As
The New Yorker writes this week,
"The great bafflement of next week's midterm congressional elections is that there is even a sliver of a hint of a shadow of a doubt about the outcome...
That the record is appalling is by now beyond serious dispute. It includes an unending deficit -- this year, it's $260 billion -- that has already added $1.5 trillion to the national debt; the subcontracting of environmental, energy, labor, and health-care policymaking to corporate interests; repeated efforts to suppress scientific truth; a set of economic and fiscal policies that have slowed growth, spurred inequality, replenished the ranks of the poor and uninsured, and exacerbated the insecurities of the middle class; and, on Capitol Hill, a festival of bribery, some prosecutable (such as the felonies that have put one prominent Republican member of Congress in prison, while another awaits sentencing), some not..."
Sadly, it took me about 5 minutes to assemble this list of Republican disasters in alphabetical form.
Abu Ghraib
Bolton at the U.N.
Civil war in Iraq
Domestic spying
Evolution is not a fact
FEMA
Geneva conventions
Heckuvajob Brownie
Indictment of Tom Delay
Justice Samuel Alito
Katrina
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff
Medicare D
North Korea gets the bomb
Osama still free
Privatizing Social Security
Representative Mark Foley
Shooting a guy in the face
Tax cuts for the rich
Unitary executive
Valerie Plame leak
Waterboarding
and I didn't even get to WMDs, Alberto Gonzalez, color-coded terror alerts, NIH budget cuts, No Child Left Behind, stem cell research, Hamdan, voter suppression, ANWR drilling, global warming, the Kyoto protocols, Bob Ney, extraordinary rendition, the deficit, or "Go Fuck Yourself."
But I did leave some room for the next two years, just in case President Bush somehow, in some way I can't yet imagine, before leaving office, finds a way to fuck up xylophones, yo-yos, zebras, and the Queen of England.