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Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 34 months

Banned Partial Birth Abortion

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court

Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America.

Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses

Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes

Pushed through THREE raises for our military.

Increased Defense Dept funding which had deteriorated during the previous 8 years

Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.

Supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals

Signed E.O. reversing Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act

Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit

Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers

Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right

Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e. the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty)

Successfully executed 2 wars: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom

Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network)

Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.

Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia

Initiated comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was critical.

Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency

Reorganized bureaucracy...after 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency: the Department of Homeland Security.

Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.

Improving govt. efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid...weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises. Wants merit based promotions/raises only.

Orchestrated Republican control of the White House, the House AND the Senate.

Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)

Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession.

Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Signed 2 income tax cuts ---- 1 of which was the largest Dollar value tax cut in world history

Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains

In process of eliminating IRS marriage penalty.

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)

Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.

Signed trade promotion authority

Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa

Passed Medicare Reform (authorized $39.5 Billion per year for preventive medicine such as drugs and doctor visits as well as included a ten year Privatization option)

Urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits

Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims

Submitted comprehensive Energy Plan--awaits Congressional action (works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.)

Endorses and promotes The Responsibility Era ("In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else -- to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself. " -----this quote was too good to leave out)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Initiated review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of federal gov while increasing private sector jobs.

Part of coalition (Russia, Israel, EU, Palestine, USA) for Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace"

Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become The League of Nations ( in other words, completely irrelevant)

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.

Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.

As part of the national forests clean-up, the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges) and removed the need for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.

Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

3 posted on 12/08/2003 3:29:30 PM EST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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Most of those accomplishments are great, some are just words and others "proposals".

But can't we at least admit the ideas and decisions that are just plain bad are bad without drinking the Kool-Aid and accusing us that point them out of wanting Dean or a Rat to win?

Bush needs to veto something...ANYTHING! He could start by threatening a veto on this omnibus spending bill (can't the GOP Congress do the appropriations individually?). Majority leader Sen. Bill Frist said to the GOP Congress, "you better vote for this bill or we'll have to just spend at last years levels and some popular programs won't get increases"! YIPPIE! What's so bad about that? Last year's levels were pretty high. But I don't give all the blame to Bush, the Congress is more guilty acting like kids in candy store now that they feel invunerable in their majority.

Where is it written that all government programs have to be increased every year?

And even though it was just an idea, not officially a proposal, Bush's immigration plan has fallen flat on it's face. I was actually surprised the conservatives in the GOP refound their spine on at least ONE issue.

I love the space program idea, but it wasn't handled well or presented better. It's still too vague and, just like his dad, too far out (moon by 2015?) to garner any momentum. We could do the moon in less time and should get more private enterprise involved with awards for real ideas that would work to solve the problems.

And while I fully support our war on terror, I'm getting queasy about our ability to really handle the undertaking in Iraq. How many times does Bremer have to be flown back to DC (haven't these people heard of secure video lines yet?) to overhaul the post-Iraqi war plan?

And why are we still hearing reports of insurgents coming over the borders? We have the resources but they aren't being used? I know a lot of what goes on is being done behind the scenes but it seems not to be working with Syria or Iran. But since it is going on behind the scenes, we really don't know until something like Libya's statement happens. So I'm still going to support the president on this.

But I'm still angry over campaign finance reform. How could ANYONE, seriously, think "no problem, the Supreme Court would never let this be upheld" given the makeup of the court and total insanity of O'Connor and Ginsburg, etc? He should have vetoed that bill and explained it simply violated the 1st amendment.

Today he recess appointed Pickering and asked the others on hold if they wanted the same (they refused). I like this move since it sticks a finger in the eye of Kennedy, Schumer, Lehay, etc. But he needs to play rougher with his judicial appointments. Start threatening those Senators, via Frist (though he's turning out to be as big a wimp as Lott and he's my Senator and I voted for him twice) with their pet projects being held up in committee or killed if they don't let those nominees through.

He should have pushed for more vouchers and choice in the education bill instead of giving in to Ted Kennedy who went ahead and stabbed him in the back like I knew he would. Why would anyone trust or worry about someone that says such horrible and ridiculous things about him?

But now that we are in full election mode, Bush will unfortunately get weaker and avoid confrontation and the Dems know it and will be doing everything possible to object, obscure, and halt any proposals going through Congress. I was hoping Bush, especially after 9/11, was going to be more concerned with our saftey, security and overall economic health and screw reelection and do the right thing.

It's still a long way to November but I'm not going to be waiting for anything bold between now and then.

I don't think, at this point, a Democrat could beat him. He's not made the mistakes his father made in 1991 and 1992 and he has got the handle of the economy as much as any administration can (unless Greenspan screws him like his daddy, but I don't think he could get away with that twice). But I wish the GOP had made the tax rate changes (I refuse to call them tax cuts because they aren't) permanent and force a Dem to have to really raise them. Right now, the Dems can call for their reversal but know they really don't have to do anything since in 2011 they still go back up. I don't want a Dem president vetoing a GOP Congress bill to maintain the rates since they'll say, "those rates were imposed by Bill Clinton and the budget was balanced in 5 years" even though it's a lie. Right now the Dems are saying the GOP is a party of deficit spending and the they are the party of fiscal responsibility even though it's totally false but it sells well in soundbites.

And I wish we'd go back to the idea of eliminating some federal cabinet departments like Commerce, Energy and Transportation among others. Bush and the GOP Congress now like government a little too much for me. But then again, Newt did the same thing after his "revolution" that turned out to be nothing and almost failed (the House was losing seats and the Senate flipped back and forth with a thin margin).

Will 2004 be the year? Will the GOP gain the congressional seats needed to really do those things? Will Bush push for that bigger majority? Will they actually do them once they have the votes? Will they push forward with common sense proposals with 53-56 seats in the Senate?

I hope so but I'm not convinced they will. At this point, given the lying liberal press and the level of total idiocy in the electorate, I'm still worried Bush can lose in November if something bad happens beyond his control and the Dem nominee isn't a total flake like Dean or Clark. I thought Kerry and Edwards were toast, but reality is setting in with the Dems. Gephardt is the one I worry about because of his long ties with the unions even if he has changed every position he had since 1988 (Lieberman changed all his in 2000 so is even more worthless).

It's going to come down to a state by state contest and there are many in play based on a lot of different issues in places like PA, NJ (they are going totally nuts there), WI, MI, etc.

But as of this moment, I'm not too optimistic and Bush needs to really earn back my confidence. Unfortunately, the war on terror isn't enough with the MTV attention span of most Americans...and some of those idiots actually vote.

Yea Mo1! Thank you! See # 430 yall.