Bush wasn't a very good president BUT

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Despite balooning spending and totally fucking up the wars with his nation building bullshit at least he was

Honorable
Straight forward
Didn't whine about the media
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Bush and Obama have been a disaster for our nation. ESPECIALLY Obama.

At this point I wish we had Slick Willie back, at least he would try to meet on common ground

 

[Oldguy]

He wasn't a good President and there is no "but."

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

He wasn't a good President and there is no "but."

I listed the "buts" but your head is clearly in the sand

 

[JakeStarkey]

Bush, like Carter, was an honorable man, and both were poor presidents.

 

[asterism]

Bush, like Carter, was an honorable man, and both were poor presidents.

Whereas our current poor President appears to not be honorable.

 

[Avorysuds]

Despite balooning spending and totally fucking up the wars with his nation building bullshit at least he was

Honorable
Straight forward
Didn't whine about the media
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Bush and Obama have been a disaster for our nation. ESPECIALLY Obama.

At this point I wish we had Slick Willie back, at least he would try to meet on common ground

Honorable - In what way? Really, what way was Bush "honorable"?
Straight forward - What President is not strait forward?
Didn't whine about the media - For the most part I'd agree
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people - Mmmm, "your either with us or against us." But compared to Obama, if that's what you mean, yes Bush was millions of times better
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections - Bush outright lied about his position on Small Government and a humble foreign policy. Flat out lied, like a 100% change of heart after he won the election
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration - But close!
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism - No, instead he started a meaningless unconstitutional war in Iraq and failed miserably on the "war on terror."

Bush alone destroyed the conservative title. What does it mean when Bush and his Republican congress mounted incredible deficits through massive growth in Government.

 

[Avorysuds]

I'm not simply trying to argue. Bush ended with a 28% approval rating, even Republicans hated that man, how is that not divisive and anti honorable?

 

[regent]

Historians have rated Bush fifth worst US president. We'll see where Obama ends up in the ratings.

 

[BlindBoo]

Let me finish that "But" for you.... he did didn't have to resign like Nixon did at least!

 

[Truthseeker420]

Can't get more divisive than "you are either with us or against us"?

 

[DiamondDave]

Historians have rated Bush fifth worst US president. We'll see where Obama ends up in the ratings.

Don't really think that is the case though.. it is more likely because of the leftover parts of BDS that was spewed so much by the wingers and winger media

Bush does not deserve to be in the bottom 5.. the bottom 5 are pretty damn bad... and all of them are from after the civil war but before the mid 20th century...

Bush is one of the 3 worst in my lifetime... I actually would rate him worse than Nixon.. but then again my lifetime only includes presidents from Johnson forward....

Bush was a below average President thanks to his fiscal idiocy.. certain things he did fairly well, but other things he did pretty damn bad...

All that being said.. he is still rated higher than Carter and Obama in my book

 

[g5000]

Despite balooning spending and totally fucking up the wars with his nation building bullshit at least he was

Honorable
Straight forward
Didn't whine about the media
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Bush and Obama have been a disaster for our nation. ESPECIALLY Obama.

At this point I wish we had Slick Willie back, at least he would try to meet on common ground

You're kidding, right?

Remember "Free Speech zones"?

Remember carefully selected "embedded journalists" so the press coverage of the war could be completely controlled?

Remember hiding the dead bodies of our soldiers from the media?

Remember how rare Bush's press conferences were?

From how the message is delivered, to who is in the audience to hear it, to who gets to ask questions about it, the White House goal is control. It's a critical effort for a president who must get Americans to give him a listen about proposed overhauls of basic institutions such as Social Security, health care and taxes.

The tactics include public events, sometimes called "conversations," sometimes called "forums" and sometimes called "town hall meetings" featuring Bush.

Last Thursday, Bush held a "Town Hall on Strengthening Social Security" in Raleigh, N.C., and a "Conversation on Strengthening Social Security" in Blue Bell, Penn. His barnstorming tour on the topic hits Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday.

Regardless of the name, such events are always the same: Bush as congenial host with hand-picked on-stage guests with stories to prove the president's point.

Were you asleep during the Bush years? Don't you remember all those fake news broadcasts from the Bush Administration?



Remember this one: Education Dept. paid commentator to promote law

Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.

Screened Audiences, Fake News Promote Bush Agenda

Every administration tries to manage the message that the news media convey to the public about presidential policies, problems and successes. But the Bush White House is pioneering new methods that steer message management into outright government propaganda.

