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Edited on Tue Oct-18-05 03:03 PM by Mugsy
I have a longtime friend here in Texas that is among that "39%" that believes the Bush Administration can do no wrong, and Democrats can do no right. No matter how bad things get, he always has a rationalization or excuse ("Bush just said Saddam was not involved with 9/11 because he doesn't want to tip off the terrorists that were on to them!" and "the vote on the new Iraqi Constitution is PROOF we are winning ."
I've been pointing out to him that he is a total Party whore. What was once "Nation Building" under Clinton is now "Bringing Democracy and Expanding Freedom in the Middle East".
In that vain, I started a list of things that, had President Clinton of done them, Republicans would be screaming bloody murder. But since it is "their guy" doing them, suddenly they have every excuse in the book.
Please help me add to this list. I will fill in the major details later, but feel free to clarify anything I've listed or to elaborate on your own (coroborating links are especially welcome):
o A draft-dodging, coke snorting, professed former (and current?) alcoholic that got *everything* he ever "achieved" in life thanks to who his daddy is.
o Ignoring the Aug 6, 2001 PDB that warned of a possible terrorist attack by bin Laden, and his first meeting with his "terrorism czar" not taking place until just ten days before 9/11 and lasting all of ten minutes.
o Spending over a quarter of his entire time in office "on vacation" (the most in history, surpassing even Reagan) clearing brush on his "ranch" ("Ranch" is in quotes because there are no animals on it, and you'll never see a photo of Dubya on a horse because he is rumored to be afraid of them).
o Took the focus off Osama... the guy who actually attacked us... not just on 9/11, but the USS Cole just before the 2000 election... to go after someone who was not a threat to the United States, on wildly exaggerated accusations of "stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons", "mobile weapons laboratories" and "uranium yellowcake from Niger"
o The infamous "17 words" from his 2003 State of the Union Address where he knowingly lied before Congress and the American people by citing a long-disproven report as "proof" of Saddam's actively attempting to build a nuclear weapon, in order to frighten the American people into supporting a costly, unnecessary and illegal revenge war.
o "Mission Accomplished"
o Nation Building
o Starting a war with no exist strategy that is costing us $135 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY.
o The vindictive outing of an undercover CIA agent (former President Bush Sr... former head of the CIA himself under Ford... once called anyone that outed a covert CIA agent "the most insidious of traitors") in a veiled attempt to discredit Ambassador Joe Wilson who dared reveal that he told the Bush White House that the claim of Saddam seeking uranium from Niger, later found to be based upon some REALLY badly forged documents, was completely false.
o Telling reporters "Anyone involved in leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent would no longer be working in my administration", but when it is discovered that it was his own top advisor Karl Rove that leaked the information, changed his promise to "Anyone convicted of leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent...". Is that really the bar we want to set for working in the White House? Anyone just short of conviction is welcome to work in this administration? Apparently so, Republicans tried to change the House ethics rules for Tom DeLay that say "you can not remain Majority Leader if you've been indicted", but were shamed into backing off pushing for the rules change once the press got ahold of it.
o 13 major negative news stories for the Bush Administration are coincidentally followed, sometimes by just mere hours, by "major terrorism events", many of which result in the raising of the White House's color-coded "Traffic Light of Fear" (link)
o The Vice President's former company, of which he still has financial ties to, raking in BILLIONS in hand-delivered no-bid contracts that last for years
o Appointing unqualified cronies to positions of power within the government, even resulting in a massive logistical failure that costs over 1,000 lives (and counting).
o Giving coveted "day passes", intended for visiting reporters from out of town access to the WH Press Briefing room, to a gay-prostitute owing $20,000 in back taxes (can you say "blackmail risk"?) from an extreme Right-Wing "web-only" news outlet, every day for over a year, often within 15 feet of the President of the United States in a time of war?
o The doubling of the price of gas, $66/barrel oil, a 142% increase in the price of natural gas in just one year after condemning the previous administration during the 2000 campaign for "not getting tough with the Saudis" to bring oil prices down (gas was under $1.40/gal at the time).
o A national debt pushing $7 TRILLION DOLLARS and rubber-stamping some of the most pork-laden spending bills in history.
(the rest I'm still working on.)
o "Uniter not a divider"
o "A new era of morality and personal responsibility"
o Fake reporters & paying reporters to push propoganda.
o Enron
o 6,000+ dead Americans as a direct result of incompetence.
o The Patriot Act
o Cherry picking Iraq intelligence
o Party-girl daughters arrested for underage drinking with "fake ID's" (like no one would recognize them???)
o Staged photo ops, then claimed they weren't staged.
o "Loyalty oaths" to attend campaign rallies "open to the public".
o Protestor "free speech zones".
o Incessant lying to the media.
o "The Nuclear Option"
o Repeatedly breeching the separation of Church and State.
o Flying back early to "save" Teri Schiavo, but attends John McCain's B-day Party the day after Katrina hits.
o "Conservatizing" PBS.
o Massive Media Conglomeration (Clear Channel, etc.)
o Stem cell research (only one usuable line)
o "No Child Left Behind" unfunded mandate
o The "Clear Skys initiative"
o Ignoring the UN and bombing Iraq for "ignoring the UN".
o Trying to privatize Social Security.
o Abu Ghraib
o Army recruitment in the toilet.
o Deploying the National Guard overseas for two years.
o A White House that's overrun with draft dodging Chicken Hawks that don't hesitate to send others off to die.
o Sending troops into harms way in a war of choice w/o the necessary armor.
o Paul Bremmer disbanding the Iraqi Army.
o George Tenant's "Slam Dunk".
o "Purple heart band-aids"
o Pissing away a ground-swell of global compassion after 9/11.
o Author of most costly Medicare entitlement program in history with the "Prescription Drug Program".
o Made "competitive bidding" in his "Prescription Drug Program" to keep costs down illegal.
o Too "buddy buddy" with the religious right.
o Diebold/CS&S
o Always "flipping off" someone.
o Is so inconsequential, they don't even interrupt his bike ride when Capitol Hill is evacuated (Cessna).
o Appoints "I'm not qualified" Porter Goss to CIA.
o Appoints "UN hating" John Bolton as Ambassador to the U.N.
o Spirted away members of the bin Laden family in the U.S. on 9/11.
o Long-time family ties to the bin Laden family.
o Disturbingly close ties to the Saudi royal family.
o Never said "imminent threat".
o The looting after the fall of Baghdad.
o Attempting to cut verterans benefits while soldiers are at war.
o Rampant chronyism:
o Michael "Brownie" Brown (7 of top ten FEMA officers)
o Harriet "Harry" Miers
Please help continue this list!
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