86 reasons the for the next election (777 hits)
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Submitted by Judoka (View user info) at 2007-07-23 11:58:13 EDT
Now I haven't posted anything for quite some time. But Presidential politics have started early this go round, I don't know if that is due to a desire to show GWB the door, but I suspect that is the case. So I thought an incomplete retrospective might be in order. Seriously, no matter which party you identify with this administration record is just terrible.
On a side note how low do you think the Presidents approval ratings will go? My moneys on low twenties.
1. Walter Reed outpatient treatment
2. Fired 8 US attorneys for trumped up reasons; political interference
3. Scooter Libby/Plamegate
4. Iraq: lack of preparation for occupation, looting, including the National Museum, too few
troops, lack of training, lack of equipment, lack of securing loose Iraqi munitions, disbanding the Iraqi army, banning the Baathists, the CPA, Paul Bremer, losing tons of money literally, lack of international inclusion in reconstruction and security, weak Constitution, formation of sectarian parties, weak government
5. Afghanistan and the resurgent Taliban and opium production
6. Iran and saber rattling
7. North Korea, ditching the 1994 agreement because of dubious uranium program, the plutonium program which led to a fizzled first nuclear test, and something like a return to the 1994 agreement
8. Osama bin Laden, where are you? Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and terrorism
9. Civilian contractors
10. The Military Commissions Act: torture, indefinite detention, the end of habeas corpus, and kangaroo courts
11. Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the destruction of New Orleans, and the aftermath
12. NSA wiretapping
13. SWIFT surveillance of financial transactions
14. Black prisons and extraordinary rendition
15. Homeland Security: white elephant (organization), black hole (money)
16. K Street Lobbyists, Jack Abramoff, North Marianas
17. Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and the CIA follies
18. Duke Cunningham
19. Tom Delay
20. Mark Foley
21. Cheney and Energy Policy
22. Tax cuts for the wealthiest
23. Global warming: refusal to join Kyoto, denial of manmade origin, continued reliance on fossil and carbon based fuels, little movement on CAFE standards and conservation, political interference in scientific reports (Good guys: Hansen, Peltz; bad guys: Cooney, Deutsch), listening to Michael Crichton
24. Terri Schiavo
25. Big budget deficits and vastly increased national debt
26. The stacking of the federal judiciary
27. Medicare
28. Medicare Part D
29. Healthcare (in general)
30. Cooked intelligence and the Office of Strategic Plans/ Doug Feith
31. 2000 Presidential election
32. 2004 Presidential election
33. Attempts to torpedo the 911 Commission
34. Failure to implement 911 recommendations
35. Marginalization of the UN; Appointment of John Bolton
36. Preventive war doctrine
37. Loss of US reputation internationally
38. No serious attempt to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians
39. Underfunding of basic research
40. Alberto Gonzales
41. FDA: drug testing
42. EPA: mercury levels for coal plants
43. Porter Goss and the gutting of the CIA
44. Militarization of intelligence
45. Rampant cronyism
46. Signing statements
47. Unilateral Executive doctrine
48. Overuse and abuse of the National Guard and Reserves; posse comitatus
49. Increasing unpreparedness of US ground forces (Army and Marines)
50. US balance of trade deficit
51. 2005 Grassley Bankruptcy bill
52. Mexican cross border trucking and safety concerns
53. Karl Rove's security clearance and no firing of Libby co-conspirators
54. Detention of families for immigration violations; ICE raids
55. Dubai Ports deal
56. The Patriot Act; the Patriot Act extension
57. Attempts to privatize Social Security
58. The War on Science
59. David Safavian, former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy
60. Presidential adviser Claude Allen stealing from Target
61. Bush casually admits about lying about decision to fire Rumsfeld
62. Armstrong Williams and paid propagandists
63. Decimation of the Labor Department
64. Net neutrality and media policies
65. Backing Israel while it destroyed Lebanon
66. Presidential Daily Brief 8/01: Bin Laden determined to attack in US
67. EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman declares Ground Zero safe for cleanup
68. Sago mining disaster hearings and MHSA's David Dye who walked out of the hearings
69. Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court
70. Vetoing stem cell research
71. Attack on Plan B contraception, staffing Women's Health positions with religious
conservatives: Dr. Eric Keroack at Health and Human Services who thought birth control demeaning to women and Dr. David Hager at FDA who tried to keep Plan B prescription only. His wife contended in divorce proceedings that he had repeatedly sodomized her without her consent.
