Biggest bummer of the Bush administration?

[XemaSab]

What, in your opinion, is the biggest disaster since Bush took office?

(As an aside, the last few years have really sucked. :-( )

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Seems like it's all blended together into one huge, colossal bummer.

[MadBadger]

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[MadBadger]

8. Delete

[tridim]

2. Which stolen election, 2000 or 2004?

Both were equally disastrous, but I think 2004 was more of a bummer.

[XemaSab]

3. It's arguable in my mind which was more of a bummer

In retrospect, each is a bummer in its own unique way. :(

[mikehiggins]

5. I think "stolen electionS!" is more accurate eot

[dusmcj]

6. outsourcing foreign pol to lobbyists who constitute a clear and present danger

to the security and national interest of the United States and its people. I'm talking about PNAC and their ilk.

[AlCzervik]

7. it's hard to pick just one but really the day gore threw the towel in

was probably one of the blackest in recent memory. I remember watching that and talking to my sister on the phone and we were both in shock.

[MadBadger]

9. Katrina for me was Bush's biggest failure as President.

[Captain Angry]

10. I think it was the failure of the country.

I am pissed off at so many things that have happened.

None ripped my heart out like that did. I don't know what depressed me more. What happened to all the people in the gulf area, how they were treated by the authorities (local and Fed), or how badly they were treated by fellow Americans.

My co-workers thought I was insane for signing up to let an evacuee stay with me for free. I said well, I've already sent a pile of money, I can't leave town, so this is the best I can do. None of them sent a dollar.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Thank you

:hug:

[MadBadger]

12. To me, out of everything he has done, this was the most criminal

Criminal Neglegence at its best. Even Fox News was pissed at him.

[Hawaii Hiker]

13. John Roberts & Sam Ailito

especially when you replace a Sandra Day O'Connor w/someone like an Ailito..

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. The election(s).

This is a strong, vibrant country which can survive any threat from without, whether it be terrorist with nukes, or mother nature with a Cat 5, or Poseiden with a 8.0 Richter quake. But what we cannot survive is the deliberate undermining of our democracy. The stolen elections, and the resultant Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, signing statements, and this new thing (Article 51, or something like that) that gives the president unlimited power make us 'not us'. And if we lose ourselves, what do we have left?

[WilliamPitt]

15. The redactions to the Bill of Rights

and the ravaging of the best theory of free popular government ever devised by humanity.

[krispos42]

16. It just seems to be one giant fuckup

I mean, there are multiple overlaps! No clear periods at all, except the first couple of months of his administration. No gaps or anything in the badness at all!

Oy vey.

[Jed Dilligan]

17. I feel like a "bummer" is more like,

"man, it's a bummer I missed the show when my car wouldn't start."

It's a bummer that Ari Fleischer isn't around any more now that Bush is wildly unpopular, because it would be fun to watch him being flayed by the press corps.

I wouldn't call a huge disaster that takes lives a "bummer" unless I was being ultra-sarcastic. "Whoa, bummer dude, you lost half of New Orleans. Better luck next time!"

[Matsubara]

18. I'd say the conversion of our nation to an agitprop fear state after 9-11.

The nation's mentality went into the toilet after 9-11, and the media stirred the feces 24/7.

[gravity]

19. From a non-western perspective, the tsunami