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Our Diminished Democracy

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In his White House Watch column for the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin does a good job of summing up the Bush administration’s disastrous response to September 11. In doing so, though, he also  summarizes how these actions reflect not just a response to difficult circumstances, but rather a conscious power grab on the part of Cheney and his advisors.

Froomkin’s daily column remains a valuable resource for following the misdeeds of the current administration. Every installment raises a painful question: why isn’t the media more interested in exposing this lawbreaking?

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Bush’s Failures, All in One Spot

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Brad Reed has a thorough breakdown of the Bush administration’s criminality and ineptitude in a  Alternet story, “The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Administration.” It’s depressing to look back at eight years of lows, but copious links and a quick-hit analysis do a good job of summing everything up.

Sometimes I think about the colossal task it”ll be to sum up for my children the immense awfulness of the Presidency. “We get it, we get it,” they’ll say, to which I’ll only be able to point back at resources like this and say, “No, you don’t get it at all.”