The Handy Reference Guide to Bush Disasters, Incompetencies, and Lies
The other day, as I was musing aloud about notion that George Bush is the worst president in U.S. history, an acquaintance interrupted, “What’s been so bad?” I stammered for a moment, unable to get my mind around such a large question. It was sort of like trying to summarize the mysteries of the universe: The topic is so big one doesn’t know where to start. So I decided to compile a handy reference guide to the failed policies, worst decisions, irrational practices and outrageous lies of the Bush administration.In compiling this list, I made the rule that it cannot be an inventory of policy differences between liberals and conservatives; it must differentiate between rational and irrational policies, between truth and lies, between successes and failures. In other words, this should not be a partisan list but an attempt to chronicle the failures, catastrophes and ruinous policies that are apparent to impartial observers. Contributions are welcomed.
1. Lies about an optional war. Some may argue that Bush wasn’t lying about the weapons of mass destruction — that he, and many others, believed they were there. The problem is, he, and most everyone in his administration, misrepresented (lied) about the nature of the intelligence that (they claimed) led us into war. Within the intelligence community — yes, Bush’s own intelligence community — there was much, much more disagreement about the nature and threat of these weapons (and even whether they existed) than what Bush-Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld claimed. Also in the category of outrageous lies, it is now clear that Bush, during the run-up to the war, was routinely lying when he said he had made no decision about going to war, that he was trying to exhaust all diplomatic options. Memos and staffers have since made it clear that Iraq was a target for war even before 9/11.
2. The optional war itself. It was clear that an invasion of Iraq was not tied to 9/11 and that it would not do anything to deter terrorism and that, in fact, it would make terrorism worse. Bush and his followers might believe otherwise, but I would argue that this is empirically true. The vote for the war authorization was pushed right before a midterm election, and Bush was demanding its passage, clearly making war a political issues. That alone is outrageous conduct for a president. But I would be happy to eliminate this one from the list, if enough readers think I should.
3. The fiasco in handling the optional war that was started from lies. Even John McCain, military strategists and such right-wingers as Pat Buchanan acknowledge this one. Because of arrogance, ignorance and just plain stupidity, the war was mismanaged from the start. It led to countless unnecessary deaths, a disastrous loss of prestige and diplomatic clout for America, and, predictably, it became an al-Qaeda training and recruitment tool.
4. Tax cuts that overwhelmingly favor the rich in a time of war. It is possible, as far as policy goes, to argue for tax cuts, even in the face of crushing deficits. It may be possible to argue, in a supply-sider’s dream, that it is appropriate for the rich to garner most of the benefits for the tax cuts. But it is nearly impossible, unless one lacks sufficient powers of reasoning, to argue that we should enact tax cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy, when war demands sacrifices and sufficient revenue to be waged successfully.
5. Trillions in new debt, and annual deficits in the half-trillion-dollar range. This may be paired with the item above. Bush and the Republicans have not only failed to pay for the tax cuts they so eagerly handed out to rich supporters who then gave them campaign contributions, they also put forth billions in new spending, making Democrats look like chumps when it comes to pork-barreling. Oh, and by the way, they also enacted the biggest entitlement program in history since Social Security, the pharmaceutical drug bill, that provided billions to drug companies while restricting drug price competition. Also, the Bush administration lied to members of his own party about the cost of the 2003 Medicare bill, just so they could be tricked into voting for it.
6. The weakening of the dollar. Again, this may be paired with the items above. Many experts have speculated that the dollar’s reign as the world currency may end fairly soon, and its displacement can be directly tied to Reagan-Bush-Bush policies favoring vast debt, massive gaps in wealth between the rich and middle class, a weakening of the manufacturing economy, and changing the U.S. from the largest creditor nation in history to the largest debtor nation in history. I won’t give Bill Clinton a pass on this one, since the manufacturing sector decline continued under his watch and, some might argue, accelerated as a result of NAFTA. But it is clear that idea that taxes are heresy under Republicans — even at the expense of the nation and at the collapse of the dollar — has taken on its Biblical status under George W. Bush.
7. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Here was a president so disengaged that American citizens were left stranded, and people died, during his inaction. Yet, in his words, “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.”
8. The suspension of habeas corpus. This has taken several forms under George Bush — by executive decision, through legal opinion by the likes of hack John Yoo and by the establishment of prisons to hold prisoners without charge or trial. But one moment Americans should never forget is the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Congress must share the blame on this, but without Bush’s “leadership,” it never would have passed. The law cast aside the Constitution and the principle of habeas corpus, which protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment. The Congress also gave the president absolute power to designate enemy combatants, and to set his own definitions for torture.
9. “Enhanced interrogation”/torture/extraordinary rendition. Bush said he knew and approved of the harsh tactics that led to such outrages as Abu Ghraib. Bush says the U.S. doesn’t torture because it doesn’t torture. Whatever you call it, it amounts to an illegal usurping of executive authority. John McCain was against it before he was for it. Some Americans may believe terrorists deserve torture in some cases, and I won’t disagree; however, it is clear that, under George W. Bush, America tortured some innocent people, and in some cases it transported prisoners to other countries so they could be tortured there.
10. Halliburton/Blackwater. These companies are by symbols for the privatization of war. Military contractors, often having no accountability to anyone, have stolen billions, wasted more billions, and kidnapped, raped and murdered in the name of the United States.
11. Guantanamo. While military prisons are routine in wartime, the problem with Gitmo is that it has been set up to hold terrorists as well as the innocent. And because of the end of habeas corpus, there is no way for the innocent to be set loose. In addition, it has undoubtedly created terrorists out of innocent people; even setting loose the innocent has become a grave risk, thanks to George W. Bush. But Guantanamo is not the only place where the innocent are held. Just last month, the U.S. released AP photographer Bilal Hussein after holding him in Iraq for two years without trial.
12. Presidential signing statements. Bush has made unprecedented use of these extra-legal statements in which he declares all or part of a law unconstitutional because (he says) it encroaches on executive authority. Therefore, he’ll sign the bill but ignore the parts he disagrees with. These statements have been used on a limited basis by other presidents in particular situations. But George Bush has claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws. Among them, reported the Boston Globe, are “military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ‘whistle-blower’ protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research. Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush’s assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government.”
13. The Healthy Forests Initiative — would allow more logging and development in our national parks.
14. The Clear Skies Initiative — would weaken many parts of the Clean Air Act to allow more pollutants in many areas. Aside from what these laws do is the Orwellian Newspeak — giving names to policies or laws that are, at best, misleading. (Read: Patriot Act.)
15. Mining safety. Bush cut funding for mining safety and stacked the Mine Safety and Health Administration with industry executives, who fought against better regulations to protect lives and limbs. In 2006, forty-seven coal miners died on the job, the most in any full year since 1995, when forty-seven also were killed. Thirty-three were killed last year. Not all the deaths can be blamed on Bush and his industry-friendly appointees, but most assuredly, some can.
16. The U.S. attorney scandals. In this case, seven U.S. attorneys — Republicans — were fired in 2006. The reasons for the dismissals remain unclear, but allegations were that they were made for partisan political purposes. Anyone who doubts that partisanship (see Monica Goodling) was a factor — which, by the way, undermines the justice system of the United States — has not been paying attention to the way George Bush operates. Investigations into the matter have been impeded, but it is without question that the scandal has eroded morale in the Justice Department.
17. Stop loss. This U.S. military policy amounts to a back-door draft. While legal, it erodes morale, weakens the military and subjects soldiers to repeated danger and the possibility of physical and mental problems. Apparently, a weaker military is a policy of this administration, since it has overextended personnel and refused to provide adequate body armor to troops. In addition, Bush favored cutting funding for Veterans’ Administration, denying crucial medical care to the troops that he sent to war.
18. Alienation of U.S. allies.
19. Cutting of food stamps. This could be an ideological difference, so many might argue it’s not fair game in a list of Bush disasters. However, one aspect of the Bush prescription drug plan related to this issue can’t be viewed as ideological: as reported by Salon, “More bad news about that prescription drug plan: Seniors who use it may lose their food stamps.”
