Is Bush Really A "Miserable Failure"?

[kentuck]

He is on track to break a record - Herbert Hoover's record. That should be something all Repubs can be proud of. At the present time, he is running neck-to-neck with Hoover for the number of jobs lost in his term. Not an envious record. Almost makes you think they need a "Job Czar" to prevent that disaster??

As we all know, it was on his shift that terrorists attacked the WTC and the Pentagon and killed almost 3000 people. The fact that they have not attacked us since cannot bring those people back. Intelligence indicates that he knew this was in the planning before it happened but he was asleep at the wheel.

Of course, he did manage to destroy our credibility throughout the world with his pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, a nation that had not been proven to be involved with the terrorists. Now, he has us in what might be described as a quagmire, as he crawls on his hands and knees back to the UN to beg for help to get his nuts out of the fire.

So where has he succeeded? They said he was a "uniter, not a divider." We know that to be a bald-faced lie. They said he would bring honor and dignity back to the White House. That is an illusion they may wish to promote but really has no standing. With the secret energy meetings, Halliburton contracts, lying about the air quality in NYC after 9/11, lying about WMDs, lying about taxcuts creating growth, lying about flying Osama's relatives out of the country when no one else, including Senators, could get on an airplane, lying about their connections to the Saudi royal family, etc, etc...It has been one lie after another -day after day. It is not an exaggeration to say that Bush has been a "miserable failure". I challenge anyone to list his successes.

[chimpymustgo]

1. Brain Lamb actually asked that as the opening question this am

for callers. One called said, when ever a rethug tries to dispute that, he asks, "Name ONE thing * has done to improve this country."

I am taking that right to all my rethug friends.

[CatWoman]

12. hey, it's been archived

I'm listening to it now.

This is great stuff!!!!!

[kentuck]

18. Thanks CatWoman !

I missed that and I wanted to hear those responses... I'll turn it on now. :)

[GR]

23. No Brian Opened With Brittany Taking Her Pants Off...

I had to check the channel a couple of times when I saw that....Thought my remote had failed me somehow...

[CMT]

2. He has been a "utter failure"

I can't think of any place where he has done well. Poverty rate also rose during his rein of terror--especially among children.

[Beetwasher]

3. Yes, he really really is

Worst...President...Ever!

Some will argue that he's not a failure because he's accomplishing his hidden agenda. I argue that he IS a failure as a PRESIDENT because that's NOT what a President is supposed to accomplish.

I challenge any Repubs I encounter all the time to list a single positive thing he's accomplished and you should hear the stammering...

[rwork]

8. The worst president in US history.

Harkin oil, cocaine feloney, awol. All this before he became president.

[Zero Gravitas]

25. Worst. President. Ever.

Bush truly is the Worst President Ever. Miserable Failure does not begin to describe just how bad he is.

3,000,000 jobs lost

9/11 - they were warned but Bush went on vacation (again)
Afghanistan - one thing Bush did not lie about was the not doing Nation Building thing.

Squandered the post 9/11 goodwill of the entire planet and alienated almost all of our friends and allies.

Iraq - What were they thinking?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. no he is a spectacular failure

he's quite good at failing so in that sense Gep was wrong.

[PAMod]

13. I may use that line...

if someone disputes Gephardts line.

[ixion]

5. absolute, utter, complete, total, abject failure

He has done nothing good for the US. Not ONE thing. Everything he touches goes to hell, and fast. He has humiliated this nation, and relegated us to rogue status in the eyes of the world, IMHO.

[wuushew]

6. People just don't hold him responsible for anything

Thanks to the concept of "low expectations", people associate him as being a victim of circumstance or a helpless bystander. Bush is not at the helm of the nation. He doesn't understand economics or foreign policy. The only thing he has PERSONALLY taken an active hand in is Faith Based Initiatives which turned out to a debacle as well. I think people have two different concepts of Bush and the Bush Administration. Just like they did with Raygun.

[LoneStarLiberal]

21. So Sadly True

Republicans (most of whom are just cultured to hate Democrats now no matter the reason after all the Clinton-bashing) were always going to give President Bozo a free pass on anything and everything.

What is so sad to me is that moderates have given him a free pass as well. I think it is partially for the same reason that they gave Reagan one: "Well, the President isn't too smart but he has good people around him and his heart is in the right place." Since when does being a simpleton excuse excuse you from responsibility?

