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Even worse than all the wasted money, I would argue that the elevation of bullying to Official Policy is among the worst outcomes from Bushco. The bully mentality does not represent a lack of confidence. On the contrary, it is a display of over-confidence that veers headlong into self righteousness, vanity and stupidity. There is no reflection, no thought, no intellectual work on that trajectory.
My second place nominee for Worst Legacy of Bushco is the Orwellian level of discourse, the whole "we create our own reality" routine of Bush, Cheney, Condi, and everyone else both inside and outside this administration who baldly denied truth and crammed everything into a political box of their own creation.
We've always been at war with Eastasia...We don't torture...If the President does it, it's not illegal...the birth pangs of the New Middle East...War is Peace.
I would laugh at all this if I weren't so scared.
