GOP MIS-STEPS IDENTIFIED

It seems that we are hearing on a daily basis repeated issues and situations that point to the administration, and GOP ruling bodies. This is in large part due to the consternation and investigations by the press (obviously the Washington Post is working overtime), and the newly Democratically controlled House and Senate. Here is a brief summary, as I see it.

Appointing Randall Tobias to oversee our efforts to control and eradicate HIV/AIDS, who all the while was a frequent customer of Washington madams and call girls.

Ditto for Mark Foley, who chaired the Senate counsel for missing and exploiting children, all the while laboring to seduce congressional pages.

Not listening to your Director of the CIA, George Tenet on concerns he had over the Middle Eastern situation, especially his concerns over Iraq and Iran.

Appointing a FEMA director whose only experience was as a director of horse shows, then publically endorsing, and supporting him in the initial stages of Katrina relief, which was, and remains an absolute disaster, up to/ and including the rejection of some forms of foreign aid, and the failure to collect on foreign offers of monetary assistance.

Appointing the Florida Secretary of State as your state election campaign secretary(a brilliant maneuver in hindsight).

Appointing / retaining the services of eight State special prosecutors, who you later charged with either poor performances, or incompetence ultimately leading to their terminations.

The deletion of e-mail transmissions, which may have a direct connection to the Gonzalez inquiry currently taking place in the Senate.

Rejecting calls (and subpoenas) from Congress for public testimony of many of your administration as a result of oversight committee hearings, thus appearing to be hiding transgressions.

Appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as your Defense Secretary.

An administration so mired in controversy that an entire state leveled the following charges: "Bush and Cheney's actions in the U.S. and abroad, including in Iraq, "raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust."

Hastily, and foolishly sending troops into Iraq, rather than trust the U.N. inspection process, whose findings showed no WMD's. Trusting / producing "faulty" intelligence reports in order to justify said invasion, then charging your dissenters with being unpatriotic, and an enemy to our troops and enablers and border line supporters of terrorism.

I could go on and on, but does anybody see a pattern here?