Is the entire bureaucracy against Bush?

I've been noting the reports about the CIA being particularly hostile to the rest of the gov't post-Plame, and recent stories about how everyone's stopped talking to one another, and decided to look a little deeper.

Looking at the whole government... I think Bush has a serious problem. They've all got strong reasons to be upset right now.

A (long) list of problems, sorted by agency/administration/directorate, in no particular order:

CIA:

Ignored pre-9/11 about terrorism

OSP bypassing them when neocons didn't like what they heard

Yellowcake line getting into SOTU

Yellowcake line blamed on CIA, Tenet told to be the fall guy - not that anyone believed it

Novak exposing Valerie Plame's identity - straw that broke the camel's back

9/11 commission testimony from Rice, Ashcroft, Freeh, others trying to blame CIA for not getting information across

EPA:

All open positions (including director) filled by oil, logging, mining lobbyists

Authority undercut on everything

"Clear Skies", "Healthy Forests", etc bills severely damage environmental regulation

All reports are totally rewritten by in-house ideologues, if any truth survives, it's disputed by White House and others

Not being allowed to prosecute offenders of even the weakened statutes due to interference in Justice

Massive funding cuts

IRS:

Not being given money to investigate terrorist funding

Tax code changes increasing complexity

Not being allowed to go after certain offenders who're Friends of Bush - Enron and other companies' CEOS, primarily

Treasury:

Going through Treasury Secretaries almost as fast as counterterrorism czars

Vast distortions of true costs of proposals

Being used for election-year propaganda on Kerry's tax plan - using federal resources illegally, forcing federal employees to unlawfully work for the campaign on gov't time

Deficit insanity

FEMA:

National Guard vastly overextended in Iraq, leaving nowhere near enough in the US if an emergency hits

Allies in EPA and NG in bad shape

Concern about increased terrorism chances due to Iraq War, lack of port security

FBI:

Ashcroft trying to keep it under his personal control

Getting a lot of blame for pre-9/11 failures

Internal structural issues being dragged out into the open

Not getting support for anti-terror activity

Probable restructure, intelligence side to be split off

Defense:

Soldiers and Marines getting killed because of civilian overseers' ineptitude at planning and hewing to ideological idiocies

Recruiting numbers dropping through the floor, vast numbers of personnel not re-upping

Absences, desertions and mutinies increasing

Draft likely, to great dismay: conscripts are inferior in every regard, costs are vastly higher, large amounts of training time proportional to time served, etc, etc, etc

Reserves and National Guard essentially drafted, poorly equipped, low morale, huge numbers want out, none want in

Shinseki fired for telling the truth

Funding for Iraq and Afghanistan pushed back months until after election, supposed to operate on "petty cash" reserves to the order of billions

Mercenaries causing trouble in Iraq

Civilian contractors not doing their jobs, bailing out due to insurgency

Restructuring of 3rd Infantry and other heavy infantry to be smaller, lighter, faster units coming at a really bad time

Desk-job soldiers being forced to fight insurgents

Halliburton's no-bid contract to feed the troops leads to troops getting sandwiches and other cold food when they go in debt to their suppliers to the order of $79M - regimes that give their soldiers crappy food should not expect support from their troops...

Coast Guard:

Little support from Navy, National Guard, etc

Haiti issues mean increased refugee issues

Refugee influx provides cover for drug runners and others

Many personnel also military Reserves, deployed overseas

DEA:

Afghan Opium harvest all-time high, much of that coming into US

Intelligence agencies, FBI, military distracted by other priorities

Ashcroft and otehrs want stronger crackdown on minor offenders, including in contravention of state laws

See Coast Guard about drug runners

INS:

Unfunded mandates for greater scrutiny

Proposed amnesty - not exactly favored

Proposed militarization of the Mexican border - someone needs to tell BushCo they're short one military for that

People leaving the US causing logistical problems

Not given support for investigations for suspected terrorists in-country

Labor:

Massive unemployment creating heavy overwork

Distortion of reports

Being forced to operate off of insane job growth predictions

NASA:

Promised funding increase post-Columbia explosion, hasn't gotten it

Stuck with antiquated, overpriced shuttle tech because it's big money for the defense contractors

Fundamentalist nuts trying to kill Hubble because it proves them wrong about age of universe

Science routinely abused and distorted by administration

Mars initiative is total BS

Resources being diverted to missile defense-related program activities, including Rumsfeld's pet project, the orbital laser array

Veterans' Affairs:

Cuts in benefits and coverage

Thousands and thousands of new wounded and otherwise damaged veterans

Lack of funding

Health and Human Services:

Religious attacks on birth control, STD rates increasing drastically

Medicare solvency issues

Medicare problems from new bill

Pollution-related health problems

See VA

Commerce:

Economy's in the toilet

Unrealistic predictions and falsehoods impeding operations

State:

Overruled by neocons at every step

Credibility ruined worldwide

Other nations becoming increasingly hostile

Ambassador Negroponte. 'nuff said.

Treatment of Wilson post-yellowcake issue

Iraqi CPA full of BC04 staffers thinking only about the election

Transportation:

Port security unfunded and deprioritized

Left toally out of the loop on 9/11

TSA a major hassle

Secret Service:

Bush target of tremendous number of assassination threats

Bush's daughters treat SS agents like crap and make a hell of a lot of work for them

Treasury, Homeland Security internal hassles

Customs:

Port security. Again.

See Coast Guard, INS, Transportation

Education:

Rod Paige calls NEA terrorists

No Child Left Behind unsupported and badly written

Abstinence-only sex ed forced on schools, strong rise in teen pregnancies

Creationists emboldened and continuing attempts to interfere with teaching of evolution

Misc:

Character assassination and threats against whistleblowers- Richard Clarke is the prime case, and had a number of well-connected friends

Homeland Security restructure caused massive upheaval in many agencies - it needed doing, to a degree, but BushCo is hideously incompetent in the execution

Problems in one agency mean problems in every agency they work with

Funding isn't going anywhere it should

Political appointments of ideologues to previously nonpartisan posts causing havoc- especially when many are lobbyists for industries and groups that the holder of the position is meant to keep in check

Political polarization leading to infighting

BushCo seriously out of touch with reality

Bush trying to screw with the Constitution- many of these people remember their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

All that isn't the half of it, either- it's not even half of what's gotten outside the gov't itself.