We cats often come across folks over at Free Republic who pine for the days of the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived.
We don't know exactly what they're missing. Illegal invasions of countries that didn't attack us? The complete decimation of the Department of Justice? The destruction of America's reputation in the world? The bungled response to Hurricane Katrina? It's hard to know.
But if it's the Bush-era housing boom that the sad little Freepers yearn for, here's some more bad news: It's gone.
Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal reports that the 2008 financial meltdown and bursting of the housing-market bubble have completely wiped out any gains made in Bush and Cheney's mad pursuit of "the ownership society." Today, fewer Americans own homes than at any time since 1998.
Hmm, interesting. After tax cuts for the rich that we couldn't afford, a completely unfunded Medicare Part D program, and education "reforms" that aren't working, it now seems that the most significant domestic accomplishment of the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived is a failure, too.
We wonder if any of the 2012 Republican Presidential wannabes will be asked about this? And if they are — a stretch, considering the deplorably short memories of American journalists — what will they say?
(IMAGE: Goodnight, John-Boy.)
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