As I tell people who expouse this odious philosophy: "Well you know what? I have good people around me in my job, too. My heart is in the right place, too. But when something goes wrong or doesn't get done, I am the one who is responsible for it at the end of the day. Just because Bush is president doesn't mean his burden should be any different. In fact, it should be more. A whole hell of a lot more."

[bowens43]

7. bush would have to improve

to be a 'miserable failure'.

[meti57b]

9. I'll quibble on words in that "miserable failure" implies he attempted to

accomplish something beneficial and useful for our country, our people and our world, but failed in that attempt. He attempted no such thing. What the bush administration attempted was to get away with all-out evil and wrongdoing to benefit their own personal selves, their wealthy and powerful friends and the wealthy in general.

Actually, he achieved this evil, except they it had repercussions they didn't intend and they didn't get away with it unnoticed.

[cmf]

10. No.

Think about it - they were very successful in what they set out to do. There is a difference between the Bush Junta's goals and what is good for the American people.

Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans - they got it.
War in Iraq - they got it.
Large contracts for their friends in Iraq - they got it.
Increased power of the Federal government to spy on Americans - they got it.
No real investigation into 9/11 - they got it.
Relaxed environmental rules - they got it.

The list goes on and on. It really depends on your point of reference as to whether or not Bush is a failure.

[meti57b]

16. GMTA! ... but you stated it far more eloquently than I.

[Beetwasher]

17. He IS a failure as a PRESIDENT

He may have succeeded at his hidden agenda, but that's NOT what a President is supposed to accomplish. He is therefore a failure as a PRESIDENT. That after all is supposedly his job...

[paulsbc]

19. i don't think

that his agenda is hidden at all....

[Beetwasher]

20. This is the oath he took:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

By any measure, he has failed at upholding that oath.

[meti57b]

29. this is just a question, but did you actually believe him ......

when he took that oath?

[Beetwasher]

30. No of course not, but he's still a failure in that respect

and by any measure of what a President is supposed to do.

[gottaB]

39. not to us

but he ran on being a uniter not a divider and compassionate conservatism and moral integrity etc. etc. and a whole lot of subumpkins believed him.

It's like his education. He partied. He squeaked though with a degree. But in any meaningful sense you can't call his educataion a success.

[sandnsea]

44. Sadly, you're right

And it's interpreted by Republicans as:

Tax cuts to improve investment and help business grow.
War to finally take care of Saddam and prove America's backbone.
American benevolence in rebuilding Iraq.
Increased security to rid the country of the foreigners and terrorists.
Investigation? Why? It was Osama and Iraq and we killed 'em.
Increased logging, mining, oil resources, and eliminating those stupid regulations that inhibit business and jobs.

And the list does go on. And that is really what we're up against next election.

[Atlant]

11. No, he's actually a very happy failure. ...

No, he's actually a very happy failure. Part of that happiness
is probably in that he's too stupid to even realize he's a failure
and has always been a failure, but is propped-up by his "friends".

"And when you got money,
You got lots of friends
Crowdin 'round your door.
When the money's [or the power's] gone
And all your spendin' [or usefullness] ends
They won't be 'round anymore..."

[_Wayne_]

14. Concerning his record, it's sometimes two steps forward, three steps back

Take education, for example. Mr. Bush supposedly collaborated with Ted Kennedy on a new education bill, and shoveled boatloads of money into schools, etc. But Bush's tax cuts have hurt state revenues, and subsequently lowered state's abilities to increase teacher salaries, etc.

Another example: the U.S. may have caught a few terrorists and removed Saddam, but the war has stirred a nest of hornets in Iraq, and actually created an environment conducive to terrorism. And according to a recent Pew Poll, anger at the U.S. is at its highest in decades, which will produce more terrorists and terrorist threats to the U.S.

On issues like the environment, he has done nothing to move foward, though. The same goes for social security, medicare, the economy, science and technology, so on so forth et cetera et cetera.

[ramblin_dave]

15. Bush has been a failure all his life

He failed at Arbusto.

He failed at Harken.

He failed in the TANG.

Other people have to open doors for him. When he fails, others have to bail him out.

[demnan]

22. Yeah

that was the best thing said in the debates last night. Kudos to Gephardt for saying it.

