Who says George W. Bush has done "nothing" for conservatives?

WhiteHouse.gov; various news sources ^ | 1/27/04

[Wolfstar]

[ED. NOTE: In the last few months, FReeper Southack put together a list of Bush administration achievements over its first three years in office, and tirelessly posted it whenever an opportunity presented itself. Southack gave me permission to take that list, organize it by topics, and enhance it with further research from whitehouse.gov and other sources. This thread is posted in gratitude to and in honor of Southack.]

Abortion & Traditional Values

1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
   
2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy.
   
3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.
   
4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.
   
5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.
   
6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.
9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools.
10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms).
11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline.
12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.
    

Budget, Taxes & Economy

1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
   
3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.
5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
   
6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
   
7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
   
8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
   
9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
   
10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
    
11. Signed trade promotion authority.
    
12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.
13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.
16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.
17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans.
20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.

Character & Conduct as President

1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency.
2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse.
3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:

• Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."
  
  
• On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation:
  
  

Education & Employment Training

1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act.
   
2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education.
3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.)
4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight.
5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance.
6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards.
7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems.
8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers.
   

Environment & Energy

1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan 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.
3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.
4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
   
5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.
   
6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
   
7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
   
8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.
   

Defense & Foreign Policy

1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom.
2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured.
3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
   
5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network.
   
6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
   
7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
   
8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency.
   
9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU.
   
10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
    
11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia.
    
12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
    
13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs.
15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry.
16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006.
17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy.
18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments.
19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year.
20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports.
21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.

Globalization & Internationalism

1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant).
   
2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court.
   
3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).*
4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer.
5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country."
   

Government Reform

1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises.
   
2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs.
   
3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.*
4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers.
5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.
   

Health

1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free.
2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health.
3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:

• A 10-year privatization option.
• Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.
  
• More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.
  
• New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.
  

Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration

1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security.
2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004.
   
3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield).
4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders.
5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.
   
6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals.
7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones.
   
8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested.
   
9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies.
10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.
11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization.
12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.
13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications.
14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.

Judiciary & Tort Reform

1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits.
   
2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA.
   
3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
   
4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.

Politics

1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.
   
2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes.
   

Second Amendment

1. 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, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right.
2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit.
   
3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers.
   
4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.
   

Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism

1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "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 is 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."
   
2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world.
   
3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families.
   
4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved.
5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible.
6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them.
7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states.
8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
   
9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:

• Equal Justice
  
• Freedom of Speech
  
• Limited Government Power
  
• Private Property Rights
  
• Religious Tolerance
  
• Respect for Women
  
• Rule of Law

[Ophiucus]

If you don't think that orders are coming from top, then you haven't gotten out of bed lately.

If you think that mush overriding influence is coming from top, your tin foil hat is slipping.

[jim35]

True enough, don't know, or care, about prop 187. I know I have a son and other family members in the military and I want a president that supports our military like GW does....

[FirstPrinciple]

You better believe influence is coming from the top. The White House/Dick Cheney picked sides early on and it was relayed down to the state party level. I very much doubt if the state party would go against the wishes of the upper echelons in the party. Anyone who has worked in any campaign will tell you that organization is everything. The White House and the party threw their influence behind Specter a long time ago. RINOs take care of each other.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great letter, thanks for the post and flag. Been sporadic on the net lately, and likely to stay that way, but keep flagging and I'll try and catch up.

This thread has been added to my favorites..it is THAT GOOD.

Thanks Southack and Wolfstar....job well done.

[Ophiucus]

Anyone who has worked in any campaign will tell you that organization is everything. The White House and the party threw their influence behind Specter a long time ago. RINOs take care of each other.

Having worked in many Congressional campaigns and having family in the county and state Republican organization, I can tell you without reservation, "Bull."

The local organization selects the candidate and helps the candidate campaign by giving them access to resources. The national organization allows access to resources for voter lists and donors and will give specific help only when asked or if it's a tight race with a Democrat in an important district. That's when you can get the President or Vice-President to pay attention - a swing district up for grabs. That was how we got Pres. G.H.W. Bush to come to a rally and give support to knock out a weak Democrat incumbent, the candidate didn't matter - the result in the Congressional tally did.

Local internecine fights are not in the purview of the national organization, they could care less. They didn't get involved during our last nasty fight for the Governor nomination and they didn't do didley in the last Senate race I worked in. That's for the locals to decide.

Just because the local Republican organizers support Spector doesn't mean it fit's into your "RINO conspiracy."

[Bikers4Bush]

I disagree.

[templar]

Wiretaps are wiretaps.... once we've agreed that they are a valid tool of the government, we only have the conditions of their use to debate.

This is exactly the situation the fourth ammendment was intended to address. Read it lately? It places limits on government surveilance, and it does so for a reason.

For governments to perform their essential duty they need to perform surveillance on the bad guys.

This is in dispute? But what constitutes a 'bad guy'? A rather ill defined term you are using here. I would suppose that you think of yourself as being a 'bad guy' are since your financial activities, for example, are being surveiled. Why else would the government have your activities under surveilance unless at you are one of the 'bad guys'? As for me, I am not among the 'bad guys' and find it quite objectionable that everything from my banking transactions to my travel is under constant government surveilance. This is antithetical to both freedom and liberty. If you cannot understand this, then we have nothing in comon.

