Frank Rich: A Winning Columnist for the New York Times

From his New York Times column dated Jan. 12, 2009:

The Bush Era Has Been an Eight-Year-Long Madoff-Style Ripoff:

Three days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with the revelation of another $50 billion rip-off. This time the vanished loot belonged to American taxpayers. That was our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction — a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad.

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