“Bush Success” DVD Contest continues! No one can name even ONE!

[Mugsy]

From bi30.info:

Last month, almost tongue-in-cheek, I decided to see if ANYONE could name JUST ONE positive policy sucess to come out of the Bush Administration in its six years, and win a free DVD paid for by me (out-of-pocket as I have no advertisers).

I posted my contest idea on “Democratic Underground“, which quickly revealed that no one else could think of a sucessful Bush policy, either.

THINK ABOUT THAT… in more than SIX YEARS, people can not name EVEN ONE success to come out of this White House! That’s astonishing.

So I’ve decided to keep the contest going. I will repost this contest announcement here on BI30 at the start of every month until the November election. First indisputable answer wins. And if no one can come up with even a reasonably arguable answer, I may just extend the contest till the end of his term (SO GREAT is my confidence that no sucessful policy is likely to emerge in that time).

This is just SAD!
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[Richardo]

1. National No-call list

That's the one I tell my GOP relatives when they challenge me to 'name just ONE thing...etc etc'.

[Mugsy]

2. Not a policy/agenda...

And I still get three calls a day despite signing the list twice.

[Richardo]

4. It's very lameness/ineffectiveness proves my point...

I admit it's 'the one thing...etc etc' and even THEY think of how many calls they're still getting.

It's the old 'exception that proves the rule' thingy.

[warrens]

3. Except they deliberately built in so many loopholes

If you have a "relationship" with the caller, for instance. There was no way they were going to put the telemarketing biz out of biz. And the penalties are nothing, and enforcement is nearly impossible. It was a good idea, though I doubt any Repuke came up with it.

As far as a real success, I would guess that since he meant to do it, pissing off the entire world has to go down on his resume.

[Mugsy]

5. Bush Mascot: "The Loophole".

I just heard Tony Blankley be challanged on the AAR to answer this very question (thanks to the caller if he used this thread as his impetus to call!), and he couldn't do it... saying "better economy... but only since he entered office, not compared to Clinton" and "taking the war on terrorism seriously", which has been a total failure, and I'd argue Clinton did more sucessfully.

[chat_noir]

6. Tom Tomorrow's list

[mwb970]

7. I always ask Bush supporters about this.

Since they think Bush is so great, I ask them to name the top three things that Bush himself has done or brought about that has clearly made America better, safer, and stronger.

A caller just asked Tony Blankley about this on the Al Franken show today. He asked, "What has Bush done that would help the average American?" The only thing Blankley named was the economy, if I remember right, and we know how much that has helped the average American. Most Bushbots don't even come up with that much, generally saying some variation on "Clinton didn't catch Osama" or "Carter was a loser" or some such.

It really is pathetic. There is not one single thing this pitiful regime has done that has made anything clearly better for America or for Americans.

[ComerPerro]

11. Then you aren't hearing from the hardcore sycophants

he has saved our economy from the certain economic collapse that Clinton left it in, he liberated the Iraqi people from an oppressive dictator, and he is winning the war on terror and has made sure we won't be attacked again.



That's three. The hardcore faithful all believe these things, as idiotic as it sounds.

[Mugsy]

14. That is why I say "irrefutable"....

...because those "successes" just don't stand up to reality.

[ComerPerro]

18. Well, by that logic, they could have the same contest about Clinton

and, anything you say to them, they can say doesn't stand up to reality.

To them, those three things I described are very real and very obvious truths. That's why they are so delusional.

And, they will immediately answer those three things.

[Ohio Joe]

8. Trick contest - I think I might win it here

These bastards have only one real policy, to advance the PNAC agenda. So far it looks like they are doing pretty well.

