Want a slogan for a bumper sticker? Here it is: "This November, Let's Remember."
Remembering the Bush years is like picking a scab off an enormous wound still reeking of rotten flesh, but we need to do it, because Republicans are trying to make America forget that George W. Bush's administration ever happened.
Do you remember the first big thing George W. Bush did after the Gang of Five handed him the 2000 election? He took Bill Clinton’s trillion-dollar surplus and handed it to his rich buddies. This first titanic theft triggered the Great Bush Depression, whose effects are still dragging down America’s economy.
This November, let’s remember.
Do you recall how the FBI, the CIA and Richard Clarke tried to warn the incoming Bush administration that America was under threat of attack by a terrorist group called “al Qaida?” Do you recall how the Bushies brushed them all off and Bush’s response, “Okay, you’ve covered your ass.”
This November, let’s remember.
Remember the petrified look on Bush’s face when he heard that al Qaida had carried out the exact threat he had been warned about in a presidential security briefing? The one Condi Rice dismissed as “historical.” Remember how he froze for minutes, holding “My Pet Goat” in his hands while his country was under attack. I remember 9/11.
This November, let’s all remember.
Remember how John O'Neill [not Richard Clarke], after trying to warn Bush about al Qaida, was killed in the World Trade Center attack?
This November, let’s remember.
Remember how Bush stood on the smoldering rubble of the World Trade Center and swore he would bring the perpetrators to justice? Remember how he later claimed that he didn’t care about Osama bin Laden? Remember “Now, watch this swing.”
This November, let’s remember.
Remember how Bush let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora? Remember how Cheney and Rumsfeld used 9/11 as an pretext to push Cheney’s “New American Century” empire plan by attacking Iraq?
This November, let’s remember.
Remember the endless lies about why we were attacking Iraq? Remember Judith Miller’s lies? Remember Scooter Libby’s love affair with Judith Miller, and his coded message to her when she was in prison?
This November, let’s remember.
As you can see, the list of awful things George Bush and his co-conspirators did was so huge, it’s like a mountain of rotten meat hiding in the back of America’s refrigerator. I've barely tapped into the first year of Bush's rotten legacy, and already I'm sick to my stomach.
Well, we gotta do it. Let’s pull out some more of that rotten stuff out and talk about it. Republicans have handed us the biggest clue possible about how to kick their ass this election. Let’s talk about George Bush, Emperor Chimpy, their hero, the guy they’re so proud of, they barred him from their own presidential convention.
Republicans don’t want us to remember the Bush years. Let’s help them remember, along with the rest of America. Let’s rub the Bush years in their face, so they can’t ignore what they did.
This November, let’s remember.