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LilaTheGreat


AAAAAaaaaauuuuug !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wayne
The Fifty States and their Capitals

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eAII411eqPg


leftcoastfarmer
QUOTE (LilaTheGreat @ May 27 2008, 11:20 PM) *

Dusty: "The Suck Zone". It's the point basically when the twister... sucks you up. That's not the technical term for it, obviously.
Wayne
Select your final answer


plodder
Let the board meeting begin

Sinisterblogger
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (Stoon @ May 27 2008, 09:22 PM) *
Speaking of Ajax, someone tell him the board's back up and the all are invited back. I used to enjoy the spank.gif he used to get.


laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (bushwa @ May 28 2008, 12:39 AM) *
Ouch, X-ray.



It could be worse.
You could be addicted to Wii or Playstation. wink.gif
bushwa
QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ May 28 2008, 08:52 AM) *
It could be worse.
You could be addicted to Wii or Playstation. wink.gif



Hardly salves "sad" and "pathetic."

pestone
QUOTE (LilaTheGreat @ May 27 2008, 11:25 PM) *
My little Pestone............. it's so nice to have you back where you belooooooong......!!!!!

Well, it's only at work right now- computer at home is still cranky. "Thank you for calling Jr. Mex. May I take your order after this post? laugh.gif biggrin.gif rofl.gif
rhodie2008

"I'll never surrender this thread!"
X-Ray-Spex
Paging Mr. Van Gogh...

LilaTheGreat
QUOTE (pestone @ May 28 2008, 01:36 PM) *
Well, it's only at work right now- computer at home is still cranky. "Thank you for calling Jr. Mex. May I take your order after this post? laugh.gif biggrin.gif rofl.gif
Yes, you may take my order and do exactly as I say! whip.gif
pestone
QUOTE (LilaTheGreat @ May 28 2008, 11:45 AM) *
Yes, you may take my order and do exactly as I say! whip.gif

I got your burrito! Ha!
LilaTheGreat
QUOTE (pestone @ May 28 2008, 01:49 PM) *
I got your burrito! Ha!

I wanted a TACO!!!! pink! tongue.gif
X-Ray-Spex
LilaTheGreat
laugh.gif Hey wait a second.... that could be misconstrued! ohmy.gif
pestone
QUOTE (LilaTheGreat)
laugh.gif Hey wait a second.... that could be misconstrued! ohmy.gif

It's been so long since I've been misconstrued, I've forgotten what it was like!!
X-Ray-Spex
QUOTE (LilaTheGreat @ May 28 2008, 02:38 PM) *
laugh.gif Hey wait a second.... that could be misconstrued! ohmy.gif


Naaaaaa!
stinemetz
QUOTE (pestone @ May 27 2008, 10:10 PM) *
He's momentarily channeling Ajax....... laugh.gif

Ajax aaa.gif
LilaTheGreat
QUOTE (pestone @ May 28 2008, 02:41 PM) *
It's been so long since I've been misconstrued, I've forgotten what it was like!!

And that's a good thing!

Oh baby, please don't let me be misunderstood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4yVN5CKwJ4
RandiLover
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 fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
  • In my first two years in office over 2.7 million Americans lost their job. No Bush president has ever created one net new job yet.
  • 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. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
  • Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
  • Most secretive and un-accountable presidency of any in US history.
  • Members of cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an 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. -- corrected by a viewer who commented that Bush withdrew our signature from the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which is a different body than the "World Court" or ICJ.
  • 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 life-time 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 'dis-engagement' 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. Many people consider me a bigger threat to world peace than Saddam.
  • 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, 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). I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.--updated by Dave from IN
  • AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war. I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL.
  • Refused 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 father's library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
  • All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
  • All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
  • Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.
  • For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncler James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
RandiLover
George W. Bush's Resume "Expanded"

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Past work experience:

  • Responsible for the execution of at least one mentally ill prisoner (Terry Washington) while Governor of TX.[1]
  • Executed 150 men and two women while Governor of TX, a record unmatched in modern times.[1]
  • As Governor of Texas, very likely several innocent people were executed in TX because of inadequate clemency policies.[1]
  • Successfully hid my record of cocaine use and abuse in Texas from reporters trying to uncover this information.
  • In the summer of 1974 worked for a CIA-connected airline named Alaska International Air, sited in Alaska which was later suspected by the Iran Contra Commission of being involved in CIA drug trafficking in support of the Contras. [3]--from Rosamond F., a viewer in CA
  • While general managing partner of the Texas Rangers I was aware that the players were using performance-enhancing drugs but did nothing about it.[4]


