Shithead of the Decade: 2000 – 2009
Winner: George W. Bush
Even though Vice President Al Gore got half a million more votes, George W Bush became President of the United States in a 5 to 4 political decision by the 5 Republican Supreme Court justices.
He failed to defend us from the September 11, 2001 attack, and did not ask for or receive the resignations of those responsible – Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
He was soon badgered into a war with Iraq based upon bad information and outright lies from all the Neo Cons he had appointed into matters on foreign policy. He added 5000 more Americans to the list of the 3000 already gone on 911 and a trillion dollars to the debt. Adding insult to injury, he also became the only president who ever reduced taxes (on the wealthy) in a time of war. Funding an unnecessary war on the backs of our children. Borrow (from China) and spend Republicans.
His less than sharp mind also caused him to give our economy over to the unregulated free market purism of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan. Which proved to be the insane pile of crap it always seemed to be, taking us to the brink of economic collapse and a world depression and the worst recession in history.
Not to mention Abu Grab, Guantanamo Bay, religious intolerance, torture and bestowing upon us a world reputation of hypocrisy, gun waving cowboy swagger, and a library sized lexicon of the dumbest damn things any president ever said.
Runner up: Dick Cheney
As the man behind the curtain helping Cowboy George give us the worst decade in memory, he also is most responsible for the decision to move the war from Afghanistan to Iraq, to defend and promote torture, to allow energy companies to write energy legislation (in secret) and of course so famously and nonchalantly shooting a friend in the face. Just an all around God Awful human with no redeeming social value.
Correction! He is for gay rights, but only because he has a gay daughter. You see how these KIND OF PEOPLE think?
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