72. Clear Skies Act and Healthy Forest Restoration Act
73. Missile defense shield that doesn't work; withdrawal from ABM Treaty
74. Leandro Aragoncillo naturalized Filipino-American in Cheney's office (previously Gore's) accused of spying for the Philippines and possibly France, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing secret US government documents
75. Defunding overseas AIDS programs that promoted condom use for prevention.
76. Call for a constitutional amendment declaring marriage to be between one man and one woman.
77. Opening up Bristol Bay, the last pristine large-scale salmon fishery in the world, to oil drilling
78. Accusation that Clintons trashed the White House before leaving, including stealing the Ws from keyboards (I really don't think this is serious at all, but it is funny)
79. Gannon/Guckert a working male prostitute in the White House press corps
80. Native American trust funds and the Trust Responsibility to Indian Country
81. Selling creationist materials at the Grand Canyon gift shop claiming it was 6000 years old
82. Banning photographing return of coffins of slain American soldiers
83. False military reporting: Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch
84. AIPAC espionage scandal; former DOD employee Lawrence Franklin pled guilty to passing information on Iran to Israel through two AIPAC employees
85. Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram
86. Asserted right to open US mail
I included a bonus for all the people who could make to the end the post.
Bonus: On an interesting parallel, does anybody remember the last republic that had a non stop election/campaign cycle? It was Rome.
* I had help from various sources throughout the 'net to help me assemble this list.
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Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2007-07-25 11:04:51 EDT (#)
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Also, it's time.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-07-25 10:58:15 EDT (#)
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Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-07-24 15:38:28 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-07-24 15:38:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Judoka (user info) at 2007-07-24 14:18:45 EDT (#)
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domey I realize you are trolling, but really, demonstratively wrong? Which ones?
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2007-07-24 12:42:18 EDT (#)
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Too many of these are demonstrably wrong to give you anything but a -2.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-07-24 10:31:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:19:17 EDT (#)
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86 ways to take a nap.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-07-24 02:34:11 EDT (#)
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Dick Head
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2007-07-23 17:08:05 EDT (#)
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Loki: That quote is definitely not from Lincoln. Some guy made up the quote in an article he wrote for a magazine 3 or 4 years ago. He claims he didn't falsely attribute it to Lincoln, but rather a copy editor mistakenly put quotation marks around it. Anyway, than a Republican candidate repeated the non-quote during his--or possibly her--campaign, and it's been circulating in forwarded e-mails ever since.
I read the article back when this story first broke, and an over-zealous copy editor or not, the guy that wrote the original article was definitely trying to attribute a sentiment to Lincoln that Lincoln himself never expressed.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-07-23 16:31:35 EDT (#)
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Oh COME on. The man, while disgustingly incompetent and void of just about any concievablevirtue, is a comedic gold mine and will employ comedians (namely John Stewart) for years to come.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2007-07-23 16:15:48 EDT (#)
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Have you seen this e-mail that is floating around:
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"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime
that damages morale and undermine the military, are
saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."
President Abraham Lincoln
Send it Forward!
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I'd love to debunk this because quite frankly I don't think Lincoln said it. For one thing congressmen is a plural word so it would be "damage" and not "damages". At least I think it would be and if so I don't think Lincoln (who it should be noted not only started the war of northern aggression but conveniently got himself assassinated before having to clean up his own mess) would have fucked that up.
I also don't think Lincoln (who is should be noted not only started the war of northern aggression but conveniently got himself assassinated before having to clean up his own mess) would have said "arrested, exiled or hanged". He'd at least have put a comma between the exiled and hanged part.
Besides it doesn't sound flowery and puffed up in that four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent type of way.
Keeping in mind that Lincoln not only started the war of northern aggression but conveniently got himself assassinated before having to clean up his own mess.
Do you think that my education has been somewhat jaded by having grown up in the South.
With a capital "S"?
Just wondering.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-07-23 16:07:13 EDT (#)
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Good list.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-07-23 16:05:02 EDT (#)
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78. Accusation that Clintons trashed the White House before leaving, including stealing the Ws from keyboards (I really don't think this is serious at all, but it is funny)
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this is tradition for the staff to do this, it's a prank, that's all.
Submitted by cuberat (user info) at 2007-07-23 15:25:00 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2007-07-23 15:21:27 EDT (#)
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You have it all wrong. It will come down to this:
1 - Gay Marraige
2 - Stem Cell Research
3 - Abortion
4 to 1734 - 9/11 and terrorism
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-07-23 14:45:12 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-07-23 13:55:33 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-07-23 13:26:49 EDT (#)
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I want a gun.
Will one of you yanks send me one please.
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2007-07-23 13:01:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:19:17 EDT (#)
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86 ways to take a nap.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:58:16 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:32:41 EDT (#)
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politically motivated claims of things like how big developments were not at all harmful to protected wetlands
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:26:54 EDT (#)
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Bush was elected...twice...deal with him and stfu
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:19:17 EDT (#)
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86 ways to take a nap.
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:17:57 EDT (#)
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Judoka: 1
Bush: 0
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:17:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:13:43 EDT (#)
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The whole lot of them should be hung out to dry just for the utterly scandalous Scooter Libby thing.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:11:00 EDT (#)
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If only science could discover a way to usefully store and redirect the energy spent on this kind of crap...
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:06:49 EDT (#)
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na na na na na na na na LEADER!
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2007-07-23 12:00:57 EDT (#)
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Rome fell, we will too