What one quality best defines the government under Bush?

[JackRiddler]

Poll question: What one quality best defines the government under Bush?

In your view, what ONE quality best defines the essence of the government under the Bush administration?

(List is alphabetical; good qualities excluded because this is Democratic Underground. Choosing one does not mean you exclude any of the others.)

Clarifications welcome.

(ON EDIT: On recommendation added ideology at bottom of list, at a stage when the option it replaces still had zero.)

[Eugene]

1. Greed first with dangerous amounts of stupidity, incompetence, and cronyism.

Any "good intentions" are self help in the name of the public good.

[jkshaw]

2. Corruption

which underlies all the others.

[JackRiddler]

3. Can we call that one greed?

It's certainly the motivator for corruption, no?

[RoccoR5955]

4. Why not "All of the above?" I chose 'other.' n/t

[JackRiddler]

7. Sure, each applies to some extent, the question is

which is really for you the defining quality; it's important because it defines your reaction to the group as a whole.

[lpbk2713]

5. Somewhere between bumbling inept and blatantly corrupt.

[Beausoleil]

6. It's greed

Good and evil aren't even part of the equation for the amoral.

[Richard Steele]

8. Unchecked, naked GREED. They're too busy stealing to even PRETEND to run the country. nm

[JackRiddler]

9. kick

[Quixote1818]

10. Arrogance nt

[lovuian]

11. Evil

there is a real evil here