(But what the hell, or what me worry huh?)
(But what the hell, or what me worry huh?)
The record speaks for itself: This page contains to widely separated lists of the Bush years. The first I came on early. The second just recently. Be sure to scroll down to the updated record of the Bush years.Be sure to scroll down to the second list. |
The Bush II Era: Year 1compiled by- David A. Sprintzen - Significantly eased controls and safeguards on field-testing of genetically engineered crops. - Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. - Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. - Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources. - Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. - Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidate who would readily fire up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic voters. - Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands of California and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii. - Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks. - Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violate workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. - OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. - Appointed John Negroponte - a high-level Iran Contra figure - to the post of United Nations ambassador. - Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million in rain forest conservation. - Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance. - Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents. - Suspended rules that would require hard rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. - Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing. - Proposed to eliminate a federal program (used successfully in Seattle) designed to help communities prepare for natural disasters. - Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement. - Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. - Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. - Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work. - Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra). - Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. - Appointed Otto Reich a high-level Iran Contra figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. - Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. - Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. - Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps. - Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. - Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that contributes to global warming. - Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds. - Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach. - Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive - to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. - O.K.'d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast eastern of Florida. - Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. - Proposed re-drawing the boundaries of national monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments. - Gutted the White House AIDS Office. - Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate safeguards for the environment and workers' rights. - Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association on federal judiciary appointments. - Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior. - Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality. - Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program. - Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness. - Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects. - Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can. - Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium slag heap in Utah. - Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit. - Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to a handful of the wealthiest of Americans. - Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills. - Selected as his Vice President a man who said on "Meet the Press, "If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants." - Appointed Diana ("There is no gender gap in pay") Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. - Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action - to direct the Office of Personnel Management. - Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect. - Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards. - Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children. - Is pushing for development of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply buried targets; which weapons would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. - Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for the recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act - to federal appeals court judgeship. - Proposes to reverse regulations protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. - Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught schoolchildren about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. - Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N. - to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. - Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - to the number two slot at the Environmental Protection Agency. - Nominated Michael McConnell - leading critic of the doctrine of separation of church and state - to a federal judgeship. - Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil rights - to a federal judgeship. - Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high-mileage cars. - Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to head EC. - Nominated John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug treatment programs - to be Drug Czar. - Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. - Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the Endangered Species act - to be Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. - Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during WWII. - Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equivalents. - Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills. - Nominated Ted Olson - who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton - to be Solicitor General. - Nominated Terrance Boyle - foe of civil rights - to a federal judgeship. - Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam construction. - Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines. - Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energy come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. - Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck, and appointed a timber industry lobbyist. [Compiled by David A. Sprintzen, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director, Institute for Sustainable Development, C.W. Post College, Long Island City, NY] |
Personally, I found this review of Bush's first year in office deeply disturbing to the point of alarming. It shows what we are in for aye? Or on the other hand...its just about as whacko and cornball as some surreal MAD spy vs. spy magazine plot, depending on the mood I'm in. Who's writing this script anyway! And I thought the players in the Reagan administration were nuts! Of course many of the faces are the same, only older...and obviously crazier. And if anything, meaner. But what do you expect when the son of the Head of our State Secret Police apparatus is our selected President? Just like the heroin run out of the Golden Triangle during the Nam era, or the cocaine on the streets today....our gummint, "brought to you by the CIA". Hey this is G.O.D. talking (via Alfred, his obvious if not annointed mouthpeice) Gold, Oil and Drugs...the real thing like Coke, and you better listen. On the serious side of the ledger, it would actually be more fitting if Bush were morphing into Adolph instead of Alfred. Closer to the alarming truth of the matter. Its hard to see one of my childhood heroes picked on in this way, but what the hell. it gets the point a across. As you read the following litany, or should this be accompanied by a dirge??, can you actually say this is too surprising? Portions of the Republican party have been showing their true colors for years. In fact there are a whole lot of people that could say, "I told you so". But saying as much won't contribute to the rollback and damage control that is needed. All this in just the first year of the reign of Bush II! And its only bound to get worse. This administration is showing its true colors. And those colors ain't the old red white and blue either. Far from it. This administration is about as unAmerican and as far away from the first principles this once fine country was based on as can be imagined. America, you are in for a rougher ride than you ever dreamed possible in your worst nightmares This article used without permission and with much thanks.Please copy and spread it around far and wide. Its important that all Americans to track and oppose the most dangerous and inimical administration to the health anmd well being of our country in the history of America to date. (With the long line of bozos we have been stuck with for the last 30 years, that's saying something) |
As if that wasn't enough. The list keeps growing...and will until he's deposed. The following is an even more complete list of George W. Bush's pre-eminent qualifications for the job of President and more of his 4 year record to date. More could be added. This is STILL only a partial list. Our thanks to Kelley Kramer for compiling and allowing its free use on the internet. |
THIS IS MY RESUME (George Bush)· Ran for congress and lost. · Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. · Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. · Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. · With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history. · Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court. Accomplishments as president: · Attacked and took over two countries. · Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. · Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. · Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. · Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. · First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. · First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. · First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. · After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history. · Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history. · In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. · Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. · Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period. · Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. · Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. · Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history. · Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. · Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. · Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. · Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
· My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. · Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her). · First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. · Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. · First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation. · Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. · Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history. · First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. · First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. · Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history. · Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. · Withdrew from the World Court of Law. ·Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. · First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections). All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. · My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). · Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. · First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. · First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) · First US president to establish a secret shadow government. · Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). · With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. · First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. · First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. · Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. · Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. · Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.' · Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. · In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. · Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. · In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war. · Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. Records and References: · At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available). · AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war. · Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. · All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. · All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. · All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. · Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. · For personal references please speak to my daddy or Uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
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