Bush Scandals Numbers 1-100

[LoungeMachine]

Introduction
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
1. Patient neglect at Walter Reed Army Hospital
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Supporting the troops, Whistleblower
2. US Attorney firings
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
3. Libby/Plame Affair (Outing a CIA agent)
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Iraq
4. Iraq war
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Middle East, WMD
5. Afghanistan (leaving before the job was done)
Posted in: Afghanistan, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
6. Iran saber rattling
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iran, Middle East, WMD
7. North Korea (mishandling nuclear issue)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD
8. The War on Terror (failure to capture Osama bin Laden, dubious allies)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
9. Civilian contractors in Iraq (poor service for big bucks)
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
10. Military Commissions Act (torture, kangaroo courts, indefinite detention, and loss of habeas corpus)
Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Torture, War on Terror
11. Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans
Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Katrina
12. NSA warrantless wiretapping
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Revolving Door, Surveillance, War on Terror, Whistleblower
13. SWIFT (international money transfers)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Surveillance, War on Terror
14. Black sites and rendition
Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Torture, War on Terror
15. Department of Homeland Security (a massive boondoggle)
Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
16. K Street lobbyists (for government you can buy)
Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
17. Dusty Foggo (No. 3 at the CIA)
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
18. Duke Cunningham (a corrupt politician)
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex
19. Tom Delay (another corrupt politician)
Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
20. Mark Foley and the House pages
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex
21. Cheney Energy Task Force (and hiding info about it)
Posted in: Energy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
22. Tax cuts for the richest of the rich
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
23. Global warming (denial and stalling)
Posted in: Energy, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General
24. Terri Schiavo and the attempted trashing of family privacy rights
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference, Religion
25. Budget deficits and a greatly increased national debt
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
26. Stacking of the Supreme Court (Roberts and Alito)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
27. Medicare( lack of long term solvency)
Posted in: Economy, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
28. Medicare Part D (Drug prescriptions)
Posted in: Corruption, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
29. Healthcare general mess
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
30. Doug Feith (stovepiping Iraq intel)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General, Intelligence, Iraq, Political Interference
31. 2000 election (stolen)
Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
32. 2004 election (rigging)
Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
33. 9/11 Commission limitation and manipulation of
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference, War on Terror
34. 9/11 Commission’s recommendations delayed implementation
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, War on Terror
35. Marginalization of the UN
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
36. Preventive war doctrine
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Law/Constitution, War on Terror
37. Loss of US prestige
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
38. Inaction on Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Middle East
39. Lack of spending on basic research
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science
40. Alberto Gonzales
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Politicization of the DOJ, War on Terror
41. FDA restricting the mission
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
42. EPA restricting the mission
Posted in: Energy, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
43. Porter Goss trashing the CIA
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Intelligence
44. Militarization of intelligence
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence
45. Rampant cronyism
Posted in: Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
46. Signing statements
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
47. Unilateral Executive
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
48. Abuse of the National Guard
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops
49. Breaking the Army
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops
50. Increase in the balance of trade deficit
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
51. Grassley Bankruptcy Bill (creditors favored over debtors)
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
52. Cross border Mexican truck safety
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
53. Rove’s security clearance (kept after his part in outing Valerie Plame)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Politics/Domestic
54. Anti-immigration raids (children and parents separated)
Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Immigration
55. Dubai Ports deal (a Middle East company in charge of US ports in the age of terrorism)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, War on Terror
56. Patriot Act and its Extension
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror
57. Privatization of Social Security (a bad idea endlessly recycled)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
58. War on Science
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science
59. David Safavian (Abramoff associate)
Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
60. Claude Allen (White House adviser caught shoplifting)
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
61. Bush lying about firing Rumsfeld before the November 2006 election
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
62. Armstrong Williams (paid propagandists)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
63. Labor Department (ground down by Mitch McConnell’s wife)
Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor, Politics/Domestic
64. Net neutrality/media ownership
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
65. Israeli bombing of Lebanon (delay in putting a ceasefire in place)
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Middle East
66. PDB on Bin Laden (ignoring the terrorist threat pre-9/11)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, War on Terror
67. Ground Zero declared non-toxic
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
68. Sago mining disaster (non-enforcement of safety regs)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor
69. Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination (a supreme act of cronyism)
Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
70. Vetoing stem cell research
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science
71. Plan B contraception
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
72. Clear Skies/ Healthy Forests Acts (weakening pollution controls and opening forests to logging)
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
73. Ballistic missile shield (only works to antagonize the Russians)
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
74. Leandro Aragoncillo (the spy in Cheney’s office)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
75. Overseas AIDS programs (reflecting the Administration’s benighted views on sex)
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
76. Constitutional amendment against gay marriage
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Religion
77. Drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
78. Canard of Clintons trashing the White House before leaving
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
79. Jeff Gannon (a male prostitute in the White House press corps)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
80. Native American trust funds
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Politics/Domestic
81. Creationist materials at national parks
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science
82. Returning US war dead (banning photographing the returning coffins)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops
83. False military reporting (Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch)
Posted in: Afghanistan, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
84. AIPAC spy scandal
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence
85. Detainee court cases (a quick guide)
Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror
86. Opening US mail
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution
87. Subprime mortgage bubble
Posted in: Corruption, Economy, Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
88. Bush’s ties to Enron
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference
89. 2001 California energy crisis (refusal to intervene in this Enron manufactured crisis)
Posted in: Corruption, Energy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
90. Darfur (calling it genocide is not a policy)
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
91. Russian loose nukes (underfunding)
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD
92. OPR Gonzales investigation (stymied)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
93. Interference in lawsuit against Big Tobacco
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
94. Phone jamming in New Hampshire (with White House connections)
Posted in: Corruption, Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
95. Steven Griles (Abramoff’s man at Interior)
Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
96. US Attorney targeting of Democratic office holders
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
97. Interim US Attorney provision (an attempt to appoint USAs without Senate approval)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
98. FBI National Security Letters (overuse and abuse)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution
99. GSA (Hatch Act violations)
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
100. Karl Rove

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[LoungeMachine]

I was going to try and pick a favorite....

But numbers 1-25 all look like Number Ones to me.

[chefcraig]

Another fellow recently pointed out to me his total surprise that the list stopped at 400.

[LoungeMachine]

I dont think the scandals stopped....

I think at some point, you just stop counting

[GAR]

This list is bullshit-filled and liberal-slanted.

I'll delete the ones I dont agree with, there may be 8 or 9 I do

[Guitar Shark]

I trust we will see stickies of the top Clinton scandals any day now.

Sticky 1: The Monica dress stain

Etc..