The New York Times on March 13 published an in-depth report on how the administration is cranking up its public relations campaign to manipulate broadcast news by distributing pre-packaged videos prepared by several federal agencies, including the Pentagon.

These videos use phony reporters to tout the administration's position on major issues. Thinly staffed TV stations are only too happy to receive the free videos, which they then pass along to viewers without any acknowledgement that the images and messages are government issue.

And how quickly you all have forgotten the Valerie Plame affair:

New York Times investigative reporter Judith Miller, who met with Lewis Libby on July 8, 2003, two days after Wilson's editorial was published, never wrote or reported a story on the Plame affair,[22] but nevertheless refused (with Cooper) to answer questions before a grand jury in 2004 pertaining to confidential sources. Both reporters were held in contempt of court. On June 27, 2005, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant certiorari,[23] TIME Magazine said it would surrender to Fitzgerald e-mail records and notes taken by Cooper, and Cooper agreed to testify before the grand jury after receiving a waiver from his source. Miller and Cooper faced potential jail terms for failure to cooperate with the Special Counsel's investigations.[24]
New York Times reporter Judith Miller served a civil contempt jail sentence from early July 2005 to September 29, 2005, for refusing to testify to the grand jury.

Miller was jailed on July 7, 2005 in Alexandria, Virginia. She was released on September 29, upon reaching an agreement with Fitzgerald to testify at a hearing scheduled on the morning of September 30, 2005.[25][26] Miller indicated that her source, unlike Cooper's, had not sufficiently waived confidentiality. She issued a statement at a press conference after her release, stating that her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, had released her from her promise of confidentiality, saying her source "voluntarily and personally released [her] from [her] promise of confidentiality".

Plame affair grand jury investigation

 

[DiamondDave]

Can't get more divisive than "you are either with us or against us"?

Except that was not aimed at the citizenry... idiot

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

 

[Harry Dresden]

Despite balooning spending and totally fucking up the wars with his nation building bullshit at least he was

Honorable
Straight forward
Didn't whine about the media
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Bush and Obama have been a disaster for our nation. ESPECIALLY Obama.

At this point I wish we had Slick Willie back, at least he would try to meet on common ground

Didn't intentionally try to divide the people

but because of his shitty leadership skills.....the divide widened....

Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

since Obama has given the ok to go and get these guys.....including going into Pakistan.....how is he cowering?.....just askin....

 

[asterism]

Can't get more divisive than "you are either with us or against us"?

Which was his message to nations harboring terrorists, not American citizens.

 

[g5000]

Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Neither does Obama. If you think Obama does, you better be prepared to back that shit up.


Let's look at the corruption in Bush's Administration, since you brought it up:

Executive Branch [edit]
Felipe Sixto, was appointed by President George W. Bush to be his Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs as well as Duty Director of the Office of Public Liaison. He resigned a few weeks later on March 20, 2008 because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for the Center for a Free Cuba.[34] He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing almost $600,000 for his own use.[35]

Timothy Goeglein Special Assistant to President Bush resigned when it was discovered that more than 20 of his columns had been plagiarized from an Indiana newspaper. (2008)[36]

Scott Block was appointed by President George W. Bush to head the Office of Special Counsel. On April 27, 2010 Bloch pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of Congress for "willfully and unlawfully withholding pertinent information from a House committee investigating his decision to have several government computers wiped ...."[37] On February 2, Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson ruled that Bloch faces a mandatory sentence of at least one month in prison.[38]

Lewis Libby Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R). 'Scooter' was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted by George W. Bush (R) on July 1, 2007. The felony remains on Libby's record though the jail time and fine were commuted.[39][40]

Alphonso Jackson The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development resigned while under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged cronyism and favoritism [41]

Karl Rove Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush was investigated by the Office of Special Counsel for "improper political influence over government decision-making", as well as for his involvement in several other scandals such as Lawyergate, Bush White House e-mail controversy and Plame affair. He resigned in April 2007. (See Karl Rove in the George W. Bush administration)[42]

Richard J. Griffin Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security appointed by George W. Bush who made key decisions regarding the department's oversight of private security contractor Blackwater USA, resigned in November 2007, after a critical review by the House Oversight Committee found that his office had failed to adequately supervise private contractors during the Blackwater Baghdad shootings protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq.[43]

Howard Krongard, Republican contributor[44] was appointed Inspector General of the US State Department by President George W. Bush in 2005.[45] After he was accused by the House Oversight Committee of improperly interfering with investigations into private security contractor Blackwater USA, concerning the Blackwater Baghdad shootings. Krongard resigned in December 2007.[46][47]

"Lawyergate"[48] Or the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy refers to President Bush firing, without explanation, eleven Republican federal prosecutors whom he himself had appointed. It is alleged they were fired for prosecuting Republicans and not prosecuting Democrats.[49][50] When Congressional hearings were called, a number of senior Justice Department officials cited executive privilege and refused to testify under oath and instead resigned, including:
Michael A. Battle Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys in the Justice Department.[51]
Bradley Schlozman Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle[52]
Michael Elston Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty[53]
Paul McNulty Deputy Attorney General to William Mercer[54]
William W. Mercer Associate Attorney General to Alberto Gonzales[55]
Kyle Sampson Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[51]
Alberto Gonzales Attorney General of the United States[56]
Monica Goodling Liaison between President Bush and the Justice Department[57]
Joshua Bolten Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush was found in Contempt of Congress[58]
Sara M. Taylor Aide to Presidential Advisor Karl Rove[59]
Karl Rove Advisor to President Bush[60]
Harriet Miers Legal Counsel to President Bush, was found in Contempt of Congress[58]

Bush White House e-mail controversy – During the Lawyergate investigation it was discovered that the Bush administration used Republican National Committee (RNC) web servers for millions of emails which were then destroyed, lost or deleted in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings all used RNC webservers for the majority of their emails. Of 88 officials, no emails at all were discovered for 51 of them.[61] As many as 5 million e-mails requested by Congressional investigators of other Bush administration scandals were therefore unavailable, lost, or deleted.[62]

Lurita Alexis Doan Resigned as head of the General Services Administration. She was under scrutiny for conflict of interest and violations of the Hatch Act.[63] Among other things she asked GSA employees how they could "help Republican candidates".[64]

John Korsmo chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board pled guilty to lying to congress and sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and fined $5,000. (2005)[65]

Philip Cooney Bush appointee to chair the Council on Environmental Quality was accused of editing government climate reports to emphasize doubts about global warming.[66] Two days later, Cooney announced his resignation[67] and later conceded his role in altering reports. Stating "My sole loyalty was to the President and advancing the policies of his administration," .[68][69]

Jack Abramoff Scandal in which the prominent lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison.[70][71] See Legislative scandals.
David Safavian GSA (General Services Administration) Chief of Staff,[72] found guilty of blocking justice and lying,[73] and sentenced to 18 months[74]

Roger Stillwell Staff in the Department of the Interior under President George W. Bush (R). Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence. [16]

Susan B. Ralston Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Karl Rove, resigned October 6, 2006, after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff.[75]

J. Steven Griles former Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months.[76]

Italia Federici staff to the Secretary of Interior, and President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pled guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to four years probation.[77][78][79]

Jared Carpenter Vice-President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, was discovered during the Abramoff investigation and pled guilty to income tax evasion. He got 45 days, plus 4 years probation.[80]

Mark Zachares staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud.[71]

Robert E. Coughlin Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division of the Justice Department pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff. (2008)[81]

Kyle Foggo Executive director of the CIA was convicted of honest services fraud in the awarding of a government contract and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison at Pine Knot, Kentucky. On September 29, 2008, Foggo pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment, admitting that while he was the CIA executive director, he acted to steer a CIA contract to the firm of his lifelong friend, Brent R. Wilkes.[82]

Julie MacDonald Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, resigned May 1, 2007, after giving government documents to developers (2007)[83]

Claude Allen Appointed as an advisor by President George W. Bush (R) on Domestic Policy, Allen was arrested for a series of felony thefts in retail stores. He was convicted on one count and resigned soon after.[84]

Lester Crawford Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after 2 months. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000 (2006)[85]

2003 Invasion of Iraq depended on intelligence that Saddam Hussein was developing "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) meaning nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons for offensive use. As revealed by The (British) Downing Street memo "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy" The press called this the 'smoking gun."(2005)[86]

Yellowcake forgery: Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration presented evidence to the UN that Iraq was seeking material (yellowcake uranium) in Africa for making nuclear weapons. Though presented as true, it was later found to be not only dubious, but outright false.[87]

Coalition Provisional Authority Cash Payment Scandal: On June 20, 2005, the staff of the Committee on Government Reform prepared a report for Congressman Henry Waxman.[88] It was revealed that $12 billion in cash had been delivered to Iraq by C-130 planes, on shrinkwrapped pallets of US $100 bills.[89] The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concluded that "Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste.... Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents...." Henry Waxman, commented, "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" A single flight to Iraq on December 12, 2003, which contained $1.5 billion in cash is said to be the largest single Federal Reserve payout in US history according to Henry Waxman.[90][91]

Bush administration payment of columnists with federal funds to say nice things about Republican policies. Illegal payments were made to journalists Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus (2004–2005)[92]

Bernard Kerik nomination in 2004 as Secretary of Homeland Security was derailed by past employment of an illegal alien as a nanny, and other improprieties. On Nov 4, 2009, he pled guilty to two counts of tax fraud and five counts of lying to the federal government and was sentenced to four years in prison.[93]

Plame affair (2004), in which CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was supposedly leaked by Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the reports used by George W. Bush to legitimize the Iraq war.[94] Armitage admitted he was the leak[95] but no wrongdoing was found.

Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), withheld information from Congress about the projected cost of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, and allegedly threatened to fire Medicare's chief actuary, Richard Foster, if Foster provided the data to Congress. (2003)[96] Scully resigned on December 16, 2003.

NSA warrantless surveillance – Shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush (R) implemented a secret program by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on domestic telephone calls by American citizens without warrants, thus by-passing the FISA court which must approve all such actions. (2002)[97] In 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled this practice to be illegal.[98]

Janet Rehnquist (daughter of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist) appointed Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services by George W. Bush. In 2002, Governor Jeb Bush's (R-FL) Chief of Staff Kathleen Shanahan asked Rehnquist to delay auditing a $571 million federal overpayment to the State of Florida. Rehnquist ordered her staff to delay the investigation for five months until after the Florida elections. When Congress began an investigation into the matter, Rehnquist resigned in March 2003, saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.[99][100][101][101][102][103]

John Yoo An attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel inside the Justice Department who, working closely with vice president Dick Cheney and The Bush Six,[104] wrote memos stating the right of the president to –
suspend sections of the ABM Treaty without informing Congress[105]
bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowing warrentless wiretapping of US Citizens within the United States by the National Security Agency.[105]
state that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendments and the Takings Clause do not apply to the president in time of war as defined in the USA PATRIOT Act[105]
allow Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (torture) because provisions of the War Crimes Act, the Third Geneva Convention, and the Torture convention do not apply.[105]
Many of his memos have since been repudiated and reversed.[105][106] Later review by the Justice Department reported that Yoo and Jay Bybee used "poor judgement" in the memos, but no charges have yet been filed.[107]

List of federal political scandals in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Despite balooning spending and totally fucking up the wars with his nation building bullshit at least he was

Honorable
Straight forward
Didn't whine about the media
Didn't intentionally try to divide the people
Stood on principle and didn't change his mind for elections
Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Bush and Obama have been a disaster for our nation. ESPECIALLY Obama.

At this point I wish we had Slick Willie back, at least he would try to meet on common ground

Didn't intentionally try to divide the people

but because of his shitty leadership skills.....the divide widened....

Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

since Obama has given the ok to go and get these guys.....including going into Pakistan.....how is he cowering?.....just askin....

Workplace violence and overseas contingency plans as well as blaming videos all say HELLO

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Didn't have THE MOST CORRUPT administration
Didn't cower in the face of terrorism

Neither does Obama. If you think Obama does, you better be prepared to back that shit up.


Let's look at the corruption in Bush's Administration, since you brought it up:

Executive Branch [edit]
Felipe Sixto, was appointed by President George W. Bush to be his Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs as well as Duty Director of the Office of Public Liaison. He resigned a few weeks later on March 20, 2008 because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for the Center for a Free Cuba.[34] He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing almost $600,000 for his own use.[35]

Timothy Goeglein Special Assistant to President Bush resigned when it was discovered that more than 20 of his columns had been plagiarized from an Indiana newspaper. (2008)[36]

Scott Block was appointed by President George W. Bush to head the Office of Special Counsel. On April 27, 2010 Bloch pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of Congress for "willfully and unlawfully withholding pertinent information from a House committee investigating his decision to have several government computers wiped ...."[37] On February 2, Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson ruled that Bloch faces a mandatory sentence of at least one month in prison.[38]

