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I've seen this vaunted list of Bush accomplishments before and it simply doesn't wash for the reason that many if not most of the accomplishments you list as conservative are in fact betrayals of the conservative cause. See the list below for specific examples.

The Real Bush Record
3-29-02 (since modified)
rightwing2

* Began implementation of his plan to unilaterally disarm the US of 75% of its strategic deterrent, which will eliminate the US as a nuclear superpower and permit the Sino-Russian alliance to supplant the US as the most powerful political and military force on the planet. It will also make the world safe for nuclear war by eliminating the US ability to deter nuclear attack from the superior nuclear forces of the Russian Federation.

* Supported anti-nuke wacko proposals to ‘de-alert’ much of our remaining nuclear triad making it impossible to fire except within several days or weeks upon the decision being made to do so.

* Agreed to continue the Democrap Congress mandated ban on nuclear testing, which his father opposed.

* Supported a Clinton initiated Army Transformation plan which will unilaterally disarm the Army of all of its war-winning main-battle tanks and tracked vehicles including the Crusader SP artillery system.

* Attempted to forge a strategic partnership with prime 9-11 terrorist state sponsor Iran in the misnamed “war against terrorism” in addition to other terrorist state sponsors like Syria and the Sudan.

* Appeased Communist China and embarrassed his country by disgracefully apologizing to the Communist Chinese hostagetakers who kidnapped the brave crew of the EP-3 recon plane they forced down.

* Appeased Communist China with an executive order legalizing the sale of computers 50-100 times as powerful as those sold under Clinton’s watch during the Chinagate scandal which caused Rep. Henry Hyde, Chairman of the International Relations Committee to remark that these 600 US supercomputers purchased by Communist China gave it “more computing power than the entire Department of Defense.”

* Forced a vote in Congress on permanent Most Favored Nation trade status with and WTO membership for Communist China so that the PRC would continue to enjoy a $100 billion a year trade surplus with which to build themselves into the best nuclear superpower enemy US trade surplus can buy.

* Refused to support repeal of the 1994 Clinton gun-ban and championed tougher implementation of all draconian gun-control legislation now on the books by pledging to throw gun-control violaters into prison and throw away the key.

* Forced a stealth vote on the amnesty of two million illegal aliens in the House of Represenative as the first step in a much broader amnesty plan to effect millions more.

* Passed the radical Ted Kennedy education bill which federalizes education and providing tens of billions more a year for the liberal Department of Education and NEA to foist their perverse atheist liberal dogma upon our children.

* Appointed as the head of the Supreme Court Justice nominee search team and announced that the front-runner for his first Supreme Court pick is White House Counsel Albert Gonzales, a pro-abortion liberal who as Bush’s appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice found Bush’s own tepid parental notification on abortion legislation to be constitutionally impermissible. Why didn’t Bush appoint earstwhile pro-life champion Attorney General John Ashcroft to lead the Supreme Court nominee search team?

* Championed a Kyoto Lite Plan to appease the environmental wackos.

* Sent a report to the UN on climate change and the profound and very much imagined and fanciful “danger” of global warming.

* Signed the Democrat Congressional Majority Insurance Bill which, when implemented, will have the effect of bringing a permanent end to the hard-won Republican majority in Congress and making it much more difficult for Republicans to get elected nationwide.

* Left 99.9% of Clinton’s last minute unconstitutional executive orders in place.

* Championed and increased funding for Clinton’s fascistic AmeriKorps national service program

* Repealed only one of Clinton’s infamous four pro-abortion executive orders, which Clinton signed on the first day of his Presidency in January 1993 to reward the militant pro-abortion feminist constituency. Clinton’s pro-abortion executive orders had in turn repealed Ronald Reagan’s and President Bush’s own father’s pro-life executive orders. The Clinton executive orders concerned federal funding of international family planning agencies that fund and encourage abortions abroad, mandated that military hospitals offer abortions, mandated that federally-subsidized family planning clinics offer abortion as an alternative to women seeking counseling and provided federal funding for the harvesting of stem cells from aborted babies. President Bush repealed only the first although he has continued to support Congressional funding to provide funding to international organizations that themselves fund abortions abroad.

* Repealed his own temporary ban on continued federal funding for the harvesting of stem cells from aborted babies.

* Hosted Communist President Dos Santos of Angola only days after his assasination of Reagan's favorite anti-Communist freedom fighter, Dr. Jonas Savimbi failing to utter one word of protest over this assassination which was a flagrant violation of the peace process which Bush claimed to support.

