Not irrevocably, not yet. After 4 years of Obama, maybe. It’s hard to assess the potential damage now. I am confident that we are still able to fix what’s wrong with this country if we had the power to do so (which we don’t).
Dan, go back and re-read your rant. Everything you stated (and more) are the result of problems created by the Congress. With the credit crisis, oil crisis, rising unemployment (the last two, by the way, the result of not drilling for our own oil), massive tax increases looming (due to Congress refusing to make Bush’s tax cuts permanent), the most important thing that the Congress has to do is listen to Dennis Kucinich file pointless impeachment charges against the president while the Senate is wasting time with a Glowbull Warming bill that went nowhere and the Supreme Court decides to grant Constitutional rights to people who hate us and only want to kill us.
In the meantime, the most important thing on Bush’s shrinking brain is the creation of the US Institute of Peace and giving 30 BILLION of OUR tax dollars to Africa to fight AIDS. All of this raises the question - who’s minding the store? Whose looking out for the taxpayers who fund all this silly nonsense?
If you can’t tell from this rant of mine, I’m extremely unhappy with these clowns.