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Dont count you chickens until they hatch. You really think that constitutional term limits mean anything to an administration when the rest of the constitution means nothing to them? I fully expect them to try to extend their time in office citing national security.

True.

But then major airports and libraries will start being named for him and those will be around much longer.

We should rename Guantanamo Bay in his honor.
 

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Dont count you chickens until they hatch. You really think that constitutional term limits mean anything to an administration when the rest of the constitution means nothing to them? I fully expect them to try to extend their time in office citing national security.

He'd be comparing notes with Lincoln and JFK before the sun set.
 

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Is he the worst President in US history? Mr Bush faces stiff competition from the likes of James Buchanan, who watched as America slipped towards civil war, or Warren Harding with his corrupt administration, or Herbert Hoover, who failed to halt the slide into the Great Depression, or, more recently, Richard Nixon, the only President to be forced to resign. But in terms of dogmatism, incompetence, ignorance and divisiveness, Mr Bush surely compares with any of the above.
 

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It was quiet telling on his Middle East tour last week where the only places he was recieved with genuine delight was in Israel and the Kingdom. And even there it was more because of the general rapport between King Abdullah and him more than anything to do with him being the US president. Bill Clinton is loved in this part of the world even though he didn't do much more than Bush has for mideast peace.
 

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A more reflective president than Bush, however, might have learned from Israel's past miscalculations. More than 40 years have passed since Israel took the West Bank from Jordan, and Gaza from Egypt, and nothing but a long nightmare has come of it. There have been Israeli surges, and relatively quiet periods when violence subsided, but nothing has really worked to Israel's benefit. The long occupation of Palestinian territories has hurt not only Israel's interests, but America's as well. The same will be true of America's occupation of Iraq.
 

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US President George W Bush and other top officials issued almost one thousand false statements about the national security threat from Iraq following the September 11 attacks, according to a study by two not-for-profit organisations. According to the study, 935 false statements were issued by the White House in the two years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The rest of the article is an interesting and understated read: The study's focus was narrow: they catalogued only two year's worth of lies, and even then, only lies specifically related to Iraq.
 

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The rest of the article is an interesting and understated read: The study's focus was narrow: they catalogued only two year's worth of lies, and even then, only lies specifically related to Iraq.

To be consistent, the impeachment of GWB should actually begin with a special prosecutor appointed to conduct a meandering investigation of unrelated matters from GWB's distant past. And his family and friends should be grilled repeatedly during the process.

But since there ain't much time left, only his lies since 2000 should be brought under scrutiny. That should supply plenty of material anyway.
 

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President Bush reportedly was "pleased" that Congress failed Wednesday to override his veto of an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. No doubt the estimated 4 million children the legislation could have helped aren’t as happy. The bill, which Bush called "misguided," has broad support in both chambers and has the bipartisan backing of state governors. And as Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., has noted, most of the criticisms of the bill are phony, including Bush’s current line that SCHIP pushes people out of the private insurance market.

The source for this quote? No "Massachusetts liberals" here -- it's the editorial board of the Wichita Eagle, in the heart of red America. They quoted a Republican Senator who called Bush's position on SCHIP "phony".
 

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Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz has been appointed head of an influential panel advising the US government on arms control. Mr Wolfowitz was ousted from the Bank last year over a scandal involving payments to his girlfriend, who was also a bank employee at the time. As the Pentagon's number two after Donald Rumsfeld, he was one of the leading architects of the war in Iraq.
 

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after what bush has put america through i'd be surprised if a republican ever get's the presidentcy again. the democrats should have it easy getting in the white house. though i don't want to sound sexist or racist i think they are taking a big leap with a woman or a black man and the majority of america might not quite be ready to handle that. still, just about ANYTHING would have to be better than bush. i personally think he and the rest of his ENTIRE family should be banned from polictics.
........and then fed to a pack of hungry wolves.......lmao
 

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In lieu of a quote, I thought I'd describe the five leading Republican candidates who are out to replace Commander Cuckoo Bananas...in limerick form. :)

The Huckster, anointed from heaven;
McCain, born in eighteen-oh-seven;
Mitt Romney's a putz;
Ron Paul's just plain nuts!
The noun, the verb, Nine-Eleven.

