The bill for the Bush administration

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

To get a sense of what kind of balance is due, Salon spoke to experts in seven different fields. Wherever possible, we have tried to express the damage done in concrete terms -- sometimes in lives lost, but most often just in money spent and dollars owed. What follows is an incomplete inventory of eight years of mis- and malfeasance, but then a fuller accounting would run, um, somewhat longer than three pages. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.6
by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 12, 2009

The seven areas each have some good information and cost data associated with them. The story is adequately broad and deep for the subject.

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Jack Dinkmeyer
3.7
by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jan. 9, 2009

A scathing article about the real costs of Bushie governance. But then, facts can be scathing. I kept looking a positive measure of Bush. There are none.

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Kaizar Campwala
4.0
by Kaizar Campwala - Jan. 12, 2009

Chalk full of information, this piece loses points on fairness. This is a catalog by the numbers of the cost of Bush's policies, but at least some of them may have been unavoidable, and there's no attempt to consider places where Bush policies may have ben beneficial.

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Michael Hanna-Fein
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by Michael Hanna-Fein - Jan. 9, 2009

Bush was apparently so inexperienced and over his head with the job as president, that he relied heavily on those who worked for him. He apparently does not have the patience for great detail and kinda feel in line with the arguments and proposed actions that were sold to him by people who knew exactly where his buttons were and when and how they should push them. Cheney caused, in my opinion, the most damage and seems to have had no trouble essentially running the foreign policy of the Bush administration. This article describes, by people with heavy knowledge in the various fields being discussed, the machinations of how interested parties got their way through the president.

This is a reasonably honest assessment of the damage the Bush administration has done to the country and the virtual cost of the past eight years.

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Kenneth Sibbett
4.5
by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 12, 2009

A report that is sadly true and overdue. There's no way Bush could have dreamed when he was first elected that he was qualified for a job of this proportion. While surrounding himself with neo-con's, who wanted war, oil companies that wanted profits, drug companies that price gouged consumer's, and energy companies that wrote the U.S. energy policies. A sad time in our nation's history.

While Bush was the President, he could't have did this much damage by himself. The Congress and Senate went along, passing nearly everything that was sent their way. Republican's and Democrats should be hanging their heads in shame.

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Norman Rogers
1.1
by Norman Rogers - Jan. 10, 2009

Comical. Bush is responsible for everything that goes wrong. Well, they won't have Bush to kick around much longer. But, we can presume that everything that goes wrong under the Obama administration will be Bush's fault too - at least for several years.

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