1) The passage and signing of McCain-Feingold;
2) The Meiers nomination;
3) The curious inattention to the border problem, with our national security at stake. Who among us would not have started building a fence on 9/12/01?
4) The continued immigration of large numbers of young Arab males;
5) This country’s continued, and highly exasperating, dependence on foreign oil;
6) The continued kowtowing to the minority party on matters of foreign policy, including, but not limited to, the abandonment of the Bush doctrine;
7) The Administration’s timidity in the Gulf region following the fall of Hussein;
8) The Administration’s timidity in defending itself on the matter of WMD;
9) The Administration’s timidity in holding Syria and Iran accountable for the foreign murderers that enter Iraq across their borders – and the accompanying habit of drawing a line in the sand, then another line, then another line…
Not to mention:
The largest entitlement program in 40 years
Increasing the Federal role in education, which is not constitutionally authorized (and not even getting vouchers in the deal)
The failure to defend itself on Katrina dn point out the greater errors of the Democrat mayor and governor
Massive ag spending
Spending overall: domestic discretionary spending has increased 8.2 percent per year under Bush, up from 2.3 percent per year under the Klintoon regime.
Amnesty for illegals, whcih stands a better chance of getting passed today than it did last week.
Unwillingness to do anything for the pro-life cause.
Kowtowing to the Red Chinese, from apologizing to them after they shot down our airplane and held our people hostage to letting them board our naval ships and watch our military in action.
I'm sure I've also missed a few.
And for putting FEMA under Homeland Security, where political pressure forced FEMA to concentrate on terrorist attack response over disaster resopnse in general. But you are right in that the locals need to coordinate with FEMA for it to be most effective.