The Master Thread of Bush Failures. Put your favorite on the Subject line.

[TruthIsAll]

Let's see if we can create the basis for a full-frontal Kerry assault on the Miserable Failure, as Gephart referred to Bush, or the Worst President we have ever had, as the great reporter Helen Thomas called him.

Can we list at least 50 talking point Bush failures? Let's show John Kerry how he can define Bush. Fifty ways to expose a con man.

FIfty Bush failures. That shouldn't be too difficult.

[TruthIsAll]

1. Failure to take action on the warnings he received prior to 9/11.

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

25. Letting Corporate Polluters run roughshod

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

28. Passing the Patriot Act to dismantle our basic rights

TIA

[Oddman]

80. Ignoring Afghanistan and invading Iraq

[Kazak]

2. WMD

[Eric J in MN]

3. Failure to maintain the budget surplus. (nt)

nt

[hang a left]

4. "Mission Accomplished" "Bring it on"

[BlackVelvetElvis]

5. Uniter, not a divider

not at all.

[orwell]

6. Not a nation builder n/t

[Route66Kid]

7. Eliminating budget surplus. Creating largest budget deficit in history.

R66K.

[leftofthedial]

8. failure to get Osama "dead or alive"

[Greylady]

9. I'm a War President

yes, you are.

[Ohio Dem]

10. He lied about the Yucca Mountain waste site. (links)

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/2000/...

and then . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/15/bush.nuclear....

[SlavesandBulldozers]

11. Alienating all of our Allies

[orwell]

12. Will negotiate lower gas prices with the Saudis

[Greylady]

13. TerrorSaddam9/11

All one word.

[hang a left]

14. Medicare-gate

[hang a left]

15. Appointing Kissinger to head 9-11 Investigation

[Route66Kid]

16. Pushing faith-based initiative based on fear and superstition.......

....very anti-intellectual.

[knight_of_the_star]

17. Taking the largest surpl;us of worldwide goodwil and turning it to hate

[bigtree]

18. The Bush administration's nuclear program- A shell game

President Bush recently signed into law a Defense bill for 2004 which includes $9 billion in funding for research on the next generation of nuclear weaponry.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/2003112...

"It's an important signal we're sending," President Bush remarked at the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Me Book

[hang a left]

19. Cannot safely eat pretzels or carry dogs

[TruthIsAll]

20. Sitting in Booker School reading about goats while the Towers burned.

TIA

[Route66Kid]

21. No coherent exit strategy from Iraq in process.

R66K.

[TruthIsAll]

22. Warning Daschle to limit the 9/11 investigation

TIA

[Greylady]

23. Medicare Prescription Card Boondoggle

I looked up my mother's meds. With the new Medicare card ~ $900-1,000. No card and buying from Costco or Drugstore.com ~ $400-500. Oh, and don't forget, she would also have to pay $30.00 for the card!

[TruthIsAll]

24. Awarding no-bid contracts to cronies at Carlyle and Halliburton

TIA

[Arugula Latte]

26. Slashing environmental protection in favor of polluting cronies

[sablescort]

27. Did not LISTEN to Poppa Bush's warnings about the Iraq Mess

[Egalitarian]

66. Let's push issue this and see what happens

[Greylady]

29. Says he was thinking *That's a really bad pilot*

while thousands of Americans are dying at the WTC.

[Greylady]

30. Never heard of Ken Lay

[TruthIsAll]

31. Pulling out of the Kyoto Accords

TIA

[pacifictiger]

32. cannot string a coherent diplomatic sentence together.

[nosmokes]

33. the environment - what would you like?

mercury

kyoto treaty

endangered species act

mining interests

timber interests

counting hatchery fish the same as wild fish

forcing the parks to sell creationist literature

clean water standards

clean air standards


so, would you like a link or two each subject or what?

[TruthIsAll]

34. Bugging U.N. Security Council private communications before invading Iraq

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

35. Pushing HAVA through Congress to let Diebold & ESS steal elections

TIA

[Change has come]

36. Squandered historic bipartisanship after 9-11

He had the opportunity for real change in "politics as usual" and totally pissed it down the toilet.

[Change has come]

42. Didn't think the crimes in the Iraqi prison was abhorant....

Until the pictures were shown across the world.

[hang a left]

37. Blanket Immunity for Oil Companies in Iraq

[TruthIsAll]

38. Letting his WH staff out Valerie Plame as retribution to Joe Wilson

TIA

[Proud_Lefty]

39. Quickly eliminating the middle class

[Greylady]

54. Tax cuts for the wealthy

[TruthIsAll]

40. Severley limiting Stem-cell Research to appease the RW Fundamentalists

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

41. Refusing to testify alone, under oath before the 9/11 Commission

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

43. Failing to release his complete National Guard records

TIA

[hang a left]

44. 9-11 EPA/Air quality coverup

[TruthIsAll]

45. Failing to adhere to the Geneva Convention in the treatment of prisoners.

TIA

[tainted_chimp]

46. Calling 10 millon anti-war protesters 'Focus group'

[TruthIsAll]

47. Cutting Veterans benefits

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

48. Lying to the American people, Congress and the U.N. to go to War

TIA

[bluedeminredstate]

49. Failure to fire Condi for incompetence

and her persistent failures to be aware of what it is her job to be aware of. How many times does she get to say "I didn't see that memo/report" before he fires her ass?

[TruthIsAll]

50. Cutting overtime benefits for workers

TIA

[hang a left]

51. Middle East Road Map For Peace

[KharmaTrain]

52. No Child Left Behind...Now No Child Moving Forward!

[opihimoimoi]

56. Saying he would address Global Warming during the campaign,

he flipped flopped after he got in the Oval Office. Rejected the Kyoto Accord(already mentioned, and as a result, is the ONLY American President to get publicly Mass MOONED by 500 people. (in Stockholm 2001)

[KharmaTrain]

58. The Only Hot Air Came Out Of His Pie Hole

Opi, I remember one of those debates where the topic of Kyoto and Global warming came up and the guy played both sides of the fence...finally admitting that there is such a thing and then going on about the how the Kyoto accords were unfair to American business. I knew exactly which way the slime was oozing, I just didn't think it'd go as far as it has.

[KharmaTrain]

59. Promised Military "Help Is On The Way"...then

waged two wars, cut benefits, forced reservists into longer stays and the first into the shit of Iraq and have divided the military along partisan lines. Claims he's a "war president"...yet where was George during the Summer of '72? Anyone checking that half-way house in Houston for VC????

[opihimoimoi]

62. Failed the FIREFIGHTERS and POLICE across this Nation by cutting

Promised support. Reneged on a Promise. He FLIPPED US Man, "Fuck you" in our faces(I retired Fire Capt).

The Flim Flam President, How in the world we let this turd represent America and its Citizens??? Jeeeeeeez, Have we got NO SHAME?????

[KharmaTrain]

63. Raising Defecit & Cutting Domestic Spending = Tax Hike On Middle Class

Don't ask me to explain, it's all Fuzzy Math.

[TruthIsAll]

53. Classifying Hamburger-making as a manufacturing job.

TIA

[Octafish]

55. Failed as an Officer of the United States by going AWOL.

The Little Turd from Crawford got grounded, along with bin Laden's US business agent, JAMES R BATH:



There must be a BILLION MORE BUSH FAILURES, TruthIsAll. Thanks for getting the list going!

[opihimoimoi]

57. Failure to support Speech Instructors with inspirational speeches

which are coherent and noteworthy. Instead, he provides an example of what not to be.

[opihimoimoi]

60. Failed to prove a C minus Grade point average from Yale can "cut it"

in the White House. The Plain Spoken thing can go only so far. The "Aw Shucks" thing is for the MOVIES not in real life.

[Cleita]

61. Can't we go beyond failures and do criminal acts?

Just off the top of my head, there is the Florida sting catching him and Jeb for dealing cocaine. I mean this isn't just possession, it's dealing. Going AWOL is a criminal act for most people. Inside trading on the Harken deal? Isn't this what Martha Stewart is up for? And this is before he ran for President.

[WLKjr]

64. "You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.

"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.
Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?"

[WLKjr]

65. and this one too!

"You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this."

A drunken George W., approaching Al Hunt (Wall Street Journal editor)in a diner in 1988.

[wtmusic]

67. Falling off his goddamn Segway

n/t

[Egalitarian]

68. Failure to "represent" the desire of the "majority"

[Spirochete]

69. Traded Sammy Sosa to the White Sox

[atre]

70. The English Language!

nm

[hasbro]

71. Saying the Philippines could be a model of nation building

At a summit of Asian leaders no less.

[TruthIsAll]

72. Taunting the Democrats (Kerry, Daschle) on National Security

TIA

[philosophie_en_rose]

73. Personally profiting from warmongering and lies.

Halliburton, Carlysle, etc. etc.

[Failure]

74. George Walker Bush was born to Babs and Poppy Bush in Houston...

[philosophie_en_rose]

75. Surrounded by Idiots.

One of the strongest reasons to vote for John Kerry is that it's a vote against all of the idiots in the Bush administration. The Bushies are trying to pass the blame for any scandals that they can't censor out. However, we can solve the problem by removing all of them.

No more Cheney.
Goodbye Condi.
Go to hell Ashcroft.
F you Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Powell.


It's probably premature to build a team of cabinet members, but promoting the people in our party that could replace the Republicans is key. For instance, billionaire for bush-type libertarians might like tax cuts, but will they vote for Ashcroft? Paleocons might hate touchy feely liberal tree hugging, but just maybe they'd vote against the PNACers.

[Bandit]

76. "I Trust the People"

Has the most Secretive Administration in history.

[TruthIsAll]

77. Bush used EPA funds to make campaign ads

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

78. Bush proposed loosening protections of endangered species

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

81. Bush told Congress: don't offer poor a Medicare prescription drug benefit

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

82. Bush allowing sale of PCB-polluted lands.

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

83. Bush chooses not to regulate auto emissions

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

84. Bush blocked plan to upgrade nation's power grid

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

86. Bush cut pay for soldiers in Iraq

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

87. Bush pushe plan to let timber companies to plunder national forests

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

88. Bush gave oil companies in Iraq blanket immunity from lawsuits

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

89. Bush proposed cuts to Medicare funding for cancer drugs.

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

90. Bush promotes a federal ban on gay marriage

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

91. Bush shut down nuclear weapons advisory panel

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

92. Bush proposed weakening Head Start

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

93. Bush tried to remove Yellowstone from UN World Heritage Site list

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

94. Bush suppressed EPA report on global warming

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

95. Bush buried a report warning of disastrously enormous deficits

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

96. Bush failed to protect Iraqi nuclear site from looting

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

101. Bush undermined international treaty on tobacco.

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

103. Bush broke his promise to call for a 2nd UN resolution on Iraq

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

105. Bush discontinued budget report to states

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

107. Bush opened Alaska forest to logging

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

108. Bush lied about homeland security funding and blamed his allies in Congres

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

110. Bush proposed canceling tests for a missile defense system

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[TruthIsAll]

111. Bush lied about economist support for his tax plan.

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

112. Bush cut education for military dependents

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

113. Bush proposed privatizing National Park Service jobs

TIA

[TruthIsAll]

115. Bush proposed a tax break for the biggest SUVs

TIA

[Sparkly]

79. Global gag rule & unfunded education mandates

[Solly Mack]

85. Surviving birth

and every single day afterward.....

[greenbriar]

97. "GUESS I HIT THE TRIFECTA"

[ima_sinnic]

98. Masking 28 pages of the WH report on 9/11

--thus covering up Saudi involvement

[ima_sinnic]

99. kissing Prince Bandar's butt

[ima_sinnic]

102. withdrawing US military bases from Saudi Arabia

--thus "appeasing" al Qaeda

[alcuno]

100. Sending troops to languish off the coast of Turkey before Turkey agreed

Turkey did not agree so they had to turn around and go to Kuwait. Then starting the war without them.

Sending troops into a war zone with tin cans for transportation and not enough Kevlar vests.

[Ilsa]

104. Misleading U.S. during campaign on his anti-choice agenda n/t

[ima_sinnic]

106. promising aid to Africa for AIDS--& then quietly withdrawing it

[ima_sinnic]

109. blatantly lying in his State of the Union address

[ima_sinnic]

114. sending J. Baker, Bush Family Janitor, to "restructure" debts of Iraq

[ima_sinnic]

116. quietly flying bin Laden relatives out of country right after 9/11

--while everyone else was grounded

[oldlady]

117. Kidnap and remove from power a president who actually WON an election

Aristide -- Haiti

[Octafish]

118. Outing Valerie Plame as a CIA NOC in retribution...

... and thereby endangering her network of agents and contacts -- all of whom were engaged in stopping the spread of WMDs, specifically nukes from the old Soviet states. The reason for this treason? Plame's hubby, Ambassador Joe Wilson, had the temerity to point out that Saddam did NOT buy "uranium... from Africa" like Bush lied in his SOTU speech.

[LynzM]

119. Alienating all of our allies, Damaging almost all int'l relations

And I have to say, this would make a damn good ad. Just let them scroll down the screen, and have a voice read them in a fairly somber tone. And at the end?

50 reasons to send him home.

[opihimoimoi]

120. Failure to GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

Played the Anger Card, not the Smart Card, went ALL IN at the World Political Poker game and Lost big time.

[ima_sinnic]

121. kick

we have far exceeded 50 points of failure. bookmark this thread for handy future reference.

[TruthIsAll]

122. Up to 120 Bush failures ...heading for 200.

Let's take a deep breath now.

TIA

[TNMOM]

123. He's dumb.