Today Atrios wrote in his typically pithy and sarcastic style that "We will all agree to forget that the press pretty much fell asleep after Bush was first elected."

I hope that we will never forget it. Indeed, in spite of our natural inclination to let bygones be bygones, to look to the future, etc., we must never forget any of our recent history.

We must never forget that the Republican party put Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

We must never forget that the most prominent spokesman for the Republican party for the past 20 years has been Rush Limbaugh.

We must never forget that the Republican party stole the 2000 election.

We must never forget that the Republican party gave us a president who let Dick Cheney choose himself to be vice-president and wield unprecedented and unjustifiable power in that office.

We must never forget that the Republican party gave us a president who joked about not finding WMD in Iraq.