Incompetence was a central theme of Bush administration critics for most of the last eight years. Hurricane Katrina and WMD claims about Iraq were the two episodes that sealed public opinion on this score.
Fatcratz differs from public opinion only in believing that government incompetence is so widespread that it is almost nonsensical to lay it at the feet of any one administration. In the cases of both Katrina and Iraq, news reports have detailed how failures were driven just as much by flawed bureaucratic structures as they were by the managerial efforts of the President and his officers.
Further, FatCratz holds that the countless small acts of incompetence collectively equal if not outweigh the overall harm brought about by large scale bungles. They are a stealth tax that steals our wealth and well-being, all the more deadly for being unknown.
Now is an excellent time to catalogue the abuses of political appointees great and small from the last administration, before we forget. And its also an excellent time for recently departed Bush appointees to put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, and record for posterity their impressions of government efficiency.
And this post's headline won't hurt our Google search results, either.
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