A not too distant glance back in world history finds the Nazi movement formulating mythologies which square with their commonly held bigotry. They would call this newly “rediscovered” propaganda Arian history, which, not too surprisingly, justified their superiority over everyone. Through this propaganda and their ruthlessness, the Nazis enforced their pretend Arian history into their nation’s conciseness, seized power, conceived of the Holocaust, and started the Second World War in Europe. They did this to expedite Germany’s rise from the ashes from the First World War, which had left them in complete economic ruin. The conquering of Europe and killing all the Jews didn’t have the desired economic outcome. Their mindless ideology trumped their own economic interests. Lesson learned. Today Germany is a moderate Social Democratic nation and a strong ally. I believe fascism is beginning to take root in the United States. The clowns that support the tea party like Mitch McConnell say “Democracy just doesn’t work.” Tea Party pin up boy, Eric Cantor gives speeches to oil derivatives traders assuring them his party will do everything in his power to reverse Dodd Frank’s legislation. These speculators inflate gas by as much as forty cents per gallon. They are taxed on this ill-gotten gain at fifteen percent annually while their secretaries pay thirty percent. They are the MASTER RACE OF JOB CREATORS! Actually, they create nothing. Their “business” is just a big rigged casino game on Wall Street where consumers always lose. Dodd Frank’s was set up to change that. The bombastic right wing media outlets pounds out a coordinated drumbeat of lies. They seize upon others credit. They excuse themselves from all responsibility. They can embrace Reagan as a hero because Clinton’s tax policies paid for Reagan’s deficits. They’re a little torn over the legacy of the last Bush. He did all the things a good Extremist president would do but the bottom line sure looked crappy when he left office. FOX news and Limbaugh have been working hard to convince people of an alternate history. Obama actually disclosed the costs of the wars to the public and placed those costs on the books. Were we really happier and safer when George, Dick, and Rummy were lying to us? The Republican Party ceased to exist. While the name is still the same, for well over a decade they have been an Extremist movement. Nationally, their political strategy is to eliminate all social safety net programs for seniors, children and working people. Extremists fight with their political life to enrich large corporations and benefit the wealthy from general tax revenue. Everything else is off the table. Then they slander, slander, slander. I guess they think it’s the Christian thing to do. Our Nation is in a lingering economic crisis. We cannot afford extremists in our national, state, or local government. Republicans hate government. Today Extremists must believe we can build a strong economy by governing other people’s sex organs, mistreating workers, pushing legacy costs to our future generations, and having working people subsidize jets for corporate bigwigs and oil companies. The Old Sheep Herder isn’t sure what that has to do with economics, but a lot of people didn’t get the connection with Iraq and the attacks of September 11. The G.O.P.’s irresponsible and heavy handed policies have set a political tone akin to the Civil War. Their most ardent followers still don’t believe the President was born in this country. They promised you the good old days and they really delivered. In spite of our growing population, race relations had shown slow and steady improvement for many years. The Bush era ended that. Overt Birther racism poisons all G.O.P. dialog and legislation. In spite of the G.O.P.’s rigorous defense of Bush Twos legacy, they are unwilling to take responsibility for the fiscal legacy. History will show it was neither fiscally nor strategically responsible for Bush to go into Iraq. He destroyed a geo-political checkmate between Iraq and Iran. That leaves us in a position where we have to stabilize Iraq. In the meantime Iran is free from the threat of Saddam and can pursue its nuclear program. Oh well, at least Bush’s oil field company holding buddies were assured American troops paid for by American taxpayers were protecting their interests in Central Asia. Domestically, Bush and the Extremists stripped away financial regulation and oversight setting loose a torrent of greedy and corrupt housing transactions ending in the Bush crash of 2008. Its Bush’s legacy that he cast aside intense precautions that Al Queda was an extreme threat to our national security. That precaution was offered by the Clinton administration’s National Security Team to Bush’s Transition Team before he was sworn in. Its Bush’s legacy for ignoring his National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, passing on the word that Al Queada plans to use planes to