The country woke up, all of it

Call them liberals, call them progressives. Many fell asleep at the switch and the result was G. W. Bush. That caused us to wake back up, though, and take the country back.

The radical conservatives slept through the Bush years and only woke up when Obama was elected. But in their sleep, they heard things. And when they awoke, they parrotted those things that they had heard. Not correctly, but what do parrots know?

The left objected to loss of our civil rights through the wiretapping and data mining that went with the unconstitutional Patriot Act amendment to FISA that allowed the NSA to collect the phone records of tens of millions of Americans in the eventual hope of creating "a database of every call ever made" within our borders. So, wingnuts now cry about Obama taking away our rights by avoiding a depression and reforming health care. They remember something about rights, and know some have been taken. They are just confused about who, when, and how.

We were concerned about the record deficit that Bush made from a surplus. His budget didn't include funding the war, by the way. That would have made him look bad.

His tax cuts didn't help the economy nor did it help when he signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act which allowed credit default swaps and the Enron fiasco. And we all know what credit default swaps did to the economy, worldwide even.

So, now wingnuts can complain about the drastic measures Obama has to take to salvage the economy because they think nothing was wrong before. Pay their share to keep things going? Nah. Just send them a check for a measley few hundred bucks and they'll be happy. They don't care about real numbers or that they got nothing with the tax cuts, like no upkeep of the country's inf rastructure which was falling apart at the cost of many lives.

And let's not forget the no-bid contracts with Halliburton which was guilty of >fraud and waste even to the point of killing our own soldiers with incompetence.

Nope, the wingnuts are only concerned with Obama's economic stimulus program because it bailed out...the sinking economy.

By the way, no one complains about gas prices now. Under Bush the oil companies raked in record profits while we paid record prices at the pumps So, how can the wingnuts use that? Um, they can't. That's why you don't hear anything about it. Maybe they heard the part about Bush cronies being oilmen and Bush's close ties to oil. Maybe that's why they call Obama a criminal. Who knows?

How about Kool-aid, the cry of the left during the Bush regine? Of course the wingers use it! They remember: Kool-aid bad, must use it against Obama. They don't remember blindly following their buddy Bush, the guy Joe Six-pack could feel comfortable sitting down with to have a beer. Nevermind that he was a liar and that was proven over and over. So, of course, Obama must lie.

Those sleepers heard us complain that Bush appointed criminals and toadies without qualifications and is considered a criminal himself by many. Did I say criminal? Just checking. I said criminal, right?

So, Obama must be a crook because he met Ayers. Crook! Liar! Kool-aid! Throwing money away!

Those same sleepers now wonder why Bush's name keeps coming up these days. They don't seem to realize they, by virtue of being parrots, are the ones reminding the rest of us of him.

To those conservatives and others who try to debate policy issues of Obama's that they do not like: thanks. It's always good to toss ideas around, to refine the process of the country's evolution. It cannot happen with voices from only one side being heard as we saw during Bush's terms.

To those who slept through the Bush years: please have another cuppa. You still haven't woken up fully. And if you want us to stop blaming Bush, quit reminding us of him. Stop copying what you heard in your sleep. 

NJ