Before some of the screw-ups of the last 8 years go down the memory hole...

[kmla]

Let's take a quick review, shall we?




"Hey, do you think I can drive the sub?"
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/13/japan.substrike.05/index.html

"We lost a spy plane? How'd we do that? They're pretty big."
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/02/china.aircollision.03/

"Anthrax scare and domestic terrorism? Naw. We only concern ourselves with them Eye-raki terrists..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

"Regulation? We don't need no steenking regulation!"
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Blind_Faith.PDF

"The fella's not too sick to authorize my spyin' again, is he?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html

"Lemme ask - wouldya like the 'No Child Left Behind' thing if I paid ya?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56330-2005Jan7.html

"Hey! Wanna drink beer and go huntin'? It's OK, 'cuz I'm the VP!"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/13/national/main1309344.shtml

"Shhhhhh. This energy meeting's a secret."
http://www.judicialwatch.org/5442.shtml

I could go on and on listing screw-up after scandal after embarrassment.

Any one of these scandals would have sunk a Democratic administration. But the teflon turd keeps skating on by.

Did I miss any? Feel free to post a link to any I didn't list. I bet we can hit 50 before the end of the day...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. No matter how many we list,

it won't change the reality that it was the press that let all of this happen, by colluding with this so-called administration in their despicable dealings by not reporting them, or by giving them short shrift, or, worst of all, reporting the line as fed to them by the people in the White House.

It has always been the role of journalists to present wrongdoing by those in power. This batch of monkeys failed miserably, and, like the cowed Congress members who went along with all these dastardly deeds, will never have to answer for their wretched roles.

Read "So Wrong For So Long: How The Press, The Pundits -- And The President -- Failed On Iraq," by Greg Mitchell, of Editor & Publisher, for an excellent overview of how badly the press mishandled this atrocity called the Iraqi invasion.

[muleboy303]

2. MINE SAFETY

i do not understand why, either in the primaries or so far in the GE,
the Obama campaign has not made more of an issue of safety/oversight
of mining operations. i would think that it would significantly improve
polling numbers in a few particular states, while simultaneously
reminding the rest of the US' voters of the 'life/death' importance
of some federal regulations and agencies.