292 Scandals Friday, December 21, 2007

For those of you who have lost track, someone is keeping a list of all of Bush's scandals and currently lists 292 separate items, including the greatest hits as well as some less-well-known blunders. Sure we can all complain about Iraq, but about some of the other ones we have lost track of:

• Walter Reed
• The Firing of the US Attorneys
• Plamegate
• The Abandonment of Afghanistan
• The Failure to Capture Osama Bin Laden
• Outlaw Contractors in Iraq
• The Military Commissions Act and the abandonment of habeas corpus
• The Hurricane Katrina/FEMA Disaster
• The Warrantless Wiretapping
• Black sites and the authorization of torture
• The Homeland Security Department
• The Abramoff Scandal
• Collusion with Big Oil on writing the new Energy Policy
• Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
• Denial of Global Warming and refusal to participate in the Kyoto Accords
• Increasing the deficit by 35% ($3 trillion) in just six years
• The 2000 election scandals
• Undermining the 9/11 Commission
• Failure to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
• Destruction of America's Reputation Abroad
• The shift towards "self-policing" for the FDA
• The Harriet Miers nomination
• The Dubai Ports deal
• The War on Science
• Lying about the decision to fire Rumsfeld
• Focus on absitenence-only sex education
• The use of Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch as political tools
• Abu Ghraib
• No action on Darfur
• Sweetheart deals for Haliburton, etc.
• The defamation of John Kerry
• No Child Left Behind
• The Medal of Freedom for the Chief Engineer of the Iraq Debacle, Paul Bremer
• The silently-passed Real ID Act of 2005
• The Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives

The list goes on and on. I'm glad someone is keeping score.