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George W. Bush--The First 30 Months
7-1-2003 | Justshe

Posted on 07/01/2003 8:46:22 AM PDT by justshe

The Summer of Our Discontent with George W. Bush

The amount of discontent being expressed toward President George W. Bush on Free Republic seems to be increasing exponentially. 

For the purpose of discussion, I have attempted to to draw up 2 lists.  The first list is of accomplishments or 'directions' this administration is going.  The second list, is for those items or behaviors many would like to see addressed or changed.  I have made every attempt to list as many items as I could recall....or find by perusing MANY threads.  I am sure I have missed some items.

Obviously, some of you will think some items on each list are not correct,  that they should either NOT be listed, or are listed on the wrong list.   Either way, it IS a start. 

I have gleaned these items from multiple threads and posts going back over two years on Free Republic.  These are NOT listed in any 'time-line' order.

If you have individual ping lists.....please use them to facilitate the widest possible discussion.  

Presidency of George W. Bush    --the first 30 months                                            

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court.

Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy.

Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America.

Passed 2 tax cuts----1 of which was the largest tax-Dollar value tax cut in history

Pushed through TWO raises for our military.

Increased Defense Dept funding which had deteriorated during the previous 8 years

Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit

Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers.

Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined "collective" right.

Successfully executed 2 wars:  Afghanistan and Iraq.   50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes  now live in freedom.

Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency

Reorganized bureaucracy...after 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency:  the Department of Homeland Security.

Initiated discussion on Social security and individual investment accounts.

Improving govt. efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid...weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises. Wants merit based promotions/raises only.

Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network) 

Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.

Ended abortions on military bases

Signed E.O. reversing Clinton policy of not requiring parental consent under the Medical Privacy Act

Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control.

Set to sign Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Orchestrated Republican control of the White House, the House AND the Senate.

Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)

Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.

Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia

Initiated comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was critical.

Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska, so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes

Turning around an inherited economy in recession.

Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains

In process of eliminating IRS marriage penalty.

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Signed into law the CFR legislation (under dark of night)

Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)

Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.

Signed trade promotion authority

Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa

Urging Medicare Reform

Urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits

Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims

Submitted comprehensive energy plan--awaits Congressional action. ( works to develop cleaner technology,  produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy)

Endorses and promotes The Responsibility Era ("In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else -- to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself. "   -----this quote was too good to leave out)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Pushing for passage of Prescription Drug Benefit package for Seniors which will have 'means' testing with a goal towards privatization of Medicare and CHOICES based on current Federal Employee Health benefits program.

Initiated review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs (review to be done by September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of federal gov while increasing private sector jobs.

Part of coalition (Russia, Israel, Palestine, USA)  for Israeli/Palestinian  "Roadmap to Peace"

Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become The League of Nations ( in other words, completely irrelevant)

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.

Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 

As part of the national forests clean-up,  the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges)  and removed the need for an EIS (Enivironmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.

Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.

Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training.

Cut funding for research into renewable energy sources by 50%.

Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water.

Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons

Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii

Cut funding for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks by 28%

Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws.

Approved the sending of letters by Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.

Appointed John Negroponte -- an unindicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador.

Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rainforest conservation.

Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance.

Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.

Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on public lands.

 Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing.

Proposed to eliminate a federal program, designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare for natural disasters

Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.

Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work.

Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra).

Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing

Appointed Otto Reich -- an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure -- to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

Cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $500 million.

Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List

Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming.

Gutted the White House AIDS Office.

Renegotiated a free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate workers's rights and safeguards for the environment.

Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program

Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness

Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects

Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can

Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah

Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit.

Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills

Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect

Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards

Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars.

Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equivalents

Reduced the Low Income Home Assistance Program by 40%; it aided low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills

Told U.N. "NO" re: global tax

Items still to be accomplished and/or addressed

Allow sunsetting of AWB

Fix illegal immigration issues and border control

Limit/eliminate  federal entitlement programs

Cut size of federal budget

Shrink federal government job force

Hate all Dems and do not treat them civilly

Don't appoint any homosexuals to public office

Don't meet with Grover Norquist--or Muslims--or Homosexuals

Kill all terrorists in Israel

Drop the idea of a Palestinian state

"Eliminate"  all Palestinians

Need means testing on Senior Rx legislation

Get the United States out of the United Nations

Banish the United Nations from U.S. soil.

Stop all foreign aid.

Stop all foreign aid to the Palestinians

Eliminate  Steel and Wood tarrifs

Talk non-stop, at every opportunity, about judicial nominees and lack of Senate vote.

Push Frist out.....bring back Trent Lott

Fire Karl Rove

Fire Colin Powell

 

 

 

 


 



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To: SUSSA
"You need to do better than this. You just cut and pasted your list from Democrat sites."
You are incorrect. All posts on these lists come from 2 sites. 1)Free Republic; 2) the White House website (for a single, specific quote).

