It was a tough year for President George W. Bush, marked by a drop in public support for the Iraq war, legislative setbacks on Social Security and arctic oil drilling and a politically disastrous initial response to Hurricane Katrina but you wouldn't know it from the propaganda issued by the White House Thursday.
According to a White House "fact" sheet, 2005 was a year full of "accomplishments" -- six, single-spaced pages worth distributed to reporters as Bush left town for his holiday break. The document, long on hyperbole and short on facts, ignored what most of the country already knows went wrong in the past year. |