Good Point!

Digby notes a comment from a reader of another blog (networking!) and underscores the very perceptive point that reader made. No lesson has been learned from Katrina about making sure that professionals and experts are in place to run the business of the government. Government exists under the Bushies only to advance Republican power. All the Justice Department "politicalization, privatization, and de-professionization" has taken place after the fiascos of Iraq governance and Katrina response exposed the disastrous consequences of their governing ideology. Very likely, in Bush's mind, he thinks he is accomplishing a lot:

In response to Steve Benen's post about Bush's rambling, incoherent answers at that Townhall yesterday, one of his commenters pithily replied:


Bush leveraged a national tragedy into reelection. He’s seeded the federal government with true believers, expanded executive authority while marginalizing Congress and appointing 2 radically conservative SC judges. He’s expanded government surveillance of our phones, e-mails, library borrowings, bank accounts and medicine cabinets. He’s stalled efforts to curb global warming, cut protections once provided by the EPA, FDA, and silenced scientists who dare refute the literal word of bible or the backward beliefs of those who claim to know the mind of the almighty. The US can now torture, imprison without providing cause and prosecute without allowing a reasonable defense. He’s built bases in the middle east, and fattened the bank accounts of those whose bank accounts were already obscene. The middle class — the masses — have not been so economically impotent in decades.

For such an idiot, this guy has been awfully successful.


That's worth thinking about. He's only been an epic failure in terms of keeping the nation secure, safeguarding our constitution and making America more prosperous and successful. When you look at it from Bush's perspective, however, he's done a heckuva job.