Bush by the Numbers

For the sake of argument, let's assume that even half of these statistics are misleading or even out-and-out wrong. I still say, "HOLY SHIT!" Here are a few choice examples; I beg you to go read the rest:

1 Number of Bush administration public statements on national security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned Al Qaeda.
104 Number of Bush administration public statements on national security and defense in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.

79 Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
3 Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through special U.S.-Saudi "Visa Express" program.
140 Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.

$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash.

75 Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's sweeping 2003 cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.

$489bn The U.S. trade deficit in 2003, the worst in history for a single year.

$5.6tr Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
$7.22tr U.S. national debt by mid-2004.

9.3m Number of U.S. unemployed in April 2004.
2.3m Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three years of the Bush administration.
22m Number of jobs gained during Clinton's eight years in office.

0 Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean water, pollution, or environment in his 2004 State of the Union speech.
1 Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's 600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" presented in 2003.

Comments

[Brooke]

Where did you get this "by the numbers" info? It's my parent's 33rd anniversary this Friday and I'm writing their card and want to put something on the side about "33 by the numbers" - like number of times susan lucci's been nominated for an emmy. You know, really intellectual things like that.