Bush's Successes
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| Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm |
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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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 :)
"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.
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-elpoliticsto/?msg=3160.1
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.
Thank you for re-confirming what I have tried to research on the web.
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.
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.
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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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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