[Ditto]

It short, all the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the "I accuse" op-eds by the usual moralistic pundits — all that turned out to be solely about politics, nothing more.

Quote of the month --- maybe of the year.

[The Pack Knight]

As if there was any doubt, of course. Bush was tainted with the “original sin” of the 2000 election and the mere fact that he’s a Republican. Nothing he could have done policy-wise would have changed any of the vitriol hurled against him.

Much, if not most, of the Obama Administration’s policies are substantively nothing more than a continuation of the Bush Administration’s, particularly with regards to foreign relations and the economy (with the notable exception of taxes). Many of Bush’s policies in these areas can be traced back to the Clinton Administration. The reason Bush was vilified while Clinton and Obama were lionized had everything to do with who was giving the orders and almost nothing to do with what those orders were.

[DuncanWaring]

Not that it hasn’t been obvious for about five years now.