- In exchange for large U.S. oil companies gaining access to occupied territories, Bush reportedly gave $43 million of your tax dollars to the Taliban in May of 2001 - only 4 months before their September 11th attacks on the United States!
- Bush had no concern about terrorist attacks on the U.S. before 9/11/01 (see #12 for more info).
- Bush wholeheartedly supported the infamous "Patriot Act," which infringes on most of your constitutional rights. In addition, he is an outspoken supporter of the "Patriot Act II."
- The Bush Regime failed to protect the people of Baghdad from looting, riots, bombings, and other undue circumstances, following the fall of the city - so that the oil ministry would be heavily guarded by U.S. troops.
- Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Treaty, a global warming agreement between major world powers, signed in 1997.
- Bush banned federal aid to any international group offering abortions or abortion counseling, even if their funding from those projects came from other sources. THE HYPOCRISY HAS SPOKEN… although the Bush Regime has been attacking abortion rights in the U.S. too...
- Bush used his presidential powers to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax for corporations. All taxes paid under the AMT since its 1987 inception were refunded to the corporations. Does anyone else smell Bush's campaign finance scheme?
- CRIMINAL ALERT!!! Bush appointed Elliott Abrams to the National Security Council. Abrams was convicted during the Reagan administration for Iran-Contra ties. Do you really feel safe with a convicted criminal helping to oversee national security?
- Bush proposed to nominate the attorney responsible for the court case that weakened the Americans with Disabilities Act, Jeffrey Sutton, to judgeship in a federal appeals court.
- Bush turned the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on the U.S. into a scheme to justify severely limiting civil rights and attacking the Constitution (see #3), and to avert public attention from the extreme economic threats the Bush Regime has invoked upon the millions of middle-class, working-class, and poor Americans, while giving break after break to large corporations and rich individuals.
- Of Bush's proposed $2 trillion tax cut 43% goes to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
- After Bush's "election" was officially announced, President Clinton requested numerous meetings with Bush - specifically to discuss terrorists threats and making them a priority of Bush's Regime. Bush refused to meet with Pres. Clinton, but allowed one of his staff "underlings" to talk to Clinton instead. Not surprisingly, Bush never bothered to find out what Clinton had to say.
- Bush cut $35 million in funding for doctors to receive advanced pediatric training. Is this him saying, "No child left behind, unless they're ill"??
- Bush has already packed the federal courts with radical conservative judges - Charles Pickering, Pricilla Owens, and Miguel Estrada - to name a few...
- Bush loved Enron! To prove it, he appointed Thomas White as the Army Secretary. White is a former Enron executive who conveniently sold his stock after an Enron official contacted him. Oh yeah, and he is under criminal investigation for the Enron thing!
- Bush used his infinite "wisdom" to completely halt international negotiations designed to monitor and prevent the production of biological and chemical weapons.
- Bush refused to federally fund the continued clean up of a uranium-slag heap in Utah. Oh well, the large Mormon population there doesn't care if their kids come out with birth defects and die at a young age - do they??
- The Bush Regime took an anti-human rights stance in the U.S. and abroad, by treating basic human rights as an obstacle of setting up civic security. Who needs freedom anyway?
- Bush leaves abused and neglected children behind by cutting $15.7 million that was supposed to aid states in investigating their cases. As long as they're educated, who cares how they're treated, eh, Dumbya!?
- Bush used the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on the U.S. to create the Department of Homeland Security. Ironically, Hitler also created such an office, the Reichshauptsicherheitamt, or "Main Office of Homeland Security," and look where he took Germany. True Americans, BEWARE!!!
- Bush lied to the American public and Congress about the Taliban's motives in the 9/11/01 attacks in order to gain approval of extremist foreign policies and shield their eyes from the true dangers of the "Patriot Act."
- Bush repealed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, while spending billions of tax dollars building a large national missile defense.
- Bush shows his true opinion on affirmative action, by appointing outspoken affirmative action opponent Kay Cole James to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
- Bush nominated a lawyer for a teen sex video distribution company, Harvey Pitts, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Isn't that an abomination, Dumbya?
- Bush and Cheney both refused to testify under oath - or by themselves - to the 9/11 Commission. What do you think they are trying to hide from the public?
- After screwing up that nation's economy to the point of a record high number of jobless Americans, Bush cut $200 million in funding to help retrain dislocated workers. Oh well, if they're jobless, they can't pay their inflated working-class taxes, now can they?
- Bush proposed a measure to use eminent domain to the government to seize private property for power lines.
- Bush took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
- After the U.N. questioned Bush's "war on terrorism," the Bush Regime decided the nation should act with a small group of other nations stupid enough to believe the "weapons of mass destruction" fables.
