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nor pro-life nor conservative He pays 'em all a lotta lip service,
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True conservative? Not a chance in hell. Let me count the ways.
No true fiscal conservative likes deficit spending. Conservatives save for a rainy day. So when we had the surplus with which we could have funded Social Security through the century and beyond (as recommended by this site back in 2000), the Bush administration instead pissed away that money with tax cuts that benefited the wealthiest Americans, gave chump change to the rest, sucked away the surplus, and helped create a gigantic debt that will outlast our great-grandchildren. The spending spree that Bush and the GOP Congress went on also heaped on more debt. To reiterate, deficit spending is the antithesis of fiscal conservatism.
Bush has sent entitlements through the roof, lied about the cost of Medicare (even allowing the firing of an official who tried to point out the truth to the Medicare boss), tossed money at just about every federal program there is, then claimed poverty and the need to fix Social Security. This is not a conservative approach to spending.
He warned Congress to trim the enormous, pork-laden highway bill by
billions. Instead, they made it even bigger, and he went right ahead and
signed it, calling is "fiscally responsible." It includes hundreds of millions
to build a bridge to an island, currently reached by ferry, where a whopping
eighty people live. Oh, and the bill also includes a half-million dollars
for a bus stop in Alaska.
Conservatives stay out of other people's business. They decry "liberal" attempts to fix people's problems. Here, we'll take you off welfare, now get a frigging job. Here, we'll eliminate quotas, now sink or swim on your own. So what's with all the nation building the USA is doing? The American people can't afford to be building gummints for Afghanistan, Iraq, and whoever else we might invade.
As noted conservative speaker and former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan writes
of Bush's stated desire to push democracy throughout the entire world,
"A
conservative knows not whether to laugh or weep, for Mr. Bush has just
asserted a right to interfere in the internal affairs of every nation on
earth." Check
it out.
Free trade is a traditional conservative policy, but Bush doesn't
believe in it. He imposed steel tariffs that later had to be repealed.
Conservatives believe in less government, not more. You do your job, and I'll do mine. And yet the Bush administration is the most intrusive in modern history. It passes unfunded mandates and enforces impossible rules (eg. No Child Left Behind, Homeland Security requirements), and exerts federal control whenever possible. Bush took away protections from federal forests, saying he was giving more control to states. But that's utter BULLSHIT. It was an excuse to allow more LOGGING, MINING, and DRILLING. That's all it is.
Bush and his Congress, just like Bush's brother Jeb, continually tried to trump the courts and interfere with a family matter, namely the Terri Schiavo disaster, and when the lawful courts didn't rule the way he wanted (and instead not only followed the law but also the opinion of the vast majority of Americans, including evangelical Christians), he and the GOP not only circmvented the law by passing a ridiculous bill, they also threatened the judiciary with retribution.
December 2005, it's discovered that Bush approved dozens of illegal
wiretaps, for the sake of "security." Even though there's a special lady
judge all set aside for secret court orders, and she'd never refused a
request for wiretaps, they didn't bother with her. No court orders, no
checks and balances, just intrusions on basic civil rights.
Social engineering is a big conservative no-no. On the face of
it, trying to ban gay marriage is a conservative thing, but really, it's
only a religious conservative thing. Messing with the Constitution,
especially after all of Bush's bluster about being a "strict Constitutional
constructionist" (not that he knows what that means), is completely anti-conservative.
Conservatives leave the Constitution alone. But under Bush, there
have been more proposed amendments than ever. DON'T recommend changing
the Constitution to ban gay marriage! DON'T try to amend the Constitution
to ban flag-burning, because that is an affront to free speech, AND it's
simply one of those issues that comes up every election year. DON'T change
the Constitution to suit your pandering social agenda.
Conservatives believe in law enforcement. But when it suits the Bush administration, law enforcement simply falls down. Environmental laws, gun laws, IMMIGRATION law. Law enforcement officers OVERWHELMINGLY favor reasonable gun controls that don't interfere with the right to hunt or defend oneself. But Bush and his cronies suck up to the NRA and its money.
The reason Bush has such an immigration problem in his second term is
because his administration hasn't bothered enforcing the laws ALREADY ON
THE BOOKS.
