When an elephant leaves a mess, it is a mountain or stream of stink that takes a crew to clean up.

 

The GOP and the criminal Bush regime have left huge piles of it everywhere.

 

Jonathan Stein at Mother Jones makes a list from a GAO reports of just some of the dangerous, damaging messes that Bush and company have dropped during eight years in Washington for the Obama administration to clean up and sanitize.  It's a list of the damage this Repug regime caused and left at its various federal departments and agencies.   The only thing missing is the blatant Bush politicization of these agencies.

 

Here's a sample:

"The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress that frequently exposes waste, incompetence, and corruption in the federal government, supplemented its proposed questions with summaries of problems in the executive branch. The result is a catalogue of hundreds of unresolved issues that the Bush administration is leaving behind for Obama and his administration..

"The report, which is divided by department, is strictly limited to what the GAO calls "basic management capabilities," which means it raises questions about personnel, resource distribution, IT, and "results-oriented decision making." Problems like the politicization of the Justice Department are not mentioned. But this report serves as a peephole into the myriad internal problems of the executive branch, depicting a federal bureaucracy that is rife with mismanagement, inefficiency, and faulty communication practices—all of this combining to jeopardize both the nation's health and security.

 

"Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA is portrayed in the report as mismanaged and out of date. Criticizing both the VA and the DOD for their inability to meet the health care needs of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the GAO says the VA has huge inventories of pending disability claims and takes far too long to process them. It knocks the department's eligibility criteria for receiving benefits, and notes that its system for assessing the severity of disabilities is outmoded."

 

Read the rest; it's not long but informative.  Just hold your nose.