Bush gave us the largest Dollar-value tax cut in the entire history of the world, for starters. And has followed with the largest increases in government spending in the world.
- An 80% increase in farm subsidies (communist plank).
- The complete conversion of an entire industry over to government control - airport security - (communist plank)
- A huge increase in education spending (communist plank) and the "meeting them halfway" option of allowing Ted Kennedy to write the education bill.
- The insistence upon a new cabinet beaurocracy to handle "homeland defense" with broad powers to jail people without probable cause or due process.
Bush pulled the U.S. out of the International (Socialist) Criminal Court, for another.
No he didn't. He merely postponed it and demanded some changes in its charter. He fully supports it otherwise since he is asking it to prosecute Hussein. He will probably use his former demands as a bargaining chip if the UN doesn't cede to his plans for Iraqi invasion.
Bush killed the socialist Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, on top of that.
According to the constitution, only the Senate has that power.
Bush ended the CCCP-U.S. ABM Treaty (said treaty forbade us from defending ourselves from ICBM nuclear attack).
It was already dead. At any rate, nothing forbids us from defending ourselves. What does this have to do with Bush's lack of communist support?
Bush canceled the Lenin-inspired foreign "family planning" abortion funds.
He needed the money elsewhere.
Bush killed the "progressive" ABA's role in vetting federal judge candidates for Congress.
And? Bush wants his agenda to be upheld. That agenda is in line with the communist manifesto.
Bush canceled Clinton's left-wing/green CO2 regulations for power producers.
In order to help his buds at Enron and other energy companies. Hardly "non-communistic" as it is merely help for political benefactors whether or not it is what some conservatives were hopeful would occur. If his buds in the oil industry would have preferred otherwise, that's what would have occurred. In order to be truly anti-communist he would have demanded that all power over such decisions remain within the industry where they belong. He agrees that the government should control such matters and is asserting that control. That's socialist at the least.
Bush signed an Executive Order commanding Ashcroft and the Department of Justice to enforce the Supreme Court's 1987 Beck decision. The Beck decision ruled that union members could receive that part of their union dues back that was used for political purposes with which they disagreed. Clinton had previously ordered the DOJ to NOT enforce this ruling (and the lapdog media let his defiance of the SCOTUS slide with nary a word of disbelief or protest). This is PRECISELY the sort of anti-Communist behavior that drives the reds in union-management nuts.
In the whole list, this might approach "anti" communism given that it doesn't aid unions. However, the fact that he has in one fell-swoop caused union membership to soar doesn't help your case. Did you REALLY ask what Bush has done that wasn't "communist"?!
I did and you haven't really answered too well.
I'll add the icing on the cake. MFN. Explicit support of a communist nation which treats its people worse than Hussein, whom he's wanting to go to war with. Ooops. Hussein is a "right-winger."
Good grief man, pay attention to what's been going on in your world!
Good grief man, stop kissing Bush's butt long enough to see what he's done to advance socialist/communist agendas.
"The complete conversion of an entire industry over to government control - airport security - (communist plank)"
You reveal yourself to be ethicly bankrupt by making that statement.
Earlier, you pretended that Bush was opposed to arming pilots, however, the provision to arm pilots was IN THE VERY SAME BILL that federalized airport workers.
Yet after I pointed out that Bush had signed two "arming pilots" bills into law, you now bash Bush federalizing airport workers.
If Bush had vetoed the "federalizing airport workers" bill, then you would be screaming that Bush was against arming pilots and therefore against the 2nd Amendment. In reality, for Bush to support our 2nd Amendment rights, he had to sign the bill that managed to make it through a Democratic Party-controlled Senate, which included the federalization provision that you are now bashing Bush about.
Typical. You're just another ideologue who will say anything if it makes anyone in the established 2 parties look bad, even if you have to contradict yourself about pilots rights and 2nd Amendment rights in order to make your next point.
"The insistence upon a new cabinet beaurocracy to handle "homeland defense" with broad powers to jail people without probable cause or due process." You've obviously misunderstood the concept of a war zone.
Battlefield combatants can and have been detained in all wars, up to and including the Revolutionary War, without trial and regardless of citizenship. American citizens who answered Hitler's call for Aryan American volunteers found themselves locked up in American POW camps by the hundreds during WW2, for instance, and those who didn't wear a Wehrmacht uniform were shot on sight per the Geneva Convention as spies and sabatuers, with the exception that those spies and sabatuers who were arrested on American soil during WW2 were given trials by military tribunals, precisely what has been proposed in broad daylight today.
If you are in a war zone, then war rules apply (and no, it does NOT depend on any "war declaration" from Congress).
"Good grief man, stop kissing Bush's butt long enough to see what he's done to advance socialist/communist agendas." Again, I'll state that you are ethically bankrupt. Ask Communist dictator Castro if he thinks that Bush's firm stance against lifting our embargo on Cuba is pro-Communist.
Clearly such a thought is absurd, as are your knee-jerk anti-Bush rants.
I've provided a link above from the CATO institute that flatly contradicts you, yet it is clear to me that mere facts aren't going to get in the way of your mindless anti-Republicanism.
Go away. Anyone who is so unpersuaded by facts has no business further disrupting FR.