Year in Review: What’s Happened Since Bush’s Reelection ... unbelievable

[RedEarth]

Year in Review: What’s Happened Since Bush’s Reelection
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary since President Bush won re-election. Here’s what has happened since:


2004
November 3: Bush Pledges To Reach Out the Whole Nation In Second Term. Bush: “So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation.”

November 8: Federal Judge Rules Bush Overstepped Constitutional Grounds In Brushing Aside Geneva Conventions In Treatment of Detainees.

November 9: Presidential Election Revealed Major Voting System Failures.

November 17: House GOP Changes Rule Requiring Leaders To Step Down If Indicted.

November 30: Red Cross Investigation Uncovers Widespread Detainee Abuse in Guantanamo.

December 6: Class-Action Suit on Behalf of Soldiers Filed Against Pentagon’s ‘Stop-Loss’ Orders.

December 8: Soldier in Iraq Questions Rumsfeld About Why They Are Not Receiving Proper Armor; Rumsfeld Says ‘You Go To War With the Army You Have.’ At a townhall with Secretary Rumsfeld, a National Guard soldier says, “Our vehicles are not armored. We’re digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that’s already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat. We do not have proper armament vehicles to carry with us north.” Rumsfeld responds: “As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”

December 8: Homeland Security Whistleblower Shown the Door. Clark Ervin, “the man who has issued many critical reports about the mismanagement and security flaws at the Department of Homeland Security, was told Wednesday night that he was out of a job.” Ervin was replaced by Dick Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry.

December 11: Bernie Kerik Withdraws From Nomination To Be Homeland Security Secretary. Kerik’s nomination was withdrawn after it was revealed (among other scandals) that Kerik had long-standing ties to a firm allegedly run by the New Jersey mob and had used an apartment donated for weary Ground Zero police and rescue workers for an adulterous affair. Despite Kerik’s questionable past, it was President Bush “who insisted on naming the former New York City police commissioner as secretary of Homeland Security despite derogatory information about him.”

December 20: Top Army Reserve General Writes Memo Warning That Reserves Are “Rapidly Degenerating Into a ‘Broken’ Force.”

much more .... one disaster after another...

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/03/year-in-review-whats-happened-since-bushs-reelection/

[SONUVABUSH]

1. don't forget..

...That Brownie is doing a heckuva job.

[nini]

5. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[electropop]

2. One small factual error: Bush was not "re-elected." Or ever "elected."

Other than that, great writeup.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. So, in other words, Bushleague performed exactly as we would have

expected based upon his complete past career. The real amazing thing is why ANYONE expected anything different from this utter career failure.

[uppityperson]

4. but I thought he'd keep us safe.

He has really disappointed me and I'm sorry I voted for him.
But the republicans are FOR businesses.
They decrease taxes and government.
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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

6. Correct Title......RESELECTED.

As George Carlin says, Governor Shrub hasn't won an election since Texas.

[RedEarth]

7. kick ... for the afternoon crowd...