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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
The legacy of 43 will include, besides Iraq, the relatively extreme political polarization his administration and party have imposed.
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That certainly is the way they have generally operated, but they just recognized and played the existing game.
We can't pin that one on Bush or the GOP. The polarization of America, and our political parties, is a trend that has been happening for a long time, as liberals/conservatives self-selected and sorted themselves out along party lines.
Politically, it has accelerated in the past 15 years or so, but the trend has its roots in the various social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Thus, you don't see the liberal R's or conservative D's much anymore.
S_A_M
eta: To me, the remarkable part about the Bush administration strong and persistent "Fuck Congress" (and/or "Fuck the Judiciary") approach to governance.
