Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Yellow Dog Update: The Crap is Piling Up
As the crap is piling up with one Bush administration scandal after another, even conservative commentators are piling on. Here's Robert Novak, who's usually a Bush apologist:
"The I-word (incompetence) is also used by Republicans in describing the Bush administration generally. Several of them I talked to cited a trifecta of incompetence: the Walter Reed hospital scandal, the FBI's misuse of the USA Patriot Act and the U.S. attorneys firing fiasco. "We always have claimed that we were the party of better management," one House leader told me. "How can we claim that anymore?"
Novak started a list of Bush incompetence, but it's incomplete:
1) Walter Reed hospital scandal
2) FBI's misuse of the USA Patriot Act
3) US attorneys firing for political reasons
4) War in Iraq (the "Surge," aka "Stay and Die")
5) Deception about WMD & distorted evidence
6) Rewriting the report on global warming; screwed or suppressed scientific research and policies
7) Outing the name of an undercover CIA operative
8) Botching the Katrina disaster aftermath and recovery/reconstruction
9) Abu Ghraib: approving of illegal torture methods
10) Dismissing habeas corpus
11) Holding prisoners at Guantanomo without a trial
12) Increase in terrorisim since war in Iraq (seven-fold)
13) Increased violence in Afghanistan
14) Inability to catch Osama bin Laden
15) Halliburton's no-bid contracts
16) Cheney's secret energy plan and meetings with Big Oil
17) Surging costs of the Iraq War
18) Mounting fiscal deficits and tax relief for the wealthy only
19) Abramoff and Indian gaming scandal
20) Illegal wiretapping
21) GOP illegal "phonejamming" in election
22) Medicare money scandal
23) Replacing health policy on HHS website with abstinence info
Okay, that's enough crap for one day (or one administration), and there's lots of scooping to do. Remember when we used to impeach presidents for a marital indiscretion?
Robert D. Novak - A President All Alone - washingtonpost.com
"The I-word (incompetence) is also used by Republicans in describing the Bush administration generally. Several of them I talked to cited a trifecta of incompetence: the Walter Reed hospital scandal, the FBI's misuse of the USA Patriot Act and the U.S. attorneys firing fiasco. "We always have claimed that we were the party of better management," one House leader told me. "How can we claim that anymore?"
Novak started a list of Bush incompetence, but it's incomplete:
1) Walter Reed hospital scandal
2) FBI's misuse of the USA Patriot Act
3) US attorneys firing for political reasons
4) War in Iraq (the "Surge," aka "Stay and Die")
5) Deception about WMD & distorted evidence
6) Rewriting the report on global warming; screwed or suppressed scientific research and policies
7) Outing the name of an undercover CIA operative
8) Botching the Katrina disaster aftermath and recovery/reconstruction
9) Abu Ghraib: approving of illegal torture methods
10) Dismissing habeas corpus
11) Holding prisoners at Guantanomo without a trial
12) Increase in terrorisim since war in Iraq (seven-fold)
13) Increased violence in Afghanistan
14) Inability to catch Osama bin Laden
15) Halliburton's no-bid contracts
16) Cheney's secret energy plan and meetings with Big Oil
17) Surging costs of the Iraq War
18) Mounting fiscal deficits and tax relief for the wealthy only
19) Abramoff and Indian gaming scandal
20) Illegal wiretapping
21) GOP illegal "phonejamming" in election
22) Medicare money scandal
23) Replacing health policy on HHS website with abstinence info
Okay, that's enough crap for one day (or one administration), and there's lots of scooping to do. Remember when we used to impeach presidents for a marital indiscretion?
Robert D. Novak - A President All Alone - washingtonpost.com
