Oh please. The Crusader uses unguided munitions.
The American military is long past needing "new" ways to deliver unguided munitions. That system is an $11 Billion boondoggle that deserves to be killed...
Posted on 06/05/2002 8:47:43 AM PDT by rightwing2
Bush's Record Calls into Question His Conservative Label
David T. Pyne
June 4, 2002
President George W. Bush, having won an extremely close and hard fought election in November 2000, has been attacked by liberal Democrats for being "too conservative" almost from the time he was elected. However, Bush's overall record since assuming the office of President calls into question the general perception that Bush is a conservative. During his first few months, Bush seemed to set a commendable course as a moderate conservative.
Some of Bush's notable conservative accomplishments include his decision to withdraw the US from the strictures of the ABM Treaty, the US victory in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the passage of the biggest defense spending increases since Ronald Reagan and the appointment of a Secretary of Defense who is committed to furthering US national security. President Bush also succeeded in preventing a communist return to power in Nicaragua and has passed limited, but vital protective tariffs to help protect America's dying steel industry under heavy assault from America's steel-dumping trade partners.
During the past year, Mr. Bush's conservative accomplishments have been undermined by his other actions, which indicate an increasing and unwelcome tilt toward the left, likely prompted by advice from Colin Powell and Karl Rove who advocate appeasing liberals both in regards to his domestic and foreign policies. On the domestic side of the house, the Bush record has been a disappointing one as the President has submitted balanced budget-cap busting budgets which will return the US to a time of $200 billion a year deficits increasing government spending 15% over two years, a far higher rate of increase than his more liberal predecessor.
Bush also signed the radical Ted Kennedy education bill, which federalizes education and provides tens of billions more a year for the liberal-dominated Department of Education to indoctrinate America's children in their socially liberal value-free philosophy. Bush's record on social issues has been decidedly mixed with his support of federal funding for grisly stem-cell research, his failure to reverse pro-abortion executive orders signed by Bill Clinton in 1993, and his appointment of pro-abortion activist and White House Counsel, Al Gonzalez, to lead his Supreme Court nominee search team.
President Bush has undertaken a major effort to remake the GOP in "his" image, alienating many of his conservative supporters in the process. He has engineered a successful liberal takeover of the California Republican Party by a man who has branded all pro-lifers as extremists. Bush has supported moderate to very liberal candidates against their more conservative opponents in California, North Carolina, Tennessee and elsewhere throughout the country, appointed a pro-choice governor to head the Republican National Committee and helped install a liberal abortion supporter as RNC treasurer. In addition, Bush has attempted to push his proposal through Congress to grant amnesty to two million illegal immigrants in the US in a bid to buy the Latino vote in America and appease Mexican President Vincente Fox.
Most troublesome of all to Republicans, Bush broke a campaign promise in signing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. This Democrat congressional majority insurance bill will have the effect of legislating a permanent Democrat party stranglehold on the majority of both houses of Congress, reversing the hard-won and historic gains by the Republican congressional majority during the past decade. Initial implementation of this bill in the 2004 election cycle will likely result in the defeat of scores of Bush's loyal Republican supporters in Congress.
On foreign policy, Bush supported PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat in power and repeatedly urged Sharon to halt Israel's counter-terrorist operations until Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon finally succeeded in persuading him to change course and find enough moral clarity to support the Israeli war against the Palestinian terrorists. However, Bush still supports a Palestinian state, something that not even Bill Clinton would support. In addition, the Bush Administration actually tried to enlist Iran, listed by the State Department as the greatest state sponsor of terror including Al Queda, as a strategic partner to fight terrorism back in September.
In pursuing relations with Communist China, the president has opted to pursue a Clintonian policy of accommodation, if not outright appeasement. Last year, Bush signed an executive order to permit the sale of significantly more advanced supercomputers than those allowed to be sold by the Clinton Administration. He has also championed the awarding of permanent most favored nation trade status and WTO membership for Communist China, whose record on killing hundreds of thousands of its political and religious dissidents, forcing tens of millions of Chinese women to have abortions every year, threatening nuclear incineration of American cities and continued unrestricted sales of advanced nuclear warhead and ballistic missile technology to America's enemies leaves much to be desired. The Bush policy of appeasing the Butchers of Beijing has had the effect of rewarding them for their 'bad behavior' while encouraging future offenses and escalated threats against our Free Chinese allies on Taiwan.
