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After reading Blumenthal's perceptive essay about Bush's colossal flop as president I'd have to respond that it's time we stopped pounding on the guy. Not that I feel any sympathy for him, it's just that the real enemy in this country is the far right wing of the Republican Party; the alliance of international capital, fundamentalist religious zealots and neoconservative intellectuals who will exist long after Cowboy George retires to his ranch. They are highly organized, extremely well funded, disciplined and motivated and they exert a lot of control over the news most Americans get. Recall their immediate counterattack against the Clinton healthcare reform attempt. Recall also their incessant filibustering in the Senate between 1993 and 1994 . Blumenthal's own books "The Clinton Wars" and "The Rise Of The Counterestablishment" document the depth of this movement, (though not as well as Conason's "Hunting Of The President"). If Bush and the Republican Congress accomplished one thing for America during their tenure they demonstrated, through an amazing mixture of artlessness, hubris and incompetence, to demonstrate the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their movement. Now it's time to deal with the real problem in this country.
