Scurrying to dress the Emperor
It’s been a while, but I thought I should ramble on a bit about what’s been happening with the Bush administration and the wreckage they’re leaving in their wake.
I. I’m trying to think what Bush supporters would say he’s done well. It can’t be national security. The biggest single thing that’s been on that score has been the war it in Iraq, which only blind loyalists would say is a success by any measure. Oh wait, that has nothing to do with national security (there being no credible threat — WMD, for example — from Iraq); it’s all about spreading democracy. Oh, wait, we’ve created civil war. The next big initiative was Homeland Security, which brought us the pathetic Hurricane Katrina response. Then there’s missile defense, which surely won’t protect us from Al Qaeda — they don’t have missiles. Then there’s port security, about which next to nothing was being done until the Dubai Ports World cock up.
It can’t be the budget, which is a “borrow and spend” spree that beggars the imagination. Even conservatives are bailing out on this one. (See (more…)