Ignorance is Bliss, but Republicans really believe this stuff

If I sound like a broken record, it's probably because I am.

Condi Rice: "… we are exceptional in the clarity of our conviction that free markets and free peoples hold the key to the future, and in our willingness to act on those beliefs. Failure to do so would leave a vacuum, likely filled by those who will not champion a balance of power that favours freedom. That would be a tragedy for American interests and values and those who share them."

Must we go through this again?  Apparently so.

Sec. Rice was writing in hopes to highlight her belief that sometimes the American people need to be reminded that our country is exceptional to the rest of the world.  We savior freedom in all realms but especially in "free markets."  It is our "conviction that free markets" are so important to free society that failing to uphold such a market system would collapse our nation and freedom as we know it.

As an 8-year member of the Bush administration, Secretary Rice should know a thing or two about unfettered markets.  Or at least about how to grow government to huge lengths and nationalize them. 

The Bush administration instituted at least 8 government-funded bailouts of private industry, well over a trillion dollars worth.  He nationalized entire financial and lending industries, meaning he used tax payer money to buy up majority ownership in private companies.  He did more to interfere with the free market system than any president since FDR.  He created TARP, No Child Left Behind, Dept. of Homeland Security, and who can forget his transfer of billions of dollars of American wealth to Iraq.  If anyone failed to uphold the free market system it was the Bush administration.  How dare any Republican pretend it never happened.

Notice too that Rice says failing to hold steady to the conviction of free markets would result in a vacuum likely filled by those who don't cherish freedom.  Bush failed to abide by the GOP's dream of free markets and guess what?  We're still here and just as free as we were in 2001-2009.  Anyone who thinks, or would write in a printed publication that America is exceptional because of our unbridled love of a free market system especially after they worked for the administration that issued and created TARP is ridiculously stupid.