...and the Moderate, worse than any of them

because he knew what they were and went along with them.

Alternate American History: 2011 -- "The Trial of the Moderates"

As startling details continue to emerge about the scope and scale of the Bush Regime's vast, interlocking criminal enterprises, and as former leaders of that regime continue to fight extradition from Paraguay, Dubai and heavily fortified compounds within the so-called Patriotic Confederacy of the Christian United States, the "Trial of the Moderates" begins its second week...

Did you participate?

Did you collaborate?

Did you profit from the crimes of the regime?

Did you help spread the poison?

Did you use all your words to pen mighty columns defending monsters.

When caught, did you demand that the just and unjust be punished together because the unjust humps your leg at beltway cocktail parties and calls you beautiful?

Did you snicker at the thought of a shackled man in a cinderblock room being beaten to death in your name?

Did you smirk when your Dear Leader told you he used your Constitution as ass-paper every single day, and then, one minute later, go absolutely monkeyshit at the rumor that some Liberal somewhere might want to touch your guns?

Did you love your troops as long as they were toys kicking brown ass on teevee, and then sneer "Well, they volunteered" after your Dear Leader screwed them, broke them, got them killed or brought them from your Excellent Iraqi Adventure as shattered humans?

Did you cope with being a degenerate failure as a citizen by Turning Rush Up Louder?

Did you cope with being a travesty of a Christian by praying to your little gold-plated .45 caliber Savior to see your enemies burn?

Then listen up, because the Shrill One is talking about you:

Bigger Than Bush

By PAUL KRUGMAN

...

The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.

If the Bush administration became a byword for policy bungles, for government by the unqualified, well, it was just following the advice of leading conservative think tanks: after the 2000 election the Heritage Foundation specifically urged the new team to “make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”

...

So the reign of George W. Bush, the first true Southern Republican president since Reconstruction, was the culmination of a long process. And despite the claims of some on the right that Mr. Bush betrayed conservatism, the truth is that he faithfully carried out both his party’s divisive tactics — long before Sarah Palin, Mr. Bush declared that he visited his ranch to “stay in touch with real Americans” — and its governing philosophy.

That’s why the soon-to-be-gone administration’s failure is bigger than Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation.

...

If you colluded with, excused, celebrated, supported, enabled or otherwise alibied this incompetent, bigoted catastrophe of an ideology then you'd better be on your knees now, begging Wingnut Jebus to help the Obama Administration bring all of its mad Quantum Leap skills

to bear on setting things right that you spent a generation fucking into the ground.

Because if it all unravels...

...no mercy for you.

...no mercy for you.

No mercy for the Moderate.

Who made his life excrement because he walked with them.