Worst Decade Ever

that terri schiavo comment was pretty low. Beckerman, I hope you read this so you know how big a scumbag you are.

Not sure. I remember Reagan and Co.

On any given day, it's a toss up which President was the worst Reagan, Bush 1 (remember Clarence?), or Bush 2. It depends on my mood.

I used to feel that no one could top Nixon, but he was Thoreau compared with these creeps.

"Michael Moore should have"

Bad joke. He's a hero to many intelligent people.

The disaster that was the just past decade can be attributed to the stolen election of 2000, when Bushboy's brother Jeb helped him fake the Florida vote results, which allowed the right-wing partisan Supreme Court's 5 Injustices to illegally overturn a state court decision that was right and proper.
The result was that instead of getting the experienced, intelligent and constructive Al Gore for the next 8 years, we got the inexperienced, unintelligent and depraved Bushboy.
The results were evident by the end of this reign of error. He inherited $200 billion surpluses from the Clinton administration and immediately turned them into record deficits with his inane tax cuts for the richest Americans, and wound up doubling the National debt from $5 trillion to over $10 trillion.
He invented the WMD fiction to scare America into a senseless and destructive war In Iraq that has cost millions of lives and trillions of $$$.
He ignored corporate criminal behavior from Enron, Worldcom and Wall St., and national emergencies like Katrina.
Bushboy and the Republican Party brought America to the brink of ruin, and Republicans are still spouting the same fiscal and international insanity they did before the 2008 election. It's incredible that in 2010 anyone would still vote for such a Party.

I believe that the people that survived the deppression followed by World War 2 would think that they suffered a much worse period that the last decade. Not to mention the period from the Watts riots through the end of the carter administration 1965-1980. At best your ignorant, at worst self absorbed.

"Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer croaked while Carlos Mencia and Glenn Beck continued to breathe; Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace killed themselves when Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore should have(They both deserve hospitalization for heart attacks-and not simply because of their politics)." With this comment, you are certainly making your contribution in helping make this next decade a lousy one. Thanks for the lack of human kindness, but then you can't convey something you obviously don't have.

This guy is so arrogant. I love a good positive article, but when even though I can't see your face when you were writing this, it seems as though every word was written with a 'know-it-all' grin. Tone down the cute little quips and give me some evidence for your assertions

What a wonderful, succinct, playful, and evocative article!

You can still feel the sticky residue of neo-conservatism in rural culture and in the media. I keep hearing Cheney's opinion being quoted in the news more than a year after the unrepentant hog was ousted for instance and no one seems to think that's odd. But imagine hearing Dan Quayle's opinion quoted on the news a year into Clinton's presidency! December was the first month *ever* in which no American lives were lost in Iraq, but does that become a lead story or track back to our current administration as it would have been celebrated in the last?

It's a profound relieve to me to see the US start it's long trek back to being a more exemplary, responsible and admirable nation as we have been at so many points in our history.

Thanks for this, Marty, it made my day!

Favorite line...Glenn Beck continued to breathe....hehe.

Another annoying trend. If liberals don't like you, you are an automatic hero to the right. It doesn't matter if you have an ounce of character or brains.

Let's not forget the sex abuse "crisis" in the Catholic church, brought to light in 2002 and continuing today. While they focused on the rights of the likes of Terri Schiavo and the unborn, they chose to ignore, deflect, deny and blame the tens of thousands who were abused as children by their "holy men". Meanwhile the "faithful" put on blinders and continue to put $ in the basket every Sunday.

This is by far the best article I've read on Daily Beast.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!

Sounds like you've been listening to the 5th dimension Marty. However you sound tongue-in-cheek.
Let's hope we're on the road to recovery, but don't center all your hopes on a politician.