The Bush legatude

The past eight years in Fail: the Center for Public Integrity, in a wide-reaching investigation, found more than 125 examples of Bush misadministration abuses in areas such as education, energy, the environment, Justice, security, the military and veterans affairs, health care, transportation, financial management, consumer and worker safety; in NASA, HUD, the Department of the Interior, the EPA, the FDA, the UFIA, the Federal Labor Relations Board and more — "failures which adversely affected ordinary people and made the nation a less open or less secure place to live."

And those were just the worst ones.

“I think we’ll look back on this period as one of the most destructive periods in American public life . . . both in terms of policy and process,” Thomas E. Mann, senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, told the Center. “The broken government is not limited to one end of Pennsylvania Avenue; it involves the executive and legislative branches, which both contributed to embracing policies and actions that have come back to haunt us.”

“In my judgment, there’s a clear connection between the Bush administration’s governing philosophy and the abuse of power we have seen in the last eight years,” presidential historian Robert Dallek.

Indeed. Upheld the honor and the dignity of his office my ass.


Dignatude.