Monday, October 04, 2004

Nothing Accomplished?

I just saw a bumper sticker that said Mission Accomplished with the Mission x-ed out and replaced by nothing. But hey, let's give Bush his due. He's accomplished more than almost any president since FDR or at least LBJ. A quick listing:

1. He managed to turn Iraq into a center of terrorism.
2. He didn't go get Osama Bin Laden when he could.
3. He set the US up for record deficits.
4. He oversaw the decline of democracy in Russia.
5. He eviscerated 40 years of environmental regulations.
6. He made his friends even richer through enormous irresponsible tax cuts.
7. He did nothing to fight AIDS in Africa.
8. He allowed the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Haiti.
9. He tried but failed to foment revolution in Venezuela.
10. He completely screwed over poor school districts through No Child Left Behind.
11. He is responsible for the deaths of over 1060 Americans in Iraq and thousands of Iraqis.
12. He allowed North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
13. He alienated traditional allies in France and Germany.
14. He did nothing to stem global warming.
15. He did a bunch of other bad stuff that I'm forgetting right now.

My friends, if those aren't some serious accomplishments, I don't know what is. Another 4 years and you might even see the beginning of the end of the world, which would definitely play real well with the evangelical base.

UPDATE--How could I have possibly forgot the erosion of our constitutional rights with the Patriot Act?