Bush's Successes

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Bush's Successes
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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm
The Successes of President George Bush

Dear Reader,

I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans

saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a

failure. With the string of successes he's had,

nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a

few:

1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling

budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion

deficit.

2. He has successfully helped America's trading

partners have the highest trade surplus with us in

America's history.

3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the

richest Americans and corporations at the expense of

99% of the American population.

4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in

Iraq after lying to the whole world.

5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to

the highest level ever here in America.

6. He has successfully allowed American corporations

to dramatically increase their pollution.

7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the

population out of work.

8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export

our best middle-class jobs.

9. He has successfully divided our country as never

before.

10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.

11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never

before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a

divider).

12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the

constitution of the United States of America.

13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as

they haven't been for years (I told you he was a

uniter).

14. He has successfully driven me out of the

Republican party for the rest of my life.

You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a

wonder America is still standing.

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 9:26am
Your right Renee, that is one of the things that I have heard discussed, the tax cuts. Kennedy did it, Reagan did it, and now George W. Bush did it. It would seem that tax cuts do indeed help a failing (sorry, I'm sure there's a better word than that) economy. And I'm assuming that it is the increase in taxes that can result in a reduction of the deficit. I wonder if any politician(s), and those entrusted with these public funds, actually had the guts to tow the line, stick to a budget, make cuts where cuts are needed, would that also help in decreasing the deficit? Problem is, it would take more than a President, or a party, or even the entire Congress. It would take everyone down to the smallest local level to responsibly spend tax dollars given to them. Pie in the sky thought I guess.
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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 9:32am
He raised them just one year later. In 11 months, no tax cut/hikes are going to have any effect on the economy.

But hey, if you want talk about Reagan's policies and what they did to this nations Budget, I'm more than game.

After that, we can get to BUSH's policies :)

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 9:52am

"Let me ask you. If you think he has done such a great job as a Senator, please name me some substantial legislation that he is responsible for, and not just voted for, but actually sponsored and helped author."


Debateguy,


I am surprised at you trying to bring this up again when it was discussed ad nauseum in this thread.


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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:01am
I could buy the junior Senator thing if he were in the midst of his second term as Senator, but not someone that is in the middle of their 4th term, who has supposedly shown great leadership in Washington.

I know that they all flip flop, but since Kerry is running for President, I have seen his stance on Iraq go from someone who was not only in full support for the war, but actually made a speech to the Senate before their vote on giving Bush the authorization to go to war, where he was more compelling than Bush, to someone who now says he was misled.

Sorry, someone on the Senate Intelligence Committee should not be misled by what the President says on intelligence as he receives his own intelligence briefings, to which he himself admitted that he was sometimes too busy to review. To me that is the worst excuse of all.

I do agree with you about Ted Kennedy 1000%. I did like John Kennedy, and thought that Robert would have been a pretty good President himself, but sadly we never got to find out.

The other thing that I partly agree with is that I am not very happy with the way that Bush is spending in Washington, and he and Congress need to get the spending under control. I am, however against someone like Kerry, who says that he will cut the middle class taxes, increase the taxes on the wealthy and then put into effect a $650 billion healthcare plan, on top of that, increase spendings in other areas.

This to me signals that his tax increase on the people making $200,000 or more is not going to be minor as he has suggested. In order to pay for everything that he is looking to do, the increase will reach about 10%, which is too much.

I would agree, as I have said before to a small increase (3% or so) on those people making $500,000 or more a year.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:04am
Well, in reading the thread, the question was answered by a few people that said what I have found, and that is that Kerry has done absolutely NOTHING in 20 years in the Senate to make him stand out as any sort of leader.

Thank you for re-confirming what I have tried to research on the web.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:10am
-- 2000 was in many way, an anyone but clinton race. Go find some conservative democrats and moderate indy's who still plan on voting Bush in 2004 as they did in 2000 :)


I was watching the O'Reilly Factor last night and he had on Scott Rasmussen, who is the President of the Rasmussen Polls, who said that it appears that Kerry did not do anything to convince any of the fence sitters, at this time, that he is the right choice, and he missed a golden opportunity, as all eyes were on him.

Rasmussen said that the interesting thing is that one of the results that came about due to the convention is that more people realized that Kerry and Edwards are more liberal than they had originally thought.

This is going to be a very interesting race, and as you and I both agree, is going to come down to the last vote on election night.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:13am
-- "...In his 16 years in the Senator John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington

Can anyone say the Big Dig?

Original budget..... $2.6 billion.

Current cost..... $15 billion

Biggest supporters, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry.

Yes.. he appears to be fiscally responsible to me. LOL

Miller also never says anything about any bill that Kerry either authored or co-authored in 20 years in the Senate, because none exist. To me, a leader is someone that will do something like that, and not only propose it, but get it passed as well.

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:27am
Kerry doesn't have much convincing to do.

Find me 1 conservative democrat who supported Bush in 2000 that's going to vote for him again. They may sit at home, but they're not going to vote for Bush.

George W Bush is the best asset the Kerry campaign has, he's done much of the convincing by virtue of his Administration's actions/policies.

He has solved the Democrat morale problem which has plagued them for decades.

Hell, I cannot believe that Kerry won't win every state that Gore carried in 2000. Say what you will about Kerry, he's miles above Gore as a candidate.

He passed the first and most important test already: Proving he's human.



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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 10:21pm
I know plenty (I believe they are referred to as Reagan Democrats), and plenty of independent voters prepared to do so again, mainly because Kerry is a very poor alternative.
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Wed, 08-04-2004 - 12:23am

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He's gotta do much better than that to win. The blue states have lost electoral votes and the red ones have picked them up. Bush gets a big win if he just hold on to the states he won in 2000.


Renee ~~~

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