Lewis Libby Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R). 'Scooter' was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted by George W. Bush (R) on July 1, 2007. The felony remains on Libby's record though the jail time and fine were commuted.[39][40]

Alphonso Jackson The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development resigned while under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged cronyism and favoritism [41]

Karl Rove Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush was investigated by the Office of Special Counsel for "improper political influence over government decision-making", as well as for his involvement in several other scandals such as Lawyergate, Bush White House e-mail controversy and Plame affair. He resigned in April 2007. (See Karl Rove in the George W. Bush administration)[42]

Richard J. Griffin Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security appointed by George W. Bush who made key decisions regarding the department's oversight of private security contractor Blackwater USA, resigned in November 2007, after a critical review by the House Oversight Committee found that his office had failed to adequately supervise private contractors during the Blackwater Baghdad shootings protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq.[43]

Howard Krongard, Republican contributor[44] was appointed Inspector General of the US State Department by President George W. Bush in 2005.[45] After he was accused by the House Oversight Committee of improperly interfering with investigations into private security contractor Blackwater USA, concerning the Blackwater Baghdad shootings. Krongard resigned in December 2007.[46][47]

"Lawyergate"[48] Or the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy refers to President Bush firing, without explanation, eleven Republican federal prosecutors whom he himself had appointed. It is alleged they were fired for prosecuting Republicans and not prosecuting Democrats.[49][50] When Congressional hearings were called, a number of senior Justice Department officials cited executive privilege and refused to testify under oath and instead resigned, including:
Michael A. Battle Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys in the Justice Department.[51]
Bradley Schlozman Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle[52]
Michael Elston Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty[53]
Paul McNulty Deputy Attorney General to William Mercer[54]
William W. Mercer Associate Attorney General to Alberto Gonzales[55]
Kyle Sampson Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[51]
Alberto Gonzales Attorney General of the United States[56]
Monica Goodling Liaison between President Bush and the Justice Department[57]
Joshua Bolten Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush was found in Contempt of Congress[58]
Sara M. Taylor Aide to Presidential Advisor Karl Rove[59]
Karl Rove Advisor to President Bush[60]
Harriet Miers Legal Counsel to President Bush, was found in Contempt of Congress[58]

Bush White House e-mail controversy – During the Lawyergate investigation it was discovered that the Bush administration used Republican National Committee (RNC) web servers for millions of emails which were then destroyed, lost or deleted in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings all used RNC webservers for the majority of their emails. Of 88 officials, no emails at all were discovered for 51 of them.[61] As many as 5 million e-mails requested by Congressional investigators of other Bush administration scandals were therefore unavailable, lost, or deleted.[62]

Lurita Alexis Doan Resigned as head of the General Services Administration. She was under scrutiny for conflict of interest and violations of the Hatch Act.[63] Among other things she asked GSA employees how they could "help Republican candidates".[64]

John Korsmo chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board pled guilty to lying to congress and sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and fined $5,000. (2005)[65]

Philip Cooney Bush appointee to chair the Council on Environmental Quality was accused of editing government climate reports to emphasize doubts about global warming.[66] Two days later, Cooney announced his resignation[67] and later conceded his role in altering reports. Stating "My sole loyalty was to the President and advancing the policies of his administration," .[68][69]

Jack Abramoff Scandal in which the prominent lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison.[70][71] See Legislative scandals.
David Safavian GSA (General Services Administration) Chief of Staff,[72] found guilty of blocking justice and lying,[73] and sentenced to 18 months[74]

Roger Stillwell Staff in the Department of the Interior under President George W. Bush (R). Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence. [16]

Susan B. Ralston Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Karl Rove, resigned October 6, 2006, after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff.[75]

J. Steven Griles former Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months.[76]

Italia Federici staff to the Secretary of Interior, and President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pled guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to four years probation.[77][78][79]

Jared Carpenter Vice-President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, was discovered during the Abramoff investigation and pled guilty to income tax evasion. He got 45 days, plus 4 years probation.[80]

Mark Zachares staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud.[71]

Robert E. Coughlin Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division of the Justice Department pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff. (2008)[81]

Kyle Foggo Executive director of the CIA was convicted of honest services fraud in the awarding of a government contract and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison at Pine Knot, Kentucky. On September 29, 2008, Foggo pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment, admitting that while he was the CIA executive director, he acted to steer a CIA contract to the firm of his lifelong friend, Brent R. Wilkes.[82]

