Bush-Cheney administration

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This page covers the actions of George W. Bush's administration while he was President of the United States.

Actions

• Changed a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit in only four years (while continuing to reiterate the ever-popular big lie about "tax-and-spend Liberals") – see US Presidential Administration Budgets)
• The No Child Left Behind Act
• The USA PATRIOT Act
• The Invasion & Occupation of Iraq
  • Abu Ghraib abuses
• Lackadaisical response to Hurricane Katrina
• Skyrocketing secrecy: "Government secrecy has reached a historic high, even compared to the Cold War (San Diego Union July 3). Federal departments are classifying documents at a rate of 125 per minute... or two per second... and inventing new kinds of classification, while declassification efforts that peaked under the Clinton Administration have slowed to a crawl." ([1] 2005-09-02 entry)
• Repeated incidents of action against whistleblowers:
  • Bunnatine Greenhouse: The Washington Post The Carpetbagger Report (possibly problematic links: [2] [3])
  • 2004-11-14: Bush Plans to Purge the 'Disloyal' at CIA: "The White House has ordered the new CIA director ... to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush..." (a clear case of Equating the Individual with the Office) (also another source)
  • ...and that guy whose undercover agent wife was exposed after he said something...
• Repeated misrepresentation and suppression of scientific data (Science Abuse)

Opinion

• 2005-10-17 issue of Newsweek: On K Street Conservatism by George F. Will: "The fact that none of those responsible for the postwar planning, or lack thereof, in Iraq have been sacked suggests – no, shouts – that in Washington today there is no serious penalty for serious failure."