Do I win :D

[ClassWarrior]

9. But remember, these overwhelming failures aren't Bush**'s...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2806458&mesg_id=2806458

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

10. I don't know if you'd call it a policy success, but it's the only thing...

...this administration has done right as far as I know:

The White House Rocks Hawaii

During the Summer of 2005, while RtE (Rock the Earth) was on tour with Jack Johnson, RtE began collaborating with KAHEA, the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance, to protect the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are a network of coral reefs, islands, atolls and shoals that arches through the Pacific Ocean for 1,200 miles northwest of the Main Hawaiian Islands. These prehistoric landmasses are the oldest parts of the Hawaiian archipelago. Celebrated in stories of creation as the place where Hawai‘i began, these ancient islands are often described as the kupuna, or ancestors, of the Main Hawaiian Islands, and their survival as one of the Earth’s last remaining large-scale coral reef ecosystems is a critical issue for the Pacific region and the entire planet. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ecosystem contains over 3.5 million acres of some of the world’s oldest living coral colonies and encompasses tremendous biodiversity. More than 7,000 marine species have been recorded in the NWHI, among them, the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, endangered and threatened sea turtles, reef fish, bottom fish, sharks, corals, anemones, jellyfish, mollusks, sea grasses, algae and over 14 million sea birds.

Last month, the Bush White House announced its intent to protect these magnificent natural resources using the most protective measures available under law, by declaring the area a National Marine Monument under the federal Antiquities Act. It is a milestone in ocean and cultural rights protection, and an encouraging response to a long struggle and to consistent public support. The Monument will be jointly managed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife and NOAA, and in close consultation and coordination with the State.

Public support has culminated in a phenomenal and MONUMENTAL victory unparalleled in history!

From http://www.rocktheearth.org/newsletter/2006-07/index.html

NGU.

[Mugsy]

13. I've thought about this.

It is difficult to say whether or not this qualifies, but I do give it props.

Problem is, where they protected THIS area, they simultaneously want to drill in ANWR and pass other horrendous environmental policies,

The only thing that keeps me from labeling this a "success" is it's not a "policy" success. And if they suddenly discovered oil in that region, they'd recind it in a heartbeat. If you won and then they changed their mind, would you give the DVD back? :)

[ClassWarrior]

16. LOL - I guess I'd have to give it back, huh?

And I hear you about the sum total of the rest of their "horrendous environmental policies." I've often wondered if they had a hidden motive for doing this...

NGU.

[Mugsy]

17. I gave you Props on the blog.

Go to the bottom of my blog entry to see.

[ClassWarrior]

21. Wow, look at that! Hi Mom - I'm on a blog!!

Thanks, my friend.

B-):thumbsup:

NGU.

[ComerPerro]

12. The DVD should be Farenheit 9/11

[radfringe]

15. ummmm,,,he's on his way to being a uniter?

does it count if the country and world are uniting against him?

on another note; waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy back in 2000 when he was running I had some low expectations "if" he were to win

I expected a fairly mediocre, do nothing, full of hot air and rhetoric type administration - where we would be spinning our wheels for 4 years in hopes of getting out of a rut...

however - he's exceeded those expectations by f**king up worse than I ever expected

[Yupster]

19. How's about

Creating the 10 % income tax bracket from the 15 % bracket reduces the tax that every income taxpayer pays each year.

How's about raising the IRA and Roth IRA contribution limits from $ 2,000 to $ 4,000 or next year $ 5,000?

[Mugsy]

20. Serious?

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

The Bush Tax Cut has not benefitted the economy to any degree even close to the raging economy of the Clinton Administration (a Net negative growth in the Stock Market since his appointment), with the shortfall in tax revenue resulting in an exploding national debt with potentially CATASTROPHIC consequences that aren't being addressed.

The increase in the cap on IRA limits, in relation to the rate of inflation and devaluation of the dollar since 2001, actually makes the contribution lower or equal to what it was before it was raised... the greatest drain on this being skyrocketing healthcare costs that would deplete any savings faster now than before his entering office.

Try again.

[Yupster]

22. So you want to go back to $ 2,000

limits for the IRA's and you want to raise the 10 % bracket back to 15 % ?

It sounds like you're saying the IRA limit should have been raised a lot further. Maybe so, but at least it was raised some. Isn't that a good thing?

And cutting taxes on the lowest income taxpayers isn't a good thing? I don't get that at all. Are you saying he should have cut the 15 % bracket even more or not at all? At least he cut it from 15 to 10. Isn't that something?