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I wonder if there was something specific you had in mind when you reserved the brunt of your anger for DC's last decade.
This topic comes up a lot. Some of the abuses of the last eight years were completely new inventions. Many -- probably most -- had their roots in prior years, even prior decades, but were extended to unparalleled lengths.
Standard Washington lobbyist sleaze and corruption obviously pre-dates the Bush years, as I think I made clear. But the total destruction of virtually everything is unique to this decade.
Washington has been corrupt and imperialistic for quite some time. But the extreme combination of limitless ineptitude and power abuses are the hallmark of the Bush administration.
I often refer to "the last eight years" as a way of keeping focus on recent events, not to suggest that everything I'm describing having taken place in the last eight years is brand new and was never seen before.
