Yes, Transparency International has released their annual rankings on corruption and for the first time in its history, the United States is not in the top 20 least corrupt nations, having slipped significantly in the last year.

The reasons? Mostly an ongoing lack of regulation and enforcement of the law, ie, the banksters are still being allowed to get away with everything.

Needless to say, this continuing degradation is no doubt somehow Bush’s fault. Look forward, not backward!