Bush by the Numbers

Posted by admin on January 18, 2009 under Environment, Internet, Politics, Science | Comments are off for this article

As we bid a fond farewell to George Walker Bush, here’s a sort of retrospective. A Bush by the Numbers if you will, excerpted from Harpers Index.

Days Bush was President: 2922
Days Bush was on Vacation: 964

Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98

Days since the federal government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed: 0

Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20

Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50

Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069

Number of all U.S. war veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003: 452,677

Estimated number of juveniles whom the United States has detained as enemy combatants since 2002: 2,500

Minimum number of detainees who were tortured to death in U.S. custody: 8

Minimum number of extraordinary renditions that the United States has made since 2006: 200
Percent of all U.S. income gains during the Bush Administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 75

Number of Republican officials who have been investigated by the Justice Department since 2001: 196
Number of Democratic officials who have been: 890

Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work since 2002: 60

Percent of the five directors of the No Child Left Behind reading program with financial ties to a curriculum they developed: 80

Amount by which the federal government has underfunded its estimated cost to implement NCLB: $71,000,000,000

Rank of Bush among U.S. presidents with the highest disapproval rating: 1