1. Cut the Veteran’s Administration budget by
$25 billion as he began his war in Iraq.
2. Reneged on a promise to increase funding for
education and failed to fund the so-called “No Child Left Behind” Act.
3. Promised $15 billion in AIDS funding for Africa
in 2003 State of the Union Address then – oops – left it out of the budget
submitted a few weeks later.
4. In May 2001, Bush gave $43 Million to the
Taliban.
5. Repealed the Alternative Minimum Tax for corporations,
which was enacted in 1987, and REFUNDED all taxes paid,
by corporations under the AMT since
its inception.
6. Won’t reveal who participated in Cheney’s
energy policy meetings. [Enron, Enron and Enron???]
7. Opposed affirmative action at Michigan State
in the Supreme Court case.
8. Charles Pickering, Pricilla Owens, Miguel
Estrada. Packing the courts with extremists.
9. Appointed Elliott Abrams, who was convicted
during Reagan administration in Iran-Contra, to the National Security Council.
10. Sealed documents from the Reagan and Bush
administrations that would have revealed illegal dealings in Iran-Contra.
11. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39
million.
12. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to
get advanced pediatric training.
13. Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable
energy sources.
14. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable
levels of arsenic in drinking water.
15. Blocked rules that would require federal
agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons.
This, from a candidate
who would readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be
Hispanic voters.
16. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections
for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San Francisco
Chronicle, April 6, 2001).
17. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner,
more efficient cars and trucks.
18. Suspended rules that would have strengthened
the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace
safety,
environmental
and other federal laws.
19. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton
to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening
up national monuments
for oil and gas drilling,
coal mining, and foresting.
20. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted
high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador.
21. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100
million for rain forest conservation.
22. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program
for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without
insurance.
23. Rescinded a proposal to increase public access
to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical
plant accidents.
24. Suspended rules that would require hard rock
miners to clean up sites on Western public lands.
25. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs
of America program for public housing.
26. Proposed to eliminate a federal program,
designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare
for natural disasters.
27. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global
warming agreement.
28. Cut $200 million of work force training for
dislocated workers.
29. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve
Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their
property.
30. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income
families as they move from welfare to work.
31. Cut a program that provided prescription
contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra).
32. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs
in public housing.
33. Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high-level
Iran Contra figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs.
34. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget
by $500 million.
35. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups
to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.
36. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased
energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat
pumps.
37. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed
to improve worker health and safety.
38. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon
dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming.
39. Banned federal aid to international family
planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent
funds.
40. Closed White House Office for Women's Health
Initiatives and Outreach.
41. Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company
executive - to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and
Health.
42. OK'd Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go
forth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts
off the coast of eastern Florida.
43. Announced intention to open up Montana's
Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling.
44. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's
monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside"
of national monuments.
45. Gutted White House AIDS Office.
46. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan
to eliminate worker’s rights and safeguards for the environment.
47. Will no longer seek guidance from The American
Bar Association in recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.
48. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as
Undersecretary of the Interior.
49. Took steps to abolish the White House Council
on Environmental Quality.
50. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services
program.
51. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to
shelve citizen-led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho
and Montana wilderness.
52. Continues to hold up federal funding for
stem cell research projects.
53. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users
cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can.
54. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag
heap in Utah.
55. Refused to fund continued litigation of the
government's tobacco company lawsuit.
56. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which
43% will go to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
57. Signed a bill making it harder for poor and
middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting
medical bills.
58. Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying
"If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought
to build
nuclear power
plants." (Vice President %@!#$& Cheney on "Meet the Press.")
59. Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in
pay" Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. (Boston Globe, March 28,
2001.)
60. Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of
affirmative action - to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
61. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to
investigate cases of child abuse and neglect.
62. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher
for teenagers to get credit cards.
63. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental"
program that gives free books to poor children.
64. Is pushing for development of small nuclear
arm to attack deeply buried targets and weapons, which would violate the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
65. Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney
responsible for the recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities
Act - to federal appeals court judgeship.
66. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting
60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
67. Eliminated funding for the "We the People"
education program, which taught School children about the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights and citizenship.
68. Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation
treaties and the U.N. - to Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security.
69. Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with
Monsanto - for the number-two job at the Environmental Protection Agency.
70. Nominated Michael McConnell - leading critic
of the separation of church and state - to a federal judgeship.
71. Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent
of civil rights - to a federal judgeship.
72. Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to
develop prototype high mileage cars.
73. Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen
sex video distributor - to head SEC.
74. Nominated John Walters - strong opponent
of prison drug treatment programs - for Drug Czar. (Washington Post, May
16, 2001.)
75. Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal
lobbyist - for Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
76. Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing
the Endangered Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
77. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action
lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Japan by Asian women forced to work as
sex slaves during WWII.
78. Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant
money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only to religious
groups and not secular equivalents.
79. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance
Program for low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.
80. Nominated Ted Olson - who has repeatedly
lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to
bring down Bill Clinton - for Solicitor General.
81. Proposes to ease permit process - including
environmental considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric
dam construction. (W Post, May 18, 2001.)
82. Proposes to give government the authority
to take private property through eminent domain for power lines.
83. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for
alternative renewable energy come from selling oil and gas lease tracts
in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.
84. Appoints Army Secretary Thomas White who
is being investigated for selling Enron stock just before Enron posted
losses. White was a
former Enron executive
who is alleged to have dumped his stock after being contacted by an Enron
official.
85. Took 3 months of vacation of first 9 months
in office as president.
86. Had absolutely no concern about terrorism
before 9-11.
87. Many of his big campaign supporters are crooks
who doctored their books in order to screw investors.
88. Wants to fulfill a personal vendetta against
Hussein causing a huge and costly war with destabilization of the Middle
East and Russia
and China siding
with the Arabs.
89. Wants to kill minimum wage and its enforcement
so that people work at slave wages for his corporate supporters.
90. Wants to take away benefits from the elderly
and children in order to compensate for giant tax cuts for super rich.
91. Gave the Taliban 38 million in may, 2001
so that they would allow pipelines for his buddies at Enron.
92. Wants to create the most polluted country
on earth by eliminating anti-pollution laws so that his super rich factory
owner supporters can get richer.
93. Exploiting 911 families to justify NMD/SDI.
Nuclear deterrence is still working against China, Pakistan's Islamic dictatorship,
and all 7 Rogue states.
It worked in Gulf
War 1 against Saddam; has worked since 1991 and will continue to work indefinitely
just like N. Korea since 1953.
94. Pushed for USA Patriot Act.
95. Creation of Deptartment of Homeland Security.
During Hitler's reign, Germany was protected by the HSA, the Reichshauptsicherheitamt,
which roughly translates
into "Main Office of Homeland Security."
96. Exploited 911 families' pain & suffering
in order to justify naked aggression against Saddam's conventional and
pathetic military forces even
though they're still
contained within Iraq. Gulf War2 = Pearl Harbor2 = Schlieffen Plan2 = Barbarossa2.
97. Bush tried to appoint Henry Kissinger as
head of the September 11 commission.
98. Used Homeland Security Act to protect Eli
Lilly from autism suits.
99. Gave $95 million to North Korea for nuclear
program and waived the part of the agreement that required inspections
to ensure no weapons grade
plutonium had been hidden
away.
100. Abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)
Treaty while squandering billions in chasing the chimera of national missile
defense.
101. Undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty while expressing support for
testing new nuclear
weapons
and refusing to rule out a nuclear first strike against non-nuclear nations.
102. Derailed negotiations to improve international
inspection systems to monitor and prevent the production of biological
and chemical weapons.
103. Repudiated an international scientific consensus
and withdrawn from global efforts to curb global warming.
104. Renounced the U.S. signature on the treaty
to create an International Criminal Court and campaigned aggressively to
exempt all U.S.
personnel
from its jurisdiction, even threatening to veto UN peacekeeping operations
if it does not get its way.
105. Dismissed the need for broad international
cooperation in its war on terrorism, preferring to act alone or with selected
allies.
106. Treated human rights as an obstacle to rather
than an essential component of civic security at home and abroad.
107. Undermined the Oslo peace process, condoned
the Israeli reoccupation of Palestinian territory, and rejected UN Security
Council resolutions supported
by
previous administrations that provide a framework for conflict resolution
containing strict security guarantees for both Israel and the Palestinians.
108. Slighted global efforts to mobilize an offensive
against the spread of AIDS, instead privileging the financial interests
of pharmaceutical companies
over the
need for affordable life-saving medicines.
109. Suspended U.S. support for the UN's family
planning programs and balked at supporting the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of
Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW).
110. Continued to pursue a global economic agenda
that is of, by, and for transnational corporations and blocked efforts
to build international rules
to enforce
labor and consumer rights and environmental protections.
111. Bush team prevented thousands of eligible
voters in Florida from voting. That is how the elections were stolen.
112. Bush deceives Americans about the terrorists’
motives to shield U.S. foreign policies from public scrutiny; his first
concern is the special interests he serves.
113. Cynically and callously exploiting "terrorism,"
most of all with regard to the memory of those killed or injured in the
September 11 attacks, as well as
concern
for their loved ones, as a means of (1) justifying his and his administration's
attacks on the Constitution and on Americans' most basic rights
and
(2) diverting public attention from his absolute incompetence--and utter
lack of concern--over the very real economic and financial terrorism
being
visited upon millions of middle-class, working-class, and poor Americans
while padding the pockets of corporations and the rich!
114. Former President Clinton requested numerous
meetings with George W following the election to discuss making terrorist
activities a priority
of the new
administration. Finally a staff underling rudely gave Clinton a hearing.
The information, which was for the President’s ears,
only was
never passed on.
115. Significantly eased field-testing controls
of genetically engineered crops.
116. Went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard
for 18 months making him ineligible to be commander-in-chief.
117. Allowed looting to continue in Baghdad and
around Iraq while guarding only the oil ministry.
118. Because over 4000 innocent civilians were
murdered in Iraq and he said that counting them didn't matter.
119. Because art and antiquities were stolen
from the Baghdad Museum by professional art thieves who allowed to operate
and smuggle the objects
out of the
country for private collectors.
120. Because hospitals were looted in Iraq without
the army being given any direction to protect them.
121. Because nuclear facilities were looted in
Iraq without the army being given any direction to protect them.
122. Because schools were looted in Iraq without
the army being given any direction to protect them.
123. Because antiquities were looted from the
national library without the army being given any direction to protect
them.
124. Because no weapons of mass destruction -
the excuse for going to war - were found.