When Bush pulled out of the Kyoto accords, I thought it wouldn’t get much worse.
When reports emerged that the government’s claims that Al Quaeda and the 9/11 hijackers were in cahoots was a huge lie, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the WMD lie was exposed, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq before the inspections were done, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush started dismantling Social Security, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When outright bigotry and gay witch hunting became White House policy, I thought it couldn't get much worse.
When pre-emptive war became US policy, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush started bragging about attacking a country that did nothing to us and used focused grouped terms like Shock and Awe, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When actual journalists were replaced by self-loathing Bush loving Gay Republicans, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush ordered that caskets coming back couldn’t be filmed, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When pictures of prisoners tortured at the hands of Americans came public, I was so ashamed, so ashamed and so angry at what the Republicans had brought this country to. I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When we found out that the FBI and CIA had actually warned of the 9/11 attack and Bush ignored it, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the US started spying on US citizens, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When it became known that the injuries and deaths around Jessica Lynch and a football player named Tillman were played as lies, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When millions of US taxpayer dollars were funding outright propaganda, I thought it couldn't get much worse.
When public domain records started disappearing without warning, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When competent governmental agency heads were replaced by inexperienced political operatives, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush lied at every turn and wasn’t called on it by the press, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When $8 billion were not accounted for and no one cared, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush’s drunken and AWOL youth was shielded from the public, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When "news" outlets could be owned and dictated to by GOP donors, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When Bush started cutting social programs, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When habeas corpus disappeared, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When it came to light that Republicans were scrubbing voters lists just because the voters were Black, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the Army stopped reporting its awful accession rates, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
A year after Katrina hit when most of the victims were still unaided because they were Democrats, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When it became obvious that the press in America is useless and even dangerous, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the dollar became the number two currency in the world, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When millions of US jobs headed overseas at an alarming rate, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the 2004 election was hacked and manipulated, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When we discovered that US attorneys were fired for prosecuting Republicans, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When a drunken Cheney shot a man in the face was protected by the administration, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When we learned that Cheney called the shots in an emergency, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When a torture enabler became the Attorney General, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When three foreign trade blocks were formed without us, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When I was screamed at in Mexico City for being an American, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When NASA budgets had been cut, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When one in six Americans went without health insurance, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When the poverty rate in America grew by tens of millions, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When laws were being written by industry insiders, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When 40,000 deserters were hardly being reported by the press, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When education spending dropped to 1% of GDP, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When weaponry and warfare raised to 42% of the GDP, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When evolutionary scientists, and AIDS researchers and global warming experts were muzzled, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When a US secret agent was exposed to protect a lie, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When US students score 24th out of the top 30 industrialized nations and college is harder than ever to get into, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
When my Mother had to start begging for her medicine, I thought it couldn’t get much worse.
All I can ask is this- how much worse can this get? I fear that the worst is yet to come. I fear that we will never climb out of this hole that the Republicans dug for us. My fear is that the Democrats in power are not much better than the corrupt republicans (is that redundant ?) theya re replacing.
I believe, as I have said before, that hen all the truth finally comes out, 2000- 2008 will be the Dark Ages of America, a Dark Age that will never probably see a renaissance.