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Let me count the ways... There are many people who share the idea that George Walker Bush is, indeed, the Worst President Ever, but find themselves at a loss when asked to recount the evidence. Oh sure, everybody can name a few off the top of their head, but there's a boatload that even I have to search the recesses of my brain to recount. That's why we've begun to assemble this handy, dandy sampling of his transgressions, shortcomings, accomplishments, lack of accomplishments, sins, errors, omissions, lies, failures and successes of dubious intent. Oh, we also count the actions of his whole administration, because the bucks don't stop in the Oval Office... they get funneled to Halliburton and company. Anyway, here's the list we have so far. Thanks to Pam Hoye and Martha Sullivan for their hard work in pulling the following list together. As you can see, the clever girls organized their references to coincide with some of the lyrics from my song. Well done, ladies. Oh... and if you want to hear more of my music... www.crimesofmusic.com
He’s cut down the trees for the forests’ good health … A Campaign of Severe Forest
Policy Rollbacks (EPIC): Polluted the skies for the oil boys’ wealth … Oil companies report record
profits (SF Chronicle): When Gore kept on sayin’
the world’s getting warm Bush Rejects Kyoto Treaty
(AP): Report: Climate change
linked to national security (AP): They’ll teach your kids and leave no child behind … As Graduation Rates Go
Down, School Ratings Go Up (Science Daily): They’ll research the Bible and cloud up their minds … Bush, the Bible, and Iraq
(Business Week): Don’t bother with science, they’ve got fictional facts … Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent
Design' Theory Fuel Debate (Washington Post): No money for the poor folks … Bush vetoes child spending
$35 billion over 5 years for children’s healthcare (Reuters): No marriage for the queers ... Bush and the Bible (About.com): He’ll kill you all for peace … Mr. Bush Goes for the Kill
(Counter Punch): He’s not really too clever … The Misunderestimated Man
(Slate.com): Corporations do well … Army Overseer of contracts
tells of being fired for doing his job (NY Times): and the rest go to hell … Whistle-blowers face punishment
in Iraq (Dallas News/AP):
Katrina made landfall,
New Orleans goes down … Homeland Security claims
“surprise” despite long-standing warnings by experts (CNN): And what of Dick Cheney,
just ly – ing in wait … VP Aide reviews laws relating
to presidential authority (Boston
Globe): http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/05/28/cheney_aide_is_screening_legislation/ They fired the generals when Rummy was wrong Generals Speak Out On Iraq
(PBS/News Hour): Gitmo became Abu Ghraib before long Medical Report confirms
torture by US (AP):
Gonzo said Geneva’s Conventions are moot Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees
Out of Iraq (Washington Post): Waterboard ‘em all, won’t that be a hoot? Waterboarding defined in
Wikipedia:
Some of Those Speaking
Out Richard Clarke, former Whitehouse counter-terrorism advisor under Clinton and Bush Against All Enemies:
Inside America’s War On Terror (2004) Your Government Failed
You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters (2008) John W. Dean, former White House counsel under Nixon Worse Than Watergate:
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (2004) Conservatives Without
Conscience (2005) Broken Government: How
Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
(2007) Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush What Happened: Inside
the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception (2008) Colonel Ann Wright, foreign service diplomat for 17 years Dissent: Voices of Conscience/Government
Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq (2008) John Brady Kiesling, foreign service diplomat for 20 years Diplomacy Lessons: Realism
for an Unloved Superpower (2007) |