Accomplishments as president:
  • Sat by in the pocket of the NRA aware that the House wouldn't renew the 1994 ban on assault weapons.
  • Worked to exempt the firearms industry from lawsuits.
  • Deliberately withheld the cost of the Iraq war (supplemental war appropriations) hoping to get a $726-billion tax cut approved first. The House bit but the Senate did not.
  • Helped to create 9-million unemployed and made the jobless rate soar above 6%.
  • Would have allowed unemployment benefits to run out if it weren't for the Democrats.
  • Awarded a no-bid large contract to Halliburton, a company notorious for ripping off the government and tied to Cheney.
  • Put John Poindexter, convicted on five felony counts for his role in Iran-contra, in charge of the Information Awareness Office, where he will be collecting and mining data on 300 million Americans, assuring that no one will have any semblance of privacy anymore.
  • When taking office, the 10-year budget projection showed a surplus of 5.6 trillion. As a result of mostly my first round of tax cuts this surplus was whittled down to $1 trillion. Then with my second round of tax cuts and my war in Iraq, the 10-year projection is a deficit of $4 trillion. In other words, $9.6 trillion of taxpayer's money has been shifted to the most wealthy US residents and corporations--reported by former Nixon Secretary of Commerce, Peter Peterson, to New York Times staff and reported by Thomas Friedman. [editors note: The Congressional Budget Office estimated the deficit over 10 years to be $1.4 trillion as reported by AP on 8-26-03]
  • Quashed a major global warming report from the EPA that warned of the dangers industrial and automotive pollution present to the environment. Heavily edited the final report, deleting references to scientific studies that showed a link between smokestack and tailpipe pollution and global warming.
  • Allowed the number of Americans with no health insurance to reach crisis proportions. In 2001 and 2002, 74.7 million Americans went without health insurance at some point. In 2001, 41.2 million Americans had no insurance for the entire year.
  • Placed hundreds of thousands of lives at risk this winter by cutting a program that helps low-income families pay the cost of heating their homes. More than 4.6 million low-income families and seniors depend on the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to get them through freezing cold winters and scorching summers.
  • Filed briefs with the Supreme Court supporting people who want to overturn the University of Michigan's admission's policies. Instead of supporting policies of American higher education institutions that have produced important increases in minority enrollment, my administration chose to pander to my conservative base, potentially slashing the number of minority students who get admitted to top universities. Mostly failed in this effort too.
  • Didn't do anything to try and prevent Westar, a corporation that wanted legislation that would boost its profits and tried to buy what it wanted with campaign contributions, from doing so. This scandal was exposed just about the time Westar was about to get what it paid for in the Energy bill.
  • Proposed opening up 20 million acres of national forests to logging and will waive environmental laws with my "Healthy Forests" program.
  • Opposed requiring polluters to clean up their own messes at toxic waste sites--unlike Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Begun to use taxpayer money to pay for the mess of corporate polluters and to cut back overall on cleaning up existing sites.
  • Cut enforcement for key environmental programs through steadily slashing budgets.
  • Proposed the "Clear Skies" initiative, which would weaken public health protections of the current Clean Air Act, while replacing them with insufficient standards and increasing toxic emissions like mercury and sulfur.
  • Targeted a series of complex regulations that barely register on the American public's radar screen to drastically reduce clean air and water protections, and increase industry exploitation of public lands.
  • Last July [2002], in response to allegations by anti-choice activists about a connection between U.N. funds and coercive abortion policies around China's "one family, one child" population control policy, my Administration withheld $34 million for family planning programs in all countries through the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). It's devastating to many countries that count on UNFPA programs. It's estimated the loss of this funding will lead to two million unintended pregnancies, nearly 800,000 abortions, 4,700 maternal deaths and 77,000 infant and child deaths each year. [2]--from Working Assets
Records and References:
  1. Atlantic, July/August 2003, Texas Executions of Mentally Ill Under Bush, by Alan Berlow, pp. 91-.
  2. Both U.S. and British fact-finding missions have found no evidence of a link between U.N. family planning funds and abortion or forced sterilization in China.--Working Assets.
  3. Bush working for Alaska International Air reported by Jo Thomas, The New York Times, October 21, 2000.
  4. Book by former baseball star, Jose Canseco called: "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," as reported by New York Daily News, Feb. 5, 2005.
RandiLover
George W. Bush's Resume "Expanded"

