Cue conservative kvetching about breaking the tradition of not criticizing the previous Administration in 3...2...

Look, the Bush Administration was incompetent, mendacious and corrupt to an unprecedented degree. To whatever extent such a tradition existed, it simply shouldn't apply to the current administration's efforts to fix the previous one's messes. To do so would simply advantage the party that makes the messes over the one that has to keep cleaning them up -- which is, of course, the entire point behind shutting down criticism.

She's totally right, of course. I love it that she smacked them over the head with it. Screw them.

She also has to do it if she is going to repair the damage. You have to acknowledge that there is an opposing view on an issue if you're going to take the other side.

Although I voted for Obama, I never had a problem with HRC and would have gladly voted for her if she had secured the nomination.

All we need now to round out yet another example of Bushylvanianism is Mr. McLame, hurling petty insults at HRC because she "isn't demonstrating a sufficiently-respectful-of-Bush fear of the GOP's invented enemies."

To which I must respectfully ask: How much of that Clydesdale-urine peddled by his trophy-wife as "beer" would the man have to drink in order to die of alcohol poisoning?

The Bush administration, following a policy that never made any sense...

It made perfect sense once you consider any of the various iterations of the Bush Doctrine. Once Iraq was renewed in 2003 as a democratic republic in the heart of the Middle East, "a country upon the hill," the US was to engage the other member-states of the Axis of Evil.

We were supposed to invade and transform Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, much of Africa, a few South American nations and any other nation ruled by notions other than American Democracy(TM).

Nothing worked because the progressives/liberals/Ds worked to appease terrorists, viewed Muslims and/or people with dark skin as humans, wanted to reach out and talk about stuff, etc.

It'll take 20 years to clean up the mess created by the Bush administration. I fear it's irreversible, though, like climate change. You can attempt to mitigate the effects, but it's going to get you one way or another.

Igorance has consequences.

This was all part of the brilliant neo-con scheme to bluff by calling everyone else's bluff. As long as you act like you hold all the cards, you can bully your way through everything, even if you bully them right into a corner that forces them to take the actions you didn't want them to take. And then you can blame them for doing what you forced them to do and...profit!

When President Clinton left office, as a result of the 1994 'Agreed Framework', the Yongbyon nuclear reactor had been shut down for six years, the two larger nuclear reactors under construction had been abandoned, all of the prior spent fuel that COULD have been reprocessed into weapons grade plutonium had been safely sealed and under 24/7 video surveillance by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors, all of the graphite reactors were on schedule to be dismantled as soon as the construction of the two light water reactors were completed, and NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAD YET BEEN CREATED.

Enter Chimpy, stage Right.

The Bushies VIOLATED the 1994 'Agreed Framework', which the North Koreans had abided by, when they reneged on the delivery of the heavy fuel oil that had been contractually promised to compensate for the loss of energy production from the shutdown of the nuclear power plant, utilizing the excuse that they invented out of thin air: North Korea's supposed HEU program. Nevermind there was NO EVIDENCE of it's existence, and even Christopher Hill has stated that North Korea does not own the level of equipment required for production of Highly-Enriched Uranium.

That's when North Korea kicked the IAEA inspectors of the country, unsealed and reprocessed the spent fuel into weapons grade plutonium, and then CREATED AN ESTIMATED DOZEN NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Heck of a job, Chimpy !

A Bush administration policy that never made any sense?

The policy made perfect sense. They needed to have an enemy and by declaring the existance of an evil axis, you have options. You give yourself more time by going to war with a country outside of the suppossed axis.

It was thoughtful, not very smart, but thoughtful.