- More judicial horror... Bush nominated the leading critic of the separation of church and state, Michael McConnell, to a federal judgeship.
- Bush's oil buddies celebrated when he nominated J. Steven Giles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Giles was an oil and coal lobbyist!
- After brother Jeb "guaranteed Florida" in the 2000 elections, thousands of eligible voters in the state were mysteriously turned away from the polls. Bush and co. denies this ever happened, takes the election, and screws the world...
- Bush cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing.
- Undermining a Clinton-era agreement, Bush gave $95 million to North Korea for their nuclear programs and waived the part of the agreement that required inspections to ensure no weapons-grade plutonium was being hidden.
- Bush adds another passionate opponent of civil rights to his list by nominating Terrence Boyle to a federal judgeship.
- Looking for a little more waste in America? Try Bush proposing to ease environmental considerations for permits for refineries, nuclear plants, and hydroelectric dam construction.
- Bush nominated Linda Fisher - an executive for Monsanto - to the Environmental Protection Agency. Monsanto is one of the largest farming and pesticide biotechnology companies in the world.
- "There is no gap in gender pay," implies Bush Council of Economic Advisers appointee Diana Roth.
- Bush cut $700 million in capital funds for public housing repairs.
- Promises, promises... Or outright lies! Bush promised $15 billion in AIDS funding for Africa in his 2003 State of the Union Address, then "accidentally" left it out of the budget.
- Bush eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
- In a Supreme Court Case, Bush opposed affirmative action at Michigan State.
- Just because he can't read more than 5 words at a time, Bush is working to ensure you won't be able to - by cutting federal spending on public libraries by $39 million.
- Faith-based idiocy! Bush created $4 million in federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs - but only for religious groups and non-secular equivalents.
- Eliminating workers' rights and environmental safety, Bush renegotiated a free trade agreement with Jordan.
- Big business buddies love this one: Bush proposed to reverse a federal regulation to protect 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
- More Iran-Contra ties... Bush appointed unindicted high-level Iran-Contra figure, John Negroponte, as the United Nations Ambassador.
- Even more Iran-Contra ties... Bush appointed unindicted high-level Iran-Contra figure, Otto Reich, as the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.
- In these scandalous times of war crimes committed by Americans with possible ties to the executive staff, it's not hard to figure out why Bush renounced U.S. support for an International Criminal Court and aggressively campaigned to exempt all American personnel from its jurisdiction. He threatened to pull American support from all U.N. peacekeeping operations unless he got his way...
- More reductions for the good of the corporations... Bush cut 28% of government funding for researching cleaner, more efficient automobiles.
- Too bad Bush isn't an endangered species - he might not have nominated an advocate for repealing the Endangered Species Act, Bennett Raley, as the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
- Bush ran from his duties, so he's not a veteran. That's probably why he cut the Veterans' Administration budget by $25 billion.
- Many of Bush's buddies own oil companies, so it's not at all shocking that he cut government funding to research renewable energy sources by 50%!
- Nuclear Bush undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ben Treaty by supporting testing of new nuclear weapons and refusing to rule out a nuclear first strike on non-nuclear nations.
- Bush doesn't like women, or so one can assume following his closure of the White House Office for Women's Health Initiative and Outreach.
- Who cares about the environment? Not Bush, he cut $500 million from the Environmental Protection Agency's budget.
- More hatred of women!? Bush suspended U.S. support for the U.N.'s family planning programs and stopped short of supporting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
- How about all-out opposing the U.N.? Maybe Bush is just like his Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John Bolton, who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the United Nations.
- Bush has refused to release federal funding designed to provide for stem cell research projects.
- Thanks to Bush, federal employees can have Viagra but no contraceptives, due to his cut of a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage.
- Create an international offensive against the spread of AIDS? Nah, Bush refused to participate and helped his buddies in the pharmaceutical business capitalize by increasing costs of life-saving medications.
- Bush suspended rules requiring rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. Gee, do you think your tax dollars will end up paying for the clean ups?
- A little controversy in the Bush Regime... Bush allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast of eastern Florida. Which one(s) of Bush's oil buddies benefited from this!!??
- More cuts for the poor... Bush cut a federal program to provide childcare to low-income families transitioning from welfare to work. Anybody checked into the cost of childcare lately? Apparently, Bush likes to keep poor Americans poor.
- Bush's America will stay uniformed about potential consequences from chemical plant accidents, thanks to his cancellation of a proposal to increase the public's access to the information.
- Undermining world peace, Bush condoned the Israeli reoccupation of Palestinian territory and rejected the U.N. Security Council's resolutions that provide a framework for conflict resolution between the two. The resolutions have been supported by previous U.S. administrations.