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Past work experience:

  • Record of successes in education as Governor of Texas was grossly inaccurate too. Houston, the most frequently praised district, is being monitored by the state after an audit showed that more than half of the 5,500 students who left school in the 2000-2003 year should have been counted as dropouts, but were not.


Accomplishments as president:
  • Made many high profile speeches, including one in my 2002 State of the Union address, to call on citizens to commit to volunteerism and community service. Yet hypocritically, my Administration and Congress are slashing the budget for AmeriCorps by 58%. The program is short by so much money that there will be approximately 20,000 fewer slots available this year. Newsweek reports that ³with a measly $185 million supplemental appropriation (about one half of 1 percent of the latest tax cut)² the program could fully fund the 50,000 slots in place last year. [1]
  • Personal bankruptcy filings for year ending June 30, 2003 were 1,613,097, up 10% from previous year. [2]-- submitted by one of our viewers
  • Made sure the Environmental Protection Agency gave New Yorkers misleading assurances that there was no health risk from the debris-laden air after the World Trade Center collapse. [3]-- submitted by one of our viewers
  • Restricted stem cell research funding to lines already extracted from embryos thereby severely limiting scientists' in their efforts to find cures for many diseases or developing new stem cell lines. [4]-- submitted by one of our viewers
  • Relaxed the clean air rules August 03 to allow thousands of industrial plants to make upgrades without installing pollution controls. It's the most far-reaching environmental actions I have signed. It will allow thousands of power plants, refineries, pulp and paper mills, chemical plants and other industrial facilities to make extensive upgrades that increase pollutants without having to install new antipollution devices. Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly of Massachusetts, which is also going to court to stop the rule, said: "The Bush administration is giving the green light to major industrial plant operators to spew millions of tons more in air pollution without being held accountable." [5] --submitted by Karen Seavey, one of our viewers
  • The following week, after easing the restrictions on air pollution rules for older power plants allowing more than 500 of these plants to upgrade without adding pollution control devices, two of my EPA officials, who actively worked for this rule change, both took private sector jobs with companies that benefited from this rule change. John Pemberton is joining Southern Co. in Atlanta, the nation's number two top polluting utility, and Ed Krenik already joined Bracewell & Patterson, a D.C. law firm that actively lobbied on behalf of several utilities.
  • On August 27, 2003 limited the pay increase for many federal workers next January (2004) to 2 percent -- well below the 15 percent some employees would have been entitled to receive citing 9/11 as a reason.
  • Reversed 1998 Clinton Administration EPA position that regulated carbon dioxide emissions, the chief cause of global warming, as a pollutant. Now that the EPA can't regulate these emissions, cars and plants won't have to undergo improvements to cut down on this gas. [6]-- submitted by one of our viewers
  • Inspired more protest web sites than any previous president, Republican or Democrat.--submitted by Nate, one of our viewers [Editor note: In fairness only Clinton and this Bush were presidents during a time of high internet usage]
  • The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced settlements on August 29, 2003 with energy companies (my buddies at Enron) accused of manipulating markets during the California energy crisis. For bilking CA to the tune of approx. $8.9 billion dollars in excess charges the amount of the settlement was ONLY a bit over $1 million. Translated further: Each CA resident lost $250 but will now get $.03 cents back. Furthermore the Republican controlled commission wouldn't allow CA to negate the long term contracts they had to sign because of this manipulated energy shortage. [7]
  • Proposed an educational budget which would cut $200 million from my "No Child Left Behind Act. Many programs will now be cut that I promised the voters when I ran for office. Obviously just another lie. [8]
  • Proposed changes to overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which could substantially reduce the amount of overtime pay available to certain white collar workers.[Editor's note: So far the Dems in the Senate have blocked this]
  • Received a grade of "F" in July from the bi-partisan, fiscally savvy, mainstream group, Concord Coalition, in their report titled: "Fiscal Responsibility." [9]
  • Violated campaign promises by spending surplus social security revenue.
  • Nearly 1.4 million MORE people in the United States fell into poverty in 2002--almost half of them children. About 12.4 percent of the population or nearly 34.8 million people lived in poverty during 2002 up from 16.4 percent, or about 11.5 million in 2001 according to Census Bureau survey. [10]
  • Failed to plan for a post-Saddam Iraq and the search for weapons of mass destruction.
