Hard to concentrate on any one outrage before another pops up, sometimes in multiples.

Out of the park!

he'd be tripping over his nose.

Absolutely right! It's all so outrageous, it's hard to sustain my outrage -- and more keeps coming almost every day. I find I have to work to stay calm and go about my life as I keep going to meetings, talking with friends (and especially my spouse), committing to sustained action -- and behind it all, reading, listening, paying attention, and thinking critically and alertly. We can't let the behavior we're seeing become anything like normal. We have to keep working to change it -- to find effective ways (and voters and candidates) to change it.

The last few months of GW Bush's presidency felt like a dead zone to me where no one did shit.

I think the Republicans are running against a deadline. It's not the 2018 elections so what the fuck is it? Trump getting impeached would give them Pence. Are they afraid of Trump's delusional followers?

Plus, the shit with the Supreme Court. At the time, it felt like a fuck you to Obama but it was a huge risk. I'm wondering if they knew the end result. Conspiracy theories are getting too easy because who the fuck knows.

I was leaning stupidity but I'm leaning malice now.

Or both.

Malice. I'd say first on the list. Stupidity comes in a close second. Pettiness should be in there, too. Maybe tied for second. Or a three way tie for second - if you add Greed. But then you'd also have to add Selfishness, and Short-sightedness, too.

And at that point, the floodgates would have burst open and we'd almost literally be drowning in descriptives.

The Thugs would be rioting in the streets and there would be 20 different impeachment hearings going at the same time.

Dan Rather and Bill Moyers make me proud that there
are good Texans still pursuing a decent course in
journalism!

He was such a thorn in Nixon's side. And in GHWB's side. Bush-1's ne'er-do-well dry-drunk son got some revenge but you can't keep a good man down.

...to the state of affairs that existed at the end of the Bush administration.

This is the fallacy of Neoprogressives like Susan Sarandon who argue that the election of Trump is actually good for progressives because it gets people involved.

The reason why people are involved is because Trump and Republicans is rolling back rights, regulatory protections, and taking away benefits. By the time Democrats are able to get back to power, assuming we are not in the midst of a dictatorship, it will take tremendous effort simply to return to where we were at the end of the Bush administration, let alone the end of the Obama administration.

We will be dealing with a crippled EPA, huge cuts to Medicaid, no ACA, no revenues due to tax cuts to the rich, Republicans in the courts, etc. Think of how so much of President Obama's agenda was dedicated simply to avoiding a Great Depression following Dubya.

Are the EPA regulations still going to be on the books? Will there be an ACA or Consumer Protection Agency when Trump is done? Will millions of poor people be without Medicaid? Finally, Gorsuch will still be a judge ready to kill any effort to repair the damage.

And that is what we will need to do. Repair the damage.

This didn't start November 8th.

And, 45 isn't the cause.

This shit has been building the last quarter century, at least.

The vile, poisonous hatred that enabled 45 to get elected was in place LONG before he came down the elevator.

There are literally hundreds in Congress who are fully on board with it, thousands at the state levels, a hundred million og our neighbors, and another hundred million who are ok with it.

Presumably see news outlets are afraid of conservative backlash.

(Have you heard that before? That's a big point of the conservative propanganda machine -- to cow the real press )

used to generate the 'outrage' needed to intimidate the network

it only worked, like with many swiftboat victims, because dems ignore talk radio

that's the way it's been for 30 years, since reagan killed the fairness doctrine, the right built its talk radio psyops, and liberals and dems made it a habit to ignore it.

it's the only reason trump even got close to the white house, like bush and palin before him.