RE: End of the Bush Era
Dionne is so full of crap.
There is no Bush era. There never was. That is the thing about Bush that so many liberals fail to see. Conservatives knew it six months into the first term when he failed rescind a single one of the hundreds of unconstitutional and morally objectionable executive orders signed by Clinton.
If there is a name for the current political era, it would be post-Reagan. Or maybe something like the Bush-Clinton-Bush era. By the time Bush leaves office, we will have endured twenty unbroken years of the resumption of creeping socialism. The irony of the era will be the fact that the slowest rate of incursion was from 1994 to 1998, smack in the middle of the Clinton Administration. Before you Democrat cheerleaders jump into high gear, that is solely because of the takeover of the House of Representatives by conservative Republicans. All they were able to do is slow the runaway train a little, they came nowhere near stopping it.
Most of what Dionne said in his first two paragraphs is true. He proceeded to run screaming down the canyon after that, but the legacy of the Bush-Clinton-Bush era will be twenty years of unbroken sameness and the triumph of oligarchical socialism in the United States. That we bombed some aspirin factories, watched people die in Kosovo, or took out a monster we ourselves had created will make little difference when the history of the era is written.
There is no Bush era. There never was. That is the thing about Bush that so many liberals fail to see. Conservatives knew it six months into the first term when he failed rescind a single one of the hundreds of unconstitutional and morally objectionable executive orders signed by Clinton.
If there is a name for the current political era, it would be post-Reagan. Or maybe something like the Bush-Clinton-Bush era. By the time Bush leaves office, we will have endured twenty unbroken years of the resumption of creeping socialism. The irony of the era will be the fact that the slowest rate of incursion was from 1994 to 1998, smack in the middle of the Clinton Administration. Before you Democrat cheerleaders jump into high gear, that is solely because of the takeover of the House of Representatives by conservative Republicans. All they were able to do is slow the runaway train a little, they came nowhere near stopping it.
Most of what Dionne said in his first two paragraphs is true. He proceeded to run screaming down the canyon after that, but the legacy of the Bush-Clinton-Bush era will be twenty years of unbroken sameness and the triumph of oligarchical socialism in the United States. That we bombed some aspirin factories, watched people die in Kosovo, or took out a monster we ourselves had created will make little difference when the history of the era is written.
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