Do you remember the very FIRST inauguration day story of January 2001?
No, it was not the eggs being thrown at Shrub's motorcade, preventing his strutting up the street. ShrubCo was able to manipulate protest images, most of America first saw that outraged footage later in "Farenheit 9-11".
The very first White House report was how the outgoing Clinton staff had prankishly removed ALL the "W" keys off the keyboards. By the time rightwing radio squeezed the story, file cabinets were ransacked and feces smeared on the office walls.
The meme was so effective, I heard it from a Fox radio caller last week. It does not take much imagination to predict the January 2009 janitorial situation, as the thieves cover their tracks.
(AP) Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.
So, before we let the vandals take the handles, I propose we start making a list, checking it thrice...
Back in late June, I diaried how ShrubCo has broken the Census, with one particular paragraph from the NYTimes article having ominous overtones:
Committees in the House have been holding hearings to vet the problems and monitor progress. But with each hearing, it becomes more obvious that prospects for a robust census are unlikely to improve considerably unless and until the next president brings in new leaders. They are needed at the Commerce Department, which includes the Census Bureau, and at the bureau itself, which — like so many federal agencies — has been mismanaged and demoralized during the Bush years.
Hey Nightshift, lets get into the Borg mode. In the diary below, regarding the Huffington Post, I commented how her catagorization was a plus:
Her "asset" is the organizational breakdowns Breaking, Political, Media, Business, etc (the list keeps growing sideways) is a positive.
I like that the top 5-10 stories in each category are there, knowing I can then check for more detail in the favorites for rounding out my own opinion.
We've been insulted as "keyboard terrorists" hiding in our mothers basements, decried as "do-nothings" during the official door knocking/registration efforts. In my 70% red congressional district, pre-election strategy about influencing friends and neighbors has a different flavor, we are all doing what we have to do, we are the sum of all the different parts.
I have previously seen a test of our cooperative talents, when we were trying to find Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment, as no list existed when we were demanding it.
I propose we try to make a master list of the TOP 3 disgraces, corruptions, cronyistic examples of ShrubCo and the Texas Mafia, in each federal department. Some of the betrayals, like in the Department of Justice, might have up to twenty, but the point of THIS diary is to place the importance on the comment section, not my amateur opinions. However, we could all kick in some "iirc" links.
There are so many folks on Kos who are specialists, better organizers, "get to the gist" of it. Let's call them the "automatic recommends".
We have experts in Commerce, Environment, Justice, State, Economy....I invite them to get the ball rolling, see if we can build a consensus encyclopedia/reference of "insulting performances" in each of the 14 Cabinet Departments and 4 Administration Offices.
There are going to be bigger betrayals than missing keyboard letters when the bathtub drowners leave town, McCain is hiring culprits like Gramm and Bolton to continue the rape of government.
It would be MOST EXCELLENT if comments could catagorize the Parent remark under "State", "Defense", etc., so the replies could buildup in a HuffBorg organizational manner.
Can we create clarity from chaos? I have my own personal opinions of the worst of the worst administration sins, but would rather see if a community master list is do-able.
Plus my dialup connection is on it's second day of hinkiness, and I have to bikes to motorize once the sun gets on the horizon.
So, Nightshift, what say YOU?
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Attorney General Michael Mukasey
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary of Agriculture Edward Schafer
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Sec of Health &Human Services Michael Leavitt
Secretary of H U D Steve Preston
Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
Administrator of the E P A Stephen Johnson
Office of Management and Budget Jim Nussle
National Drug Control Policy John Walters
United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab