Probably When George H. W. Bush and His Peeps All but Waved Saddam Hussein In to Kuwait, Got All Indignant About it, and Ultimately Perpetrated a Military Strike that Was Tantamount to Mass Murder (the Carpet-Bombing of Tens of Thousands of Soldiers Fleeing for Their Lives)

What would be my answer to the question, "So, when did the Republican party show its first sign of becoming the absolute shit-show that we still see today?"....................................................................................................P.S. April Glaspie - Google the bitch.