Don't they get tired of being wrong,                all the damn time? George W. Bush and his cronies can't get a thing right

Over and over, Bush and his band of baboons have f_____d up. They can't ever get a thing right. And the really sad part is, a lot of these things were predicted well in advance, by other folks with nothing more than common sense. The tragedy here is that their screwups have cost people their jobs, their homes, and their LIVES. Let's look at just a few of the things that this moron and his moronic administration have totally screwed the pooch on.
 

Weapons of Mass Destruction	So much "evidence," and so much of it doctored. These idiots MADE the so-called evidence say what they wanted to say. There WERE no weapons, nothing, nada. We went to war and got a whole lotta young Americans killed for nothing, not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. According to Bush's 2000 campaign rhetoric, we're not supposed to be using troops to spread democracy or build other nations. We're supposed to use them to defend the USA. So the reason for going there was supposed to be WMD, and they weren't there. Got THAT one wrong. .
Bipartisan negotiation	This massive oaf proclaimed himself "a united, not a divider," and yet he's run the most partisan administration ever, while also allowing his rubber stamp Congress to completely cut the other side out of the legislative process. So in November 2006, when his party gets its right-wing nutjob ass righteously kicked, he immediately reaches out and says he'll talk with Nancy Pelosi, he'll consider new ideas, he'll listen to other opinions, blah blah blah. THEN this damned idiot immediately tries to rush through a new anti-terror, anti-Bill of Rights bill, and also tries to push through the hopelessly caveman-like John Bolten, before the new Congress comes in. What a dickhead. And he gets shot down.  All the way into January 2007, Bush even tried to push through another "emergency appropriations" bill, instead of putting the war in the budget. Is he utterly clueless? Was he watching reruns of "Happy Days" during election night, and miss the results? During his Jan 2007 speech about a troop "surge" in Iraq, Bush lied in claiming he'd consulted with Congress before making this decision. But he spoke with no Democrats, and certainly no leading Republicans, and both parties ended up blasting the idea. He pissed off everybody, fully knowing that they could screw him up by killing funding, or taking a host of other actions. In March 2007, it's discovered that his Attorney-General allowed the removal of federal prosecutos who hadn't moved fast enough to investigate Democrats prior to the 2006 midterms, and/or had investigated Republicans too vigorously. "Look, you can trust me now."  And then he shows that you can't. Un-frigging-believable. .
"We're fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here."	. September 2006, a National Intelligence Estimate says that the war in Iraq is actually FEEDING the terrorists by serving as a giant recruitment cause for them. Bush's war in Iraq has made the problem of terrorism WORSE. Of course, all sorts of us have been saying that for over a year. The same week, President Musharaf of Pakistan says the same damn thing, that the Iraqi war is hurting the cause against terrorism.  Terrorists aren't on some travel tour package that has a layover in Iraq. In fact, what they have over THERE is an insurgency. Terrorists who would blow stuff up in the USA are coming from Pakistan or other places, NOT Iraq. But it's another way this colossal boob tries to rationalize invading Iraq in the first place, to get the terrorists who weren't there until the USA invaded, and opened up the borders to the thousands of foreign fighters who now infest those regions that Hussein kept FREE of terrorists. No, Saddam was not a good guy, but he was not harboring fundamentalist terror groups. .
Illegal immigration	Bush misread everybody, the American people, his own GOP, legal immigrants, all WRONG about illegal immigrants. The only people who go along with him ARE the illegal immigrants. Once again, he wants to offer amnesty to those who've snuck over the Mexican border. They enter the USA illegally, then want social and medical services, driver licenses, EVERYTHING, and it's all got to be paid for by those who actually work the system properly. The PROBLEM with taking out the penalties for being an illegal immigrant is that it invites a whole lot MORE illegals, who will think that they too can get amnesty, if  they can just hide long enough. This encourages them to not only jump the border, but avoid achieving any kind of legal status that might get them noticed by authorities. They won't pay taxes, won't pay for any of the taxpayer-funded services they absorb, won't do anything right. And the really bad ones can't be identified when they do something violent. Then when even his own party gets divided on the issue, mostly against him, he blames the Democratic leader Harry Reid. In fact, Bush had the f____g nerve to put out radio commercials blaming Democrats for pushing an immigration reform bill that was unpopular with Mexicans. But it was the GOP who put forth the bill with criminalization line items. Once again, Bush blames the other part for something HIS party did. Un-frigging-believable. .
