Labeling facts as "conservative" rhetoric? That is your proof for how the Clinton admin "tried" to deal with a seriously mismanaged municipality? I feel so refuted. Ouch.
And OK, I will capitulate, the WTC were only two of the world's largest buildings. (Wanna check my spelling too?)

I will spell it out for you a little more clearly and maybe that will help you to fashion a better argument:
The haircut thing was a power move, to Clinton's credit they never did anything without thought and calculation to public reaction, to show all the competing agencies who was in charge.
The Hubble payments along with huge investments into Raytheon by administration officials and their agents, and the awarding of government contracts to them, simply show a pattern of what happened in both healthcare and education, which was evident exploitation rather then legislation to better these municipalities. These are facts, not made up to get you to "Go Bush". But to understand what is at stake today. Remember Al Gore running on the "I am going to fix education" platform? That was absolutely an indictment of his own parties failure to make any progress in 8 years of power. If you are the flippen' President of the United States then you can attempt to fix a bureaucratic mess like the FAA, no matter what party you're in, but there is just no evidence that anything was done. That coupled with the security breaches and mismanagement of security organizations like the CIA and FBI by the puppet Reno are clearly contributors to 9-11.

And psyork, why do you start with "honestly", does that mean you usually are dishonest? Dereg' was part of the problem too, Reagan even admitted the mistakes his admin made in the first four years. I have not heard any admonitions from Mr.Clinton.

I am not a Republican, I am an American. We have to hold our government responsible for it's success and failures, not play pin the tail on the donkey for partisan politics. I want airports that work and are safe, and never see anything like what happened on September 11 repeated. Mr. Vonnegut's statements are intellectually poor. And Stefan and psyork want to argue politics instead of facts. I don't expect that to change, I admit my comments are somewhat of a troll on a primarily liberal blog like boingboing.net, and I usually remain silent on debatable issues out of courtesy for the liberal readers and authors. However, some things are over the top like Vonnegut's statement, and Mr.Jones' assertions. I think that despite our political difernces that we should all have a commitment to intelectual honesty, and not become so anti this or anti that, that we begin to ignore facts.

There needs to be a new emergent ideology that is niether right nor left. Smart people will invest in that.