As noted many times on this blog, to listen to Mitt Romney and those running attack ads against Barack Obama Democrats, one would think history began in January, 2009, and that everything had been sweetness and light prior to Obama's swearing in as president. It's the only way that the Republican Party can escape responsibility for the financial markets melt down and the orgy of deficit spending that Bush/Cheney left as their biggest legacies - not counting, of course, the thousands of needless deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan and the billions of wasted dollars squandered in those countries. Thus it is surprising that the always caustic John Bolton (with whom I nearly never agree) has called a spade a spade and admitted that Obama was left a disastrous mess by Chimperator Bush, Emperor Palpatine Cheney and the rubber stamp GOP controlled Congress of the Bush/Cheney years. It's a truth that more Americans need to grasp, especially those who listen to Fox News as if it were a legitimate source of information. Here are highlights from The Daily Telegraph on Bolton's all too true statements:
John Bolton, Mr Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, said it would not be helpful for the Republicans to more vigorously defend the former president's record, which Democrats have sharply criticised.
Mr Bolton urged Mitt Romney, the party's nominee to face Mr Obama in November, to focus on the future and resist arguing over whether their last president left behind "a big mess or a little mess".
"I think people would agree with Obama that he was left with a mess," Mr Bolton told The Daily Telegraph. "They're not arguing about that, and that's why it doesn't pay for Romney to argue whether it was a big mess or a little mess.
Of course, Bolton failed to go on and say that the proposals of the Romney campaign and the GOP are largely nothing more than a repackaged version of the idiocy that got America in trouble in the first place or that these policies would not benefit anyone but the very wealthy. More tax cuts will only deepen the deficit and less regulation will only enable more recklessness on Wall Street. And with Romney wanting to attack Iran, the military disasters would only increase.
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