PROPOSAL - LET'S JUST TRY TO COUNT THE BUSH DEBACLES:

CRITERIA - rather than an isolated slip or error, these multifarious debacles must be a direct result of White House Policy, with substantial consequences to the nation. No particular ranking, please add freely. FORM: Debacle, Witty Restatement , as in:

1. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (No Child Taken Along)

2. PLAME CASE (Let's Burn Intelligence Bridges When We Get to Them)

3. WITHDRAWING FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

4. THE DARPA CHAPTER:
a) Hiring Poindexter To Institute Betting on Terrorism Events (Ironic - might have been useful)
b) Total Information Awareness. (Remind Everyone Why 2004 Will Be like 1984)

5. AFGHANISTAN (Putting the Opium Trade Back on Top)

6. MEDICARE PLAN ACCOUNTING (Shh...Don't tell anyone about the $150 Billion)
[This just in - White House implicated in plot to hide true cost of Medicare plan. Amazing. -MoF]

7. THE LAST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS (We Must Put a Stop to High School Steroids)

8. KYOTO WITHDRAWAL (Fuck You, Earth and Every Country on It)

9. Withdrawal From the ABM Treaty (Because Who Needs a Stable Russia?)

10. Title IX Funding Attack (Because Equality is so 1971)

[11. Featuring 9/11 in campaign ads.
"Do you think it is appropriate or inappropriate for political candidates to run campaign ads that use images depicting the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks?" Form A (N=503, MoE ± 5)

Appropriate 30%
Inappropriate 66
No opinion 4

12. A stem cell policy worthy of medieval Spain. - MoF]