  • My administration has diluted and weakened environmental rules on these: emissions that cause global warming, air pollution from old coal-fired power plants, ballast water on ships contaminated with foreign species of plants and animals, sales of land tainted with PCBs, drilling for oil and gas on federal land, and scientific studies that underpin federal regulation. [11]
  • Cut $8 billion from the promised funds for education.
  • Nearly half of all taxpayers get less than $100. And 31% of all taxpayers get nothing at all from my tax cuts.
  • Pushed for $1 billion less than authorized by Congress (and promoted by myself for AIDs funding to Africa), which effectively blocks 1 million people from treatment and nearly 2.5 million new HIV infections that could be avoided.
  • The third part of my EPA's pre-Labor Day 2003 giveaway of health protections offers a free pass to chemical companies that have been mysteriously "losing" huge amounts of toxic mercury.This missing mercury is "probably" released into the air. But rather than forcing the companies to find out and to prevent leaks and emissions into the environment, my team simply called the problem "an enigma" and issued a weak standard that applies only to a tiny fraction of the mercury these plants lose. [12]
  • Against abortion, but cut money for family planning and contraception.--submitted by one of our viewers
  • Instead of using revenues from Iraqi oil to finance reconstruction, as my White House predicted before the war, my Administration now is asking for more than $900 million to import oil, propane, diesel and gasoline to the beleaguered country.--from the daily.misleader.org, 9/23/03
  • Appealed for aid in the reconstruction of Iraq to the United Nations, the same body I dismissed a year ago as nearly "irrelevant" for failing to support my war against Saddam Hussein.--from the daily.misleader.org, 9/24/03
  • My anti-abortion policy has forced family planning clinics in poor countries to close, leaving some communities without any healthcare. [13]
  • A full investigation of me and my staff for the alleged leak of classified information regarding the identity of an undercover CIA agent is being undertaken by the Justice Department. [14]
  • Signed into law a bill containing the Ferency Amendment, which makes it easier for appeals courts to lengthen sentences imposed by judges that are shorter than federal guidelines. This will set up a "soft on justice" blacklist of many judges who would normally be doing an excellent job imposing sentences using their judicial discretion. [15]
  • The number of Americans without health insurance jumped to 43.6 million in the last year, the largest single increase in the last decade. [16]
  • On nearly every count my claims about Iraq's weapons program have proven to be unfounded. A lengthy $300 million search by 1,200 U. S.-led inspectors, headed by David Kay, turned up no new evidence that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction.--from the daily.misleader.org, 10/8/03
  • Even though seven million Iraqis [6 in 10] are unemployed, U. S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South Asia. The use of Asian laborers is at odds with my emphasis on the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.--from the daily.misleader.org, 10/16/03 Records and References:
  1. Newsweek report by Jonathan Alter on drastic cuts in AmeriCorp funding.
  2. American Bankruptcy Institute, in Washington Post (Aug. 19, 2003) reports on increase in bankruptcy filings
  3. 8/22/03 AP story by John Helperin reporting White House involvement in getting the EPA to conceal health risks to New Yorkers after 9/11.
  4. Time Online article on August 20, 2001, called the Bush Decision by Mitch Frank on Bush's stem cell decision.
  5. NY TIMES, August 28, 2003 report on Bush Administration relaxing the rules to allow plants to avoid installing pollution control during upgrades.
  6. August 29, 2003 news report on the EPA reversing car emissions stand.
  7. September 2, 2003 NY Times article titled "Another Friday Outrage" by Paul Krugman on the FERC settlement with the State of CA.
  8. August 28, 2003, NY Times article called "The Kids Left Behind" by Bob Herbert on Bush's leaving kids behind in his proposed education budget and the problems in the Houston School District.
  9. September 3, 2003 column by Jack Z. Smith, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram on the Concord Coalition survey.
  10. AP Washington wire story dated September 3, 2003 on poverty levels based on Census Bureau survey.
  11. Detroit Free Press Washington staff reporter, Seth Borenstein's September 9, 2003 report on weakened pollution regulations.
  12. New World Forum article on free pass to chemical companies who lose huge amounts of mercury taken from a National Resource Defense Council article by Dan Lashof, science director of NRDC's climate center.
  13. Reuters News article titled: U.S. Abortion Policy Closes African Clinics, 9/25/03, by Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent.
  14. AP story "Justice Probes Leak of CIA Operatives ID" appearing on Yahoo News, September 30, 2003. Also similar story in Washington Post, September 28, 2003, p.A1.
  15. "Justices on the Blacklist," by Nat Hentoff, The Progressive, October 2003, p.15.
  16. Washington Post October 1, 2003 story on increase in numbers of Americans without health insurance.
Stoon
Why are you posting that in the thread killer challenge? It should have its own thread.
RandiLover
George W. Bush's Resume "Expanded"

