In George W. Bush's First year in office he: **1. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. **2. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. **3. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. **4. Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources. **5. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. **6. 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. **7. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001). **8. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks. **9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. *10. 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. *11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador. *12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. *13. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance. *14. Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents. *15. Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. *16. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing. *17. Proposed to eliminate a federal program, designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare for natural disasters. *18. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement. *19. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. *20. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. *21. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work. *22. Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra). *23. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. *24. Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. *25. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. *26. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. *27. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps. *28. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. *29. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming. *30. Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds. *31. Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach. *32. Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive - to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. *33. OK'd Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast of eastern Florida. *34. Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. *35. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments. *36. Gutted White House AIDS Office. *37. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate workers's rights and safeguards for the environment. *38. Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments. *39. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior. *40. Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality. *41. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program. *42. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness. *43. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects. *44. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can. *45. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah. *46. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit. *47. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. *48. Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills. *49. Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying "If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants." (Vice President Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press.") *50. Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in pay" Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. (Boston Globe, March 28, 2001.) *51. Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action - to direct the Office of Personnel Management. *52. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect. *53. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards. *54. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children. *55. Is pushing for development of small nuclear arm to attack deeply buried targets and weapons, which would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. *56. Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for the recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act- to federal appeals court judgeship. *57. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. *58. Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught School children about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. *59. Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N. - to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. *60. Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - for the number-two job at the Environmental Protection Agency. *61. Nominated Michael McConnell - leading critic of the separation of church and state - to a federal judgeship. *62. Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil rights - to a federal judgeship. *63. Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars. *64. Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to head SEC. *65. Nominated John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug treatment programs - for Drug Czar. (Washington Post, May 16, 2001.) *66. Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for Deputy Secretary of the Interior. *67. Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the Endangered Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science *68. 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. *69. 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. *70. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills. *71. Nominated Ted Olson- who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton - for Solicitor General. *72. Nominated Terrance Boyle - foe of civil rights - to a federal judgeship. *73. Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.) *74. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines. *75. 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. *76. Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official government functions. *77. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a timber industry lobbyist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ---Benjamin Franklin
Grrrrr... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Well, what do you expect from a Republican who is obviously pro-corporate greed and anti-environment and anti-poor? He's pro-rich and conservative religious. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If you are a US citizen, please vote in the next election, and please think before you vote! There is one thing in that list that doesn't make me mad, though. Cheney is right, if you want to reduce CO2 emissions, replace coal and oil power plants with nuclear plants. It's a good idea!
I wonder about the fact that nobody in these so called united(???) states has seen the look in the eyes of bush in the beginning.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It showed immediately that it is a screwed up figure and that he is a fake!!! Disliked him from the very first glimpse I got from that figure. The elections were a fake also. I bet bush doesn't make it till the next elections. Sorry, I really hate to look at that person. He makes me literally sick...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Banshee, George W. Bush does not look fake when he talks. He's not smart enough to be fake. He actually looks retarded when he talks. I don't blame him, he doesn't know any better. I blame the American people for electing that moron into office. Tom
Yeah, don't you think it's frightening to have such an imbecil for a president? He has 'evil' eyes. Or insane eyes if you want.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! The election was not fair. He just had help to win those elections with a little more votes. More insanity. And the american people allowed it to happen. Hmmmm...what do I have to think about them than?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Okay honestly. After the 9/11 attacks, would you really have wanted someone as wimpy as Gore in office? Bush might be a moron or whatever but he did display strength after all that happened. Uh oh, Im gonna get it for this onePlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
stRgrL, Strength to do what?? Take away people's constitutional rights or defeat an old, weak, unorganized Afgani military?? Tom
dubya stands for whore trust me, it doesnt take alot of strength to do what he has done.. the man has a huge approval rating.. people are ignoring all the problems back home and taking part in the whole american pride thing.. which means you gotta back your prez.. so sad it makes me wonder how bad his approval rating would be if 9-11 didnt happen, i thought enron would have made people stand up and take notice but they're too bizzy digging their heads in the sand again... by the way, gore isnt as bad as he looks on tv, he's a great guy.. its jus when those cameras are on..
from the bush I am not a US citizen but I've always equated dubbya with Maxwell Smart and Colin Powell as 99 with the rest of the world as the audience except that when the punch line is delivered the audience are holding their stomachs with acute muscle spasms when laughing
pcd2k, Good one!! Kinda scary when Australians understand the US president better than us Americans do. As the joke goes: "That's what you get when you have a "Bush" and a "Dick" in office at the same time." Tom
If there are less Americans voting, I bet the candidates public relations representative will make it sound like all the American people are for that candidate...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
From my vantage as a political Independent, it is quite humorous observing weird-thinking, alien abductee/out-of-body-experienced/I talk to the Planet-type folks saying that Bush is too weird for them. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! So much for Europe being the rational-thinking center of the Universe. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Mr G... You should ask your alternate alias [Q] to comment on the subject as obviously you can't stay on it. Your opinions are both inaccurate and not to the point. So much for Americans having rational thoughts...
Banshee You should ask your alternate alias [Q] to comment on the subject as obviously you can't stay on it Thank you for inviting me into your thread. Firstly, I must protest. The proportion of thought and energy required for me to comment point by point the entire article, and your most effortless copy and paste of said article to your post, is certainly not equal. But behold, you have commented. And just what are your carefully considered rational reasonings to said article? Obviously they're based on measured performance coupled with spiralling economics under exotic circumstances, right? ...the look in the eyes of bush... showed immediately that it is a screwed up figure and that he is a fake... Disliked him from the very first glimpse... I really hate to look at that person. He makes me literally sick... He has 'evil' eyes. Or insane eyes if you want... The depth of your argument is staggering. I'm completely convinced. The man is a menace. However, your statements have nothing to do with the article. It appears you can also be held accountable for 'Subject and Topic Misbehaviour.' The election was not fair. He just had help to win those elections with a little more votes. Yes, for the most part, elections are won when one candidate has the most votes. So much for European insight... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
hmm, just reminded me.. you think the reform in campaign fianaces, and how the electoral college/voting system will be brought up again anytime to do some good for the next election? hopefully voters will have wised up by the next election and will vote on track records and not emotion involving the terrorist attacks
PharCyDE, Did voters vote based on track records during the last presidential election?? I guess the voters didn't vote for Gore because they were sick of low unemployment. They were also sick of balanced budgets, budget surpluses, a booming economy, the smallest government in 30 years, etc. Maybe Clinton's private life was far more important than the state of the union. Funny, I just finished watching "Stargate-SG1" and on the show was a US senator who said "Half the American's don't vote, and the rest are stupid". How right he was. Tom
Well, I have to agree with Joeblow93132 here. Good reply. Had a good laugh about it.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
No offense, but your statement is yet another example of you being so out of touch with rationality that you are willing to embrace any unsubstantiable rumor or inuendo as if they were empirical proof of anything. The person here known as [Q] and the person here known as Mr. G are not the same person, no matter how badly you wish to believe otherwise. Both [Q] and myself might feel personally slighted were we incapable of understanding your need to believe such tripe. By your confusion of [Q] with myself, and visa versa, I can too easily discount your powers of observation, information assimilation and synthesis. In other words, I cannot consider you an expert on what is, or is not, rational thought. For such expertise on rationalism I seek out Crisp and James R., whom you might already suspect to be one and the same. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
