The DU Wayback Machine.......

[DearAbby]

The GOP had expected President Obama to fix all the problems facing this country in less than 50 days taking office....


Come, step into the wayback machine here on DU. Watch your step...What was Dubbya Doing way back in 2001, during his first 50 days?

Lets see what you all can find out...wait, Wait I see it, VACATIONING? Avoiding meetings about the Terrorist problem? Clearing Brush in Crawford?...Taking shots of Jack in the tool shed?

[Kali]

1. all that brush clearing all the time made me think of cocaine use for some reason

[DearAbby]

2. Nonsense, Crop dusting. -nt

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. Apologizing to China for hitting their slow, lumbering fighter with our super-agile spy plane.

And trying to figure out a way to bomb the crap out of Iraq.

[Bozita]

7. Bingo. The first of so many Bush embarrassments

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

9. I don't think that was an embarrasment.

I think it was intentional. Not the collision, of course, but the way it was handled afterward.
We never saw that plane again, did we? China got a hold on some nifty technology they didn't have before that incident.

[Bozita]

10. I remember photos showing the plane "dismantled for shipping" back to the States

Funny, I just went looking for those. Couldn't find 'em.

[BurtWorm]

4. Unlike Obama, Bush inherited a system that was fully functional.

He didn't have to fix anything--in the positive meaning of the word, that is. He intherited peace, prosperity, a surplus, a counterterrorism policy that was keeping al Qaeda in check. And he used all of his 8 years to fuck it all up.

[tridim]

5. Bush probably wasn't doing much, but his people were busy..

figuring out sly ways to steal massive amounts of middle-class taxpayer money for their rich friends.

[Terran]

6. Let's see...abrogating Kyoto Treaty....

and trying to allow cyandie or something in public drinking water? That's about all I remember (basically a series of public relations disasters).

[Greyhound]

8. Directing Richard Clark to find a reason to invade Iraq. n/t

[JHB]

11. Ari was pretending not to fan the "Clinton Trashed the WH" stories...

...which was prdictably eating up news time, leaving His Squandership et al. free to not be covered.

[bluestateguy]

12. These are the same people who are still blaming Bill Clinton for 9/11

That was almost 8 months after Bush was sworn in. Yet it was all Clinton's fault?