I have no idea why you would post such a comment.

361 posted on 07/01/2003 5:18:42 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: justshe
Don't pay attention to the noise from the peanut gallery. You did a great job putting all that info/data together, justshe. Congrats.
362 posted on 07/01/2003 5:25:52 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: justshe
Start here it looks just like most of your list right down to the order of the listings.

Want more?

http://www.refuseandresist.org/resist_this/031402bushrecord.html
363 posted on 07/01/2003 5:26:59 PM PDT by SUSSA
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To: MJY1288
Thanks.
364 posted on 07/01/2003 5:31:22 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: SUSSA
If you're saying that the malcontents on FR are doing the work of the Democratic National Committee, you've got a point!
365 posted on 07/01/2003 5:31:36 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: SUSSA
I did NOT use that website. Never had seen it. You can choose to believe me, or you can continue in your assertions that basically calls me a liar.

I don't lie. Period. All posts came from FR Republic except for one direct quote from President Bush. I will not repeat myself.

366 posted on 07/01/2003 5:31:53 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: Reagan Man
Thanks. It was a lot of work but a topic I thought needed discussion.
367 posted on 07/01/2003 5:34:13 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: justshe
here is the same list again

http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2002/msg00101.html
368 posted on 07/01/2003 5:35:45 PM PDT by SUSSA
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To: justshe
You did a great job with this post. Thanks!
369 posted on 07/01/2003 5:36:28 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
Thanks, Jane.
370 posted on 07/01/2003 5:38:31 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: SUSSA
What is your point?

Are you accusing her of not compiling this list herself?
371 posted on 07/01/2003 5:38:42 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: justshe
It's affiliated with "Not In Our Name" a leftist scumhole
372 posted on 07/01/2003 5:40:58 PM PDT by MJY1288 (The Gifted One is Clueless)
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To: Reagan Man
In case you didn't know, I do and will always respect and love Ronald Reagan, That man changed my life, I had lived through the leftist protest of our troops in Vietnam as a young man not old enough to join our soldiers, Republicans took a lot of hits after the left destroyed Richard Nixon and I had doubts we would ever recover. Ronald Reagan removed those doubts. I will never forget him
373 posted on 07/01/2003 5:44:51 PM PDT by MJY1288 (The Gifted One is Clueless)
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To: Howlin
Have you checked out where he got his talking points? Click on the link and then go to the bottom of the page and go to the home page......... A leftist website is where this so-called conservative gets his facts, isn't that special?
374 posted on 07/01/2003 5:47:33 PM PDT by MJY1288 (The Gifted One is Clueless)
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To: justshe
I wouldn't call you a liar. You said you didn't understand what made me think that. I showed you.

When the lists are identical including total untruths I thought they came from the same place. If you say you took it from FR I believe you. I just wonder about why you think some of these things are good.
375 posted on 07/01/2003 5:48:56 PM PDT by SUSSA
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To: MJY1288
People are going to think what they are going to think.

Do I know for a fact that something on those lists didn't come from one of those sites? No.

Do I know for a fact that I took posts ONLY from other posters on Free Republic and listed them on those lists? Yes.

Do I know for a fact that I poured through 2 years of posts on Free Republic to compile these lists? Yes.

Have I stated that I am not infallible on this thread? Yes

Have I stated in the body of the initial topic post for this thread that: "Obviously, some of you will think some items on each list are not correct, that they should either NOT be listed, or are listed on the wrong list. Either way, it IS a start" ? Yes

That is all that I can do, at this point MJY1288.



376 posted on 07/01/2003 5:49:10 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: Howlin
I went and cleansed my computer of their cookie immediately after visiting that anti-american website. Methinks we got us a mole
377 posted on 07/01/2003 5:49:38 PM PDT by MJY1288 (The Gifted One is Clueless)
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To: justshe
You've done good, ignore the mole
378 posted on 07/01/2003 5:50:31 PM PDT by MJY1288 (The Gifted One is Clueless)
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To: SUSSA
I neither listed good....or bad. I listed things that HAVE been done....and things that people on FR still want to see addressed or accomplished.

The interpretation of both lists is YOUR responsibility. Not mine.
379 posted on 07/01/2003 5:53:26 PM PDT by justshe (Educate....not Denigrate !)
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To: MJY1288
Well said MJY1288. We've discussed Reagan before. Just wanted to clear the air on Reagan's first term conservatism. My man in `68&`72 was Nixon. The left may have pummelled Nixon mercilessly, but IMO he brought it on himself. Nixon was a huge disappointment. After VietNam, Watergate and Jimmah Carter, Ronald Reagan was a breath of fresh air. Reagan belongs on Mount Rushmore.
380 posted on 07/01/2003 5:55:49 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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