publicintegrity.org — To compile this list of the most important federal failures of the past 8 years, a team of 13 reporters sifted through hundreds of inspectors general reports, GAO assessments, congressional oversight investigations, and news stories. Some 250 failures were nominated, from which editors selected more than 125.
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felman87Jan 12, 2009
My dick is in the puddin
Closed AccountJan 12, 2009
The link above is a bad link, someone want to find one that works? I went to the website but don't currently have the time to look further to find said list.But dugg 'cause I don't need no stinkin' list to know how badly the outgoing administration has failed in every conceivable way.
ericschc1Jan 12, 2009
Responding to my challenge with my own challenge is hardly a sound rebuttal to an argument. And I can read just fine, thank you very much, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to reply to you in the first place. If such an equitable list exists, I'll find meaning in it, regardless of who finds it: the benefits of being a critical, independent-thinking non-partisan person, interested in whats best for our country, not what makes my political party look best. (As if you knew or could even comprehend what my political beliefs are.)You sure do have a ironclad grasp on using reality and logic to defend your argument, what the all the name-calling and refusal to supply sufficient evidence to support your original claim.
atomheartmotherJan 13, 2009
Perhaps instead of the constant Bush-bashing, take a look at your candidate for "change" and realize you've been duped. Bush may have been wrong on some issues, but your beacon of "hope" is skating in to Washington on a bed of Chicago slime. Suckers.
doughproJan 13, 2009
damn! testy! I guess the progressive loons are already preparing their excuses for when BO falls short of walking on water, or when he fails to perform the miracle of free gas to every citizen.
miketwo345Jan 13, 2009
Which is sad. Really.Look, I'm a pretty far-left liberal... but I can understand where the *original* Republican party came from. Small government, stay out of people's lives and the market, strong military for safety... etc. I disagree with some of those principles, but I can understand the appeal and theory behind it. It's still America-centered. I'm able to disagree without being offended, because who am I to say that government regulation of markets is better? It probably isn't in some cases, so I'm glad there's someone arguing the opposite. That moves the country forward...But the Republican party is now this hodge-podge of religious nuts and spineless conservatives with no balls to stand up to the nuts who've taken over their party. They saw a short-term gain by aligning themselves and pandering to the hatred found in this warped version of Christianity, so they took the bait. But they sacrificed the Republican party by doing so. There's no honor there anymore. I'm not offended if someone thinks the government should spend less and have a strong military, but I am offended if someone thinks the government should discriminate against a subset of its people. Or that it should focus on wedge issues to fragment its population. Or that it should suspend the rule of law for any reason whatsoever. That's wrong and anti-American, and that's what the Republican party has become -- either by directly pandering to it or by standing aside and letting it happen.And the Democrats are not free of blame either. They've been pussies for the last 8 years, letting the GOP roll all over this country because they don't want to offend people's religions or look like they're weak when it comes to terrorism. f**k them too for not sticking to their principles and if not stopping, then at least arguing vocally and emphatically against the travesties of this administration. It's not like Bush went to Iraq without Congress's approval. Or that they didn't pass the Patriot Act. Or that they didn't look the other way when it came to wiretapping and Guantanamo. f**k them for not giving us a choice, and not slowing the wrath of this inept president.The system is designed to handle a bad president like Bush, but the system is broken! That's the biggest failure. Not Bush alone. Not a pussified Congress alone. But the fact that the checks and balances are broken.
mojoro23Jan 14, 2009
The President before him didn't do a thing to help, maybe the newly elected one can.
dbw04Jan 15, 2009
OK SpyCatcher-I thought I was the only Conservative on Digg. At least we know there are now two.(Watch how quickly this gets buried....)
zeroskater0310Jan 22, 2009
To both of you:1. So since most of Bush's policies had to be ok'd by congress, all the mistakes he made since 2006 is Pelosi and the Dems fault, right? You do know Pelosi is currently blocking out all Repub opinion from Congressional decisions, right? So its the Democrats fault for all of "Bush's Mistakes" since 06. Gotcha.2. Considering the fact that if they were doing a good job it wouldn't be 9%, your whole post is void. Pelosi and Reid, Democrats, lead the lowest rating Congress in the history of the United States. Fin.The way my post has been treated further proves the fact that this whole website has a Democrat far left agenda. Only Bush hate posts or Obama love posts. When the OP calls Republican Bush supporters mental, he gets dugg up like no tomorrow. But when I call Democrat Congress supporters mental, It's dugg down. Incredible.
08sosoAug 11, 2009
Have you ever heard of the Presidential veto? It was never used in the first seven years of his Presidency and then when the House changed hands, he used it about 12 times in a little over a year. His cronies in Congress voted the party line with Bush every time any thing came up and they still do. They have the independence of a pickle by and large. Also, Bush/Cheney promoted the idea of the imperial Presdency in which they contended they were not subject to the laws of the U.S. only the Constitution and then they hired stooges in the DOJ who wrote worthless legal opinions expressing their will. Don't give me the Congress was at fault -- it was the Republican party who ruled for 6 years with no opposition because the Democrats were cowed by the "to dissent is to be unpatriotic" because everything changed after 9/11, that they got away with their absolute rule. Only in America could a draft dodging son of patricians, get his father's help in joining the National Guard, avoid service in Vietnam, receive expensive training to become a jet pilot, go to Alabama to work for the Republican party instead of showing up for guard duty, get out early so he could go to Harvard business school, and then turn around and use the honorable and decorated service in that same war against his opponent and against a man who lost three limbs in that war.