"The Iraqis will treat us as liberators."	In fact, a majority of Iraqis want U.S. soldiers out of their country, and more than forty percent favor killing U.S. soldiers if it speeds their exit. If these damned ingrates want foreign troops out of their country so bad, we should stick Saddam back in one of his palaces and pull out. .
"Iraqi oil will pay for the war."	Paul Wolfowitz, that arrogant piece of shit, was the first to say that the USA would recoup its war expenditures from the sale of Iraqi oil. It was repeated by Cheney. Even conservative Bush backers, such as John Warner, admit this was a terrible misstatement. Many of us stated correctly, as this site did back in 2003, that the USA would foot the entire bill. If Bush tried to get some cash from it, the whole world would rise up and say, "See, this is why they invaded, they wanted Iraq's oil." Enough people think that already, given Cheney's deep involvement with the oil industry, including some very shady activities he was involved in while at Halliburton, and Halliburton's sleazy over-charging and involvement with the war. .
"I earned political capital in the campaign, and I intend to use it." .	Of all the damn arrogant, stupid stuff to say, Bush pulled this dumb quote out of his ass after finally winning a presidential election in 2004. In his feeble little mind, he got battered and bruised, and emerged from the contest as the victor, and therefore he had mastered the will of the people. Various moronic GOP wonks weighed in by saying he had a "mandate." WRONG. A mandate means you won in a landslide. Nixon, Reagan, that sort of thing. Squeaking by, percentage wise, does not translate into a mandate. And so this political capital crap was just that, crap. In fact, his own party started shoving his policies back in his face. Everything started blowing up. His legislative agenda immediately went to hell with his wacky ideas on Social Security, which were designed to do nothing but roll the dice with people's money, as well as enrich investment companies. Political capital means people listen to you. But that's not what happened. Late 2005, and no political capital to be seen. Bush lost on Arctic drilling, which was pulled from the agenda by GOP moderates. He lost when he wanted no filming of Senate sessions. The best example of Bush's LACK of political capital is his futile campaigning for the GOP candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Most analysts believe that Bush's endorsement of the candidate actually hurt the man's chances, and he got trounced by his Democratic opponent. In fact, analysts across the board think that the November elections were a mess for anybody stapled to Bush's coattails. Both governor's races in November went to Democrats, Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives got whacked in California, and the incumbent Democratic mayor in St. Paul was hurt (according to polls) because he endorsed Bush in 2004. .
The number of troops and dollars needed to do the job	Rumsfeld and Bush have both said in the past that we would only send in the troops if our INTERESTS were at stake, and only if we sent in ENOUGH TROOPS to do the job, and only with the right RESOURCES to get the job done.  Army chief General Shinseki testified that we would need at least 200,000 troops to handle a post-war Iraq. The then-Deputy Secretary of State, the untalented Paul Wolfowitz, publicly scorned Shinseki's remarks, calling them "wildly off the mark," and hastened Shinseki's retirement. Neither Wolfowitz nor Rumsfeld attended Shinseki's retirement ceremony, a slap in the face to the military.  Lawrence Lindsey, a White House economic advisor, was booted out after saying it would cost at least $200 million to finance an Iraqi war. Turns out he underestimated. Who turned out to be right? Everybody except Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. The troop strength in Iraq was later deemed insufficient to deal with the insurgency and other security concerns. It was easy to win the war, but it takes even more boots on the ground to win the peace. In terms of cost ..... Bush and company keep leaving the Iraq conflict out of the budget, instead playing a shell game by hiding the costs in "appropriations." It's flat-out fraud. If you know you're going to have to pay for it, then budget for it, so the American people can see the true costs run up by this administration. To quote the Pakistan Daily Times, in fact a highly respected newspaper, "Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz don't have a clue about leadership." .
The state of post-war Iraq	One of the funniest statements ever made by this idiotic administration was Dick Cheney's babbling about the Iraqi insurgency being in its "last throes."  Apparently not. They still manage to blow up lots of guys. A month after the vice-moron made this mis-statement, the U.S. military lost a record number of soldiers for one month. A few months later, we'd reached the dubiuos milestone of 2000 dead U.S. soldiers. Rumsfeld said the troublemakers in Iraq were just "a few dead-enders." A year later, death and violence in Iraq are worse than ever. Fall 2005: The top American commander in Iraq informed Congress that the number of Iraqi military battalions capable of going to combat without US support had dropped from three to one. .