Julie MacDonald Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, resigned May 1, 2007, after giving government documents to developers (2007)[83]

Claude Allen Appointed as an advisor by President George W. Bush (R) on Domestic Policy, Allen was arrested for a series of felony thefts in retail stores. He was convicted on one count and resigned soon after.[84]

Lester Crawford Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after 2 months. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000 (2006)[85]

2003 Invasion of Iraq depended on intelligence that Saddam Hussein was developing "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) meaning nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons for offensive use. As revealed by The (British) Downing Street memo "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy" The press called this the 'smoking gun."(2005)[86]

Yellowcake forgery: Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration presented evidence to the UN that Iraq was seeking material (yellowcake uranium) in Africa for making nuclear weapons. Though presented as true, it was later found to be not only dubious, but outright false.[87]

Coalition Provisional Authority Cash Payment Scandal: On June 20, 2005, the staff of the Committee on Government Reform prepared a report for Congressman Henry Waxman.[88] It was revealed that $12 billion in cash had been delivered to Iraq by C-130 planes, on shrinkwrapped pallets of US $100 bills.[89] The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concluded that "Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste.... Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents...." Henry Waxman, commented, "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" A single flight to Iraq on December 12, 2003, which contained $1.5 billion in cash is said to be the largest single Federal Reserve payout in US history according to Henry Waxman.[90][91]

Bush administration payment of columnists with federal funds to say nice things about Republican policies. Illegal payments were made to journalists Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus (2004–2005)[92]

Bernard Kerik nomination in 2004 as Secretary of Homeland Security was derailed by past employment of an illegal alien as a nanny, and other improprieties. On Nov 4, 2009, he pled guilty to two counts of tax fraud and five counts of lying to the federal government and was sentenced to four years in prison.[93]

Plame affair (2004), in which CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was supposedly leaked by Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the reports used by George W. Bush to legitimize the Iraq war.[94] Armitage admitted he was the leak[95] but no wrongdoing was found.

Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), withheld information from Congress about the projected cost of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, and allegedly threatened to fire Medicare's chief actuary, Richard Foster, if Foster provided the data to Congress. (2003)[96] Scully resigned on December 16, 2003.

NSA warrantless surveillance – Shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush (R) implemented a secret program by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on domestic telephone calls by American citizens without warrants, thus by-passing the FISA court which must approve all such actions. (2002)[97] In 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled this practice to be illegal.[98]

Janet Rehnquist (daughter of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist) appointed Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services by George W. Bush. In 2002, Governor Jeb Bush's (R-FL) Chief of Staff Kathleen Shanahan asked Rehnquist to delay auditing a $571 million federal overpayment to the State of Florida. Rehnquist ordered her staff to delay the investigation for five months until after the Florida elections. When Congress began an investigation into the matter, Rehnquist resigned in March 2003, saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.[99][100][101][101][102][103]

John Yoo An attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel inside the Justice Department who, working closely with vice president Dick Cheney and The Bush Six,[104] wrote memos stating the right of the president to –
suspend sections of the ABM Treaty without informing Congress[105]
bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowing warrentless wiretapping of US Citizens within the United States by the National Security Agency.[105]
state that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendments and the Takings Clause do not apply to the president in time of war as defined in the USA PATRIOT Act[105]
allow Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (torture) because provisions of the War Crimes Act, the Third Geneva Convention, and the Torture convention do not apply.[105]
Many of his memos have since been repudiated and reversed.[105][106] Later review by the Justice Department reported that Yoo and Jay Bybee used "poor judgement" in the memos, but no charges have yet been filed.[107]

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It's my fucking opinion. Don't agree? That's perfectly fine but it is what it is despite your efforts.

 

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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove opened the door for the current crop of retards who have hijacked the party and the conservative movement.

Never has there been this many liars, hypocrites, and idiots concentrated so heavily on the Right. And never would we have had a complete incompetent like Barack Obama as President if he had not been preceded by an even bigger moron leading the millions of mentally handicapped minions down the primrose path to our party's utter capitulation of every last one of its principles.

All thanks to that retard and his posse.

 

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It's my fucking opinion. Don't agree? That's perfectly fine but it is what it is despite your efforts.

You provided an opinion. I provided facts.

Facts do take effort, that's exactly right. Which is why they are so rarely seen from the mental midgets on the Right these days.