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One tiny bright spot in the whole Bush shit: the "War on Terror" deflected his plans for starting a new witch hunt: this one aimed squarely at us, the alt-sex crowd. I don't know if many of you remember the hints of what was about to happen with Ashcroft pre-9/11, but we were all in their sights as surely as an old lawyer was in Cheaney's.
Let's see... Bush's greatest hits... the fuckups that are attributable directly to him:
1. Bush announces his policies for an "ownership society." The lending industry responds by making home loans available to more Americans who couldn't afford them. Result: the sub-prime crisis. Economic disaster.
2. Responding to pressure from the fanatical religious right, Bush bans all research into stem cells. The leading scientists of this line of inquiry immediately move overseas to continue their lifes work... in europe and in Japan. Result: all major breakthroughs in this medical boon belong to other countries... America falls behind.
3. Bush's tax cuts/rebate: they eliminate the budget surplus created under the Clinton years, and plunges the US into massive deficit spending. All of the taxes favor the upper 2% of income earners. Thus, the bag is being left to the middle class, who will be paying back their average $325 rebate for the next three decades, probably beyond their retirement ages.
4. Iran.
a. wrong country
b. lied about yellowcake uranium
c. ignored the recommendations about troop strength needed for the occupation. Also used Powell to lie to the UN. Stood up before the UN, and said "Fuck you!"
d. "mission accomplished"
e. Four years later, the troops STILL don't have body armor, or armored vehicles.
f. stop gap deployments, running our troops ragged.
g. cutting the funding for medical care for returning wounded
h. no bid contract for Haliburton
i. Halliburton "mislays" 12 billion dollars.
j. 5,000 American dead, 60,000 Iraqi civilians dead. (est.)
k. the whole debacle is financed by loand from China and Japan. 338 billion so far, with us spending an average of 12 billion a month.
5. Bush places Brown, a man totally unqualified for running such an office, in charge of FEMA. Katrina happens. No response from the federal government for two weeks. Hundreds die from exposure that didn't have to. "You're doing a great job, Brownie."
6. The PATRIOT ACT (1&2) and the PROTECT AMERICA ACT. Basically an emergency expansion of powers, we are told that the wiretapping, illegal searches and extraordinary renditions will only be temporary. Now, realizing that this could come back to haunt him after office, Bush is pushing for immunity of the telecoms, and by extension, himself.
7. America as a torture state. People have been kidnapped off the street, flown to other countries and tortured. We may never know how many. Waterboarding happens. People discuss if this is torture or not. They ignore the other forms of torture displayed in the Abu Ghraib photos. (Photos, that those involved in their release, say are the mild stuff.) No one seems to give a shit, they think it's all just terror suspects.
8. Gitmo. Bushs personal torture Disneyland. Suspension of the Constitutional right of hebeas corpus. Six years on, and these "enemy combatants" have not received legal representation, tribunals, or even charges against them. All in total defiance of the US Constitution.
9. "Let's teach both, and let the students decide." KS tries to handicap children by teaching "intelligent design" in science classes. Bush supports the idea despite it's obvious fallacy. As a result, the religious right nutcases are STILL wasting time and money by trying to introduce it into other rural, backward states.
10. Early on, Bush links international aid to abstinence. No emergency medical funding for the 3rd world nations who dare to give their female patients choice. No abortion, no family planning, no pre or post natal care for millions.
11. Bush ignores Darfur.
12. Bush ignores global warming, insists that we all call it "Natural Climate Change" Later backs off a bit and says, "Climate Change." Refuses to be part of the Kyoto Accords.
13. Despite an obvious mandate from the people, Bush ignores their will and pushes for a surge in troop levels. Yes, it may have worked temporarily, but there are already signs that the surge is beginning to fail. Violence in Iraq is now creeping up to pre-surge levels. Today (3/10/08) is reported to be one of the most deadly days for our troops since before the "war" was declared over.
14. Bush doubles the national debt. Between the loans from overseas to fund his "hobby war" and the tax cuts that hobble the cash flow, America is now $9.3 TRILLION dollars in debt. ($9,300,000,000,000.00) It's easier to write in scientific notation. In debt. Now and forever and ever, amen.
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