For a conservative view of Bush the anti-conservative, check out http://www.republicansforhumility.com/conservative.html.
BUSH IS NOT EVANGELICAL, HE
IS NOT BORN-AGAIN.
HE'S JUST PHONY BALONEY.
He's sorta Methodist, and that's about it. He uses all the buzzwords,
but he doesn't mean a word of it. It's all based on politics. If it helps
him, he'll say it. And once it stops helping him, he stops saying it. Other
than appointing more conservative judges, he's delivered absolutely ZERO
to the religious right. His own Supreme Court, in October 2006, rejected
an appeal of a right-to-abortion law.
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Bush's phony Christian crap
October 2006: David Kuo, former special assistant to Bush and former second-in-command of Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has gone public with the revelations (although none of it is a surprise) that the whole faith initiative thing has never been anything but a device to score brownie points with evangelicals and suck up their votes. The office was supposedly created to help Christian charities feed the poor, but it never got presidential support. It was used specifically to rally religious voters, who have supported Bush consistently, and just as consistently have gotten NOTHING from Bush in return. Christian leaders were given face time and treated well in person, but in private were described by White House staffers as ridiculous, out of control, and goofy. As it turns out, faith-based social programs actually received tens
of millions LESS from the feds AFTER Bush took office.
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Doug Wead, an evangelical speaker and Bush family friend, said to Frontline, “There’s no question that [George W. Bush’s] faith is real, that it’s authentic … and there is no question that it’s calculated. I know that sounds like a contradiction.”
Wead told GQ magazine, “George would read my memos, and he would be
licking his lips saying, I can use this to win in Texas."
| Early on, Bush's faith-based initiative was a joke. The guy in charge of it, John Dilulio, resigned shortly into Bush's first term, saying it was being run by politically-minded people. In other words, it was a front for getting re-elected, and the talk of it in advance of the 2000 election was just more campaigning. |
Bush flew in from vacation, which he's ALWAYS on (no president has spent
more time on vacation than Bush), to work on the Terri
Schiavo mess. He said that the gummint just had to save that poor
braindead woman. But when it looked like it backfired politically, he said
no more about it. He practically ran away from it, in fact (just like Tom
DeLay did). So it sounded good, for a day, that he was going to defend
"the culture of life," but it was all hollow words.
| John McCain introduced an amendment to a spending bill in summer 2005. He wants to make the army field guide strictly state, as a new standard, that the US military will not use torture abroad. Bush, who hasn't vetoed a damn thing in his whole presidency, actually threatened to veto THIS measure. Wouldn't that have been just dandy, to have the president of the United States use his very first veto on a measure calling for upholding human rights? What kind of message does that send to the rest of the world? |
Jesus Christ was all about the poor. The Bush administration
is all about the rich. Tax breaks for
the rich. Subsidies for already-wealthy corporations, including the obscenely
profitable oil companies.The bankruptcy laws they passed favor the rich,
and directly penalize the poor and middle class. EVERYTHING Bush does benefits
those with money. His Congress wants to cut food stamps, student loans,
Medicare, and education, while passing additional tax cuts for the rich
that will more than wipe out the savings they get from the cuts. This
is NOT a Christian approach to ANYTHING. December 2005, a large group
of evangelical protesters were arrested in D.C. for protesting the GOP
Congress passing another $95 billion in tax cuts for the rich, while at
the same time CUTTING FOOD STAMPS AND OTHER BENEFITS FOR THE POOR. It
gets worse ..... in the pre-Xmas session, Congress also whacked child
care for the working poor, at tahe same time upping the work standards
necessary for assistance. Meaning, work harder, document more, but at the
same time we're making it more difficult for you to care for your kids,
which makes it HARDER to work. Co-payments for Medicaid just got harder
(at the same time Medicaid subsidies for health companies got bigger).
Unbelievable !!!!!!!
PRO-LIFE? HA!
BUSH LOVES TO KILL PEOPLE
He rescinded executive orders signed by Ford, Carter, and Reagan that disallowed the killing of foreign leaders. He was so fired up to kill Saddam Hussein that we sent a missile to blast him in a Baghdad restaurant. Unfortunately, instead of Hussein, we killed a restaurant full of innocent people.