- Bush's Solicitor General nominee, Ted Olsen, has lied repeatedly about his involvement in the "Arkansas Project," which was designed to "bring down" Bill Clinton.
- Bush compelled Interior Secretary Gale Norton to send letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.
- Bush abolished rules mandating energy-saving regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps. What was that about an energy crisis?
- Bush cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program.
- Oh, oil buddies! Bush wants to redraw the boundaries of national monuments to allow for oil and gas drilling "outside" of them.
- Bush further assaulted the AIDS epidemic by gutting the White House AIDS Office.
- More controversial nominations... Bush nominated David Lauriski as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. Did we mention Lauriski used to be a mining company executive?
- Bush proposed $1.2 billion in funding to help find alternative renewable energy. The catch? The funding comes from selling leases in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge - for oil and gas drilling. Want to bet his oil buddies are getting a bargain!?
- Bush thinks the American Bar Association is "too liberal," so he will no longer seek their guidance or recommendations for federal judiciary appointments.
- Bush further attacks women - this time Asian women who were forced to work as sex slaves in Japan during WWII - by seeking the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against Japan.
- Bush proposed a bill to prevent groups from suing to have an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. Again, too bad Bush isn't an endangered species.
- Convicted of murder? That's okay, you can get financial aid for college. However, if you've ever been convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge, Bush has made sure you will never get financial aid for college.
- Once upon a time there was a 2004 deadline for automakers to develop PROTOTYPE high mileage cars. Nevertheless, just like the June 30, 2004, Iraq deadline, Bush has pushed the prototype deadline up indefinitely. Maybe this one's because his oil buddies fear losing revenue if people actually get more than 30 or 40 MPG...
- Bush censored the environmental concerns found by scientists his administration hired - to make it look like global warming is not a major threat.
- "The terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming!" That's all that our Chicken-Little-In-Chief cares about. Therefore, Bush proposed eliminating a federal program to help communities prepare for natural disasters. The program had been developed and successfully used in Seattle. Never mind that! "The terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming!"
- Bush just can't bring himself to help the poor... He reduced the Low Income Home Assistance Program, which is designed to help individuals in need of assistance paying energy bills, by 40%.
- Bush blocked efforts to create international regulations to enforce fair labor, consumer rights, and environmental protections. He is still pursuing a global economic agenda to further the spread of transnational corporations though.
- Bush 2000 campaign pledge: To invest $100 million in rain forest conservation. This was a promise the "compassionate conservative" didn't keep. More like "conservatively compassionate," if you ask us!
- Bush has health insurance buddies too! Or so it seems, after he slashed the Community Access Program by 86% for public hospitals, clinics, and providers of care for people without insurance.
- Another broken promise... Bush failed to increase public education funding and failed to fund the so-called "No Child Left Behind Act." It seems every child gets left behind, except those whose rich mommies and daddies send them to private or boarding schools.
- Bush 2000 campaign pledge: To regulate carbon dioxide emissions. He didn't, decided it would be "too costly." This from the guy who has created the largest deficit in history!
- "We the People" used to be an educational program to teach about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and citizenship, in schools. Bush eliminated its funding. Oh well, since he's tromping on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and can take away anyone's citizenship without due process, I guess it's not important for American children to learn about such things.
- Bush hates fish too! He proposed to eliminate marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii.
- Reading is (no longer) Fundamental, or at least Bush thinks so. He proposed to eliminate the RIF program, which provides free books for poor children. Maybe he's afraid they will learn to read more than 5 words at a time.
- Who says Bush isn't anti-American? He announced plans to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to - you guessed it - his oil company buddies for drilling.
- Benefiting big business even more... Bush repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. Ironically, now big businesses won't have to pay for the long-term side-effects of ergonomic injuries.
- Bush eliminated the Wetland Reserve Program. It was designed to encourage and reward farmers for maintaining a wetlands habitat on their property.
- A little arsenic in your water? Bush repealed a set of Clinton-era regulations to reduce the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water.
- The Iran-Contra and helping daddy... Bush sealed documents from the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations that would have further revealed illegal dealings. Hmm... Is this paying daddy back for the 2000 election??
- More assaults on the poor and middle-class... Bush signed a bill to make filing for bankruptcy even harder for members of the "lower-classes." No mention of his rich buddies though. So that's why they get the biggest tax breaks!
- Bush wants to eliminate minimum wage, thus the enforcement thereof. Anyone for legalizing American sweat-shops??
- Bush finally realized the giant tax cuts for the rich had an effect on the economy. What does he want to do about it? He wants to take away benefits from children and the elderly to compensate.
- There used to be rules against the government granting contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental, and other federal laws. Not anymore! Bush wiped his butt with them and flushed them down the toilet.
