George W. Bush--The First 30 Months

7-1-2003 | Justshe

[Catspaw]

It's another $200 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, on top of the $300 million we just gave them. (The EU and Arab League gives them around a billion in direct aid.) That doesn't include indirect aid we give the Palestinians via the UN and other sources...oh well, a couple hundred million here, a couple hundred million there--pretty soon it adds up to real money.

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[Dilbert56]

One that may need correction: "Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water." This is straight out of the Dimocrat commercial: "Can I have some more arsenic in my drinking water mommy?" What the Administration did was request a review of an order that Clinton signed on the way out the door to see if it was setting the new level correctly. There were concerns that some towns in the west wouldn't be able to meet the new level and people would go back to well water which would actually increase their risk. That's right. Just reviewing a proposed regulation was portrayed as dumping arsenic into children's drinking water. Remember that the next time Dims say: "Oh, we're just to nice and polite to fight those nasty Republicans."

The review took place and the implementation was left unchanged. No rule was revoked or even changed.

[Trace21230]

Impressive job! Thanks for compiling the list.

As you probably know, a certain element here viscerally hates Bush and will refuse to acknowledge that he has done anything good while in office.

Your list proves that Bush has been a solid conservative with an impressive list of accomplishments.

Trace

[TLBSHOW]

As I say Holding the republicans feet to the fire is a 24/7 job ya never know when they will turn and do liberal things.

[TomServo]

LOL!!!

[ohioWfan]

Oh yes, I'll always pick the lesser to two evils......Sheesh.....

Or we could all vote for the candidate that YOU like, and absolutely NOTHING would be done, no good accomplished whatsoever.........SHEESH!!!!

Fabulous list, justshe!! FABULOUS!! Shows how off base the bashers really are!

THANK YOU!!!!

[rintense]

You know, all the Tom Tancredo supporters say is how much he'd do to secure the borders. I want to know what ELSE he'd do. Where does he stand on a national strategy for:

1. Taxes
2. Abortion
3. Foreign policy
4. Corporations and free enterprise
5. Affirmative action
6. The Second Amendment
7. Healthcare
8. States rights
9. The environment
10. Free trade
11. Welfare
12. Education

I could go on and on with my questions. You see, some may think that a candidate would be a better choice because of their stance on one issue, and one issue alone. And that's fine. I know that there are many one issue voters out there- and here on FR. I, on the other hand, have to look at a much bigger picture, and understand that even though a candidate may not agree with everything I do, a realistic approach must prevail. But I simply can not support someone based on one issue, and one issue alone. Then again, that's just me.

Perhaps Tancredo would get more supporters if he made these positions as well-known as his stance on immigration.

[rintense]

Also got this: Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency

Sheesh! I think even Madonna could have done this after Bill Clinton. ;)

[OPS4]

The U.N. thieves of soveriegn rites, and house of Terror.
Kyoto is just another ploy and the idiots are buying it.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[My2Cents]

Excellent.

The debate around FR is whether G.W. Bush is a conservative. Wrong question, I think. My observation is that W is not ideologically conservative, but is instinctively conservative, more in line with personal character and values than any specific philosophy of government. On the political spectrum, Bush is center-right. He'll never be conservative enough for the paleos, and I would hope he wouldn't be. If he is more conservative than not, I'm satisfied. Politically, Bush is a centrist, but he is slowly moving the center more to the right. I think a lot of what he has done is to also take over territory a bit to the left of center, forcing the opposition further to the left fringe. If this consigns the Democrats to eternal darkness, it's a good strategery because aside from the Democrats being simply a leftist organization, the Democrat Party is dominated by people who are actually evil, having sold it's soul to the Clintons and having failed to buy it back. I'll vote decency and integrity over evil any day.

[Dilbert56]

My point is President Bush couldn't enact the Kyoto Treaty even if he wanted to. Yes, Al Bore could have rambled on all day about Kyoto but even if he signed it, it could not take effect without Senate approval and they were on record unanimously against it.