[FirstPrinciple]

What you are talking about is the general election, and of course the party machinery will support the candidate of the party. What I am talking about is the primary, where the national party should keep its hands off local primaries. The fact that the national party and the White House chose to take sides within the party, reflects who they would prefer in that race.

[ohioWfan]

OK......you're getting on a thread about conservatism and advocating legalizing harmful, mind altering, life destroying drugs. How bizarre is that??

I'll repeat it, for the record.

Anyone who uses illegal drugs, or advocates legalizing life destroying drugs, has NO moral authority to complain about the illegality of immigrants.

How cute of you to say they are illegal by 'fiat only.' What a convenient way for you to get out of obeying laws you don't like.

NO moral authority.......and NOT conservative. You lose.

[George W. Bush]

Letter from a Kerry supporter

Uh-oh. Going to be hard for the GOP to pick up this guy's vote!

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! I love that letter, Grampa ! A Freeper classic now ! ...

[FirstPrinciple]

Just because you scream, it doesn't make your point any more valid. What drug isn't mind altering? Is morphine mind-altering? Alcohol? Did you know that heroine was legal for the longest time? There is no good reason to ban drugs, just like in the case of prohibition. If you choose to support banning drugs, you side with terrorists who makes profit out of keeping drugs illegal. The choice is yours.

[Sabertooth]

I say he must have a damn good reason to be taking such a great political risk. I've given this a great deal of thought and it seems to me as if Bush's primary reason for taking such a gamble even despite the loud screams of protest is because he honestly feels it is important for national security. He has been fighting like crazy to have terrorist cells identified WITHIN our country and to keep the rest of Al Quaeda OUT. That will be more feasible if the amount that are unregistered here is cut down significantly and if the numbers trying to sneak in illegally are cut down also.

There's a problem with this theory:

For the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, American and Mexican Cabinet officials will meet today in Washington to resume talks on one of the most critical issues facing U.S.-Mexico relations: immigration reform.

Few believe that the new round of talks will approach the scope or enthusiasm of the dialogue that began with Mexican President Vicente Fox and President George W. Bush just days before terrorists hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

< -snip- >

In his talks with Fox before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush made clear his support for the creation of a guest-worker program while remaining opposed to blanket amnesty. That dialogue "transformed the immigration debate from how do we repress it to how do we regulate it," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum.
U.S.-Mexico immigration talks resume
Jessie Mangaliman - 11/12/03 - The San Jose Mercury News

President Bush has always wanted Amnesty, and has always said he didn't.

I can see points in the argument that his proposal is the best way to accomplish this in a cost-effective manner. If all the information he has at his fingertips leads him to believe this proposal is necessary for our country, I will look at it very carefully and I'll wait and see how details are fleshed out before I yank my support for his re-election.

I'm not trying to talk you into yanking your support for his reelection.

I support his reelection.

What I'm trying to do is convey that the risk to the President's reelection is there, though moderate at this point, as a result of the anger at his proposal to Amnesty Illegal Aliens. The danger is higher to Republicans downticket if the President is reelected with lower than desired turnout. That affects every other aspect of the GOP agenda: judges; taxes, the WoT, abortion, etc.

All of this is being put at risk for the sake of the President's desire to reward the behavior of lawbreakers, againt the desires of most Americans and most Republicans.

On this issue, the President is the problem.

[Sabertooth]

...who would Osama want conservatives to vote for in 2004, GOP or third-party?

Third party.

Here's another question:

Would Osama want lax or diligent enforcement of our immigration laws?

Here's another:

Would Osama want Amnesty for Illegals and an open-ended "guest worker" scheme?

[ohioWfan]

Scream?? LOL!

Just because you've convinced yourself that wrong is right doesn't make it valid.

Buying drugs supports criminals and terrorists, and kills and destroys the lives of children and adults.

btw, you've been saying nonsensical things since you got on this thread yesterday and started with you "Who's talking point is this" silliness. I'm not getting sucked in to wasting my time, and giving you an opportunity to further your idiocy.

Read that enormous list of conservative accomplishments, and see the big picture (but then again, you're probably a libertarian, and therefore not a conservative to start with).

If you don't like government, find an island to live on where you make all the rules, and be happy.

[Joe Hadenuf]

As I said, California has had this 'problem' decades before Bush 1st was president and you know it!

You think?

Just like Bush's Dad, he too did nothing about this epic crisis.

Or maybe you are young and were sheltered by your mommy and daddy during these last three decades?

Oh crips, now your going to start the personal attacks on Joe? Feel fortunate, the AM keeps a short leash on me. Please, no more personal attacks. I would hate to ring your bell in front of others.

As I said this was a problem in the 70's, don't tell me it didn't exist, I know better.

Oh that's right, you were the guy that spent 3 years in Cal in the early 70s and thought we were over run with illegals then. LOL!

I appreciate the belly laugh.

[FirstPrinciple]

If you don't like government

Says it all. BTW, you are supporting the terrorists by keeping drugs illegal. I want to legalize drugs and drive the terrorists out of business.

[autoresponder]

Not criminal?

Tell it to the judge.

Rockefeller laws in NY!

Bye Bye!

[Sabertooth]

Maybe then I could get something besides a cold, stale burger practically thrown in my face by some resentful white trash who's mad at the world for whatever reason, or some surly black who's sure I'm Scarlett O'Hara there to oppress them and keep them poor and waiting on lil' ole me.

Wow.

Sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed of racial animus.

rdb3, next time I want to be the surly one.

Regards,

Sabertrash (Surlytooth)