Various messes that King George "The Decider" and his party will leave to the next.
The Reagan attack on the judiciary lives on:
- Supremes have granted cert on The Voting Rights Act
- The hack-job on personnel, after eight years, will take your breath away
- A Nation that still cannot hold a close election. (The five stages ...)
- No "end" (or end in sight) to any of the military conflicts started, likely to pile up to more than a trillion dollars.
- Circa two convictions for terrorism and the rest kicked down the road, probably rendered impossible to fix, because of a failed legal strategy.
- An almost complete 'round trip' on the Israel-Palestine issue(s).
- A Lebanon policy approach in tatters.
- Zero results out of their Syria posturing. Ditto Iran.
- Alienated the Russians, in a serious way. Ditto the Chinese, especially on the militarization of space.
- A potentially destabilizing exceptionalism with India.
- More of the social security "surplus" spent than any President.
- An unpaid-for, nearly trillion dollar fiscal "stimulus" for two-wars, because of a 'no new taxes' pledge.
- A huge step-up in the structural cost of the military and a significant run-up in the size of the standing army, while creating a deficit of career officers and polarizing the officer ranks, with Rumsfeld-led fealty checks.
- An 'energy policy' that brought us Enron, soaring nat gas prices and spending at the University of Texas.
They did manage to keep North Korea to just one nuclear test.
