BUSH BLUNDERS ARE HARD TO KEEP UP WITH

NewsWithViews.com ^ | May 1, 2003 | Pastor Chuck Baldwin

[Republican_Strategist]

BUSH BLUNDERS ARE HARD TO KEEP UP WITH

 

 

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

May 12, 2003

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The foibles and follies of this administration are too numerous to count. With the exception of Monica Lewinsky, they rival anything in the previous administration. Of course, most neocons refuse to notice. Therefore, this column will also be ignored.

However, for those who are interested in the truth, here are some of the latest examples of Bush's blunders:

*Bush threw his support behind a liberal Republican who supports increased taxes, abortion and additional gun control to be a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. That man is Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. Thankfully, Edgar decided to not seek the nomination, but that didn't stop Bush from doing his best to send another liberal to Washington, D.C. Next, watch for Bush to do the same thing in California.

*Bush continues his support for the Clinton-Gore gun ban enacted back in 1994. Despite objections from gun groups, including the National Rifle Association, the President is determined to re-institute the so-called "assault weapons" ban that is scheduled to sunset next year. So much for Bush being "pro-gun."

*As Commander-In-Chief, President Bush has the authority to establish guidelines and policies for our nation's military. When Bill Clinton became President, he implemented the infamous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the U.S. armed forces. Bush has continued that policy. Clinton also introduced women to front-line combat roles. And true to form, Bush continues this reprehensible Clinton policy. In fact, one would be extremely hard-pressed to find any Clinton policy that Bush has reversed! I can't think of a single one.

*NAFTA and GATT came into existence early in the Clinton administration. Bush continues those polices and even wants to expand them. He has proposed expanding this agreement throughout the Americas and is now calling for a Mideast Free Trade agreement. Say good-bye to more American jobs; say hello to more foreign goods and to more foreign workers.

*Bush is determined to oversee the creation of a Palestinian state. After sending American soldiers to fight and die in an undeclared war against Iraq, Bush wants to create another such country by giving the P.L.O. radicals their own nation. Clinton wanted to do the same thing, of course, but was shouted down by conservatives. Today, those same conservatives sit mute and dumb as Bush sets about to finish what Clinton started.

*Speaking of finishing what Clinton started, Bush successfully created the Department of Homeland Security and the totalitarian-laced USA Patriot Act. There is an even more egregious version currently worming its way into law. All this was the brainchild of Bill Clinton, of course. However, he could not accomplish his pernicious plans because conservatives and Republicans would not support them. Now they do.

*Bush is likely to invoke Executive Privilege in order to continue the cover-up about what he and other top government leaders knew prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some thirty days prior to the attacks, Bush reportedly received a CIA Intelligence Report which warned, "The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning." More details are leaking out almost daily.

A Democratic Presidential contender, Senator Bob Graham of Florida, says Bush knows much more than he is telling and is demanding that the administration come clean about what really took place. Before that happens, however, Bush will claim Executive Privilege and the truth will be covered up once again.

[fightinJAG]

and when you just need a little dose of that Commander in Chiefness, the pics we never get tired of---

http://www.jeffhead.com/iraqifreedom/victory.htm

[rightofrush]

No, I merely agreeing with the Pastor that Bush is doing what the Rats do and you supporting him is supporting what the Rats do. Bush has already made it clear he is going to continue the ban on "assault weapons" and everything else he said was true.

And the beat go on...mfn for Red China, "national monuments" that tie up low sulfur coal, deny the "peoples" wilderness to the people, the trashing of the 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments, obeiasance to the envio-freaks, and the beat goes on and on and ...

[fightinJAG]

thank you, although it is unlikely R_S will allow facts to get in the way.

[Judith Anne]

Hmmmmm.....;-D

[rightofrush]

"Blunders" occur when dumb things are done inadvertantly.

The so-called Bush blunders happen on purpose and with pre-meditation.

[onyx]

Awesome! I bookmarked that page! Better photos than the photos published here in San Diego. I watched POTUS land and take-off from North Island from my front yard.

[rightofrush]

"Blunders" occur when dumb things are done inadvertantly.

The so-called Bush blunders happen on purpose and with pre-meditation.

[sinclair]

This guy is confusing religious fanaticism with conservitism.

[fightinJAG]

the page was created by fellow freeper jeffhead. It is awesome!

here's another good one:

http://www.jeffhead.com/iraqifreedom/stamps.htm

[Judith Anne]

And wants to be taken seriously, too.

[The Duke]

George W. is just another big government man.

Personally, I want much smaller government, so he's not MY man.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

For crying out loud! I'm upset with a lot that Bush has done, but no sane individual can claim that we're not infinitely better off with him at the helm rather than Algore. I shudder to think what life would be like with Algore or The 'Toon in power right now. Choose to see the glass as half full rather than half empty.

[onyx]

Looks like you ran him off! THANK YOU!

[Republican_Strategist]

Bush killed a CO2 rule in California? Larry Elder wrote a good column on how Bush contradicted himself and agreed to price controls. Bush pledged money to help people pay their bills too. Price controls -- bad idea whether temporary or permanent

I was unimpressed by Bush’s tax cut. It increased the burden on those making over $100,000 and cut 6 million ‘low income’ families. He played right into the hands of class warfare warriors. There was no real reform. It was just slight marginal reductions and it was extremely back loaded.

