Is corruption enough?(PROSPECTS)
American Prospect, The, February, 2006 by Kuttner, Robert
THE 2006 MID-TERM ELECTION WILL BE AMONG the most fateful in modern history. If the Democrats take back even one house, it will end the period of one-party rule and allow Congress to fully investigate the multiple embarrassments of the Bush administration.
These fall into five broad categories: deceptive and illegal use of presidential power, plain incompetence, outright corruption, needless assaults on liberties, and using government to benefit the few rather than the many. Ripe particulars include the bungling of the planning for the Iraq occupation, the abuses at Guantanamo ...
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