Bush's Baked Beans

A few of Bush's many, many failures and lies:

• Misleading us, saying Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction"
• Breaking the Geneva Conventions by using torture
• Telling the 45 million uninsured Americans to just go to the emergency room
• Repeated implying a connection between Saddam and 9/11, ignoring clear contrary evidence
• Failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina
• Launching a war that's killed 4,150 Americans and wounded more than 30, 000
• Challenging Iraqi insurgents to attack U.S. troops: "Bring 'em on"
• Granting no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq
• Hiring an unqualified crony to run FEMA
• Praising crony's performance: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"
• Neglecting reconstruction of New Orleans' homes and levees Promising American troops would be greeted as liberators
• Declaring "Mission Accomplished" and later blaming the banner on troops
• Cherry-picking facts about WMDs in Iraq, then blaming the CIA
• Promising the Iraq war would lower gas prices
• Claiming the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes" in 2005
• Allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape
• Launching a war that's killed countless Iraqi civilians
• Using Terri Schiavo for political gain
• Attempting to alter Constitution to allow discrimination against gay people
• Wiretapping our phones without court order
• Stealing the 2000 election (remember Katherine Harris, voter purges, and the Supreme Court?)
• Ignoring, then concealing the pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
• Enforcing abstinence-only programs in public schools
• Rejecting the Kyoto Treaty to stop climate change
• Giving tax cuts to the rich while spending record amounts
• Failing seniors with the costly Medicare prescription drug benefit
• Swiftboating John Kerry
• Outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to retaliate for truth about Iraq's WMDs
• Spending $341 million a day in Iraq (Iraq has a budget surplus)
• Neglecting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center
• Allowing Afghanistan to fall into chaos, with the Taliban and al Qaeda regaining control
• Holding prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay
• Covering up torture at Abu Ghraib
• Turning a budget surplus into massive budget deficit
• Letting more than a million homes go into foreclosure—the highest rate ever recorded
• Holding secret meetings with Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Shell, and BP to set energy policy
• Letting gas prices double while resisting fuel efficiency and clean energy
• Setting the record for most days on vacation (1020 days, or more than one-third of his entire eight years!) by any president in U.S. history