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I'm sure you could go on and on. But this post proof that it isn't me that needs to pull his head out of his ass. It's you. You had the opporrunity to give yourself some semblance of credibility by showing that you have the ability to be mildly objective. But the fact that you called the write of that piece a Republican when you A) have zero evidence to support it and B) the fact that the author whether factually right or wrong, passed blame out equally, pretty much shatters what small shred of credibility that you have.
You are one of those people that most people reach an impass with in conversation because you don't have th ability to recognize or acknowledge your own bias and see it at just that. Any reasonable person can see that it would be hard to carry on a rationale conversation with somene who makes accussations that they not only have no evidence for, but can't even be reasonably inferred.
The Los Angeles Times editorial board writes: "As the Bush administration attempts to stabilize the nation's economy, we are witness to the final chapter of a period of perverse and dishonest leadership that has used its own crises to justify the expansion of its own power. This was a president who came to office on promises of modesty -- who championed a 'humble nation,' scorned nation building and promised a more limited role for government in the lives of its citizens. Then he presided over a six-year attempt to tear down and rebuild the nations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and now has embarked on the most profound expansion of the federal government's role in the private economy since the Depression.
"In both cases, the pattern is the same. Ineptitude led to crisis; crisis then became the argument for the radical expansion of executive power. The administration insisted that it exercise its new authority with a minimum of scrutiny by Congress, the courts or the public. . . .
"These troubles are about more than a president who is unfaithful to his word. Bush has transformed the balance of power in our government. We are seeing the erection of an imperial presidency, immune from oversight when it fights terrorists and when it rescues banks."