Bush Administration Leaves "Burrowed" Legacy

Obama has a tough job cleaning up after a devastating 8-year Bush Administration. But it seems it might be even harder due to "burrowing" of Bush flunkies within high level government jobs, even as his term is ending.

"The Bush administration will leave us with another legacy: unqualified Republican ideologues receiving appointments in various institutions, including scientific organizations, as their ship of state sinks. The rats are scuttling overboard, and are being rewarded with captaincies on any available vessel."

An example would be:

The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be "to leave wreckage behind."

"It's ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure," said James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "You'd just like to think people have more respect for the institution of government than to leave wreckage behind with these appointments."

This is Bush. Let's be real. He must have hated science when he was in grade school and wants the world to pay for his inconvenient low intellect.

Source: Steve Benen at The Washington Monthly