Bush has also forged a new, overly trusting relationship with the Russian Federation led by former KGB spymaster, Vladimir Putin. Bush has pledged to destroy and dismantle 75% of the US strategic nuclear deterrent that has kept the nuclear peace for nearly sixty years, signed an agreement admitting Russia as a full partner with veto power in NATO, and offered to jointly develop US missile defenses with Russia. It is not at all clear that Russia can be trusted to keep its treaty obligations, let alone serve as a reliable US ally. President Bush also supports the implementation of a Clinton-era plan to disarm the US Army of its tanks, tracked vehicles and much of its artillery that will likely result in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of American soldiers if they are called upon again to fight a major war.
For the good of the country, President Bush should move away from governing from the mushy middle and return to governing to the center-right. He may need to do so in order to regain lost conservative support and avoid a major conservative challenge in the 2004 presidential election.
© 2002 David T. Pyne
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David T. Pyne, Esq. is a national security expert who works as an International Programs Manager in the Department of the Army responsible for the countries of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East among others. He is also a licensed attorney and former Army Reserve Officer. In addition, he holds an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. Mr. Pyne currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Virginia Republican Assembly. He is also a member of the Center for Emerging National Security Affairs based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Pyne serves as a columnist for American-Partisan.com, OpinioNet.com and America’s Voices. He is also a regular contributor for Patriotist.com. In addition, his articles have appeared on Etherzone.com and AmericanReformation.org where he serves as a policy analyst.
That was unconscionable.
When you make those decisions, generally one has an idea of whether more government or less will have a beneficial effect on the American people. If one is to judge each issue on its own merits, we'd have to expect that person to come down consistently on the same side. In that respect, every decision is based on conservative or liberal ideals. At least that's how I see it.
Oh please. The Crusader uses unguided munitions.
The American military is long past needing "new" ways to deliver unguided munitions. That system is an $11 Billion boondoggle that deserves to be killed...
That is my sticking point with this administration also. I can overlook a good part of his capitulations to the democrats (assuming that a shrewd political plan to "screw the democrats" truly does exists) if Bush takes strong measures to halt the ongoing 3rd world invasion of our country and drops this insane amnesty business.
Out of control immigration is this country's greatest long-term threat to our sovereignty as a nation and the point lost on many is that mistakes in immigration policy are permanent and almost impossible to reverse.
No, you didn't.
Pat Buchanon has publicly called for our embargo against Cuba to be lifted. That's not Conservative.
Castro allowed Palestinian leader Arafat to use the Cuban embassy in Lebanon for the Palestinian base of operations against Isreal in 1982.
Castro sent Cuban tanks and troops to aid Syria's 1973 Yom Kippur surprise attack on Israel.
Cuba trains Palestinians in military explosives and tactics to this very day (much to the horror of Israeli civilians).
In short, Buchanon supports Palestinian terrorists by calling for the lifting of our embargo against their ally, Cuba.
That's who you voted for...
He NEVER said it was a major threat, he said we must take it seriously, but that any actions should be based on sound science and he questioned that science.
From his campaign website (from my files, website no longer exists):
"Recognizes that global warming must be taken seriously but will require any decisions to be based on sound science and a thorough cost-benefit analysis."From Issues 2000:
Scientists are unsure about global warmingQ: What about global warming?
BUSH: It’s an issue that we need to take very seriously. I don’t think we know the solution to global warming yet and I don’t think we’ve got all the facts before we make decisions.
GORE: But I disagree that we don’t know the cause of global warming. I think that we do. It’s pollution, carbon dioxide and other chemicals that are even more potent. Look, the world’s temperatures going up, weather patterns are changing, storms are getting more violent and unpredictable. And what are we going to tell our children?
BUSH: Yeah, I agree. Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place.
Source: Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University Oct 11, 2000
From Environmental News Network:
Leading Republican candidates are more skeptical about global warming. Texas Governor George W. Bush believes global warming exists but says "both the causes and the impact of this slight warming are uncertain."
Bush's crappy protectionist tariffs pale in comparison to the unholy hell Buchanan would have unleashed on our economy with his idiotic plans.
Once they are here we'll never get rid of them.
It sickens me that there are children growing up in the U.S. that may never bother to learn english because they'll just stay within their own communities.
Post #15 rocks!
I stand corrected!
Tariffs are not good or bad: They are a tactic, a point of leverage, or whatever you want to call it, that can protect certain vulnerable aspects of one's economy.
I think people equate free, no-tariff, trade, with egalitarianism and virtue, and I think that's a little naive.
We need to protect American industry, because it can be destroyed by our heavy taxes and THE LACK OF tariffs.
I believe Bush is in total agreement with Daschle and Gebhardt on foreign issues also.
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