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What Matters Now? The Bush/Cheney Legacy

Ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, one of many disaffected former Bush White House officials, recounts Vice-President Dick Cheney saying in a 2002 White House meeting: "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter."

The Bush/Cheney years prove that the rule of law and truth don't matter.


This has assumed many different expressions: losing elections and getting the most votes don't matter, torture doesn't matter, committing war crimes as policy and getting caught don't matter, separation of powers doesn't matter, attacking countries that have not attacked you first doesn't matter, international law, Nuremberg, the Geneva Convention, and the UN Charter don't matter, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights don't matter, being repeatedly caught red-handed lying and committing felonies don't matter, having the Democrats holding the majority in Congress doesn't matter, science, evolution, and global warming don't matter, being an American in the face of a Category 4 hurricane doesn't matter, running up unbelievable deficits, carrying out policies that show themselves to be disasters doesn't matter, being more unpopular for a longer time than any White House in at least polling history doesn't matter …the list goes on and on. In fact, just listing the items in this manner could go on for 10,000 words or more without any elaboration attempted.


It's mind-boggling what Bush and Cheney have shown doesn't matter. The sheer magnitude of their ambitions and mission - their very audaciousness - are astonishing. But what is even more amazing … is that they have been successful. As I write these words, it appears as if they will serve out the entirety of their two illegitimately seized two terms in the White House without indictments and without impeachment.

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