[robbedvoter]

24. WNYC caller: either a failure or the most corrupt in history

In either case, we should get rid of him. He went on saying how all candidates should prepare good sound bites like this one (a keeper, no matter what) to explain why he is a miserable failure in every cathegory - for use on TV shows as well as in depth explanations for thinking people. I thought he was right.
From our point of view - where bush was supposed to serve the American people, Gephardt is right.

[GoldenOldie]

28. Failure or Puppet

Does anyone else get the feeling that Georgie or "W", was never meant to be placed in The White House to lead, but only to become the distraction necessary to keep all eyes and voices off the true objective of the BFEE. They have accomplished the destruction and de-regulation of EPA standards. They have looted the surplus with their tax give aways to their wealthy buddies who in return will pass it along to their future heirs for years on end. They gave no-bid contracts to themselves - Halliburton (Cheney), etc. They are gaining contracts for millions and millions of dollars with the electronic voting machines going into every state with inability to have an auditable paper trail and possibility of hacking the system (Sen Chuck Hagel-Diebold). They are attempting to privatise social security, federal employees, military operations, etc., etc., etc., all of which will open the door for good old nepotism. ie., Colin Powell's son = FCC, who is attempting to de-regulate our communications systems under the charade that this will open it all up to competion.

"W" is the stand-in magician who has us all watching him and his latest performance, while all the time those that actually control our government, are doing their dirty deeds with our democracy.
The short time that "W" has been in office, he and his co-horts have destroyed much of what past generations fought for. I am sure they consider themselves extremely successful.

[kentuck]

26. This has big, muscular legs !

Listening to the callers on C-SPAN, this remark has tied their bowels in a knot...

[thebeaglehaslanded]

27. Chimpy's Successes

This was just sent to me. I do not know the source, but reading Chimpy's accomplishments is breathtaking!

Accomplishments of President George Bush:

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in a12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.
My record for environmental issues is the least of my concerns and my people are taking care of getting what I want.
I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.
After taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I attacked and overtook two countries, promised to rebuild them and have not yet done so.
I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.
I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends and the CIA, which, coincidentally, my daddy used to lead.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.
In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month, leaving us in higher than ever unemployment.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any president in U.S. history.
I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president in history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time. But I sure enjoy visiting them on warships when I need a good photo op.

I allowed non-compete oil contracts to go to my VP's company (where he is still employed, but on "deferred compensation") and won't answer to anyone about it.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of humankind.
I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.
I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
I created the largest governmental department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in history.
I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.
I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight, than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" (detainees) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history.
My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision.
I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
I am the first to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I am the first president in history to have the people of South Korea feel more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.
I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.
I failed to capture Saddam Hussein.
My family is very close with the Saudi Royal family, and has been for years, so I kept the pages out of the report on 9-11 that may put the Saudis in a bad light.
I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. I have no leads and no credible suspects.
Following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any PUBLIC investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War.
I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.

Records and References:
I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available.
I was AWOL from the National Guard.
I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed and unavailable for public review.
Please consider my experience when voting in 2004.

[catzies]

40. That's the famous "Bush Resume" 1st seen on Buzzflash awhile ago

But it's always worth repeating because if you haven't seen it, it's new to you.

[calimary]

31. Hey, folks! This is insulting to miserable failures everywhere

to tie them onto the same sinking boat with him.

He is the POSTER BOY for miserable failures. Look it up in the dictionary and his picture will be there.

He begs for new and improved and more far-reaching terms to redefine "miserable failure."

"Miserable failure" doesn't even BEGIN to describe this worthless pile.

But I'll say one thing for him - he certainly is consistent. Look at his record before December 2000. Look at his record in the private sector. Look at his record before that. All you see is botch-job after botch-job after botch-job, with his dad's wealthy and well-connected cronies to bail him out every single time. And they're still at it - witness the ever-larger stash of campaign contributions he's racked up. Too bad none of them sits on the UN Security Council. His track record for being bailed out by his rich buddies has apparently run into a dead end there.

He's gonna wind up making Herbert Hoover look good.

[ComerPerro]

32. He accomplished all of his goals

He has bankrupted the middle and lower class, and they are now dependant on him out of fear. People are so desperate for work that they will take any $6/hr job that comes along, and are in no position to try and negotiate any benifits.

He has seen to it that war is ever present and on the minds of voters. For, when war is your only foreign policy, then you don't need any legitimate foreign policy. He has enacted a first-strike policy that allows him to go to war with anyone he wants, as long as he lies enough beforehand. And besides, when your foreign policy is perpetual war, you don't need domestic policy or diplomacy. Bush has neither.

He has made sure that his criminal pals will be safe with their stolen money. He saw to it that his buddy Ken Lay will never go to prison. He has also passed a massive tax cut for the rich every year while in office.

He allowed a terrorist attack to happen. This introduced a climate of fear (in which Republicans thrive) and provided him with the ultimate scapegoat. In addition, it paved the way for him to pass facist, unconstitutional laws that give him and Ashcroft Gestapo powers.

Is Bush a failure? By all means, no. Certainly not. He accomplished all of his goals.

Should he be impeached and arrested? Yes.

[leftwingwill]

33. He is a miserable failure and

is following daddys footsteps into a single term, the only difference is daddy was elected.

[swinney]

34. THIS IS A RECORD OF FAILURE

DRAFT DODGER
CRIMINAL MILITARY DESERTER
CRIMINAL BABY KILLER
CRIMINAL COCAINE SNORTER
CRIMINAL DRUNK
CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADER
ALLEGED ADULTERER
ALLEGED WOMAN ABUSER
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR(THIS IS BIGGIE-SEE MY 191 LIES LIST)

THIS BOY IS OF SCORCHED BRAIN AFTER TWO DECADES OF EXCESSIVE ABUSE OF COCAINE AND ALCOHOL.

HE IS OPERATED BY CHENEY AND OTHERS.

CHECK THIS LIST OF WAFFLES(MANY TO BE ADDED)WAFFLE HOUSE
“I say what I mean and mean what I say”
“ Promises made-Promises kept”
“When I make up my mind it stays made up”
“I do not take cues from anyone”
“You can’t say one thing and do another”
“Trust me I’m a straight shooter”
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1.Osama Bin Laden is my number one priority. (at least this week)
2. We need an Office of Strategic Influence (Next decade maybe)
3. I will follow the UN Resolution as long as it takes-10-27-02
10-31-02—The UN needs to act now
2-13-03—The UN needs to show courage (like I did during Vietnam.)
4. I am a strong believer in Fair Trade—(except steel and softwood lumber) (votes first)

Ed Crane—Co-Founder and President of The Cato Institute-“Everything this
administration does is political”

5, We do not need for the Homeland Security Department to be a Cabinet position.
I made up my mind on it. Boston Globe—6-9-02 “Bush Flip Flop”
6. I will get Osama Bin Laden “Dead or Alive”—(go get em cowboy)—5-13-02-(“I don’t know where he is, I have no idea and I really don’t care.) (It’s not that important. It’s not out first priority”) (“I say what I mean”). (“When I make up my mind it stays made up”).
7. I will use the bully pulpit with OPEC. (Sic em bulldog my gas now 1.65 per gallon)
Supply went down and Prices went up and (“This is just the Free Market at Work”)
8. I will never apologize to the Chinese for “stealing our plane”. Please guys! Be nice.
Return our plane. “I regret it”
9. I mean what I say—“We can expect an attack”. Each month warning. When BOY?
10. Wash. Post-2-8-03—Bush seeking a promise from IRAN (Evil) for humanitarian help
in event a slaughter is done in Afghan. (Sounds like Reagan?)
11. NYT-1-23-03—Bush (Man of steel will) “rescinding” old policy and implementing a new policy that allows managed care organizations to limit and restrict coverage of emergency services for poor people on Medicaid. This was after criticizing HMO.s for refusal to allow treatment. If this is a Devout Christian I am Jesus Christ.
12. We will not negotiate with North Korea. Wash Post 1-16-03—Bush is now willing to consider agricultural and energy aid. (Hold on! This is EVIL of axis)
13.Individual investors who borrow money to buy dividend paying stocks should be penalized.(Gosh! What did I say—I did not mean it) NYT 2-5-03
14. I mean what I say until yelling starts. Military pay increase of 2% then 4%.
Stars & Stripes-12-30-02—Bush asked Defense Dept. to lower the announced pay raise for the military from 3.7% to 2%. Finally got 4 in 2004 budget.

“I am tired of all the Lying and Deception”—Amen! Hallelulah! Then stop it Boy.