- Bush sure does talk big Spanish to Hispanic voters. Just don't let them know he was behind blocking government rules to require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English-speaking individuals.
- He stole another election.
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Bush showed U.S. is no paper tiger
From the day President Bush took office, the long knives were out for him - in ways they will not (and should not) be out for President-elect Barack Obama. The chattering class saw Dubya as a walking style crime in a cowboy suit. They hit Bush for everything - for the way he mangled syntax, for the books he read, because he worked out too much.
Note now that the buff Obama is taking office, stories gushing about Obama's daily workouts flood the channels. Oh, yes, and the same people who belittled Bush for sending troops to war even though he only served in the National Guard somehow do not seem to notice Obama's utter lack of military experience.
To trash Bush was to belong. There was little upside in supporting Bush, even if you had supported his agenda.
Most of the Democratic candidates for president in 2004 and 2008 voted for the Patriot Act - and then campaigned against it. They voted for the resolution authorizing U.S. military force in Iraq - then bolted from the war itself. Likewise with No Child Left Behind. Somehow Bush was the guy who looked bad as he withstood the heat, while his caving critics preened.
When the Dems were pushing for a humiliating retreat from Iraq and opinion polls supported troop withdrawal, Bush instead pushed for a troop surge that has made all the difference. Vice President-elect Joe Biden - who voted for the war before he was against it - visited Iraq last week. While there, he promised the Iraqis that America would not withdraw troops in a way that undermines Iraqi security. Yet that was exactly what his party advocated a year ago.
Does Bush get any credit? No, just as he has received little credit for efforts that have prolonged millions of lives, thanks to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Forget considerable goodwill in India and Africa. His good deeds, you see, don't fit with the prescribed story line that, with Bush in charge, the rest of the world hates us.
Yes, the man also stumbled, and others paid for his mistakes more dearly than he has.
Under Bush's watch, Osama bin Laden evaded capture.
Worse, Bush's slowness in changing strategies in Iraq suggested a presidency in a fetal position when Bush should have been managing the store and demanding results.
Weapons of mass destruction? The CIA believed Saddam Hussein had them. So did Hussein's lieutenants. I did, too. The conventional wisdom was wrong, but Bush can take comfort in the knowledge that without his efforts, Hussein almost certainly would have outlasted U.N. sanctions, armed himself to the hilt and wreaked unknown havoc in and beyond Iraq.
There is no comfort - there is no upside - to be had in the $810 billion Bush bailout. The Bush administration should have been on alert to contain the damage from the housing-price drop and mortgage foreclosures; instead, it allowed the credit crunch to reach a tipping point and roll over the U.S. economy. It was so avoidable. It was like the Katrina trailers all over again - except this preventable and unnatural disaster left toxic trailers strewn across America.
There's an out-to-lunch sloppiness to the whole mess. It feels as if the barrage of criticism made the Bush engine seize up and stop running the business of the nation.
America's first MBA president turned out to be a poor administrator, more interested in ideas than making the machinery work. He was good at fighting - and winning - ideological battles in Congress, but he never demonstrated a commitment to making his own administration deliver as promised. In putting loyalty at a premium, he overlooked incompetence.
How will history judge Bush?
Osama bin Laden once told Time magazine that the U.S. withdrawal from Somalia after the murder of 18 U.S. troops on a humanitarian mission made him realize "more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat." Members of al Qaeda have told intelligence officials that they never thought that Washington would respond to the 9/11 attacks as ferociously as Bush responded. They expected a few bombs to be dropped, no boots on the ground, a swift withdrawal if casualties mounted - the usual short-attention span foreign policy that warped Lebanon, the Persian Gulf War, Somalia, the African embassy bombings and the attack on the destroyer Cole.
Bush showed America's enemies a country that does not retreat in fear, does not bomb with impunity, and most important, does not desert civilians or foreign governments that trust us. If you think that doesn't matter, look at Libya, which disarmed its weapons program. And see how much easier Obama's presidency will be, because Bush kept the faith.
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Worst president in the history of our nation.
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Dont forget the swine flu in the USA is Bushs fault too, no way a Democrat would allow that to happen on their watch.
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Who is this for? We had a President George Herbert Walker Bush and a President George Walker Bush. I'm not aware of a man named George Walker Bush Junior. That would mean his father's name was George Walker Bush. I don't know anyone by that name. Interesting.Originally posted by daggerkobeComment -
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No more earmarks!
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"100 reasons to hate former president Bush"
Notice the bold word...it is most relevant...get over it.
We have $3.2 trillion reasons in 2010 to worry because of the current fraudulent cheerleader who has gone back on every significant campaign promise.
Transparency...hahahahahahahahahahah.
Only 1358 more days...
Spend, spend, spend !!
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