Bush's Book Shelf

A lot of the problems of the last eight years in this country and the world are not the direct fault of Prez Bush. A lot of the failures are systemic, although Bush being at the helm of this system certainly did not help. And it is possible that many of the issues we face today coincidentally happened to fall during Bush's tenure. Economic downturns are cyclical, as is destruction of the constitution, the use of state sponsored violence to further power and money hungry interests, etc. etc. And even though the following comment may too be coincidental, it was still brilliant to point out. One of my favorite columnists, former LA Times columnist and now editor-in-chief of TruthDig.com, notes,

"The bookends of the Bush years are the Enron debacle and the federal bailout of bankers drunk on their own greed."

If those are the bookends, its even more frightening to think of what lies between those place holders...