I've figured it out: We are witnessing the hangover from the Bush Administration

[Initech]

The Bush Administration was one of the biggest colossal fuck-ups known to man. The wanton path of death and destruction left in the wake of W left us with a mess that will take fucking forever to clean up. It was a huge disaster. We are witnessing the hangover from the Bush fuck-up. And just like in the movie, the American public has no idea of just how grand the crimes are, and the BP oil spill is the equivalent of us finding a live tiger in the bathroom.

[Duer 157099]

1. And the Gulf is like the toilet getting all the barf

One giant barf-bag from the Bush Hangover.

Apt.

[Lithos]

4. There are other areas which have the same potential...

Thanks to deregulation, lack of long term planning and limited oversight. Thinking, others are going to be minor, but a death from a thousand cuts by the time you add everything up - the problems with infrastructure, FDA (both food and drugs), etc. will cause deaths and harm to the people, environment for years to come.

L-

[Turbineguy]

2. Got it in one!

[flvegan]

3. Really? I'm seeing a lot of "hair of the dog" myself.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Yeah, and Cheney was by the trash can punch, soaking fruit in everclear

Everyone was getting drunk off their asses, and now we're so freakin' hung over.

You have a very good analogy there.

[Mira]

6. And I am the hell tired of waiting

they need to be investigated, indicted, convicted and jailed.
There is no more grace period. It expired.
Cheney needs to be pulled out of the hole he has been hiding in for a month and a day.

But before all else the entire worlds minds and experts and military and whatever the fuck it takes need to be called on to plug the leak.

Who is at fault, and what to do with them can wait.
First things first.

[JNelson6563]

7. Good analogy.

[HughMoran]

8. It's true

Laissez fair policies have consequences.

Democrats are not perfect, Republicans are guaranteed self-destruction.

[katandmoon]

9. And the Obama administration is letting them completely off the hook for it.

Instead of prosecuting BushCo criminals, Obama's DOJ is prosecuting whistleblowers.

So we will never now how grand the BushCo crimes are -- and for that we can thank ObamaCo.

[pscot]

10. That's probably a large part of it

but I don't believe it's the whole story.

[TlalocW]

11. I've made the analogy

That we left a guy in charge of watching our house while we went on an 8 week vacation to come home to see he's pretty much destroyed it. Now we've hired a new guy who has to fix it, and we're all standing over his shoulder asking him why he hasn't been able to fix everything in a week and why he needs to spend any money to get things repaired.

TlalocW

[noise]

12. Actually the guy hired to fix it

tells us to forget about the damage. That the guy who destroyed it meant well. And the guy hired to fix it has turned to the same crowd that helped the other guy destroy the house.

We are standing here wondering why anyone finds this state of affairs acceptable.

[earth mom]

13. Hangover? More like "Bush & Co Part 2"!

:grr:

[indepat]

14. junior left f*cked-up Federal agencies, loaded with ideologues not performing their mandated

missions so this administration will likely get a huge blow back, sometimes a very deadly blow back, from every agency not purged of ideologues whose mission has been to disrupt, not effect, the agency's legitimate, Congressionally-mandated mission. :P

[whatchamacallit]

15. I'd buy this notion if Obama showed any interest in fixing things

So far he's driving the plow even harder.

[mynameiswhat]

16. its depressing isn't it...