[Brian_Baldwin]

I am just picking a name from the hat - there are so many that were attacked. That is the point. Also, the question of our borders, if they are safe - this IS a critical issue, and where's George Bush? So, since you bring up the issue in context of this one politician and this politician's focus on it and related issues, well, I say more power to such politicians, because such brave politicians and representatives are few in number.

As I’ve said, and even local San Francisco media cannot deny it and occasionally report on it, the number one criminal industry, and a very profitable one at that, in the San Francisco tenderloin isn’t drugs, it is identity theft, ranging from fake or stole SSN’s, identity cards, even business permits and city employee identity cards ... now they are being given legitimate licenses. The odds of you now having your identity stolen are dreadfully high -- you can fully expect that this will happen to you, and the costs to you in time, paperwork, money, and personal stress, will also be high, if you will ever actually be able to repair the damage which will be done.

And, as extreme as this may sound, don’t be surprised if, should you complain about illegals and identity theft, you are held to account to some “diversity police”, perhaps even fined. After all, diversity is a “compelling” national interest, like the courts are now saying, so compelling that if you ask the wrong questions you may be a threat to the “compelling” national interest, an interest so compelling that it is practically considered the same as national security, if not more important. Never mind nuclear warheads that can be mounted on small North Korean armaments, how dare you make any waves that may question the compelling national interest in diversity.

Police services should be “integrated” with the efforts to stop the terrorists before they can strike again, but instead they are not even allowed to ask a suspect of his or her legal status of residence.

The INS doesn’t have enough people to do the job, and the Bush Administration isn’t giving them the people, period. Local left wing City governments set policy that officials cannot question city workers of their legal status or citizenship. But the INS can, and could. But they don’t – because the Bush Administration will not give them the resources to do so, nor the political will to do so.

Mixed messages – that is all law enforcement gets, and has been getting for the last 20 years. How many illegals have invaded our borders in the last 20 years? The government statistics in no way will reflect the true, gargantuan, number.

George Bush, not only is he AWOL on this, he puts on a sombrero and dances the La Cuca-Rockefeller-Republican cha-cha.

[justshe]

I will research that. It was MY understanding that the stricter 'parts per million' that were to go into effect (via Clinton) were rescinded. NOT all the way back to where they had been initially, but to a lower, more manageable level. I live in the west (Oregon) and I remember the discussions on this point---but as I said earlier on this thread, I am not infallible and could be mistaken.

[rattrap]

Nice one.

[Dane]

My point is President Bush couldn't enact the Kyoto Treaty even if he wanted to. Yes, Al Bore could have rambled on all day about Kyoto but even if he signed it, it could not take effect without Senate approval and they were on record unanimously against it.

And Gore you are surmising would have not signed Executive Orders, putting through aspects of his most dearest project, the Kyoto treaty?

[My2Cents]

The problem with the aid to the PA isn't that we've provided it, but that it's been robbed by that slob Arafat. If further aid provides stability and gives a fledgling PA leadership that is reasonable and determined to change 50 years of hatred toward Israel, all the money you mention, and more, will have been worth the investment.

[Trace21230]

Please continue to ask questions. I don't think anyone has a legitimate objection to doing that.

BUT, the problem arises when the anti-Bush contingency flames Bush as a "liberal" or a "RINO" or fill in your own virile, hateful, ad hominem attack.

For many of us, myself included, attacking this President personally is akin to a personal attack on myself. As far as I'm concerned, Bush is an honest and decent man who always has the best intentions, and the best interests of the country at heart.

So please, disagree and question on points of divergence. But don't be surprised if personal attacks on our Commander-in-Chief are responded to in kind on this message board.

Trace

[KantianBurke]

posters who have merely questioned Bush's policies have been flamed as if they HAD lanched personal attacks on others or Bush. Its a TWO WAY street!

[deport]

George Bush, not only is he AWOL on this, he puts on a sombrero and dances the La Cuca-Rockefeller-Republican cha-cha.

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BB don't you just love it...... gives you something to bitch and moan about. Hell you'd be bored to death without it...

[My2Cents]

Thanks for the ping. I took a few swings.