OK, boys and girls...this exercise will test your memory, your anger, your awareness and your priorities.
For 3 months, I've been listening to the MSM contemplate Bush's low approval ratings, and inevitably, they list the "Big 5" as the reasons for his historically low likability:
...Iraq
...CIA leak
...Katrina
...Gas Prices
...Harriet Miers
We know that there's a lot more to it than that.
So the goal here is to reach back into your memories -- all 1754 days of the Bush presidency (give or take a Leap Year) -- to create the mother of all Bush fuck-up lists. The President, his administration, his staff, his House, his Senate -- they're all fair game here.
I'm guessing we'll be in the hundreds by the time we're done. And over the next 3 years, if Bush makes it that long, we'll keep adding. Once a quarter or so, I'll post an updated mother list.
I'll get you started on the flip, then add, add, add!
If you wanna keep it going, use the recommend button at your discretion.
In no particular order of severity, here are the first 10 that come to mind for me (in addition to the 5 above):
...the backdoor John Bolton nomination
...the tax cuts
...the Libby indictment
...the Abramoff scandal
...the famous "16 words"
...the backpeddling on "firing" leakers
...the Delay indictment
...the Frist investigation
...the 11 gay marriage bans in 2004
...the curiously timed terror alerts in the US
Wow, was that 10 already? I typed 6 more before I realized how far I'd gotten.
One note: the Iraq war alone could produce dozens of fuck-ups, so go ahead and be as specific as you want to be.
This is gonna be fun.