Top 10 disasters of the 2009 Obama administration (in no particular order):
1. Cash for Clunkers
2. War escalation in Afghanistan
3. Giant government health care expansion bill
4. Post office loses money hand over fist
5. Stimulus package
6. Expansion of "state secrets" doctrine
7. Big increase in unemployment
8. "Bailout" Geithner as Treasury Secretary
9. Skyrocketing federal spending
10. Huge federal deficits
Top 10 disasters of the 2001-2008 Bush administration (in particular order):
1. Cash for Car Companies
2. War in Iraq
3. Giant Medicare expansion bill
4. Post office loses money hand over fist
5. Stimulus "rebate" checks
6. PATRIOT Act
7. Big increase in unemployment
8. "Bailout" Paulson as Treasury Secretary
9. Skyrocketing federal spending
10. Huge federal deficits
(Nod to Wes Benedict...)
2 comments:
For Bush: add suspension of habeas corpus. For Obama: continued suspension of habeas corpus. The direct effect, in numbers of people scooped up, may still be small -- but this policy makes concrete of the previously soft government centered attitude: "we own you."
I would add these two in place of the particular personality of the Treasury Sec.
Odd. I seem to remember unemployment being stable-to-improving during most of Pres. Bush's two terms. You'll need to study the effects of recessions and their lagging effects on employment in order to make your lists something more than a statement of your cynical biases.
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