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Past work experience:

  • Set up an offshore tax dodge while on the board of Harken energy.
  • As Governor of Texas used my security police to suddently sweep down on a group of peaceful picketers who were on the public sidewalk in front of the governor's mansion -- a sidewalk that historically has been the site of protest. This occurred when launching my presidential run, to prevent these dissenters exposing my environmental record and getting between me and the TV cameras. Got the state police move them to a designated protest zone in a faraway parking lot.


Accomplishments as president:
  • Drafted energy bill in cahoots with lobbyists like Enron that will increase the deficit by $19 billion to provide unnecessary tax breaks and subsidies to utilities, railroads and oil, coal and gas companies--all big donors to my campaign. [1]
  • Signed off on a $19 billion farm subsidy program, which went against my promise of "free trade" and stuck consumers with higher prices. [1]
  • Gave the "swing state" Pennsylvania steel industries protective tariffs resulting in higher prices for everyone else. [1]
  • Got the FDA to relax the rules on making health claims on labels on behalf of the food industry. [1]
  • Cleared the way for a Montana silver and copper mining company by scrapping a carefully negotiated settlement for protection of grizzly bears.[1]
  • Got the Interior Department to kill a 1997 regulation that limited mining wastes, including cyanide and other chemicals by reverting to an outdated reading of the 1872 Mining Law. [1]
  • Cut backs in need-based state aid programs and federal Pell grants prevented 170,000 high school graduates who were the brightest in their classes from going to college because they couldn't afford it. [2]
  • Ran an ad campaign (now discontinued) that promoted my Clear Skies initiative to the Hispanic community, a sought-after group of voters, that omitted key information about air pollution that is particularly adverse to Hispanics living in California - from Daily Mis-lead
  • Stacked scientific and medical advisory panels with political ideologues and fanatics. With weak credentials and conflicts of interest, they have flooded schools with medically worthless "abstinence-only" programs. They punished HIV/AIDS prevention groups with audits and gagged overseas healthcare workers who receive U.S. funds. - from Intervention Magazine
  • The number of U.S. jobs lost has swelled to over 3.2 million since taking office. [3]
  • Broke the all time budget deficit record when the deficit hit 374.2 billion in 2003. [4]
  • Stopped playing by the rules candidates had voluntarily adhered to since 1976 by refusing to take public money to cap spending and instead opted out relying on private money to spend as much as possible. Now the system for campaign spending has been seriously undermined and big money threatens to play a more pivotal role in forthcoming elections. [5]
  • During my administration funding for Homeland Security and the Iraq occupation are coming at the expense of public safety and municipal leaders are facing cuts of $1 bn. in annual federal money for community policing. [6]
  • Trying to block a court ordered award of nearly $1 bn. in damages to 17 U.S. combat veteran POWs from the Gulf War. [7]
  • My administration is being sued by 13 states and more than 20 cities seeking to block changes to the Clean Air Act contending that the new rules would weaken air quality and threaten public health. [8]
  • Overturned the 1978 law that required presidential and vice-presidential papers to become public record after 12 years to protect the records of past, current and future top executives but primarily his dad.
  • During my administration nearly 3.8 million families were hungry in 2002 to the point that someone in the household skipped meals because the family could not afford them. That is 8.6 percent more families than in 2001, when 3.5 million were hungry, and a 13 percent increase from 2000. [9]
  • The Bush Administration's roll back of the Clean Air Act caused the EPA to drop their investigation on 50 of the oldest and dirtiest power plants; many of which had already received notices of violation. - from Kerry campaign
  • Provided revised environmental modeling data in order to justify an increase in the allowable level of mercury pollution.- from Daily Mis-lead
  • World Trade Organization declared my March 2002 steel tariffs illegal and the European Union is threatening the U.S. with $2.2 billion in retaliatory sanctions if these tariffs are not lifted immediately. [10]
  • My Attorney General, John Ashcroft, blacked out half of a 168-page report detailing a poor record of workplace diversity in the Justice Department.
