Neo-Continuum

[B Calm]

65. Cheap Labor Era

[B Calm]

88. Brainwashed Flag Waving Era

[Raksha]

67. The Neocon Years...

...although the Dark Ages is also very good.

[ktlyon]

69. I'll be hopeful The End of War or The Last War

I hope we are learning our lesson, war will not solve problems, just makes things worse.

[oblivious]

71. Paradise Lost

[WritingIsMyReligion]

81. ROFLMAO!

I like! ;)

[Montauk6]

72. Or what about the PNACle Debacle?

[npincus]

73. "Ascent of the Village Idiot"

[undeterred]

77. Ding Ding!!! We have a winner!

:applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

[doh_phooey]

74. THE EVIL EMPIRE

[doh_phooey]

75. THE FOURTH REICH

[doh_phooey]

76. SHANKRI LA

[ThatsMyBarack]

79. World War III, IV, V, etc...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

80. The Time When the World was Fucked. nt

[helderheid]

82. The Fascist Era

[izzybeans]

83. The Dumbfounded

[Zynx]

84. The Neocon Nightmare

As in a nightmare caused by Neocons.

[omega minimo]

85. The Reagan Era

Year 25

[stlsaxman]

86. The Fall from Democracy

and it all started with "The Coup Of 2000".

[Cha]

89. The Dead Zone!

And let's get the hell out!

[BlueIris]

90. Ladies and gentlemen, the thread is won.

Thank you very much, and goodnight.

[kentuck]

91. The Long Winter of Discontent...

or the Rise of Ignorance

[RazzleDazzle]

92. "Pure Hell" springs to mind, along with

Sorta Friendly and oh so American Fascism

[PhilipShore]

93. Age of War

The Age of War

Bible, Revelation chapter 6, verses 1 to 8

And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

[Mme. Defarge]

94. The Bush Putsch

Word of the Day for Saturday January 8, 2005
putsch \PUCH ('u' as in 'push')\, noun:
(Sometimes capitalized) A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government.

Hitler operated from Munich where he enjoyed a fair degree of support, and it was here that his Putsch took place in an effort to seize power in Bavaria.
--Alan Jefferson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

[Initech]

95. To quote Al Franken - "Fear, Smear, & Queers"

[tsuki]

96. FUBAR comes to mind. eom

[PowerToThePeople]

97. The rise of The 4th Reich. n/t