The economy	Bush said that his tax breaks would make the economy strong again. Not quite. Even before the hurricanes, the price of oil was going through the roof, and the economy was just sort of limping along. Sure, there are various indicators going up, but face it, the standard of living has not gone up, record numbers of people are in debt, millions more Americans have crossed the poverty line under Bush's reign, and while many corporations are doing better, that hasn't translated into JOBS. .
The deficit	Bush said he would cut the deficit in half before he left office. FAT CHANCE. To start with, remember that we only have a deficit in the first place because of Bush and his congress. he inherited a SURPLUS, which he pissed away with pork barrel spending and tax cuts for his wealthy friends. THEN he failed to veto a single spending bill. Empty threats, nothing more. He threatened to veto a bloated highway bill unless it was trimmed. His own party reacted to that threat by INCREASING the bill. He then signed it anyway, calling it "fiscally responsible." He is full of SHIT. He keeps promising to fund hurricane relief and rebuilding, but won't cut spending elsewhere to pay for it. Even his own dad did that when necessary. The crock of shit here is, Bush bases his deficit-halving projections on an original, LARGER budget that was never approved, and the basis for his numbers remain rooted in that bogus budget. Bottom line is, Bush will NOT cut the deficit in half. When the 2007 budget fell, the deficit STILL was projected at $250 billion, and his party celebrated as if this was a success. .
Global warming	The USA is the only civilized country that doesn't recognize the problem of global warming. Everybody else accepts it as fact, except Bush and company. The dummy even commissioned a study, in his first year as prez, into the subject. When the finding came back, they contradicted his official policy that warming is not an issue. Since he'd paid for the study, he had to publish it, so he had his cronies bury it deep in the EPA's website. .
Illegal wiretaps	Bush and his band of buffoons have long had the ability to tap people's phones, emails, and other modes of communication. There's a special FISA court that allows him to begin a wiretap, and then he must get approval within the next 72 hours. In other words, any time he wants to spy on somebody domestically, he can just do it, and ask permission later.  That permission usually comes very quickly. Out of more than 4000 requests, only 4 have ever been turned down. And yet Bush and the rest of the assholes decided that somehow this wasn't enough, and they just started doing wiretaps and other spying on Americans without any warrants, any court orders, any checks or balances whatsoever. They claimed, after they were outed, that the FISA court didn't move fast enough for them. WTF !!!!  They can start spying on somebody AT WILL, and then they have 3 whole f____g days to ask permission. Where's the bottleneck there?  Bush and his vice president and his torture-approving attorney-general all spouted nonsense about Bush being on sound legal ground here. But then even his fellow Republicans started differing on this subject, with Arlen Specter going so far as to say that if a president has broken the law, there are all sorts of alternatives, including impeachment. Apparently this got Bush's attention, and he did an about-face and offered to finally cooperate with hearings on the matter. This came AFTER various polls found that a majority of Americans also felt that he needed a warrant to conduct a wiretap. .
Plamegate	White House mouthpiece Scott McLellan assured reporters that his own people had assured HIM that they had nothing to do with outing Valerie Plame, the CIA agent whose husband submitted a report contradicting Bush's claim the Saddam Hussein tried buying nuclear materials in Africa. Specifically, Karl Rove and Lewis Libby had told him they didn't say anything about Plame to reporters. Turns out, whoops, yeah, they did. In the meantime, Bush originally said in 2003 that if anybody in his administration leaked, he'd fire them. THEN he said if anybody got in trouble, he'd fire them. Well, we're still waiting. Libby resigned on his own, but Bush has yet to do anything about Rove. .
