I don't know about you, but I am starting to suffer from Bush fatigue. I'm Bushed. But I know that is just stinkin' thinkin', and I must resist such incipient sloth.

The main problem is the sheer volume of outrages and atrocities by this administration that we are confronted with every week. The number must be approaching one best expressed in scientific notation (which I never learned very well in school).

In days of yore, the public would be confronted with scant few outrages to bitch about during any given presidential administration. Only the occasional Teapot Dome (Harding), Checkers-speech-prompting fundraising scam (Nixon under Eisenhower), botched Bay of Pigs (Kennedy), trumped-up Tonkin Gulf (Johnson), Pentagon Papers (Nixon), Watergate (Nixon), botched Iran rescue (Carter), Iran-Contra (Reagan), Willie Horton ad (Bush pere), and Blue Dress Stain (Clinton) would divert our citizenry's sustained attention away from its normal producing, consuming, shitting, showering and shaving.

But W. OMG. The outrages started even before he took office. What he did to John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary (phoning voters with the story that McCain sired an illigitimate brown baby) set the motif for the endless theme and variations that has followed. To say that the electoral process that installed him in 2000 was an electoral process insults all presidential electoral processes that preceded it.

I would like to develop a list of the bad things this bad man has done. Just so I can keep it straight in my head, and so it all does not wash down the memory hole. I need your help with this. Let's confine the list to things that have been done or intentionally left undone during Bush's administrations (thereby omitting such matters as his hot-iron branding of frat-pledge buttocks at Yale and his AWOL National Guard status). So here goes. I will start, in no particular order of importance or chronology, and I will attribute to Bush the acts and omissions of his agents, capos, and legislative toadies (because the buck stops -- where?):

- Torture at Abu Ghraib

- Torture at Guantanamo

- Torture all over the planet in an archipelago of secret gulags

- Torture justified in ridiculous legal memorandum

- Elevation of signer of said memorandum to Attorney General

- Ignoring the pre-911 Daily Press Briefings

- Patriot Act

- Lying us into the Iraq War (no WMD, no al Qaida tie-in)

- Katrina response

- Fraudulent speech at New Orleans' Jackson Square, adding insulting hope to injury

- Outing Valerie Plame

- No-bid contracts for the likes of Halliburton

- Medal of Freedom for George Tenet

- Refusal to sign up for International Court of Justice (because he knew he would be committing war crimes)

- Use of chemical weapons at Fallujah

- Near-total destruction of Fallujah, dwarfing the My Lai incident in Vietnam

- Bombing of Al Jazeera offices in Iraq, killing reporters

- Telling Blair he wanted to bomb Al Jazeera central office in Qatar

- Letting Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora

- Assisting Bin Laden's family and friends escape the U.S. in the week after 911

- Carlyle Group (Bush and bin Laden families' golden goose for war profiteering)

- Arresting people at Bush rallies and Social Security "conversations" for their tee-shirts, bumper stickers or the cut of their jibs

- Attack on Social Security

- Diebold

- Voter purges in swing states Florida and Ohio

- Multifarious nefariousness in Ohio 2004, resulting in Kerry's ignominious, servile concession speech

- Repeal of forest protections ("Healthy Forests" initiative)

- Rollback of clear air standards ("Clean Skies" initiative)

- Effort to push through oil drilling in Arctic wildlife refuge

- Refusal to participate in international climate change discussions (or international discussions on much of anything else, preferring instead to lecture international authorities in butchered English)

- Refusal to acknowledge global warming

- The shrinking Coalition of the Willing

- "Shock and Awe"

- Over 100,000 Iraqis killed (how many more maimed?)

- Over 2100 American soldiers killed (how many more maimed?)

- Over 50,000 American troops who will come back mentally deranged from what they have seen and done (Rep. Murtha mentioned this the other day)

- Purging of CIA critics

- Firing of FBI whistleblower

- Refusal to participate in global conference on land mines

- EPA reversal of sewage standards, allowing massive dumping

- Permitting oil drilling in national parks

- Tax breaks for the wealthiest, even while marching off to war

- "Mission Accomplished" stunt

- Massive budget deficits that threaten economic collapse (even Greenspan hints at this)

- Did I mention massive budget deficits? After he was handed a huge budget surplus by Clinton. Bush has the Midas touch in reverse - everything he has ever touched has turned to caca. Every business (don't mention the Texas Rangers - he traded Sosa). Every political office (just ask Texans)

- What happened to Iraq's oil money?

- Speaking of which, what about that Wolfowitz guy (who said Iraq would pay for its own war)? Now he heads the World Bank!

- $9 billiion of Iraq money unaccounted for on Bremer's watch

- Refusal to allow meaningful stem-cell research

- Backing "Intelligent Design" fantasy

- Terry Schiavo

- Anti-gay-marriage proposed Constitutional amendment

- Numerous other instances of kow-towing to the religious right

- Enron (taking campaign contributions from "Kenny-boy" and his klepto-company)

- Indefinite detention of American citizens without counsel and without charge

- The Downing Street Memo (remember that?), showing Bush/Cheney "fixed" the intelligence around the policy

- Depleted uranium munitions

- Harriet Myers

- That Alito guy, who can be counted on to ban abortion and support torture and permanent imprisonment of non-citizens without trial

- Allowing coal companies to drop mercury on all of us

- Believing (really?) that God instructed him to kill in Iraq

- "I've got to get on with my life"

- Refusal to listen to any military brass who are unwilling to bring good news

- Refusal to talk to a grieving mother

- Refusal to attend soldiers' funerals

- Blocking photographs of coffins returning from Iraq

- Armstrong Williams

- Jeff Gannon

- Swift-boating

- Spending Dept of Education money on fascist rock and roll for high school students

- Karl Rove

I could go on, but I have run out of time just now. This list has barely scratched the surface. So help me out, won't you?

(Note to right-wing trollers: Please feel free to assemble competing lists of all the wonderful things you believe Bush has done for our country. I would really like to see that.)