15.I mean what I say—I am the education president. Please. First budget increased by 1,5% which had averaged 7% increase per year over five years. (Sounds like Clinton was the Educated educator to me.)
16.Wash Post-12-2-02—In June 2002 Bush promised 500 Million to fight mother-child transmission of Aids . In Aug he vetoed the first transfer of the 500 million. In 111 days since his promise 222,000 babies have been infected with Aids. (I wonder if Jesus Christ is tossing in his bed)

17.“Secretary O’Neill is doing a good job. The economy is improving. I have faith in him”. (your faith lasts two weeks boy)

18.The Homeland Security Bio-Terrorism Bill is too expensive. I will veto it. An Ok is not a veto boy.
(I mean what I say” but maybe I will not this time.)

19. I do not approve of an Independent Investigation of 9-11. (“I mean what I say” but—yelling is too loud).

20.I am against international money laundering controls. (9-11—“I changed my steel mind”) They may catch daddy.

21.We will have major social security changes. Wash Post. 11-11-01—Andrew Card on Meet the Press on 11-10-02 “I am not sure we will reform it” This was a Centerpiece of his campaign..

22.-12-30-02—We will not tolerate a North Korean nuclear arsenal. (Act nice guys if you want our $$$)

23.We do not hit civilian targets(in Afghan). There is no evidence. (Red Cross building not civilian—Veterans Hospital is military—Warlord Party heading to Kabul to celebrate was armed with .22 rifles—Wedding Party was violent and firing in the air at our planes 20,000 feet above them)

24.Wash Posr-11-15-02—“If you are not happy with the administration’s policy toward Iraq at any given moment just wait a week or two. A new policy, more your liking, is bound to appear”.

A. Go it alone week
B. Let us wait for UN week
C. “regime change” is goal
D. remove wmd is goal
E. Secretary of State is nor speaking for the president
F. Attorney General is not speaking for the administration.
G. I am sick and tired of this waffling and waiting.


25.Steel Tariff—I really did not mean that much. I angered some people. Reduce it.
(When I make up my mind it stays made up)
26.Carbon Dioxide is a power plant pollutant I will control.. (Oh! It will be too costly to my energy contributors so forget it suckers—cough cough)
27.Reuters-6-26-02—‘I have confidence in the Palestinians when they understand we are saying they must make the right decisions”—“I can assure you we will not be putting money into a society which is not transparent and which is corrupt”.
(Was he referring to his administration? Sounds like it—transparent—corrupt)

28.I am against human cloning in any form. (well, not quite “any”)
29.“I knew nothing about dangers of 9-11”. Eight months later. “I knew a damn bunch (but I was too busy on Vacation and looking for more to blame on that President who stomped my dad. Darn it is tough being dumb, inarticulate and following such a brain and great success)
30.“I am in excellent physical condition.” (Darn, staying up till midnight in Paris zapped all my energy—Boy—try conditioning your mind))
31.I am on top of everything. (Why did you say twice on TV—“I am not in control the Pentagon is running the War (Afghan)—You have a White House base—same as Al Qaeda. Only more secretive)
32.I will veto bill increasing benefits for disabled military retirees (Yep!He was war hero.. 6-20-02 in Wash Post. I do not change my mind. Until 2004 Budget).
33.-6-14-02—released 23,653 of ”cherry picked” Reagan papers after refusing to do it. “When I make up my mind it stays made up” Is this BOY real ?”
34.I mean what I say—‘I will provide 100 million to help preserve the Rain Forest”
35.Budgeted funds for his dad’s Crusader cannon then demanded that Congress kill the big sucker.
36. Airline Security is very important to me. Then, why did you fight so hard to keep guns out of cockpits?
37.Barred part-time Mexican and Canadian students from U.S. schools after 9-11. Then, after howls reversed his decision. “When I make up my mind”
38.Simon (candidate for Gov. of California). “He is a breath of fresh air.”
Bush sho hated that California Smog for he avoided Simon while in his presence.
39.“I will not engage in bailing out countries.” 30 billion to Brazil just a tip?
40.NY Times-Richard Stevenson-2-14-03—“Bush eases Ban on AIDS money to pro-abortion groups abroad.. What will he tell Falwell?
41.-March 6—“We will call for a UN Security Council vote.” Geo. Bush
March 13—“There may be no vote” Colin Powell
NY TIMES-“Bush promises to adopt peace plan”. The Guardian-“Bush reversed his previous insistence that the Middle East Peace effort must wait till after Iraq SLAUGHTERAMA
42.NY TIMES--Edmund L. Andrwews-2-26-03—Less than a month after President Bush proposed a radical overhaul and expansion of individual retirement and savings account the White House has abandoned their idea. (“When I make up my mind it stays made up”) (“Promises made promises kept”) (“I say what I mean and mean what I say”)
-------------WHO IN HECK IS IN CHARGE IN THIS WAFFLE HOUSE?------------

