[Southack]

"What one thing has Bush done that sets him apart from the Democrats?"

GWB killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, for one.

GWB pulled the U.S. out of the CCCP-U.S. ABM Treaty, for another.

GWB backed and got our National Missile Defense program funded.

GWB Killed the International Criminal Court.

GWB repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California and causing electricity rates to spike.

GWB repealed OSHA's new ergonomic regulations that were about to put every home-based business in America out of commission.

GWB appointed Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades.

GWB signed the bill into law that gives pilots the right to arm themselves with firearms, a pleasant pro-gun victory on a national level (currently being obstructed by a DOT bureaucrat).

GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

GWB instituted the first top-down review of our military in years, which concluded (prior to 9/11), that asymmetric attacks were our biggest future threat.

GWB killed the $11 Billion Crusader artillery boondoggle.

GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities.

GWB ordered the Justice Department to finally enforce the SCOTUS Beck decision, giving union workers the right to recover any of their union dues that are used for political purposes with which they disagree.

Frankly, if you aren't aware of all that GWB has done to advance the Conservative movement (including implementing steel tariffs in order to encourage European nationalism via trade wars), then you simply aren't Conservative.

Only a liberal could be so blind as to not realize what all GWB has done for our cause (oh, did I mention that GWB got taxes cut twice, once for individuals and another for businesses).

[colorado tanker]

Bump your #4.

[lakey]

So talk about immigration, borders, sovereignty, FOX.

[My back yard]

Right on!

[Tai_Chung]

GWB kicked butt in Afghanistan
GWB threats against Iraq is real
GWB would not repeat the "3 no's" in China
GWB backs Taiwan
GWB is shifting US military thinking away from Europe and toward Asia (and against China)
GWB has improved US security via relations with Japan, Australia, Singapore, Australia and South Korea.
GWB is trying to rescue US missionaries in the Philippines

Sure, there are things I wish GWB had done differently. There were things his father and even Ronald Reagan could have done better. It is stupid to say that unless you agree 100% with GWB then he has betrayed us. The ONLY way to get 100% agreement with the President's policies is if you were President yourself.

[PsyOp]

Great list. Let me add another:

GWB's administration is the first to come out and take the un-equivocal position the Second Amendment protect the the right of the individual to Keep And Bear Arms. Thereby ensuring that the measures taken to fight terrorism will be kept in check in the way intended by the founders.

I would also like to add that in times of war, the federal government has always assumed additional powers, only to return them to the people when the war is over.

And before you slam Bush's budget compromises, go take a look at the one's Reagan made with the Dems. And remember that, just as they did then, the Dems are failing to live up to the agreements they made in the compromise.

How soon we forget.

[Joe Hadenuf]

The dam of reality is leaking, you need more fingers to plug all the holes.

[usconservative]

Stop it! You're confusing them with the truth.

good post, btw

[claptrap]

Sorry but youre wrong the treaty with Russia was better than the 1700 warhead deal he just made. Secondly hes lying!

[Real Cynic No More]

Excellent post! Bush can't go it alone. As long as Congress is divided evenly, with a left-leaning tendency, he can't do anything other than what he's doing, i.e., picking his battles.

[toenail]

"GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities."

George Walker Bush signed the biggest contraceptive colonialism budget in U.S. history.

[drq]

Well said..
(post 4)

[Right_in_Virginia]

GREAT answer. I think I'll print and frame!

[Rowdee]

..."GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress"...

As I recall how this came down was that GWB's administration is not vetting through the ABA; however, Leahy and his band of merry men are.

[MJY1288]

They don't want the positive things, just the negative, if you want to their attention you have to post a steaming pile of sh!t like Stand Watch Listen did, they swarm like flies when you do that

[sanjacjake]

You're my kind of guy....aree,agree,agree...plus one of the other things...bringing honor and dignity to the oval office......the consistent "Bush Bushing"...gets to me ... You're either for or against..same as terrorist nations !! Jake

[Let's Roll]

Thank you, Southack, I was getting discouraged.

[weikel]

Details you miss the big picture the non military sector of the government still got bigger under him.

[Satadru]

The biggest problem with Bush is that he has Clinton administration holdovers in his own administration, who are obstructing his agenda. He needs to fire them, but cannot because he wants to be loved by everybody. BTW, what law signed by GWB allows pilots to carry arms? The fact that Norman Mineta opposes it, simply means that Bush opposes it because Bush chose Mineta for that job. If you are going to give Bush credit for picking Ashcroft, you have to hold him responsible for picking Mineta, and not being competent enough to fire him when needed.

[green team 1999]

tell them,yes,thank you.

[Eagle Eye]

GWB killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, for one.

He didn't have to, the senate wsn't going to ratify it.

GWB pulled the U.S. out of the CCCP-U.S. ABM Treaty, for another.

Treaties belong to the senate...

GWB backed and got our National Missile Defense program funded.

yea.

GWB Killed the International Criminal Court.

Isn't that another area where the senate wasn't keen on the idea anywy?

GWB repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California and causing electricity rates to spike.

yea. And left the arsenic rules in place, right?

GWB repealed OSHA's new ergonomic regulations that were about to put every home-based business in America out of commission.

Bush did no such thing. And please explain how this would have killed home based businesses? I think you've got some bad info.

GWB appointed Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades.

And Ashcroft maintains that he will enofrce the current laws. Their posturing on 2A has many people believing that this is just posturing. I'll believe that they are pro 2A when they start repealing some laws.

GWB signed the bill into law that gives pilots the right to arm themselves with firearms, a pleasant pro-gun victory on a national level (currently being obstructed by a DOT bureaucrat).

Bush could have pilots armed YESTERDAY if he so desired. GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

Not quite. It seems tha the made a deal where only Californian nominees approved by Boxer and Feinstien appear before Bush.

GWB instituted the first top-down review of our military in years, which concluded (prior to 9/11), that asymmetric attacks were our biggest future threat.

He also allowed the Army to steal the Ranger's black beret and give it to REMFs.

GWB killed the $11 Billion Crusader artillery boondoggle.

Rumsfiled gets the credit and this goes against the desires of congress and the Army. But so what.

GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities.

Good move, but mostly symbolic.

GWB ordered the Justice Department to finally enforce the SCOTUS Beck decision, giving union workers the right to recover any of their union dues that are used for political purposes with which they disagree.

Good move.

Frankly, if you aren't aware of all that GWB has done to advance the Conservative movement (including implementing steel tariffs in order to encourage European nationalism via trade wars), then you simply aren't Conservative.

Tariffs are Conservative?

Only a liberal could be so blind as to not realize what all GWB has done for our cause (oh, did I mention that GWB got taxes cut twice, once for individuals and another for businesses).

The individual tax cut was worse than a bad joke. My 7% increase in income resulted in 25%more taxes. hooray, yea.

In the mean time, as stated in the article, Bush has increase spending in unConstitutional areas to astronimical heights, established new surveillance programs that put Americans under greater governmental scrutiny than ever before, and has signed the CFR bill.

He certainly ISN'T a Conservative although he may be more conservative than some Americans. He has exposed a heck of a lot of CINO moderates on FR, however.