A lot of people are celebrating the end of the Bush Administration. I am happy for them but I can't really because the whole thing is my fault. I for Gore and against Bush in 2000 and 2004, I voted for Obama in 2008. I protested the war in 2003 and have contributed money and time to the cause of battling the GOP of the 2000. I was outraged by the torture, and trampling of the constitution and the law.

But it's still my fault.

I'm a citizen of the United States, born of citizens in-country and that makes it my fault. I recently got into a bit of a discussion at this at another blog because understandably, people who opposed the Bushies with everything they could don't want to be associated with it's failures. And there's something to that. But I pay taxes, I live here, I vote here, this is for better or worse my government. And that means I am responsible at least on some level, for the things it does the bad and the good. I can't just say for example, claim responsibility for sending food and medicine to abroad and not be responsible for Iraq. I can disagree certainly, and that gains me something. Attempting to stop it gains me something more. But because I'm a citizen I have the obligation to suffer the consequences of the actions of my government.

That's why I think the best way to go on is to fix what the government does and taken more direct organizational control. I'm responsible for the rise of Bush, but I'm also responsible for the rise of Obama. I'll take the bad with the good and suffer the consequences of my actions.