Last year, almost to the day, I started telling everybody to Give Up. It was a terrible time, none of us could believe it happened...again. But the Give Up philosophy has been a boon to my friends and loved ones as they've learned that there is no need to be upset about losing in politics. We are right, and the truth will out. If we really believe that progressive policies are the better way to do things, the logical outcome of Republicans running the joint is that everything will go to crap.

We should stop trying to prevent their policies from being implemented, because people have to experience them undiluted and unsoftened by Democrats before they realize that the ideology of the right is empty of morality and common sense. So, stop opposing tax cuts, they help the blue states! Stop opposing their Supreme Court nominees, allow the Republicans to piss-off women forever! Stop opposing medicare and Social security reform, no gray-hair will vote republican again as long as they live!

Once things go to crap and we hit rock bottom maybe people will get over this Republicanism crap and let progressive government show these chumps how it's done.

It's a little bit like having a child that is a drug addict. You don't want bad things to happen to your child, but at the same time, you know the sooner they reach rock bottom, the sooner they can get into rehab. And it's almost time for this country to enter rehab.

Let's list the evidence we've nearly hit rock bottom.

Bush has created the largest government ever.

Bush has created the largest trade deficits ever (september set the record).

Bush has reversed the largest surplus ever into the largest deficit ever.

Bush is responsible for an intractable mess in Iraq with 2096 U.S. soldiers dead and 15,000 seriously wounded. Also, between 30-100,000 Iraqi civilians dead.

Bush has catastrophically mismanaged domestically, and his crony appointments are responsible for the greatest mismanagement of a national crisis in history.

Bush is responsible for the complete and total loss of the United States' good reputation worldwide with torture, secret prisons and detainee abuse scandals.

Bush's White House has lost credibility with his own party over leaks and exposed lies.


For these and other reasons Bush now has an approval rating in the 30s. If I had this list attached to my name I'd feel the only noble way out is suicide (I've been reading a lot of Roman history lately). Sadly, Bush isn't very noble.

Also, I think we're pretty close to rock bottom now. Future signs that our descent is complete may include:

Bush packs the court with pro-lifers. A Roe test case emerges that leads to it being overturned. The gender gap is reinstated and Republicans lose the women's vote for a generation.

Civil War breaks out in Iraq. Some have argued this has already happened, and the press just hasn't started calling it that yet. But 100 people dead in a single day yesterday suggests that maybe it's time.

Rove, Card and/or Cheney become the focus of Fitzgerald's new leak investigation, indictments ensue.

Video of torture at Abu Ghraib and other prisons are released, thereby proving beyond all plausible deniability that the Bush administration does, in fact, torture.

Lack of revenue from tax cuts and overspending forces the government to cut medicare and social security and Republicans lose the old people vote for a generation (this has already begun).

Lack of revenue from tax cuts forces the US to withdraw from Iraq because operations become too expensive (they already are).

Documents from Cheney's energy task force are leaked or otherwise obtained, a Teapot Dome scandal clone emerges that shows this administration sold out the country to their corporate friends. Impeachment ensues. Think that's an exaggeration? Why did all of those oil executives lie in front of Congress last week unless they had something really big to hide?


Give Up has had a good first year because even the Bush administration can't hide incompetence. So don't worry everybody, let these retards sink the country as far as they can, and once everybody wakes up to the fact that Republicanism doesn't work, we can have a new New Deal. Celebrate Give Up's first anniversary by Giving Up!