Bush has increased military spending and he has given the military pay raises. This article shows he is still allowing Clinton’s policy of admitting faggots into the military. Keeping women in combat. Bush didn’t garner my support either by trumpeting that we dropped more food than bombs in Afghanistan.

Bush federalized airline security - he allowed the government to take over a private industry! Even Sean Hannity admitted failure. Newsmax.com Commentary - President George W. Bush must be preoccupied with overseas strategy, because he has allowed his administration to take a politically disastrous position against the arming of airline pilots.

Graham is not "my beloved." You still avoid the fact Bush supports Clinton's gun ban. Your beloved Clinton?

Bush ordered Ashcroft to state the Second Amendment protects an individual right? Then why does he support a Clinton ban them? Why isn't he repealing unconstitutional gun laws? Actions speak louder than words.

I don't bother reading the N.Y. Times. I visit Times Watch.

[TrebleRebel]

Ooooo, just look at all the traffic you're getting to your website.....you little marketing genius, you...

[Southack]

"Bush federalized airline security - he allowed the government to take over a private industry! Even Sean Hannity admitted failure. Newsmax.com Commentary - President George W. Bush must be preoccupied with overseas strategy, because he has allowed his administration to take a politically disastrous position against the arming of airline pilots."

Newsmax got it wrong. The first provision to ARM PILOTS was in the bill that federalized (read: government took over) airport security workers.

Either Bush could have been anti-gun by vetoing that bill, or Bush could have been claimed to have been nationalizing entire industries by his numerous critics, but no rational person would claim that he was BOTH, since the two things were IN THE SMAE BILL!

[Southack]

"Bush killed a CO2 rule in California? Larry Elder wrote a good column on how Bush contradicted himself and agreed to price controls. Bush pledged money to help people pay their bills too. Price controls -- bad idea whether temporary or permanent"

No, Bush killed a NATIONAL co2 rule, the rule that required electricity producers to meet HIGHER CO2 standards if they replaced old equipment. So they weren't replacing old equipment. You do the math.

[Southack]

"I was unimpressed by Bush’s tax cut."

Gee, so that makes it unConservative?!

No one in the entire HISTORY OF THE WORLD has ever managed to pass a $1.3 Trillion Dollar tax cut, but Bush did.

Tax cut. Tax cut. Tax cut. That must really piss off the 1% of the radical right that hates Bush.

[Republican_Strategist]

You can call yourself a conservative?

The farm bill's final cost would increase from $171billion to $342 billion.

The farm bill will cost households at least $1,805 in higher taxes.

The farm bill will cost households $2,572 in inflated food prices. The bill preserves the Conservation Reserve Program, which raises the price of food above the market-clearing level by taking cropland out of use and thereby creating a food shortage. Prices of commodities such as milk and sugar are fixed by government-set cartels that raise domestic prices as high as three times their world price.

The farm bill will provide subsidies to an already steady and thriving industry.

The farm bill targets its subsidies to the richest farms and agribusinesses. Subsidies that are concentrated among the largest and most profitable agribusinesses have helped these large farms buy out smaller farms and further consolidate the agriculture industry. In what one agriculture official calls the "plantation effect," family farms with less than 100 acres are being bought out by larger agribusinesses, which then convert them into tenant farms. Three-quarters of rice farms have already become tenant farms, and other types of farms are trending in that same direction.

Records currently available to the public reveal that 14 Members of Congress receive as much as 160 times the national median farm subsidy; 15 Fortune 500 companies receive as much as 58 times the national median farm subsidy; and wealthy celebrities such as Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, and Scottie Pippen receive as much as 75 times the median farm subsidy.

For example, in the 1930s, policymakers were concerned that milk produced in the Midwest would spoil by the time it could be transferred by train across the country, so they encouraged milk production on the East and West Coasts by creating a system of milk cartels, which guaranteed that the price of milk would increase with a producer's distance from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Today, even though California, not Wisconsin, is the nation's top dairy producer and virtually no milk travels cross-country by train, this Depression-era relic still adds as much as 20 cents to the price of a gallon of milk.

Milk cartels are not the only unnecessary farm programs. Although some argue that the agriculture sector would collapse without subsidies, 90 percent of all farm subsidies are allocated to producers of just five crops: wheat, corn, cotton, rice, and soybeans. The producers of those five crops are given guaranteed incomes and constant bailouts that are unparalleled by those of any other industry. 18 The producers of 400 other agriculture products who have not been eligible for most farm supports have managed to thrive over the past century; the sky will not fall if farm subsidies are eliminated for these final five crops.

Farm policy is based on the premise that a surplus of crops has lowered crop prices too far and farmers need subsidies to recover lost income. However, the federal government's remedy is to offer subsidies that increase as a farmer plants more crops. This creates greater crop surpluses, driving prices down even further and spurring demands for even greater subsidies.

At the same time the federal government is paying some farmers to grow more crops, the Conservation Reserve Program pays other farmers to grow fewer crops. Adding to the contradiction and confusion, the federal government employs price supports to make food more expensive at home and then funds export subsidies to make the same American food less expensive for consumers overseas. Farmers get "emergency" bailouts whether the weather is good (and abundant crops lower prices) or bad (and crops are destroyed). In sum, federal farm policy contradicts itself and makes no economic sense.

Source: Heritage Foundation

[Southack]

"Bush has increased military spending and he has given the military pay raises."

Hmmmm, yet in post after post you criticize Bush as being "no Conservative"...