43. ny times-patrick e. tyler-5-17-03—“In reversal, plan for Iraqi self rule by June 1 put off indefinitely. “When I make up my mind(scorched?) it stays made up”? Sho!
44.BIG WAFFLE—Washington Post-8-19-03-Dana Milbank & Bradley Graham—
“Bush revises view on combat in Iraq”.---May I on USS Desertion he said-- “Combat Operations are over”.. Now—“Actually, Major military operations continue because we still have combat operations going on”. Is this boy of scorched brain or what?



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[opihimoimoi]

37. There is a 7 step program for addicted Failures.

As a former failure I have to tell ya the program is worth its weight in Gold.

Its really hard to go thru life as a failure, just look around, they everywhere. The obvious kine are in the homeless shelters but the closet failures are the hardest to detect.

Many go on to be Peters, you know, those that get promoted to a level of incompetence

There is a new book coming out How a Failure got to the White House.

Since Bush 2, many Universities are offering courses reflecting the times: Failures 101, Cures for Failures 395, and even, educing Failurism 764

Come, we go nuts

[ElsewheresDaughter]

35. actually Bush* is an ABYSMAL FAILURE!

[swinney]

36. GREAT--124 REASONS TO FIRE BUSH AND PALS

www.radioleft.org (or com?)

[zbdent]

38. Right now, MISERABLE failure - in 04, TITANIC failure

re-installed in 05? ASTRONOMICAL FAILURE.

But of course, we won't be alive to see it.

WW3. The War to end all Life.

[dolo amber]

41. Is he a miserable failure?

Does the Pope wear a funny hat? :eyes:

[imax2268]

42. ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

yes...!

[bobthedrummer]

43. MF=miserable failure

to me * is a POS criminal traitor.

[marigold20]

45. Yeah

a failure in so many ways. But he does exercise a lot...

[rustydad]

46. Well, I mostly agree.....but???

On jobs I wonder if bush has had much do do with the flight of manufacturing jobs to overseas countries. I think this trend started before Clinton and the notion of "free trade". We went shoping for cheap goods in foriegn countries mainly because that is where the cheap labor is. As long as we want a life style based on abundance of everything and want it as cheap as posible then we can only blame ourselves for much of the job loss. Kuchinch is the only one who seems to articulate this issue.

Our inability to compete with India, China, Indonesia and other countries that have wages one tenth or less than ours, have skilled workers, have little or no workplace regulations or environmental restrictions, means that the hemoraging of jobs away will likely continue regardless of anything bush does or doesn't do. The truth is "free trade" is destroying the working class here. It benifits only the multi-national corporations in the near term and agribusiness and the arms industry (our only significant exports).

The truth is there is no free lunch. Bob

[leftofthedial]

47. one quibble

"They said he was a "uniter, not a divider." We know that to be a bald-faced lie. "

I beg to differ. He has united the EU against the US.

He has united the secular and religious Islamic world against the US.

Now if he would just unite the Greens and the Democrats against him. :shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

48. George W. Bush is NOT Herbert Hoover

While Hoover's conservatism prevented him from recognizing the severity of the Great Depression and acting forcefully to create jobs and pump the economy, as President Roosevelt did, Hoover was a great humanitarian and a truly compassionate man that would serve this country best outside the White House.

Bush is a selfish, spoiled rich kid, with not feelings or empathy towards anyone outside of himself.

[Cat Atomic]

49. Bush has been one of the most successful presidents ever.

It just depends on how you define "we".

If you're like most Americans, when you say "we", you're referring to all your fellow Americans.

But if you're a Bush donor, you very likely define "we" as either:

1) the very wealthy
2) corporatists
3) war profiteers

I would include Christian Fundamentalists, but they're just as unemployed as anyone else. They just don't realize they're being fucked much more than they're being kissed. Yet.