 

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With Bush's final State of the Union address coming up tomorrow night, I thought I'd link back to his first State of the Union address. With a full seven years to enact these goals, let's see how he did:

He promised to:

  1. Increase spending for Social Security, Medicare, and "other discretionary programs" by $81 billion. Technically, he accomplished this, thanks to the catch-all category of "other discretionary programs". Over the course of the year, Social Security operated at a deficit, paying out more in benefits than they brought in in receipts; this became a pattern for the Bush administration. The budget surplus that Clinton left at the end of his administration vaporized during Bush's first year in office. By the start of 2002, we no longer had a budget surplus.
  2. Triple spending on education over the next five years. You heard right--Bush promised to triple the federal education budget. Even the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation acknowledges he fell far short on this goal (though they couch it in glowing praise). Education spending grew modestly over the five-year period 2001-2006, but as the costs of the Iraq war grew, Bush undermined even these modest improvements by cutting education spending for FY 2006; a clear step backwards.
  3. Protect the Social Security reserves. As mentioned in #1 above, he failed to do this; they've depleted in both real and percentage amounts every year since then.
  4. Double the NIH budget. I can't tell whether he intended to double the NIH budget that year, or if he was stating a long-term goal for the administration. In any case, he's got a long way to go. The NIH budget has increased by only 27% over the course of his administration. (The overall increase in federal spending over the same period is 38%, so the NIH budget has lost ground compared with other programs.)
 

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With Bush's final State of the Union address coming up tomorrow night, I thought I'd link back to his first State of the Union address. With a full seven years to enact these goals, let's see how he did:

He promised to:
  1. Increase spending for Social Security, Medicare, and "other discretionary programs" by $81 billion. Technically, he accomplished this, thanks to the catch-all category of "other discretionary programs". Over the course of the year, Social Security operated at a deficit, paying out more in benefits than they brought in in receipts; this became a pattern for the Bush administration. The budget surplus that Clinton left at the end of his administration vaporized during Bush's first year in office. By the start of 2002, we no longer had a budget surplus.
  2. Triple spending on education over the next five years. You heard right--Bush promised to triple the federal education budget. Even the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation acknowledges he fell far short on this goal (though they couch it in glowing praise). Education spending grew modestly over the five-year period 2001-2006, but as the costs of the Iraq war grew, Bush undermined even these modest improvements by cutting education spending for FY 2006; a clear step backwards.
  3. Protect the Social Security reserves. As mentioned in #1 above, he failed to do this; they've depleted in both real and percentage amounts every year since then.
  4. Double the NIH budget. I can't tell whether he intended to double the NIH budget that year, or if he was stating a long-term goal for the administration. In any case, he's got a long way to go. The NIH budget has increased by only 27% over the course of his administration. (The overall increase in federal spending over the same period is 38%, so the NIH budget has lost ground compared with other programs.)

Exactly why I pay no attention to politicians promises...
 

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You again?

If you expect me to accept the failure of George Bush to keep his promises as a justification for paying "no attention" to any politician, you're sorely mistaken.

By that reasoning, you should never get in an automobile, because there's one out there that caused a fatal accident.

Some of us are trying to make this democracy work by holding our elected officials accountable for their actions, and by actively working to replace those who don't pass muster.
 

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You again?

If you expect me to accept the failure of George Bush to keep his promises as a justification for paying "no attention" to any politician, you're sorely mistaken.

By that reasoning, you should never get in an automobile, because there's one out there that caused a fatal accident.

Some of us are trying to make this democracy work by holding our elected officials accountable for their actions, and by actively working to replace those who don't pass muster.

Agreed, but your what makes your one sided, opinionated political view any better than mine, or the next voter's?
 

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Agreed, but your what makes your one sided, opinionated political view any better than mine, or the next voter's?

This is what:

Exactly why I pay no attention to politicians promises...

If you asked what species of fish would survive best in your backyard pond, my opinion wouldn't be worth as much as that of an experienced marine biologist, because I haven't studied fish and wouldn't have any facts to back up my opinion.

I do pay attention to national and world events. On this matter, my opinion is better than yours because I've got my eyes wide open and you're practically boasting about how jaded and unattentive you are.

That's why.