Can’t Do Nuthin’ For Ya Man

by matt at 8:00 am on June 29th, 2005 in Bush Man Date, Podium Spin

After being off about the United States’ coal supply by a few orders of magnitude, further proof that the Bush administration can’t do anything right:

  • On June 7, the President said:

    Over the past four years, we have tripled our assistance to Sub-Sahara Africa, and now America accounts for nearly a quarter of all the aid in the region.

    But reality sets in:

    U.S. aid to Africa has increased 56 percent over the last four years, but has not tripled as President Bush claimed earlier this month, according to a report on Monday by the Washington-based Brookings Institution

  • One of the few Bush proposals that made any sense, the guest worker program, caused an explosion in illegal immigration just by being announced. But rather than use that as a prod to get the plan through Congress (who hates the idea) the administration covered up the data:

    “The results indicated that President Bush’s proposal had actually lured greater numbers of illegal immigrants to violate the law,” the group said in a 16-page report on the Border Patrol survey. It said the Bush administration aborted the survey on Jan. 27, 2004, within a few weeks after it began, because it was producing “politically inconvenient and/or potentially embarrassing data.” The U.S. government never issued a report based on the survey.

    “The White House directed Homeland Security public affairs officers to deliberately withhold information from the public and the media about the Border Patrol survey and a related spike in illegal immigration,” Judicial Watch said, citing documents it obtained under the FOIA.

    • Well, at least the grownups are in charge.

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