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As we gear up to inaugurate a new president, for our January/February issue the Prospect took a look at the Bush years and surveyed the damage his administration has done to the federal government.
In order to roll back the damage Bush has done over the past eight years, we must have some idea of its scope. In the following pages, we survey some of the systematic ways the Bush administration undermined the federal government, in the hope that the new administration can begin to repair the damage.With reporting from nine journalists, we cataloged many examples of the Bush administration juking the stats, suppressing science, rewriting the rules, hiring friends and firing enemies, privatizing and outsourcing, church-ifying the state, appointing industry cronies, and de-funding dissenters. The results show just how daunting a task faces the Obama administration.Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
