"The Constitution? Civil liberties? Don't ask." by Bob Herbert (NYT)

[kpete]

A President Who Can Do No Right

By BOB HERBERT
Published: January 26, 2006
We should be used to it by now. There are a couple of Congressional committees trying to investigate the tragic Hurricane Katrina debacle, but the Bush administration is refusing to turn over certain documents or allow certain senior White House officials to testify before the committees under oath.


This week, as the killing of American G.I.'s and innocent Iraqis continued, we learned from a draft report from the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction that, like the war itself, the Bush plan for rebuilding Iraq has been crippled by incompetence and extreme shortages of personnel. I doubt that this will bother the president any more than any of his other failures. He seems to truly believe that he can do no wrong.

The fiasco in Iraq and the president's response to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe were Mr. Bush's two most spectacular foul-ups. There have been many others. The president's new Medicare prescription drug program has been a monumental embarrassment, leaving some of the most vulnerable members of our society without essential medication. Prominent members of the president's own party are balking at the heavy hand of his No Child Left Behind law, which was supposed to radically upgrade the quality of public education.

The Constitution? Civil liberties? Don't ask.

Just keep in mind, whatever your political beliefs, that incompetence in high places can have devastating consequences.


(behind Firewall)
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/opinion/26herbert.html?hp

For more try this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/26/6434/92990

[Connie_Corleone]

1. WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.

Nuff said.

[kpete]

2. good link

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_01_22_atrios_archive.html#113825278533659147

[regnaD kciN]

3. George W. Bush, the man who destroyed "the American experiment"...

:grr: