Posted on 10/18/2004 4:33:18 PM PDT by writer33
Its time to wake up, Conservatives. Time to face the hard truth of the Bush presidency. After 4 years of unprecedented prosperity, we need to examine what President Bush hasnt done for the United States of America. After three and half years without a terrorist attack on American soil, its high time we broke down the policies that have left our country a safer, stronger America. Time to cut through the government red tape, and analyze an administration responsible for conducting an effective War on Terror. Its time to dissect President Bush once and for all; find out if his Presidency is worth another four years. Time we found out just what President Bush hasnt done.
President Bush has left far too many things undone during his four years in office. He ignored the surplus by signing 2 income tax cuts, one of which, was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. Instead of leaving taxes high and creating a larger surplus, he reduced taxes for all Americans, spurring economic growth, and keeping the country from depression after the September 11th attacks. In those tax cuts, he reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains, increasing more savings and investment. He eliminated the death tax and increased small business incentives to expand and hire new people. This fueled economy even more. President Bush shouldve ignored all of this and sent the country spiraling into a deeper recession in order to avoid deficit spending in combating the War on Terror. He didnt.
He also refused to keep Partial Birth Abortion alive by signing a ban on it. He ignored trends and reversed Clintons move to strike President Reagans anti-abortion Mexico Policy. He stopped foreign aid that funded abortions, allowing more money to be spent at home. He blatantly supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals, keeping the right to life alive and well in the U.S. Military, during a time when political correctness was overtaking and strangling the military. He also signed an executive order, reversing Clintons policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act; another policy he hasnt done. And there is even more he hasnt done.
President Bush killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, when he couldve signed onto it, costing corporations billions of dollars and creating job losses across America. He didnt allow America to become involved with the International Criminal Court-a court that could try U.S. Soldiers internationally. Instead of keeping it, he killed Clintons carbon dioxide rules that were choking off the electricity surplus to California. He couldve kept it, but he squashed Clintons ergonomic rules that OSHA was about to implement-rules that would have shut down every home business in America. His domestic agenda leaves little to be desired on what he hasnt done. He started USA Freedom Corps, employing seniors around the United States. He initiated a review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs in an effort to reduce the size of federal government while increasing private sector jobs. He changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger, significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops, and signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.
President Bush supports class action reform bill, which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to the victims. He is currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. He nominated strong, conservative judges to the bench, some still awaiting congressional approval. He killed the liberal ABAs role in vetting federal Supreme Court judges, passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals responsible, and signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation, challenging the soft bigotry of low expectation in America. He improved government efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid, weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises in search of merit based promotions or raises only. With foreign policy left, it had become apparent that he hasnt accomplished much in his four years in the White House.
Its obvious where President Bush stands on foreign policy, or is it? It might be time to take a closer look at what he hasnt accomplished in defense of the homeland. He shouldve turned our sovereignty over to the United Nations. He didnt. Instead, he killed the U.S. and CCCP Treaty that was preventing the United States from deploying our ABM defenses. He has begun construction on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean missiles. He told the United Nations we werent interested in their plans for gun control-the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty. He pledged to Israel on April 14, 2004, that it could keep parts of the West Bank, giving international legitimacy to Jewish settlements there. He denied Palestinian refugees any right of return to what is now Israel, saying they should be resettled in a future Palestinian state. He became part of a coalition for and Israeli/Palestinian Roadmap to Peace. There was still more that he left undone during his four-year tenure. President Bush won an agreement-when he couldve backed away-that U.S. Navy sailors may now freely board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction. All of this under a landmark pact between America and Liberia-the worlds number two shipping registry-signed Febuary 11, 2004 and Panama on May 10, 2004. He has started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and announced the withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ, an egregious error, according to former military experts and the mainstream media.
If thats not enough, theres even more. He brought back our EP-3 intelligence plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. He committed U.S. funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. He pushed three raises for our military. He disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons of mass destruction without bribes or bloodshed. He effectively executed a war on terror by leading a large coalition and getting worldwide cooperation to track funds of terrorists, most of which, have been cut off. He has captured or killed 75% of al Qaeda leadership and brought terrorism to its knees. And to top it off, he successfully executed two wars: Afghanistan and Iraq in defense of America and conducting the War on Terror, liberating 50 million people and holding democratic elections in Afghanistan for the first time.
I think its plain to see that President Bush hasnt done much during his four years in the White House. I think its obvious that its time for a decision; time for a new direction in America. Id say its long over due that we go to the polls and make a statement about our future. America cant afford to make the wrong choice with the threat of terrorism looming in the background. We must endure the threat of terror to spread liberty around the globe, ensuring peace for our posterity and ourselves. There is one man that can execute that mission effectively.
On November 2, 2004, go to the polls and elect a man that hasnt subjugated our sovereignty to the United Nations. Elect the man that hasnt involved us in the international criminal court. Elect the man that hasnt signed onto irresponsible environmental treaties. Elect the man that didnt leave Saddam Hussein in power, and didnt continue to let the threat of terrorism go after we were so ruthlessly attacked on September 11, 2001. Elect the man that didnt continue to build a surplus with higher taxes. Elect the man that refused to keep Partial Birth Abortion alive. Elect the man that doesnt believe in gay marriage. Elect the man thats not against the Second Amendment. Elect the man thats not an atheist. Elect the man that doesnt use his office for sexual escapades. And elect a man that isnt an elitist snob and is a friend to all Americans. If you dont go to the polls for what hes done, go and elect George W. Bush for what he hasnt done.
Yeah. I told everybody I was moving to Nevada and asked if they would remove me from their ping lists. The fit was a joke.
He's actually got a profile, and there's other people here vouching for him.
I really doubt it.
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Hee hee. You reeled in a coupla suckerfish. Good article.
Sorry so many "readers" actually did not read (or maybe did not understand) your essay. I guess your provocative title worked!
That's "</ZOT>" tag...
I'm printing out a couple copies to give to my neighbors.
I see you changed your mind.
Sorry.
Why does it always seem that everytime I have an opinon that you have to come along and ruin a good thing? You've been doing that to me since day one. Sorry about putting it in the wrong place. However, it is full of facts.
The article is not a zot. It's actually very good.
I have already taken the author's advice and voted (absentee) for the man who did not sign the Kyoto Treaty, cowtow to the UN, etc.
I voted for W.
Smoke what?
I'm not. Right now, I'm in defense from the thread police. It doesn't bother me at all. I'm used to it here.
He may not be a troll, but he was definintely trolling-- quite successfully, I might add. He got a nice catch. I'm sure he's pleased.
Thank you. I appreciate the sentiments.
...Prozac
Yep.
Welcome to FR, writer33. Good post and happy to meet, defend and chat w/ you.
Some *folks* here are a bit :::edgy::: - getting nearer Nov 2 - and will calm down, eventually; just hunker down and be patient.
If the moderator deems it a half a$$ed blog diary entry as most blogs/vanities are well it will go where it belongs! Of course it may get moved in the interest of keeping down the collective blood pressure of many of the aged freepers ;-)
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