Getting even the little things wrong

In case you thought the Bush administration was somehow, somewhere, doing something right, try listening to the following episode of "This American Life"

In act one, someone builds a fence too close to the US/Canadian border and starts an international incident. The Bush administration interferes in a 100 year old stable cooperative arrangement with Canada, ignores treaty obligations, claims an international agency is a US government entity, litigates control of the agency, and fails to pay much of its share of the agency's costs. Paradoxically, following this course will likely make border security more expensive.

In act two, the government moves to deport widows who are the mothers of US citizens. These women were married to US citizen and were denied citizenship solely because because their citizenship hearings just happened to be scheduled for a date after the death of their spouse.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1236

After Iraq, Katrina, and everything else, this should surprise no one, but I'm aghast.