attack the United States. Its Bush’s legacy for demoting Richard Clarke for insisting on bringing this to Bush’s attention personally. Bush responded “I’m not interested in swatting at flies.” Its Bush’s legacy to sit dumbfounded in front of a classroom of children as he formulated a historically foolish response to this act of terrorism. Our Air Force, Military, Marines, Special Ops and Intelligence made short work of the Taliban and had Bin Laden trapped in Tori Bora. George Bush had other work for our military. That Bin Laden thing would just have to wait. His constituents, the oil companies were nervous that their assets would be seized by terrorists. George Bush headed off in the opposite direction of the battle. Knowing that General Lee shot men in the back for acting like this, Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld told the big lie about weapons of mass destruction. They are the Gas and Oil Party. Bush’s legacy is that his administration identified CIA agent Valerie Plame when she presented information that completely contradicted their lies to the public for going to war in Iraq. Do you think as commander in chief, that the Bush administration alienated the CIA by this sordid political dirty trick? Did that dirty trick compromise American security? Did it slow down our hunt for Bin Laden? Is the CIA’s job to gather intelligence or fabricate political lies? Bush’s legacy was surrounding himself with intellectually bankrupt, corporately controlled, political partisans who brought nothing to the table to compensate for his innumerable shortcomings. Bush’s legacy is that he helped Bin Laden achieve his objective on his holy war on America. Bin Laden wanted to bankrupt us. Bush put a war of choice on the national credit card. He tore down the last vestiges of regulation and oversight. He overburdened Medicare with an unfunded drug benefit to put that program in crisis status. He gave huge tax breaks to the wealthy. Those tax breaks for the wealthy have mostly ended up out of our economy and in investments overseas. Contrary to all his cowboy rhetoric, Bush was an ideal partner for Bin Laden’s holy war on America. Al Queda might be on life support, but the Tea Party which supported Bush and revises history so the amnesiac will think of him favorabl,y needs putting in its place. Bush’s legacy was saying that in 2002, Bin Laden wasn’t even a priority because he was out of Afghanistan and not in a command position anymore. He closed the CIA unit dedicated to his search in 2005. In 2005 Bin Laden started building his quaint little villa in Pakistan. Bush’s legacy is while claiming to be a small government Republican, he established and expanded multiple government agencies in order to impress the importance of future threats through his thick skull and into his dull brain. The legacy to taxpayers is The Department of Homeland Security among others. They have about 850,000 employees. Many of them focus on mass mailings to employers having employees fill out forms with driver’s license numbers and birthday. Most importantly the key questions,; are you a member of a sleeper cell?...y/n…non-member of sleeper cell?..y/n. When these are all filled out and mailed back and boxed up, maybe we could drop them on a real Al Queda camp in Yemen. Bush’s legacy is that he admits to having only one regret during his Presidency. He thinks he mishandled his initiative to privatize Social Security. Guess what would have happened to a privatized Social Security in the 2008 financial crash. At least Wall Street would have had fun gambling with it until the three lemons turned up. Since his election, Obama has begun the massive redeployment of troops to Afghanistan to finish the mission George Bush deserted. After 800 days in office he ordered Navy Seal Team Six to go in and execute the most daring military mission since our initial pursuit of Al Quaeda. While it didn’t go flawlessly (the loss of one helicopter) it was a smashing success. George Bush had almost 2700 days to accomplish or coordinate a similar mission. It wasn’t important for the oil companies so he didn’t do it. With the real mission accomplished, not a photo opportunity on an air craft carrier, the GOP history revisionists are on overtime saying, “Give credit to Bush!” History will give Bush his due legacy. Bush and his defenders pout in their infamy, too ideologically rigid to realize they are carrying on Bin Laden’s legacy of destroying our economy through class warfare. The Tea Party chafe at the handful of regulations passed over their perpetually filibustering House and Senate members during Obama’s first two years. The Republicans long for the good old days of wars off the books and Wall Street valuing your garden shed at a million dollars. Americans do not want class warfare. Americans want shared sacrifice and innovation to get us out of this very deep ditch we are in. The Tea Party is opposed to what the American voter wants.