20. “So?” Dick Cheneys’ response to a question noting that the vast majority of Americans believe Iraq was a mistake and want the troops to come home.
21. FISA/illegal wiretapping. Bush still claims that violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is okay because he’s fighting the terrorists. But there’s nothing in the law that prevented wiretapping; it allowed temporary wiretapping until warrants could be issued. That didn’t matter to Bush; he’d rather violate the law when possible.
22. 9/11. Bush and his administration ignored repeated warnings that a major terrorist act was pending on U.S. soil. Richard Clarke said he tried for months to have Bush and Condaleeza Rice make terrorism a priority, but they ignored him. Whether you believe Clarke or not, the fact is that there was a memo about bin Laden being determined to strike in the U.S., and Bush went on vacation to Crawford, Texas, shortly before the Twin Towers fell.
23. Global warming. Bush now admits it’s a problem, although Bush officials trashed science by redacting independent governmentally commissioned studies on the issue. But even though he says it’s a problem he has no proposals to do anything about it in the near term.
24. Health care. More children (9 million) are without health insurance today than when Bush took office. The nation is facing catastrophic health care costs for the next century; Bush has ignored the problem.
25. Energy policy. The records of Dick Cheney’s task force on energy are secret, so we don’t know how much of the nation’s energy policy was dictated by energy companies. But it is certain that it was a great deal; Bush’s pattern in this area is the same as in others; i.e., put oil and gas officials in charge of energy policy; put pharmaceutical companies in charge of drug policy; let health industry lobbyists write health policy legislation. Gas prices have soared and record profits are now routine business for the oil companies; people think their taxes are lower under Bush, but they are paying more for gas, food and other basic necessities - and they are also paying more state and local taxes because of federal budget cuts.
26. Immigration. For Bush or against him on this issue, it can hardly be argued that he has put forth a successful policy.
27. The Pentagon information apparatus designed to praise George Bush’s war by touting military officers — paid by private contractors — as objective observers. This was a deliberate attempt to lie to the American people through a compliant and incompetent mass media.
28. Plants in press conferences. Jeff Gannon, a right-wing gay escort, was given press credentials and allowed to lob softball questions at Bush during White House news conferences.
29. A weaker America — we are weaker militarily, economically and on the world stage than the day George Bush took office. Some Republicans seem to fear Democrats because they say the Democrats want to destroy America. But it is hard to imagine a series of policies that have done more to hurt America than those forced upon us over the last seven years. Three-fourths of Americans know the country is on the wrong track, yet half of them support “more wrong track,” as Bill Maher put it. This is because the Republicans are very good at distracting large numbers of people from the disasters that this administration has fostered. One method they use is that they claim that criticisms of policy, particularly war policy, amount to criticisms of America. I want to make it clear that this tactic won’t work here. The above criticisms are not criticisms of America; they are criticisms of George W. Bush. It is because I love this country that this list was compiled. It was George Bush, not America, who brought us to this place.
30. A divided America. After 9/11 Bush had that rare opportunity to unite the nation, and the world, to defeat terrorism. Instead of using this goodwill - instead of bringing us all together to fight a common enemy — he squandered it. A generation has been lost to Bush’s petty petulance and his unilateral, misguided use of executive power. One would think that most conservatives, and most Republicans, would worry about expanded executive power. But many of them haven’t. One wonders how they will feel about it when a Democrat takes office.
Guy Reel is an assistant professor of mass communication at Winthrop University. He may be reached at reelg@winthrop.edu.
The worst ever is putting it mildly – the list is a shame but it is the Bush legacy. To have squandered all of the goodwill directed towards the United States after 9/11 is unforgivable especially in light of the position we are in today. And of course the outrageousness of the lack of response to Katrina… Bush is that devil that bedevils so many. Hopefully it will be over soon.
31. Bush declares national emergency and cancels the November elections.
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This list is accurate only if we assume BushCo’s goal was to better America. The fact that they have an almost perfect record of “mistakes” leads me to believe that wasn’t their goal.
The creature Bush is a disaster. Impeach him. Try him for war crimes. Hang him with the same rope used for the minor murderer Hussein.
