What's So Great About George W. Bush?

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[Bodhi1]

What's so great about George W. Bush? His patriotism, his resolve, his principles, his steadfastness, his belief in America, his optimism, his refusal to get in the gutter...

Character is king. Again.

[Bodhi1]

Great read, Otto. Well done.

[mikeus_maximus]

Peggy Noonan, who wrote When Character Was King, disagrees with you. As do I.

[PurpleMan]

He’s not Gore.

Her’s not Kerry.

[Coldwater Creek]

I love George Bush! At some point in history, he will be appreciated.

[af_vet_rr]

He wasn’t Ann Richards either. Too bad he was unable to find his veto pen until so late in his Presidency...

[SpaceBar]

His patriotism, his resolve...

His continued attempts to turn the US into a giant taco stand.

[ozzymandus]

You and Peggy Noonan deserve each other.

[Faith]

God bless George W. Bush, with or without the appreciation of his contemporaries.

[Dead Corpse]

Too bad he didn't use some EO's to void out some of the crap his Dad and Clinton did via EO. Such as the DRMO ammo demil requirements, banning imports of certain types of firearms, ect...

I know Bush is a "compassionate RINO" at best, but throwing us gun owners a bone instead of ramping up BATFE persecution would have been nice...

[ZULU]

So do I.

Bush has been a total catastrophe - an utter disappoinment.

The best things you can say about him is he isn’t Kerry or Gore.

The damage he has done to America, the Republican Party and the conservative movement in America will take a long time to erase.

[normy]

So do I and I don’t care much for Republican candidates bad mouthing him using Democrat talking points.

[Schichtel]

GET A LIFE

[Nephi]

George W. Bush, a Republican more like Nixon than Reagan; here is his legacy:

• Signed the Campaign Finance Reform bill authored by John McCain and Fred Thompson.
• Expanded the Department of Education with No Child Left Behind.
• Created a whole new entitlement.
• Campaigned enthusiastically for the prescription drug entitlement.
• Refuses to enforce the border.
• Agreed to an independent counsel investigation of the outing of a desk jockey at the CIA.
• Let Sandy Berger get off with a hand slap for stealing documents out of the National Archives.
• Named Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
• He wanted to name his buddy, Alberto Gonzales to the Supreme Court, but conservative outrage forced him to drop Miers and Gonzales for Roberts and Alito.
• Continues to cast a chill over the border patrol by allowing Ramos and Campean to remain in jail.
• Eliminated the boutique fuels bottlenecking our refinery system for two weeks.
• Reagan got the US out of UNESCO, W put US back in.
• Pledges American lives to uphold UN resolutions.
• Waited five years to try to win the war in Iraq.
• Was an accessory to losing the majority in congress to the Democrat party.
• Immediately began working with the Democrat majority to pass amnesty.
• Built two miles of the promised border fence.
• Continued the push to create the North American Union

[griswold3]

I am still enamoured with President Bush.
We can disagree all day on policy issues but he is still a great man of character. The commity he displayed in front of Al Gore showed what a sound individual he is. I could not have done it!!

[DaveyB]

Bush has been a total catastrophe - an utter disappointment.

• His support if Arlen Specter over a real conservative - who else could keep conservatives offf the SCOTUS?
• His Nomination of Harriet Myers - I think he was off the wagon that day.
• Prescription health care - I'm a popper - your a popper - wouldn't you like to be popper too?
• His lack of support for Rick Santorum - His morality didn't fit in well in DC anyway!
• Open Boarders - Drive through now open all night!
• His good friend Johnny Sutton - keeping the border safe for smugglers!
• At least he pardoned Ramos and Compeon-oops!
• Gleefully signing the energy bill AKA the environmental jihad against America! Now America will truely be in the dark.
• Budget? What's that? Let's just spend like there is no tomorrow.
• Walk the plank Mr. Rumsfeld - Davey Jones locker is your next post
• Worshiping in a Mosque? Did he really do that?
• Hey isn't that Jenna Bush teaching "safe sex" - I guess that defense of marriage stuff is dead now!
• Scooter why not just lie under that bus - it will protect you - really!
• Al Gore welcome to the White House! Sure you are a traitor to your country but at least you got some awards for it.
• North American Super Highway will only cost to ameros to from Mexico to Canada.

[jveritas]

President Bush is and will be remembered as one of the greatest President

President Bush legacy:

President Bush led our brave troops to destroy 2 terrorist regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and freed 50 million people.

President Bush led our troops to destroy Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Bush protected us since 9/11 and we did not have a terrorist attack in America since then.

President Bush cut our taxes which helped us out of recession, the Clinton recession, and thus has helped in giving us one of the best economic prosperity on record.

President Bush appointed two great conservative Supreme Court Justices.

President Bush is the most pro-life President since Roe Vs Wade criminality has been established.

God bless President Bush. God bless our brave troops. God bless America.

[Coldwater Creek]

You are right, that was priceless!!

[ZULU]

Nixon and Bush _ perfect together.

Actually Bush I and Bush II were equally inept. Must run in the Genes. They must have a northeastern liberal Yankee gene hiding in their chromosomes somewhere.

[corlorde]

First President to even ATTEMPT dealing with the Terrorist threat. Better than Clinton, Gore, and Kerry combined, in my estimation.

[Southack]

Presidency of George W. Bush -- Top Achievements

No New 9/11 Attacks On The U.S.

Tax Cuts

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

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Eliminated the Estate Tax (AKA "Death Tax") that was taking small farms and businesses from families

 

President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion

Banned Partial Birth Abortion

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

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

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court

National Missile Defenses (PAC-3, AEGIS SM-3, ABL, Silo-based ABM's)

First Missile is Installed For NMD on July 23, 2004

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

Built ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes

Killed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty so that the U.S. can once again test our nuclear weapons

Gun Rights

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

Full Immunity From Frivolous Lawsuits For Our Domestic Gun Industry
Click Here

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)

Signed the 2004 Omnibus Budget 1/26/2004 that now MANDATES that gun buyers' background check information be fully and permanently destroyed within 24 hours of the completion of the check, no matter what.

Repealed Gun Controls Against Active, Retired, and Off-Duty Law Enforcement Personnel Carrying Weapons Into Local and State Prohibited Zones (7/28/2004)

Enacted powerful tort reform legislation that moves many class action lawsuits from state to federal courts. Requires federal courts to hear cases where the amount of the dispute is more than $5 million, and when the defendant and any of the plaintiffs live in different states.

 

INTERNATIONAL

Disarmed Libya of its Chemical, Nuclear, and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed

Won an agreement that U.S. Navy sailors may now freely board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction under a landmark pact between the United States and Liberia, the world's No. 2 shipping registry (signed Feb 11, 2004), and Panama 5/10/2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/international/americas/11ship.html).

Approves The First U.S. Counter-Intel Plan

Successfully executed 2 wars and rebuilt 2 nations: Afghanistan and Iraq.

U.S. Forces In Baghdad

50+ million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom...epitomized by their own free and democratic elections.

Provided Billions in aid, machines, and manpower to tsunami victims.

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

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)

Bush Administration diplomacy led to the 5/25/2004 peace accord that ended a massive 20-year civil war between Sudan's Islamic north and Christian south after two million deaths Click Here

  Delivered vital emergency aid to millions of survivors on multiple continents (e.g. Africa, SE Asia) of a devastating Tsunami caused by a 9.1 earthquake near Sumatra.

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.

Bush and Putin sign historic anti-nuclear treaty

· Largest ever missile cuts agreed

Friday May 24, 2002


Russian president Vladimir Putin (left), and US president George Bush shake hands before signing the treaty. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov, AP.
 

Presidents George Bush and Vladimir Putin today signed a landmark treaty to make the largest reductions ever in US and Russian nuclear arsenals but public differences were voiced over Iran.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,721544,00.html

Syrian Troops forced to withdraw from Lebanon, ending their 2 decades of illegal occupation 

Russians Troops Peacefully Withdraw From Georgia

Dramatically improved U.S.-India relations via a breakthrough nuclear agreement

Algeria has held its first competitive presidential election, and the military remained neutral.

The United Arab Emirates recently announced that half of its seats in the Federal National Council will be chosen by elections.

Kuwait held elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for office for the first time.

Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia and parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt.

Broke the Chinese Yuan to Dollar currency peg

CAFTA - President Bush signing CAFTA

Signed the Peru free trade pact

US rules out extra pledges on global warming

Bolton to the UN

DOMESTIC

Chief Justice John Roberts
Justice Sam Alito
Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

Bush-appointed Judges: Most Conservative On Record, New UH Study Finds

Fed Chairman Bernanke

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

Signed Bankruptcy Reform Into Law

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 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

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)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary

Energy Bill (new tax cuts...after 5 years of opposition)

President Bush opened up an additional part of Alaska for domestic oil drilling. In 2004, the National Petroleum Reserve, an area west of the existing Prudhoe Bay field, was approved for new energy exploration and production.

Increased U.S. Oil Drilling Permits 70% Above Clinton-era

Implemented "clean diesel" EPA mandates that reduce diesel air pollution by up to 97% as well as enable U.S. refiners to profitably use U.S. coal or natural gas to produce diesel in a move that aids our environment as well as enables the U.S. to gradually wean itself from Middle-East oil

Lifted The Oil-Drilling Ban in Alaska's Bristol Bay

Waived Make-Work Enviro Studies For New Oil Drilling

Using Closed Bases For New Refineries, Cutting Refinery Red Tape

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.
New Forest Rules Gives States Power Over Federal Forests Inside Their Borders
Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

4.5% unemployment
3.4% annual (after inflation, 5.5% actual) reported GDP Growth

IMMIGRATION

President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens
S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.
It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.

700 Miles of Border Fencing Approved And Funded

 

 

 

The Essential President Bush (click here)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060623-10.html

Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.

Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Attorney General shall:

(i) issue instructions to the heads of departments and agencies to implement the policy set forth in section 1 of this order; and

(ii) monitor takings by departments and agencies for compliance with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order. ...

AP

July 27, 2006: John Walsh, right, gives a thumbs up as President Bush, left, looks on during a signing ceremony for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the Rose Garden at the White House.

U.S. govt gets giant cross in San Diego [with President Bush's signature...........]

New Civil and Military Space Policy (includes using nuclear power for long-range space exploration)

Enforced Mandatory Declassification of All Government Documents older than 25 years, Automatically

President Bush opens NAZI Holocaust records to the public for first time (after more than 60 years!)