Ron Suskind has gotten lots of news from his book with Paul O'Neill about life inside the Bush Administration. From some of the articles about it, I'd heard mention of
an article that Suskind wrote about John DiIulio's experiences working in the domestic policy section of the White House.
I was finally nosing around Ron Suskind's website and got a chance to read it. It's highly recommended. In a short article you get all the gist of why Bush and his administration should be voted out of office.
Not only is their ideology and priorities not those that most Americans voted for in 2000, but the implementation of policy has been done extremely incompetently. Senior figures in the White House aren't clear on the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. The Homeland Security department--the biggest change to the governmental bureaucracy in forty years--after resisting the idea for many months it was thrown together in a couple of weeks to win temporary political points with no thought put to how to do this so that creating the department wouldn't disrupt the fight against terrorism.
Though beyond the scope of the article, planning for post war Iraq was another illustration of this. Simply put--totally incompetent execution. If you listened to our own experts we knew what was going to happen, immediate post-war power vacuum engenders looting, as we already saw in Panama in 1989. The Bush Administration didn't think about what their whole war operation entailed, ignored their own experts and were hit with massive amounts of looting on the ground. This changed the invasion of Iraq from being another Panama to being, well, Iraq, a long drawn-out messy intervention.
So even if you tend conservative, it seems like Bush should be given the big pink slip for being very bad at the job of leading the country and managing the large organization that is the Federal Government.