The Official List Of Items That Have Collapsed Under Bush

[Yavin4]

1. The World Trade Center Towers
2. Iraq
3. New Orleans
4. Bear Stearns
5. The U.S. Housing Market
6. The U.S. Economy
7. The U.S. Military
8. The IT jobs sector
9. The Bill of Rights
10. The Reputation of the U.S. amongst other nations
11. The U.S. Dollar

That's a pretty impressive list of major fuck ups. I knew that Bush would be a failure. I argued with folks until I was red in the face in 2000, but I must say, this Bush administration has far exceeded my predictions. Look at that list.

[marmar]

1. Don't forget the U.S. reputation among allies and others.....

n/t

[EarlG]

2. Don't forget Enron...

[unblock]

17. that seems so quaint now, doesn't it? also remember worldcom and arthur andersen

[begin_within]

3. The Bill of Rights

[Sabriel]

4. The U.S. Dollar n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. FEMA, US Participation in International Law

[lonestarnot]

And the private/industrial prison complex is booming!

[DainBramaged]

6. What's on the "unofficial" list?

1) EPA
2) FDA
3) Veteran's Administration
4) Justice Department
5) Supreme Court
6) FCC

[havocmom]

12. 7) USDA

8) lots of county and municipal government budgets
9) National Guard
10) CIA

[DainBramaged]

15. Good, USDA, that one is important too

And I was going to start eating beef again.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[havocmom]

32. um, USDA isn't just about beef

and vegetarians aren't gonna like prices and choices when the American farmers are all out of business.

Also, USDA includes agency that does work toward protecting (and expanding) sensitive wildlife habitat, soil erosion, water shed and ground water quality, and native species of plants and animals. But go ahead and laugh it up. Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy eating contaminated dust and water.

[DainBramaged]

34. (sigh) I guess generalizing isn't allowed here either.

Sorry I didn't include the fucking link to the USDA page.
:eyes:

[havocmom]

35. that wasn't a generalization, it was an example of missing the point of government agencies

and the fact that they do a lot of good. Missing those points helps RWers with their spread of propaganda that the government (and all the people who work there in) are somehow the enemy.

Then, feigning 'humor' and suggesting others lack same is also a Rush tactic. Expect to be called on that crap.

[DainBramaged]

36. Expect to be ignored from this point on

Goodbye. No explanation or talking points necessary.

[havocmom]

49. No explaination needed. People who use tactics of RW talk show don't like me much

And that is fine by me :rofl:

[Yavin4]

7. I've Added More

Thanks for some of your suggestions. It's hard work keeping up with his failures. I may need to create a database.

[Muttocracy]

10. civil liberties, privacy rights, # of people on health insurance? nt

[Warpy]

8. I knew the economy was on its last legs

when he shoved through those ridiculous tax cuts. I'm just a little surprised that bad debts have made it last this long.

[Juche]

9. Trust

Trust in elections, trust in our international affairs, trust in the government, and trust in the media (the media has constantly dropped the ball on this administration).

I seriously worry about my generation. I am 28 and in my formative political years all I have known is lies, disappointment, fraud and unaccontable crimes as far as national politics goes. I seriously wonder what lasting effects that will have on the millenial generation for the next 50 years. It is like how children whose first memories of their parents involve abuse, then they end up fucked up for life. Will voters and citizens who have literally known nothing but lies, crime and fraud in their formative years become better for it or worse? I guess the vietnam generation would know.

[marmar]

11. My 401K.....

:cry:

[Octafish]

13. Privacy.

The right to be left alone.

[Xenotime]

14. From another post of mine...

Cost of Gasoline has gone up
The nation's economy has collapsed
The large and growing federal budget deficit
The job situation has collapsed
The trade deficit has gone up
Global warming has gone up
The illegal war in Iraq has gone up
The affordability of housing has collapsed
The ability to pay bills has collapsed
Employment has collapsed
Availability of high paying jobs has collapsed
Healthcare coverage has collapsed
The cost of health insurance has gone up
Private home ownership has collapsed
Personal bankruptcy has gone up
Increasing debt and interest rates have gone up
Availability of raw materials has collapsed
Energy costs have gone up
Inflation has gone up
Use of domestic labor has collapsed
Foreign competition gone up

[DemocratInSoCal]

16. DEATH

4,000 & Counting U.S. Soldiers
3,000 Dead On 9/11
Countless Dead In New Orleans
MILLIONS Of Iraqi's

[marmar]

19. Although death hasn't collapsed under Bush....It's thrived.

n/t

[tridim]

18. Pretty much everything except our will

And even that's hanging by a thread.

Let's see what November brings.

[Sabriel]

20. I have to add Public Education

The advent of NCLB (and the dumbasses *ush has installed at the Dept. of Ed.) has had serious consequences for the future of good, public education

[KeepItReal]

21. The United States Armed Forces

:-(

[OneBlueSky]

22. might want to add the U.S. manufacturing base . . . n/t

.

