All the clues the Bush administration missed about the economy

Remember how the Bush administration was shocked – shocked! – to discover that Iraq didn’t really have WMDs? Or that the levees around Katrina wouldn’t break (even with all of the warnings that they would)? Or – as it turns out – they didn’t seem to notice that there was a gigantic financial failure looming either.

My bet: they were hoping nobody would notice until 2009, and then they could blame it all on the Democrats. If only we had given them a few more months!

Citigroup falling like a rock – and the Bush administration fiddles

The big three auto makers. Now Citigroup have slumping stock price as people abandon the firms during this time of crisis. I’m guessing we may see 100,000 jobs lost this month – and the Bush administration seems content to sit back and let the next administration deal with it.

No major stimulus plan, no new spending to spur the economy. It’s almost like the Bush administration wants to hand the Obama administration a gigantic turd sandwich, then sit back and blame him for everything that goes bad. Hm….

Bush team: Screw the environment! Faster!

You ever wonder just what goes on in the Bush administration teams heads? Right before Bush leaves office, his team is looking to relax endangered species rules by eliminating federal wildlife scientists.

Seriously. The whole goal is “Eh – what do these scientists know, when their science and facts and stuff.”

Afghan officials pull back the curtain on the fake hunt for bin Laden

For some time, there’s been a theory that the last thing the Bush Administration wanted was for Osama bin Laden to be caught. Now there may be evidence that the Bush administration made sure bin Laden wasn’t captured:

This French documentary shows how the Americans are interested in continuing the game, a bloody and expensive game whose victims are only the unprotected and local people of our dry and dusty country. It was last year that rumours spread about this report in Kabul, but it has not been taken seriously by the media. But watching this revealing French documentary changes the rumours into disturbing facts. “Bin Laden, the failings of a manhunt”, produced by Emmanuel Razavi and Eric de Lavarene, two French filmmakers and reporters, assesses and confirms the claims of French soldiers that they could have killed Usamah within two operations, but the American forces prevented them. This film has not been broadcast publicly yet and is to be broadcast by Planet, a French network.

After all, if bin Laden was ever captured, there goes the biggest boogeyman that Bush administration ever had.

Court to Bush: No Hiding Emails, Hosers

65,000 tapes. That’s how many backups of emails the Bush administration wanted to destroy, tapes that contained evidence of naughty behavior. And now a judge has ruled that possibly millions of email messages can be recovered.

The Bush administration tried to rule that the courts didn’t have the power to tell them what to do. Turns out – nah. Constitution still works. Go figure. This might not seem like a big deal – but when you think about the evidence regarding the Valerie Plame case, the run-up to the Iraq war, perhaps even what the Bush administration knew in the days before 9-11 – then this information could become a big deal indeed.