Some game wizard should create a ‘Presidency Simulator’ to run these candidates through before they are anointed and it’s too late.
That’s an abridged list.
What amazes me is that 27% of the population (that’s 1/4!) still like the man.
“I am the uniter” - great job, George. Can anyone doubt that impeachment proceedings should be happening right now? OMG!
Don’t take #2 off the list. Our invasion violated the UN Charter, and was thus an act of aggression.
KaneJeeves:
I agree. The “disaster” of the Bush presidency is a great boon for the class he represents. Almost everything on the list above can be considered a success from the perspective of the “Power Elite” (also title of a book by C. Wright Mills that is very relevant for today).
Militantliberal’s right — keep #2 on the list!!
It may be that Bush etc. hastened the inevitable consequences that have been set in motion even before he usurped the presidency. The imperialist, war mongering, out of control corporate capitalist arrogance of the US is not new. Bush made evident the nasty boils that were festering under the surface, waiting to erupt.
Bush is like the head of the spear of imperialist arrogance whose trajectory has finally pierced the bubble of the illusion of US hegemony.
32. NCLB. “No Child Left Behind.” Ha! The deliberate trashing of our schools. Education belongs to the states, and to the people, NOT the Feds.
where oh where are the specifics ?
my personal fav, from the ny times: the bush admin proposed cutting the special irs agents who examine the tax returns of the wealthy, even tho these agents bring in (i forget the exact number) 2 or 3 times their salary on avg.
supposedly there are a lot of people reading common dreams. how come noone makes the slgihtest effort to help out here ?
Tom Larson/Kanejeeves, I agree with you, this administration has accomplished most of what it set out to do, and will continue on course.
this is my preemptive strike to place the NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL NUMBER 51 at the top of the list.
bye bye election 2008
The last three sentences of this piece reminds of times in History when, in several societies, the “masses” successfully punished the aristocracy, millioniares, top 1% wealthy etc. of the society precisely for grievances very similar to what is happening in the USA right now. Several nations and empires come to mind.
Interestingly enough, it was this ideologically similar group of people (the right) who persecuted, jailed, and in some cases killed, members of the Communist party in the USA. Yes! Likewise it is this same group that is primarily, not completely, but primarily responsible for virtually ALL of the USA social ills and grievances. “The Right,” generally speaking, were the ones who began to bring the USA to ruin by choices they, “the right,” have made and were strong-arming “the left” to go along with choices “the right” has made. This is unfortunate, but it is important to put credit where credit is due.
Again, revolutions and ethnic/political cleansings have happpened several times and in several nations throughout History precisely for similar actions that were instigated by “the Right.” At minimum - since the inevitable economic and financial collapses of the USA is due to choices “the right” has made - I hope the penalty will be that the Republican Party and all ideas in their platform should be rendered treasonous. Hey if the USA can do this to the Communists - the USA can almost certainly do the same for the Republicans. Only difference is that the latter is much much more justified for enduring such treatment than the former could ever be. “The right” is no longer fit to govern in the USA…obviously. They may have been able to salvage some grace by nominating Ron Paul for the 2008 election and the Republicans would not even do that. On the contrary the right chastized him for speaking what they were to afraid to admit for themselves. Pity…
Some on here blame the Democrats for being involved in the economic destruction and the inevitable financial collapse of the USA or, at minimum, should have equal blame with the Republicans and the Christian Fundamentalists. I would like to remind these individuals that “The Right” was the group who set the parameters of ALL debates about what to do post 9/11. Any arguments presented to the contrary of this invented paradigm was branded as - what did “the right” call them? - un-American, unpatriotic, peace-loving, tree- hugging, latte-drinking traitors. Remember or no? Any American who disagreed with going into Iraq was forced to answer questions regarding their nationalistic pride. As if revenge is a USA virtue in the opinion of “the right.”