[Perry Logan]

23. The Republican Party.

[ThomWV]

28. A bright ray of sunshine in an otherwise dark night.

[malaise]

24. Add

The Department of Justice

[BR_Parkway]

25. You forgot Pluto - we've managed to "lose" an entire planet on Chimy's watch.

[DainBramaged]

30. Pluto, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Toasterlad]

39. But We've Gained Hundreds of Planetoids, So It Kind of Evens Out.

[NuttyFluffers]

26. Afghanistan is a weird one. maybe we destroyed the hope of a repaired Afghanistan?

Afghanistan was already pretty much destroyed and at an abysmal point. but in getting rid of that atrocious theocracy we reintroduced more warfare (if that was possible) and then killed any current hope Afghanistan would be repaired even marginally close to what it once was in the 1960s.

maybe creating false hope and killing it is a form of collapse? if anything it feels rather criminal... those poor people.

(and i was insistent that we not go into Afghanistan, that we try extradition of Osama and diplomacy first. i kinda had a feeling we knew far too little about Afghanistan that any direct intervention would raise the percentage of clusterfuck to dangerous levels. i'm rather protectionist when it comes to using military force, though. i don't think the military as an "international liberating force of freedom" is a viable political use of the military. in fact, i think the military is a rather limited political tool in general -- heretic that i am.)

[ThomWV]

27. Anyone remember a Bridge (US Infrastructure) that collapsed too

[Ganja Ninja]

29. This is exactly why the Democrats don't want to impeach him.

Nobody wants to preside over the disasters yet to come from this imbecile's mismanagement.

[mikelewis]

43. No, the ignoramuses prefer to own all his disasters by taking control of government as...

He and his reign of incompetence leaves...

Think on this... if Katrina had hit on Kerry's watch... FEMA would still have been in chaos from 4 years of Bush... the Department of Homeland Security would still have been in shambles... responding to that level of disaster takes years of planning... not just good intentions... Kerry would have wanted to help... he would have been present and accounted for but ultimately useless and impotent... and that was after only 4 years of mismanagement... Now double that and imagine how bad these organizations must be... If Bush is not held accountable, there will be no excuses... everything will be laid at our feet and blamed on our lack of ability to turn water into wine or move mountains with our will... Bush must be impeached if only to highlight these issues and place them solely and squarely where they belong... on the records of the Repukelickans. It is sheer folly to stand idly by and allow them to get away with this shit but try telling that to Nancy Pelosi... the second worse Speaker in history...

[watrwefitinfor]

31. Need to tie John McCain and the whole Republican Party to that list.

Bush didn't accomplish all that by himself, and he's not running for office.
Otherwise, a most excellent post!

Wat

[Maggie_May]

33. Yep you want more of the same vote McCain

[crimsonblue]

37. As far as failures go...

We may have a new word for our lexicon... pulling a Bush. Pulling a Bush -- disregarded established laws, scientific evidence, and rational thought in the quest to live up to the father's legacy. All hail our boy king!

[troubleinwinter]

38. Posse Comitatus, Habeas Corpus, Geneva Conventions

[Brigid]

40. Back in 2000,

I was upset by the debacle of the election ( had voted for Gore), but did not yet have my head wrapped around the fact that it was stolen. I thought, "How bad could it be?" Little did I know. I will never ask myself that again, I know that much. And I don't think any president has amassed such an impressive (?) list of failures. :banghead:

[LuckyLib]

41. I want a bumper sticker to say: A Republican in the White House. How's that workin' for ya?

[hootinholler]

42. I wish the floor would collapse under *

And it's a really high ceiling in the room below.

-Hoot

[Firespirit]

44. Confidence in the Justice Department

and other investigative arms of the government. Every last one of them is corrupted, and people know it.

[Canuckistanian]

45. Don't forget FEMA

Now reduced to little more than a joke.

[guitar man]

46. Condi?

I'm sure she has to have collapsed under him at least once...:D

:rofl:

[Firespirit]

47. The arctic ice caps and the Siberian tundra

:scared:

This collapse can't be fixed, either.

[travelingtypist]

48. Separation of church and state

"Fascism is going to sweep Amurika carrying a cross
and waving the flag."

[maui9002]

50. Mines

Given the Bush administration's propensity to place exactly the wrong person in charge of important government agencies or government supported agencies (FEMA, the FDA, OSHA, and the MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration), just to name a few, we've seen a collapse of the basic government regulatory structure that was originally designed to protect all of us from corporate malfeasance. And miners (along with many others) have suffered as a result. Remember Murray Energy and the Sago mine collapse, the operators of which had been cited hundreds of times but were never fined more than a nominal amount before the tragedies that occurred at those mines? I am not as anti-corporate as many posters on this site, but the basic compact between profit oriented business and government regulation seems to me to have been dismantled by the Bush administration--given that maximizing shareholder profit is the objective of business enterprises, the rules governing corporate conduct need to be enforced in a way that makes it clear to all business enterprises that breaking the rules, particularly where consumer or worker safety is an issue, will be unprofitable. The Bush administration has made it their objective to weaken the government regulatory side of this equation, and it's hurt this country significantly.

[calimary]

51. We should all be keeping a tally of these.

I wrote a column about it once - trying to cover all the things that have become septic tank filler because of the touch of bush and his cute little GOP friends. The list went on for several pages.

[babydollhead]

52. accountability