* Refused to campaign with or do a TV commercial for conservative gubernatorial Republican nominee for Governor Mark Earley when all post-election polls and studies show that had he done so the Repubilcans would have won the Governorship and the Lt Governorship, whereas the Democrap candidates narrowly won both, subjecting my home state to Democrap rule for the first time in 8 years.

* Championed the election of moderate to liberal candidates in state primaries nationwide including most notably Richard Riorden for Governor of California, a RINO to the left of Bill Clinton who has championed partial birth abortion, gay rights, endorsed scores of Democrap incumbents and has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrap candidates.

* Engineered a successful takeover attempt of the once-conservative California Republican Party by arch-liberal Gerald Parsky who has called for the California Republican Party to be pro-gay, pro-abortion, and pro-illegal immigrant as the only way to win elections and denounced moderate conservative GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon as an extremist for being pro-life. This one Bush mistake alone will likely prevent an otherwise likely GOP victory in the critical California Governor's race in November due to Parsky's continuing refusal to support Simon or help him raise money.

* Championed a globalist Free Trade for the America's Treaty which would serve as the precursor to uniting the Western Hemisphere into a North American Union similar to the EU.

* Supporting the entry of Russia into NATO as a full-voting de-facto member with veto power ,which will mean the complete and permanent end of NATO as a military alliance capable of opposing Russian and Communist aggression.

* Submitted the first unbalanced budget to Congress in five years with deficits in the $200 billion range for the next few years.

* Opposed the Israel’s efforts to defend itself from Palestinian terrorist suicide bombers and called for the immediate withdrawal of Israel from “the occupied territories”, of which Israel's claim is at least as great as that of the Palestinians.

* Supported the creation of a Palestinian state led by longtime PLO terrorist leader Yassir Arafat, something even Bill Clinton refused to do.

* Signed an $80 billion farm subsidy bill reversing the hard won gains of the GOP Congress which had nearly succeeded in phasing out this FDR-era socialistic govt subisidy.

* Refused to investigate numerous Clinton crimes against the Constitution and instead attempted to help cover them up.

* Courted the homosexual vote by speaking to homosexual groups and appointing prominant homosexuals to influential positions in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense.

Sure Bush has done some good things. However, as you can see Bush's overall bipartisan "moderate" record and betrayals of the conservative Republican cause are very much widespread and not limited to merely a few isolated incidents. I am all too willing to support a united front except when it does more to advance the liberal Clintonite agenda as Bush has done. I put my allegience to conservative principles and party first, not to any one man who in this case has betrayed both.

Please cite your source for when the Bush administration called them the "occupied territories." I'll be back later for your response.

RW2 -- don't be so hard on the guy. After all, he must out democrat the democrats to get himself re-elected. THe tattered remnants of the Constitution are woth sacrificing as long as "our team" wins, right?

So long as "our team" wins the game it doesn't matter if the playing field and stadium are nothing but a smoking ruin when the game is over.

Winning the office is all that is important. Any amount of collateral damage is acceptable to the ruling class.

For the true believers out here in flyover country, all that matters is whether the team jersey has an "r" or "d" on it, and if their boy is in their opinion a nicer guy and more trustworthy than the other guy. Don't confuse the true believers with minor details.

Regards

J.R.

"* Supported a Clinton initiated Army Transformation plan which will unilaterally disarm the Army of all of its war-winning main-battle tanks and tracked vehicles including the Crusader SP artillery system."

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...

Phony lists...the last refuge of a coward/liar/phony.

On your radar right now is Monsoor Ijaz with reports of 3 recorded attempts to inform Clinton about OBL in detail. He is to be part of the Congressional hearings. When this who-what-when is known it will force Bush (and others) to finally come to account for the Clinton policies, behavior, and perhaps even treason IMO. Bush will be forced to part company with the carried-over Clinton policies you well list above. Of course, heads should roll too but we will see.

Regards.

Yes, your list is overwhelming, but Rush Limbaugh won't tell his listeners all that you have right here. Have you noticed how boring the Rush program is becoming each day? He just defends Bush's indefensibilities. I knew that the Bush "conservative" tag was phony. As governor, he signed "conservative" legislation that reduced the average homeowners huge property tax bill by $10 a month!!!! And took credit as a tax-slasher for $10 a month. Some local districts actually took back the $10. People will believe anything that they wish to believe, and one of the great mythis is increasingly that Bush has rolled back the liberalism of bILLclinton. Pure myth, as you have pointed out. And he never rolled back any of Ann Willis Richards' liberal policies in the state to my knowledge.