The Co in BushCo is the Real Malady

Defective Yeti has it right:

If our government is like a house, Bush would be inside trashing the joint: breaking lamps, pulling over bookshelves (easy enough, given the amount of books he likely keeps on them), yanking up the carpet, and so on. He’ll leave a mess, but the next inhabitant will be able to clean it up eventually. The stuff Cheney and Rove have done, though–be it the avocation of torture, the obsession with secrecy, or the stacking the judicial branch–it more akin to a toxic black mold, that sort that infests a house for generations, rendering the place unlivable.