Harper's Index January 2009- a retrospective of the Bush era

Time consuming to read, but many interesting facts that WILL one day land in a trivia game.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/01/0082319

A must read.

My favorite was the fact that Donald Rumsfeld's vacation home is a house where the first African American to run for vice-president of the United States was repeatedly beaten, as a slave.

How many ways can we count how glad we will be to see these people go? Every last one of them.

the heart of the matter

Number of Republican officials who have been investigated by the Justice Department since 2001: 196

Number of Democratic officials who have been: 890

Number of White House officials in 2006 and 2007 authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the DOJ: 711

Number of Clinton officials ever authorized to do so: 4

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Jamesbennett