Even today, some Americans are being viewed negatively for not adopting the Nazi-practice of wearing lapel pins. What is the difference between Old Glory and the Swastika in this scenario? Absolutely nothing - well…perhaps the nazis killed other nazis for not adopting the practice. However, one should see my point that “the right” has made some terrible choices to the detriment of the USA - and consequences should happen. It is what I learned in school. It is even irrelevent to the intent of those choices. I am sure “the right” meant well that its members did not mean for events of the last decade or so to happen via their choices; but this does not exempt its members (indeed, also the entire USA society - how unfortunate) from consequence of what turned to be poor choices on the part of “the right” in governing the USA.
“What amazes me is that 27% of the population (that’s 1/4!) still like the man.”
—feel free to walk up to every fourth person you see and punch them square in the face.
that’s pretty much what eight years of bush failures are doing to our citizens anyway.
You left off pushing “free” trade pacts that allow corporations to loot third world nations while driving down wages in the U.S. Oh, wait a minute, ALL U.S. presidents support those kind of trade deals. Sorry. . .
And so is presented the real problem when trying to explain the situation to the, er, less informed - it’s just so hard to believe one so-called American and his tiny cult could be so unabashedly anti-everything-that-ever-was-considered-American, down to even the most basic fundamentals of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
It’s like trying to wrap your mind around 10,000 perverted priests protected by a man who was rewarded with a promotion to Cardinal…
frank1569 - It’s not really that hard to wrap your mind around these things once you realize we’re still a “myth-driven” society. There’s the myth of US (or in general, national) exceptionalism, and there’s the myth of religion as the seat of morality, to name the most prominent. Slowly we’re catching up to other more advanced countries in realizing these AS myths.
Someday we’ll be able to stop those with a vested interest in maintaining the myths, stop them from suckering us into hating each other.
Press releases from the IRS state that $300,000,000,000.00 in tax revenue owed to the IRS (IRS = U.S.= US) goes uncollected, annually! This is Corporate tax revenue that is uncollected; and many are Corporations that are still getting Federal Government contracts. One such entity was $1,000,000.00 in arrears, yet still managed to obtain a $10,000,000.00 contract.
I don’t know about the rest of you out there; but $300,000,000.00 seems like a pretty good chunk of change to me.
I can think of lots of things I could do with a chunk like that.
Read an article the other day, the subject of which was/is the Mexican experience with NAFTA. Seems it has become really unpopular there as well, at least by the people who need jobs in order to make a living. The jobs that we outsourced to Mexico, have been outsourced to Asia, primarily China.
Excuse me here if I digress. I am a 40 year old male Canadian living in Costa Rica. I moved here exactly 1 year after the US invaded Iraq in front of our very eyes.
Nothing has ever made me so sad and depressed for a prolonged period as when bombs began to drop over Baghdad. For 2 years previously I had decided to leave as Canada is really no different than the US. The control and propaganda are the same. Canadians are a fucking ignorant bunch, I’m afraid to say – excuse my French.
So I live up in the mountains, working hard to survive and surfing as much as I can. I have a little shack in a small farming community and am learning how to live as low to the ground as possible. When I can I drive up into the city about ½ an hour away to my Common Dreams addiction and one of the Internet cafes. I especially love to read all the voices out there, many which are brilliant. I often wonder who some of those voices really are. We really live in Orwellian times.
We all know you need a revolution to make things really change in the US, and therefore the world. And I´m not talking about the Obama revolution. I see an energy growing in this community and can only hope that something will form.
I feel helpless down here and can only hope for a miracle.
Bush and Cheney both need to be impeached but that won´t happen unless you people make a drastic comittment to focus your entire lives on it. You don´t have much time so please make it happen. And while I like the bandana idea (I have a dirty white one tied to my motorcycle) it isn´t the solution. I´m afraid anything short of in your face, grass roots organizing won´t accomplish anything.
33. John Roberts
34. Samuel Alito
Oops, again.
“I don’t know about the rest of you out there; but $300,000,000.00 seems like a pretty good chunk of change to me”, should read $300,000,000,000.00.
This is the Readers Digest version. For a complete list, see:
http://www.thousandreasons.org/reasons.php
I think Impeached needs to be replaced with Prosecuted.
It is a litany of cowardice top to bottom.
