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Forget Iraq.

Never mind the abuse of prisoners, the outright torture, the Orwellian "extraordinary rendition."

Put aside our sabotage of the Kyoto agreements and the International Criminal Court, not to mention the dirty bomb we planted in the United Nations in the form of John Bolton. Who cares if we have pissed away the moral authority, admiration, and respect we've built up over decades within the world community.

Ignore the corruption, the vindictiveness against those who refuse to support the administration's lies, the shameless manipulation of the press both here and in Iraq.

If all of this had never happened, this morally bankrupt administration and its wing of far-right supporters would still have egregiously violated the public trust over one issue and one issue alone — taxes:

[The House of Representatives] cut $50 billion last month from programs serving low-income Americans. This week they passed the final part of what amounts to $95 billion in tax cuts. It represents a height of taking from the poor to give to the rich. Out went billions for student loans, Medicaid, and food stamps. In came billions for stock dividends and capital gains.

Democratic Representative John Lewis of Georgia called this subsidizing of the wealthy by the poor "unmoral, uncaring and without compassion." I call it a criminal abuse of authority.

Still, I don't blame these self-serving right-wingers for acting like — well, self-serving right-wingers. They are what they are.

I blame you.

I blame the 60 million Americans who voted for this administration and its band of brothels. For a second term.

And I blame the tens of millions more who never bothered to vote at all.

This great country has been hijacked, while those who could have prevented it sat on their hands.