Hiring cronies	Cronyism is an ancient political game. But Bush has elevated it, promoting talentless doofuses to ridiculously important jobs. You can get away with stuffing cronies into various spots, as long as they don't have a chance to screw up in a big way. And naturally, Bush's cronies have done just that. An old Bush crony, Mike Brown, was put in charge of FEMA. He completely botched the handling of Hurricane Katrina. Just a couple of days after getting in front of the press and telling him, "Brownie, you're doin' a heckuva job," Brown was canned for doing a SHITTY job. Christine Whitman, a GOP hack and the WORST keynote speaker of any political convention ever, was a mindless rubber stamp at the EPA, blissfully unaware even when Bush's administration made a joke out of her, prompting her to get the hell out. Clueless boob Tom Ridge was given the top spot at Homeland Security, and gave us nothing but color coding. He became a national punchline. Bush's pick to succeed Ridge was Tom Kerik, who turned out to have too many skeletons in his closet.  Bush nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court. On his way to being confirmed by the right wing, Roberts managed to not answer any questions for the Judiciary Committee. We know as little about his views now as we did BEFORE the hearings. His second nominee, Harriet Miers, was his White House counsel. He claimed she was the best candidate out there. But much of her "qualifications" were based on her work with the White House, and no information on that could be released because of client privilege. So how the hell was Congress supposed to vet her? Answer is, they couldn't, and after days of embarrassment, she went away. The guy in charge of bioterrorism used to be the lawyer who ran Amtrak. He has NO background whatsoever in bioterrorism. He's also in charge of fighting the bird flu. You'd think that after the FEMA mess, Bush would put somebody competent in there. But NOOOOOOOO. .
Ports deal with the UAE	. Bush said that he found out about the deal to sell the administration of several U.S. ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates just a week before it was announced. Funny, we were talking about that deal on this webiste MONTHS ago. Once again, this doofus is completely out of the loop, AND nobody who works for him who DID know about the deal was smart enough to realize that it was going to be a political problem. If the deal goes through, a whole bunch of Americans will be uncomfy with the fact that Arabs, including those from Dubai, a country that's been a so-so partner in fighting terrorism and which supplied two of the 9/11 hijackers, will be running six major U.S. ports. If the deal does NOT go through, the USA will blow a chance to look like regular guys to that part of the Muslim world that doesn't already hate America. The correct opinion on this is, this deal should never have gotten as far as it did, because now Bush is in a no-win situation. Once again, his idiot cronies failed to foresee the obvious. SO obvious, in fact, that the purveyors of this very website (i.e. ME) could see the potential political problem MONTHS ago. Whatever the resolution, the USA will still have very insecure ports. .
Energy / oil	Bush has wanted to increase drilling no matter WHAT. it's jjust like the Iraq invasion: he wanted to do it all along, and was just waiting for an excuse (although in the case of Iraq, he invented the excuse). And so with oil prices climbing ever higher, Bush is pushing through his plans to drill in the Alaskan wilderness. But the fact is, the oil they will get out of there won't show up at the gas pumps for more than a decade. In the meantime, Bush has relentlessly avoided any talk of conservation. Cheney went so far as to say publicly that conservation wasn't a real part of any sound energy plan. Okay, so let's just keep wasting it all, huh? But had Bush put into place the fuel efficiency standards proposed by many in Congress at the start of his first term, the USA would have by now more than saved enough oil to make up for the production lost in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Instead, he pushed through tax breaks for people who bought SUVs. Ridiculous, wasteful, short-sighted, and once again pandering to rich people. Fall 2005, Bush suddenly discovers the concept of conservation. WHERE THE HELL HAS HE BEEN THE LAST FIVE YEARS?  Where has the responsbility been, the leadership? February 2006, Bush tours a factory that makes fuel cells for hybrids. Three weeks before he visits a government alternative fuels lab, their budget is cut, and they lay off 18 people. A couple of days before he visits, they suddenly get $5 million, allowing them to rehire those folks, just in time for a Bush photo op. Even the employees who got their jobs back question the cute timing. Bush said, "We can all pitch in by using -- uh, by being better conservers of energy." .
Privatization	. Because he loves big business and little else, Bush loooooves the idea of privatizing anything he can get his hands on. But it's worked poorly for schools, where he's already made a mess with the dreaded No Child Left Behind. He tried like hell to float the privatizing of Social Security, and NOBODY bought into that retarded idea. Even after his party got trounced in 2006, he STILL tried that one again. What a moron. Nobody went for it when he had power, and then he tries it again when he's screwed. Apparently he didn't have the TV on, on election night.  Then it turns out that the Walter Reed scandal largely came about because of squabbles in turning over hospital facilities and functions to the private company who'd gotten the contract to run it. Three years this mess dragged on, and next thing you know, the Washington Post is showing pictures of filthy, horrendous conditions in which our wounded troops had to live after suffering terrible injuries in Bush's war in Iraq. Some hospital workers said that even with more workers on the payroll, they could do things better than the private company. Hmmm. More workers at less cost. Ah, but that defeats Bush's plans for privatization. Oh well. .