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In reply to the discussion: I don't think the Republican Party wants to win the White House in 2016. [View all]cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I'll even start:
attempted to find common ground with Republicans who had no intention of negotiating in good faith
failure to regulate big banks
unwillingness to push for single payer health care
TPP
OTOH, here's Bush:
Pulled the United States out of the Kyoto protocol
Ignored warnings about Osama bin Laden
Escalated the war on drugs
Squandered international goodwill after the 9/11 attacks
Lied us into war (from connecting 9/11 to Iraq to lying about WMDs to giving away millions of taxpayer $ to war profiteers)
Squandered the budget surplus he inherited from Clinton & created a huge deficit
Disastrous tax cuts
Blocked stem cell research
Reduced environmental protections
Destroyed the American middle-class
Caused the 2007 recession
NCLB
To imply both "sides" are equally egregious is utter bullshit.