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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 03:38 PM
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Need help with newsletter - please add to Bush's 'achievement' list
misdemeanors and incompetance:

1. Civil War in Iraq
2. Ports being turned over to UAR and even Repubs in revolt over it
3. Deficits from here to infinity
4. North Korea with Nuclear weapons
5. Iran thumbing its nose at the world and reconstituting uranium
6. Hamas in control in Palestine
7. Eavesdropping on Americans
8. An executive branch running wild in the USA
9. Our military stretched thin beyond belief
10. Over 2200 Americans dead and thousands wounded
11. Contempt for the USA around the world
12. Katrina still not addressed
13. Only 4% of the cargo entering our ports being inspected
14. Gas at $2.35 plus a gallon
15. Public Education in a mess
16. Trade deficits at the highest level ever
17. The illegal immigration/border problem out of control
18. Families split/ not speaking to each other over partisanship in the USA.
19. Indictments at the top of the government.
20. Secret deals on energy and much else.
21. Tax cuts for the top 2% of the wealthiest Americans while , as the industrial economy changes to a service economy, the middle class standard of living drops.
22. A NEGATIVE rate of savings in the USA for the first time since 1933.
23. College tuition up 34% in the last 4 years.
24. A disastrous prescription drug plan as a result of a sellout to the drug companies.
25. Osama Bin Laden still not captured.

....please add.....

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 03:52 PM
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1. First, sit down, then look at this, posted by DUer Swede and
bookmarked.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=565344


Now here is a comprehensive list of Bush's failures.

It's in the comments section from this site.

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/03/bush-v-clin...

~Tillman cover-up
~Schiavo
~How many people affected in Hurricane Katrina
~Lack of the use of swift boats in the Katrina Rescue effort
~No air drops to Superdome
~Orders to shoot people over a loaf of bread that was taken from a store
~Explosion heard 2 days after the storm passed and THEN the levees gave way
~GOP holding votes open
~Last throes comment
~Stuff happens comment
~Mission accomplished (100 dead at the time)
~Medicare reform Bill
~Class-Action Reform Bill
~Medicare not allowed to broker prices for prescription drugs
~Drownie
~Condi shoe shopping
~We don't torture, we send detainees to other countries to not be tortured
~Democrats are muzzled on all legislation
~Lobbying is well out of control
~Abramoff
~DeLay
~Diebold
~Ohio elections
~Katherine Harris
~Journalists targeted in Iraq
~Oil not paying for the war
~Not being treated as liberators
~Patrick McHenry claiming we hate America (Schiavo case)
~Ethics committee gutted
~FDA will approve anything (except emergency birth control)
~Attack on Social Security
~President flipping off the camera
~No child left behind is not paid for
~Refusing aid after Katrina
~Red Cross not allowed to assist after Katrina
~Fema is way too bloated and does nothing that the DHS can't do
~Cutting aid to NYPD and FDNY that are affected form the cleanup effort when they were told that the air was safe to breathe
~Tax cuts to those that don't trickle it down
~3 Trillion Dollars more in debt
~No help in NOLA until Bush arrived (then it stopped again when he left)
~Abu Ghraib
~Gitmo
~Italian reporter shot up
~Bolton recess appointment
~No legislation passed that big money hasn't backed
~Documented reports of Bush's Grandfather (Prescott Bush) bankrolling Adolf Hitler
~Buying the Iraqi press
~Wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera
~No water or electricity in Iraq
~Cindy Sheehan shunted
~Harriet Miers
~Jessica Lynch
~Soldiers serving well after their agreed enlistment time
~President won't hold press conferences
~President only speaks to cherry-picked audiences
~Plame Outing
~Scooter Libby
~Spy in Cheney's office
~Jean Schmidt
~Wage stagnation
~Halliburton in New Orleans and Iraq
~Outsourcing of jobs
~Money printed in Iraq
~NO WMD
~Yellow Cake
~Rove
~No victory gauge
~No armor for soldiers either Iraqi or American
~Outsourcing the building of Marine 1 Helicopters
~Fighter jets sold to Pakistan by W...on a Saturday
~No accuracy in unemployment rate reporting
~SEC has become a joke
~Hedge funds aren't regulated
~No war strategy
~Downing Street Memos
~Borrowing from the communists
~$330,000 a month to Chalabi
~Bush housing Saudis
~Where's UBL
~Flew UBL's family out of the country after he bombed us
~No border security
~Gas prices
~Home heating prices higher than ever in history
~IRS auditing churches
~Price of war way underestimated
~Bayoil
~Closed session of Senate accomplished nothing the GOP said it would
~Pre-war intel was/is fixed
~Alabama voted for Jeff Sessions (how can that be?)
~Environmental laws absolutely gutted
~Middle class forgotten all-together
~Redistricting to rig elections
~Patriot Act
~Civil rights eroded/gutted
~Treatment of Michael Schiavo
~GOP votes against EVERY inquiry of wrong-doing
~9/11 commission ignored completely
~Programs for the neediest gutted
~Education budged harshly slashed
~Terror alerts subsided after Keith Olbermann finally exposes the coincidences
~Every document is classified
~Most secretive president ever
~Curveball
~Interstates inadequate for mass evacuations
~What was the Noble cause
~Everyone in NOLA have life insurance(?)
~Blaming Tenet for the "slam dunk" comment and then awarding Medal of Freedom
~Elderly deaths went way up during the Social Security Savagery
~Dems can't add amendments to legislation
~Over 60% of elections won by less than 4%
~Sensenbrenner walked off with the gavel during Patriot Act hearing
~Tax cuts to ship jobs away
~Soldiers getting Purple Heart collections
~Fox News isn't biased
~Veterans benefits cut
~No exception for soldiers in the Bankruptcy Reform Bill
~Internet threatened with regulation
~Every shopping bag at Wal-Mart is made in Singapore
~Bianca
~Still ignoring NOLA
~Creating immigration laws that take affect in 5 years
~Pat Robertson and James Dobson tell their congregation how they should vote
~Jerry Falwell too
~Corruption is the norm
~No timetable for when the debt will be paid
~DOW was at 11,770 when Bush took office 5 years ago
~Dollar is losing value
~Haven't defined what is/isn't torture for all to hear
~Trade agreements are not even close to fair
~Ports left unprotected
~Definition of a terrorist is ever so vague
~GOP claims to have different degrees of Neo-Cons (but they all vote exactly the same)
~Swift-Boating John Kerry
~What is the Skull and Bones Society?
~Drownie was kept on the payroll
~Drownie was never fired
~Newt touring with Hillary
~How many soldiers in an Iraqi Batallion?
~Max Cleland was treated like a piece of shit
~Why were helicopters used to find the people, trying to escape the rising waters, pounding on their roofs from inside their attics?
~5 deferments
~Nuclear option
~Ethics committee couldn't get Cunningham 2 years after it was known that his house was sold to a defense contractor for $700,000 over its value as he lived on that contractor's yacht
~20% tax on land phone lines
~12% on cell towers
~Diesel fuel is 50 cents higher than gasoline
~Home by Christmas
~Establishing a democracy and not a Republic?
~Jeb doesn't have FEMA woes
~War profiteering
~Health care
~Armstrong Williams
~Sure quote Lieberman a lot
~Caspian Sea pipeline
~If it's a Reform Bill or Deregulation Bill the result is never better quality or more affordability
~Cheney said he was glued to the TV all week like everyone else
~Christian values never reflected in legislation
~Jeff Gannon
~Nobody accountable for anything
~Smoking in the rotunda
~Loaded SCOTUS
~MZM
~Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S
~Offshore accounts of members
~No mistakes come to mind
~Niger
~Haley Barbour told us FEMA was there on Tuesday
~No scandals given credence
~Math is spun (math don't lie)
~Government is largest in over 200 years
~Looking under a desk for WMD's
~Non-combative protestors arrested
~Soviet Gulags
~Superdome
~Opium export in Afghanistan up 2000%
~Hannity is a Pussy
~Ready for a Category 6?
~Global warming ignored
~Hans Blix
~Pakistan earthquake money
~Private prison stockholders
~George H W Bush runs Pharma
~Ambassador to the Vatican?
~Rush never busted on possession charges
~Bill Bennett
~Joe Wilson
~Indian Casino lobbying for how much?
~We aren't safer
~SCOTUS chose our President
~Carnival cruise line contract after Katrina
~Able Danger
~Ken Lay
~Harken Energy
~Rupert Murdoch
~Blatant over-charges in Iraq and NOLA
~Bird Flu vaccine for only 20 million
~Name 4 pieces of legislation passed by the Republicans that Adolf Hitler would NOT have applauded as a good start....
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:55 PM
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5. This is perfect - thank you!
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OhioBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 03:57 PM
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2. Reducing safety penalties for mine flaws
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/national/02mine.html?ex=1141966800&en=2ebb7e1c362e5eba&ei=5070&emc=eta1

I would also add Global Warming / Kyoto
Non proliferation treaty - proposed deal with India
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:14 PM
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6. Thanks for the info
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 03:58 PM
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3. Hamas was democratically elected. n/t
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Danascot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 04:02 PM
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4. Here's a start:
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:15 PM
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7. Cheers!
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