In addition: Yesterday’s SCOTUS conflicts of interest recusal of the case on Alien Tort Law brought by South Africans against US corporations during aparteit - The highest court in the land is unable to function in a case on corporate collusion in in a racist regime because they are invested in the same. full circle
This is a great article with a couple of missteps. The most egregious in my mind is this:
“Some Americans may believe terrorists deserve torture in some cases, and I won’t disagree;”
I have huge problems with this.
First, who gets to decide who’s a terrorist?
Second, what are you hoping to get by torturing these “terrorists”? Actionable intelligence? Nope. Won’t work. Never has.
If, instead, you’re going for revenge, that’s sick.
And, when you torture the wrong guy, you forfeit your right to torture (which you never had in the first place).
Don’t equivocate on a subject like torture and water down an otherwise great piece. I’m a zero tolerance guy when it comes to torture.
The list is far too small. WTF gives a link to a more comprehensive list, it also is too small. Under Bush we have witnessed the boldest attack yet on our consitution, crimes against humanity, violations of the Geneva Conventions, and state sponsored terrorism finally brought to its highest level, right out in the open. One can only wish that trials and convictions will follow the November elections if we gain a significant majority in both houses of congress and a Democratic administration. Anything less is unacceptable.
Ohyah, good nutshell of an article outlining Bush tyranny.
Hand-in-hand with number 12, is the fact that Bush signed into existence the power to extend his presidency, something which seemingly can be done at his whim (and signed without a whimper from Congress- not from Obama, nor Clinton). With this directive, Congress essentially loses its power (how unConstitutional) to defy his authority in any way at that point. Be afraid, very afraid, this unparalleled abuse of power goes to future presidents, unless the People demand its recision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Directive_51
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_chris_ri_080513_bring_bush_to_justic.htm
#35 Valerie Plame / CIA Outing
Point #22 should also mention that Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial airliners the first week of August, 2001 because of a still undisclosed “risk assessment.” At the G-8 meeting in Genoa Italy in July of 2001 anti-aircraft missile batteries were put in place to defend the meeting from an attack from the air, fears of a terrorist attack lead to an “air exclusion zone” around the city. During this meeting President Bush wouldn’t even sleep in Genoa, instead he was flown out to sleep aboard an American aircraft carrier surrounded by its attack group.
Air defenses like these were previously unprecedented at G8/7 meetings.
Also it should be noted that President Bush and his cabinet started taking Cipro, the anti-biotic that prevents anthrax on September 11, 2001, a full three weeks in advance of any public awareness of the anthrax attacks.
Number 30, “A divided America” set all the others in motion. Bush’s biggest lie was his earliest — “I’m a uniter, not a divider”. That was part of his campaign rhetoric in 2000. He has set the American people against one another through various means, tax cuts for the rich, an unnecessary war, promotion of violence in the Middle East, trashing education through NCLB. War strategists throughout history tell us you must “divide and conquer” to win. Bush declared war on the American people the minute he swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution”, in his mind, just a piece of paper. Nancy, are you listening? Impeach, Impeach, Impeach.
this should be MANDATORY in every class in america….begining with the 8th grade all the way thru the 12th grade…and at the end of each school year,EACH STUDENT should learn one of these things by heart and made to say it out loud in class …..what do you guys think of that ?
after he leaves office in january 2009….i’m gonna strart selling T-SHIRTS with this printed on them…….”I SURVIVED THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION”!” 2001-2009
The Union of Concerned Scientists has also put together a list of the Bush administration’s lies and abuses. These regard science.
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/interference/a-to-z-alphabetical.html
From the title I was expecting something the size of, say, the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
I would like to extend credit where it’s due. On yesterday’s FOG FACTS/PETRAEUS article our very own PAUL MAGILL SMITH cited many of the worst aspects of the Bush presidency and did a concise and thorough job.
ALEX LAWYER is probably correct that if done in its entirety, the true volume of illegalities and crimes against reason, human beings, nature, the atmosphere, the mineral kingdom, etc would fill an encyclopedia!
KILL FASCISTS: Is it true one must prove their annual income to be able to move to Costa Rica?
OTTO: Good point about “who’s the terrorist?”
