… of the real reason that dethroning Bush should be a bipartisan affair.
But he leaves out the third reason–the big reason, the Elephant-in-the-Living-Room reason–to run screaming into the night at the thought of a big Bush initiative. Even if it were well-intentioned (and not just cover for another round of right-wing class warfare), even if Bush were willing to make difficult choices (which he has never shown any ability to do), the Bush administration is still incompetent, and its attempts to make policy have almost invariably been horrible botches.
and reminds us of an 18 month old challenge from Daniel Davies:
Can anyone… give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:
- It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration.
- It was significant enough in scale that I’d have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it).
- It wasn’t in some important way completely f***** up during the execution?
I know of exactly one, and it wasn’t that big — the EPA program to make non-vehicular diesel engines (mostly generators) comply with the same environmental regulations that already applied to diesel trucks. If you’ve got another one, “bring it on”.