Ruin is the perfect word to describe what the republicans have done.

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The Banality Of Dick Cheney's Evil

by digby

Read this amazing piece by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker. But gird yourself. It's one of the worst things you'll ever read about your government, and that's saying something: