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On Terror – He allowed several members of the bin Laden family to leave the country just days after 9/11, without being questioned by the FBI.
On Homeland Security - He focused on missile defense at the expense of counter terrorism prior to 9/11, and continued to do so despite the poor test results.
On the Environment - He limited the public challenges to logging projects and increased logging in protected areas, including Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
On Tax Policy – He passed successive tax cuts largely responsible for turning a surplus of 5-trillion dollars into a projected deficit of $4.3 TRILLION
On Education - He froze Teacher Quality Grants, cutting training to 30-thousand teachers and leaving 92-thousand fewer teachers trained than promised in his 2000 pledge to the nation.
On Foreign Policy – He ignored the Middle East Peace Process, which has deteriorated with no strategy.
On Health Care – He was dishonest to Americans regarding the cost of Medicare - saying it would cost $400 billion, although it’s real cost will be $500 billion over a 10-year period.
On Fiscal Discipline – He spent 6.5 BILLION dollars on nuclear weapons - 50% more than during the cold war - but cheated our troops out of body armor.
On Economics – He pledged a “Jobs and Growth” package that has fallen roughly one million jobs short of his promise.
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On
On Intelligence- He allowed Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to create “The Office of Special Plans” in order to provide politically advantageous intelligence.
On Foreign Relations – He sided with trade-partner
On Nuclear Proliferation – He claimed John Kerry would
let Europe determine
On Job Creation – He signed a report that endorsed outsourcing, with thousands of American workers having their jobs shipped overseas.
On the Economy – He issued inaccurate budget forecasts
with proposals to reduce the deficit, leaving out the cost of the war in
On Education – He under-funded his own “No Child Left Behind” program by more than 25-billion dollars
On Taxation – He passed tax cuts for the top 1-percent of income earners in the country.
On Chemical Terrorism – Instead of finding the culprit
behind the 2001 anthrax mailings, he encouraged his administration to find any
possible link between
On
On National Security – He denied documents to the 9/11 Commission and only relented after a threatened subpoena.
On
On Osama bin Laden – He refused to commit ground troops to the capture of bin Laden when he was cornered in Nov 2001.
On Intelligence – He opposed an independent inquiry into the intelligence failures regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
On Foreign Policy – He failed to develop a specific plan
for dealing with
On Trade – He instituted steel tariffs, deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization.
On Education – He broke his campaign pledge to increase size of Pell Grants, which are awarded to students based on need.
On the Environment – He abandoned the Kyoto Treaty, without offering an alternative for reducing greenhouse effect.
On Public Health - Allowing loopholes to persist in Mad-Cow regulations, while relaxing food-labeling restrictions on health claims.
On
On Support for Troops – He did not equip our armed
forces in
On Foreign Policy – He derided “nation-building” in the 2000 debates, then engaged American troops in one of the most explicit instances of nation building in American history
On Terrorism – He failed to pay attention to an August Sixth, 2001 PDB named “bin Laden Determined to Attack US.”
On Drugs – He allowed opium production to soar after the ouster of the Taliban.
On Fiscal Policy – He ran up record-breaking foreign debt proportions that threatens the stability of the global economy.
On the Environment – He cut clean air standards for aging power plants.
On Education – He signed off on the Fiscal Year 2005 budget proposing the smallest increase in education in nine years.
On Science – He falsely claimed the restrictions on stem cell research would not hamper medical progress.
On Osama bin Laden – He first said that bin Laden would be captured Dead or Alive; then, when he couldn’t be found, Bush told the American people – quote - “I’m not that concerned” with bin Laden – and quote - “I don’t worry about him much.”
On
On Diplomacy – He failed to give UN weapons inspectors
enough time to certify if weapons existed in
On National Security – Before 9/11, White House policy
was that al-Qaeda couldn’t attack without state sponsors, ignoring evidence of
a growing threat not associated with
On the Economy – He claimed his 2003 tax cut would give 23-million small business owners an average savings of two-thousand dollars – knowing that 79% of business owners would receive less than that.
On Terrorism – He undermined military operations against
terrorists in
On Jobs – He ignored requests to extend unemployment benefits just as long-term unemployment hit a 20-year high.
On Education – He froze funding for after-school programs nationwide.
On Prescription Drugs – He reduced restrictions on improper drug advertising by 80%.
On the Environment – He reduced inspections, penalties for violations, and prosecution of environmental crimes.
On Biological Terrorism – He pushed for distribution of the smallpox vaccine, which was not proven necessary and has killed some of those who took it.
On
On International Diplomacy - He refused to cede any
control of post-invasion
On the War on Terror – He diverted 700-million dollars
from operations in
On Free Speech – He shut down an Iraqi newspaper for inciting violence, which
led to street fighting in Fallujah, inciting more violence than anything the
newspaper wrote.
On Inter-Cabinet Relations – He told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about
plans to invade
On the Environment – He weakened environmental standards for snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles.
On Energy – He opposed legislation that would require greater fuel efficiency
for passenger cars.
On Public Safety – He withdrew public information on chemical plant dangers, previously used to hold facilities accountable for safety improvements.
On Fiscal Policy – He cut grants to state and local Government in Fiscal Year 2005, forcing states to make massive cuts in job training, education, housing and environmental protection.
On Free trade – He nominated Anthony Raimondo, a supporter of outsourcing, to be the new Manufacturing Czar.
On Iraq - He sold the war to the American People by
claiming that the U-S would be greeted in
On Iraq – He intends to ask Congress for 70-billion dollars more in Iraq war funds, pushing the total cost of the war to 225-billion dollars, far more than the $50 billion that the administration initially said it would cost.
On Iraq – He turned down three chances to capture
terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi because he feared it would undercut the case for
war in
On Iraq - He had members of his administration tell the American people that
Saddam Hussein possessed aluminum tubes that were “only suited for nuclear
weapons programs” despite the fact that nuclear experts had already told them
that the tubes could not be used for nuclear weapons
On Iraq – He did not safeguard sites once related to
On Iraq - He awarded a multi-billion dollar, no-bid
contract to Halliburton in
On Iraq - He ignored plans drawn up by the Army War College and other war
planning agencies, which predicted most of the worst security and infrastructure
problems America faced in the early days of the Iraqi occupation.
On Iraq - He disbanded the Sunni Baathist managers
responsible for
On Iraq - He told the American people that
On Iraq – He failed to secure a weapons site in
On Homeland Security - He authorized a State Department report that erroneously low-balled the actual number of terrorist attacks in 2003.
On Homeland Security – He failed to secure America’s ports, with 20-thousand shipping containers coming into the country per day and only one-percent of them being inspected.
On Homeland Security – He agreed with Congress on a specific number of federal sky marshals, then cut that number by 20-percent in the 2005 fiscal year budget.
On Homeland Security- He secured less material with nuclear capability in the
two years after September 11th than was secured in the two years
before September 11th. Unsecured fissile material still exists
in more than 140 countries worldwide.
On Homeland Security – He failed to catch the terrorists responsible for the
deadly 2001 anthrax mailings.
On Homeland Security – He has not required the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to toughen security regulations at Nuclear Power Plants, leading the Project on Government Oversight to conclude that nuclear plants in the U-S are – quote – “not even close to being prepared for a terrorist attack.”
On Homeland Security – He did not implement a proposed computer system
intended to aid the tracking of domestic terror threats. It was supposed
to be on-line in 2003 and may now be scrapped entirely.
On Homeland Security – He has not developed specific plans to address the security of hazardous materials moved by rail and the administration does not have a time frame established for completing such an effort.
On Homeland Security – He provided the nations first responders with only 15-percent of the federal funding needed to adequately respond to terrorist attacks.
On Homeland Security – He failed to capture Osama Bin Laden, the man he acknowledges was behind the mass murder of 3000 Americans.
On
On Foreign Relations – He limited bidding on
On the 9-11 Commission – He would not allow Condoleezza Rice to testify, then relented after public pressure.
On Foreign Relations – He abandoned the
On the Environment – He lifted protection for more than 200 million acres of
public land.
On post-9/11 clean-up – He forced the EPA to rewrite a
report on the air quality around the
On Public Health – He weakened the effectiveness of the USDA testing program
while downplaying the dangers of Mad Cow disease.
On Supporting our Armed Services – He under funded healthcare for troops and veterans.
On Health Care – Picked his personal friend David Halbert, who stands to make billions from prescription drugs, to write the draft of the new Medicare bill.
On Education – He under-funded the Title One Program for disadvantaged children by Seven-point-two billion dollars.
On
On Diplomacy – He failed to convince NATO allies that
invading
On Social Security - He depleted the Social Security Trust Fund surplus, despite making a campaign promise to not touch it.
On Government Spending - He promised to – quote – “attack pork barrel
spending” – unquote – but has not vetoed a single bill while in office,
despite the enormous amount of pork that has crossed his desk.
On Taxes - He told the American people – quote – “the vast majority of my
tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum" – unquote – while the
top 20 percent of earners received 70 percent of those tax cuts.
On Conflicts of Interest - He appointed James Baker to seek forgiveness of Iraqi debt, despite Baker’s business ties to companies that are opposed to Iraqi debt forgiveness
On Health Care - He never established the 'Healthy Communities Innovation Fund'
which would have provided grant money to health care programs, as he promised in
his 2000 campaign
On Public Safety – Despite claiming to support it, he allowed the federal law banning the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons to lapse 10-years after the law was implemented and effectively reduced gun-related violent crimes.
On First Responders - He cut grants to the nation’s police and fire departments by nearly one-billion dollars in the fiscal year 2005 budget.
On Job Creation - He lost a net total of 833-thousand jobs since taking office in 2001, becoming the first president since Herbert Hoover not to create any new jobs.
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