Bush set a record as Texas governor, presiding over 152 executions,
40 in 2000 alone. A member of the team that secures the prisoners for execution
was so busy in 2000, he quit his job in disgust.
Bush even signed the order in 1998 to knock off born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderess who ended up running a prison ministry. Bush even mocked Tucker when she appealed for clemency. While speaking with Talk magazine, Bush did what he thought was an imitation of Tucker, scrunching up his face and saying in a squeaky voice, "Please don't kill me."
Even Gary Bauer, who once ran for president as a Republican (and who's an evangelical Christian), said, "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death."
Bush rejected appeals for Tucker's life from the pope, as well as
from the World Council of Churches, an organization representing over 350
Protestant and Orthodox Churches, including his own Methodist Church and
his parents' Episcopal Church.
As governor, Bush had no problem ignoring misconduct by prosecutors and DNA evidence, either. He knocked off mentally handicapped, minorities, and those who were likely innocent.
Bush stuck his nose into the Terri
Schiavo mess, when he and Tom DeLay thought it was politically savvy.
When it completely backfired on them, they both ran away from it.
First, check out these quotes from
Bush and his cronies about the sanctity of life.....
"During the course of the campaign in 1994 I was asked, 'Do you support the death penalty?' I said I did, if administered fairly and justly. Because I believe it saves lives." George Bush, Oct. 17, 2000
"Because the president's opinion is the death penalty ultimately saves lives." Ari Fleischer May 7, 2001
"The president supports the death penalty for those people who commit violent, heinous crimes, because he believes that it saves lives." Ari Fleischer, June 20, 2002
"The president does believe that the death penalty does serve as a deterrent to crime. He believes that for violent and heinous crimes, that the death penalty ultimately saves lives." Ari Fleischer, Jan. 13, 2003
"The reason he supports the death penalty is because it helps—he believes that it helps save lives, and he's stated that view clearly and consistently over a number of years." Scott McClellan March 20, 2005
"I happen to believe that the death penalty, when properly
applied, saves lives of others. And so I'm comfortable with my beliefs
that there's no contradiction between the two." George Bush, April 14,
2005
Okay, so Bush says it's okay to end a life to save a life. So what about this next stuff?
"We do not end some lives for the medical benefit of others." George W. Bush, New York Times, Aug. 12, 2001
"..... cloning would contradict the most fundamental principle of medical ethics, that no human life should be exploited or extinguished for the benefit of another." George Bush, April 10, 2002
"In this session, the U.N. will consider a resolution
sponsored by Costa Rica calling for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
I support that resolution and urge all governments to affirm a basic ethical
principle: No human life should ever be produced or destroyed for the
benefit of another." George Bush, Sept. 21, 2004
"The President is committed to medical research that does
not violate the dignity of human life or exploit one human life for
the benefit of another." State of the Union fact sheet, issued by
the White House, Feb. 2, 2005
"The use of federal money, taxpayers' money to promote science which destroys life in order to save life is—I'm against that. And therefore, if the bill does that, I will veto it." George Bush, May 20, 2005
For more Bush flip-flops, check this out.
Bush has given his base NOTHING
Despite all their support, the religious right has come up empty with the Bush administration.
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Faith-based initiatives. The first guy to run this for Bush quit,
saying that the faith-based stuff was all for show, for votes. A couple
of years later, another guy did the same thing, only this time he wrote
a book about it. Rove and the group even referred to their religious supporters
as idiots and nutcases.
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Abortion. No meaningful legislation. Just a couple of judges. No
movement on Roe v. Wade.
- Gay marriage. This dum-dum keeps talking about a Constitutional amendment. But he'll never get the votes to actually touch that sacred document. Even when he had a Congressional majority, it wasn't going to happen. And of course, then there's MARY CHENEY. Dick's daughter, who represented Coors beer (which is SHIT, by the way) to the gay community, and who ran Dick's campaign, is a lesbian in a long-standing relationship. Having done the turkey baster bit, Mary's going to have a baby. Dick says he's looking forward to another grandkid. Bush himself said Mary will make a fine mother and will love her child very much. I'm sure this is correct. But it's another capitulation. He talks ultra-conservative values, but he's go no balls.
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