This started in 2007, so yes, it is Bush’s fault...to the degree that any Prez has control over the Lefties infiltrating the Federal Bureaucracies
Precisely the problem. As, so well documented in the "Failure Factory" by Bill Gertz.
I propose the next President implement the rubber room concept from the NY public schools. The civil service has a right to a lifetime job, but, not that job. Transfer them to a job where the only thing they have to is show up, no phones, no personal phones. Failure to show up is cause for dismissal. It is cheaper to pay them to do nothing, than, to screw things up. My first thought was a fenced in college campus in Vermont, but, it is becoming evident that Gitmo is increasingly less occupied.