  • Released a statement announcing that the Inspector General in Iraq, "shall refrain from initiating, carrying out or completing an audit or investigation or from issuing a subpoena which requires access to sensitive operation plans" due to reasons of national security. The office of the Inspector General traditionally has been responsible for matters relating to the prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse. - from CauseNet
  • Supported bill that undermines the entire Medicare program, pushing people into the very HMOs which contribute heavily to Republican lawmakers and barring the government from negotiating for lower drug prices.
  • Successfully pressured Congress for new rules that could lead to 8 million Americans losing eligibility for overtime pay, largely white-collar workers earning more than $65,000 a year. More than 644,000 such employees would lose the time-and-a-half pay now required when they work more than 40 hours in a week. - from Salon
  • During my term government spending increased more than 27 percent in the previous two fiscal years. In fact, the investor class being reminded of fiscal discipline in Washington is warning that, "The U.S. budget is out of control," as asserted weeks ago by Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co.- from Daily Mis-lead
  • I've called for mercury emission rules that would reduce mercury to 34 tons by 2010, and 15 tons by 2015, regulations that are "three times less stringent and would take 10 years longer to achieve than reductions critics say are required under the Clean Air Act.- from Daily Mis-lead
  • Civil enforcement of pollution laws has plummeted since I took office over three years ago and we have caught and punished far fewer polluters than the previous two administrations. [11]
  • The success of my administration's anti-terrorism efforts have been grossly overstated in that of the 6,400 people referred by investigators for criminal charges in the two years since the attack, only 879 were convicted, the median sentence was 14 days and only five people were sentenced to 20 years or more. [12]
  • Chose to put the vast majority of the new funding for AIDS programs into programs the US controls and operates, rather than the effective Global Fund.- from Daily Mis-lead
  • Sent US troops to Iraq without sufficient body armor to protect themselves. As many as 30,000 soldiers in Iraq are without body armor and are being forced to use '"Vietnam-era flak jackets" that provide insufficient protection from shrapnel and bullets. Military families across the country are so concerned about the president's negligence, that many have felt forced to raise the $1,400 personally to pay for their loved one to have the armor.- from Daily Mis-lead
  • Responsible for more military casualties during the first year of the takeover of Iraq than in the 1st year of the Vietnam war.- from a viewer
  • Ignored GAO investigation report claiming the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration had been lax in enforcing beef safety regulations intended to protect people from mad cow disease, including those intended to guarantee that cattle feed wasn't contaminated. The GAO report also claimed the FDA's record keeping was so bad it was hard to tell whether these companies were complying with feed bans intended to keep prohibited proteins out of cattle feed. [13]
  • The IMF on January 8, 2004 called my huge budget deficits a threat to the global economy by roiling currency markets and driving up interest rates. [14]
  • My administration awarded a $1.8 bn. dollar contract to Bechtel National, Inc and Parsons Corp. in partnership, companies whose executives donated thousands of dollars to my campaign and have two top executives serving on White House and Pentagon advisory boards 15] Records and References:
  1. Tom Teepen, Atlanta-based Cox Newspaper's columnist, October 17, 2003 column appearing in the Detroit Free Press on "Power of Big Buck Players", referencing deals cut by the Bush Administration to help out key political allies who are also big campaign donors.
  2. Article in The Nation citing findings from recent Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
  3. Bureau of Labor statistics on number of jobs lost as of 10/03.
  4. Associated Press article of October 21, 2003 on record budget deficit.
  5. Knight Ridder article by Dick Polman, October 23, 2003 entitled: Election funding system at risk.
  6. Report from the annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia on October 24, 2003 on the already noticeable effects of less federal money on public safety.
  7. Newhouse News Service report by Miles Benson on Bush Administration attempting to block monies awarded to Gulf War POWs, dated 10/27/03.
  8. AP article of October 28, 2003 titled: States, Cities Sue EPA over New Air Rules.