Also: Thanks to those who added viable entities that should have been listed after the 30th entry!
kelmer May 13th, 2008 1:05 pm
“That’s an abridged list.”
True, but one worth keeping in our ammunition file in case our memory fails.
Wrong. It is ALL the Democrat’s fault. And Yours, whoever you are, if you did not vote for Ralph Nader!
Screw the Democrats. Nader ‘08.
But NO MATTER WHAT don’t vote Democrat if you are a CD threader; if you do you are a hypocrite.
Sing your Song “Screw The Democrats” I’ve read it for YEARS here by 98% of the threaders.
Here comes your chance; Nader 08!
I’m sorry. Make that 99% of the threaders;
Well now it is ‘08.
Time for you all to continue to Run Obama Into the Ground;
Maybe there is another bush out there for you.
16. The U.S. attorney scandals. In this case, seven U.S. attorneys — Republicans — were fired in 2006.
I thought they were replaced by Republicans. Must not be paying enough attention here in Australia.
32. Never has unmanned space exploration been more successful! Our unmanned space exploration program is providing a continuous stream of scientific and exploration successes. Bush, seeking to avoid further success, has removed funding from unmanned exploration programs, and funded the development of manned missions to the Moon and then on to Mars. The Mission to the Planet Earth has been removed from NASA’s mission statement.
Kinda leads one to wonder what his agenda would have been if not for 19 hijackers on September 11th, eh?
What a convienient coincidence, eh?
Don’t forget the commutation of Scooter Libby. This gripe may seem partisan, but a review of the framers discussion of impeachment and a review of the research on impeachment conducted by Congress during the Watergate era, indicates that Presidential pardons of co-conspirators is grounds for impeachment. Bush kept Libby out of prison to keep him quiet.
Be sure to keep funding the profitable enterprise with your federal taxes.
36) Abstinence only sex education
37) Faith-based initiatives
38) The attempt to privatize social security
39) Stagnating median household income
40) Appointing Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State, given her abject failure as national security chief
41) Giving the Medal of Freedom to George Tenet, a self-confessed liar.
From This(bio-human)Machine That’s Kill(ing)Fascist(human behavior), with Pucking(inserts).
“I especially love to read all the voices out there, many which are brilliant. I often wonder who some of those voices really are.(the human recognition desired, needed, by all humans)
I see an energy growing in this community and can only hope that something will form.(Citizen and Representative viable engagement feed back loops - individual to individual support circle to State support circle…circling back)
Bush and Cheney both need to be impeached but that won´t happen unless you people make a drastic comittment to focus your entire (organizing principle of hearings for impeachment, used as an organizational tool for hearings on impeachment: most importantly establishing organic decision making circles - within individual support circles - foundation of human intelligence for State circle) lives on it. You don´t have much time so please make it happen. I´m afraid (no need to be afraid, it’s the gateway to humanity’s greatest glory, fear can be replaced with curiousity and enthusiasm - the sublime of sublime of human recognition) anything short of in your face (as opposed to in your - face to face and hand to hand with a recognized humanity is the key to turn the lock on sanity), grass roots organizing won´t accomplish anything.
I have a little shack in a small farming community and am learning how to live as low to the ground as possible (with the Grace and Mercy derived from this human organic to Earth relationship…grass roots organizing can accomplish anything).”
Peace.
Food
Air
Water (coming soon…or rather not coming soon)
Media
Elections
Stem cell research
Fema
Homeland “security”
War on Drugs
Energy
Infrastucture
politicalizion of government
Palestine
Education
Immigration
Art
Racial inequality
Corporate malfeasance
ad infinitum……. Whew! (where’s Geaorge Carlin when you need him?)
WOW! This is a pretty impressive list posted by the author and CD contributors. The saddest part of all this is that the democratic majority have cowtowed to his every perverted wish. Impeachment is too good for Bush/Cheney. They ought to be tried for treason, the premeditated degradation of our nation and its principles.
Did someone mention election fraud? That’s what got the fox in the henhouse and the ball rolling.
Stunning. Bush lied. Bush is evil. Bush is Hitler. Bush burned the Hindenberg. Bush infected millions with aids. Bush stole my dentures!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!