Historians Still Despise George W. Bush

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23. That's a good one!

George W. Bush always catches a break. Now it's grade inflation.

Seriously. I'm gonna be 60 in a couple of weeks. I can remember back a few Presidents. dubya was worse than the worst. He was reagan times about 15. Somehow he had an appeal that helped anesthetize much of America to just how foul his time of presiding was.

I'm sitting here trying to think back on the various odiferous types who lurked behind the curtain in other really freakshow Presidencies. Because with ALL administrations, it's not just the President you send into office. It's all the people he's bringing in with him, or whom he plans to appoint or nominate for something. That part is key.

nixon and reagan come to mind. haldeman, ehrlichman, john mitchell, charles colson, all these fiends during the nixon era, plus the Watergate Burglars. For reagan it was john poindexter, oliver north, elliott abrams, caspar weinberger, and more. It was Criminality on Parade with both their regimes. But maybe what makes them NOT the worst was that, back in those days, there was enough strength among the opposition to contain at least some of the shit that came out, and the shitters responsible for it. And back then we had a vigorous, muckraking, and impartial news media bent on telling the truth regardless whether it generated profits or furthered an agenda. At least back in nixon's day, a whole bunch of his scheming conniving little cabal wound up ousted from their jobs, facing charges and in numerous cases, federal prison. reagan's administration was epically criminal, record-setting at that:

The presidency of Ronald Reagan in the United States was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any US president.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals

At least some people were held accountable, even if reagan himself escaped impeachment over the Iran/Contra Affair. And of course, we all know what happened with richard Nixon, the first time a President actually had to pay in full for the bad things he did. But dubya's? None. Well - one. scooter libby. Who btw still walks free to this day and uncontrite. He's never seen a day at a federal penitentiary, even one of those "Club Fed" types where white collar criminals go for their timeouts. And in dubya's den, there are actual war criminals. Plus one who many honestly and soberly describe as evil. ALL THE MALFEASANCE of the bush/cheney years, and not one individual has had to face any music except for that from some local orchestra playing them onstage at yet another speaking engagement along the "mashed-potato circuit".

None of these schmucks in bush/cheney & co. has had to pay a price for what he/she did.