  9. Agriculture Department report on the increase in families who went hungry, based on US Census Bureau survey and reported by AP on November 2, 2003.
  10. Washington Free Press News Services report, November 12, 2003, on World Trade Organization ruling against the Bush steel tariffs.
  11. December 9, 2003 article titled: In Bush Years, EPA nabs fewer polluters, published in the Detroit Free Press by staff writer Seth Borenstein citing 17 different categories of enforcement activity obtained by Knight-Ridder through the Freedom of Information Act.
  12. Government records reviewed by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse regarding the people held and convicted of terrorism by the US Justice Dept. reported in the Detroit Free Press, Dec. 8, 2003, 4A.
  13. Detroit Free Press article entitled: Hunt is on for mad cow origin by Seth Borenstein, Washington staff, appearing on December 25, 2003, Sec. 1A.
  14. IMF Warns US Budget Gaps Endanger World Economy, by Joseph Rebello, Dow Jones Newswires, January 8, 2004.
  15. Detroit Free Press news article on Bechtel $1.8 bn. contract, Jan. 7, 2004, Sec. 4A.
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Accomplishments as president:
  • Saved the government money by under-funding the Veterans Hospitals. In addition to saving money for their medical care, the Vets will die sooner saving compensation payments. Also closed several Vet Hospitals and Clinics.-from Frank Gardin, a viewer in Georgia
  • An army of U.S. veterans more than twice the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom have lost their health insurance benefits during my administration. As many as half a million vets are homeless. Seven VA hospitals are being closed as part of an effort to "restructure" the Department of Veterans Affairs. Meanwhile, veterans of the Iraq campaign can fall in line with over 250,000 U.S. veterans who are already waiting at least six months to see a doctor.- from counterpunch.org
  • The Army War College wrote a scathing report broadly criticizing my administration's handling of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a detour into an "unnecessary" war in Iraq and pursuing an "unrealistic" quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat. The report, by visiting professor Jeffrey Record, who is on the faculty of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., warns that as a result of those mistakes, the Army is "near the breaking point." It recommends, among other things, scaling back the scope of the "global war on terrorism" and instead focusing on the narrower threat posed by the al-Qaida terrorist network. [1]
  • Repeatedly hyped the threat posed by alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war and so it appears weapons inspections worked after all. [2]
  • Bypassed the Senate confirmation process and appointed Charles Pickering -- who authored the GOP anti-abortion plank and argued for lenience for a convicted cross-burner -- to a lifetime seat on the federal bench just hours after laying a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr. drawing opposition from an unprecedented coalition of pro-choice, civil-rights, labor, environmental, and gay and lesbian groups. [3]
  • Drug companies and insurance companies gave millions of dollars to help push through Congress my Medicare bill, which will greatly increase the profits for these companies while pulling the rug out from under our seniors. This bill was designed to do in Medicare. [4]
  • Proposed cutting almost $700 million out of the same job training and education programs being touted as getting $500 million.- from Daily Mis-Lead
  • Pressured the Dept. of Health and Human Services to revise an early draft study of racial disparities in health care to play down questions of inequity. [5]
  • Using the Homeland Security rider, helped to protect Eli Lilly from lawsuits from Thimerosal. My father did serve on their board before becoming president.- from viewer Rose Walker, SC.
  • Was mooned by more than 1000 European protesters during my 2001 European trip.- from viewer Vijay R. Avadhani, India.
  • Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly accessed computer files belonging to Democratic members over the course of the year, stealing strategic memos and leaking them to conservative media outlets.-reported by Boston Globe
  • A recent joint statement by the Committee for Economic Development and the Concord coalition and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities described the current budgetary situation as the "most fiscally irresponsible" in US history. [6]
  • The war in Iraq couldn't be justified as an intervention in defense of human rights even though it ended a brutal regime claims Human Rights Watch in an annual report filed