a_proposal_to_rid_bush angrycommie someone help me get started here... 030428 ... DannyH Kill the monkey 030428 ... rode rage yes, definitely ladies please shave down 030428 ... angrycommie thats sick. Umm. Dafy...say something, bring your views on this, and come up with something intelligent... that goes for anyone else that is sick of bush's bullshit 030428 ... cube I was against the Iraq war but, in retrospect, it appears that he may have done the_right_thing. Now he has turned his attention to the US economy which, by all accounts, is the correct move. Having pegged him early as a liability, history may be kind to this president. ... 030428 ... minnesota_chris we are a long way from a free and prosperous Iraq. And does Bush really care about Arabs? What about Palestinians, or Afghanis? 030428 ... Toxic_Kisses Piece by piece, Bush is tearing down the progress women and other disenfranchised groups have made over the last 35 years, ensuring that rich white males and giant corporations will rule the U.S. for generations to come. Bush is: reversing women's rights here and abroad ... appointing right-wing radicals to powerful positions ... rewarding his rich supporters and turning a budget surplus into a multi-billion dollar deficit ... stacking the federal courts with ultra-conservative judges ... slashing funding for much-needed social programs ... gutting environmental regulations ... attacking affirmative action, Title IX and other civil rights legislation ... alienating the U.S. from nations worldwide and recklessly waging war in the Middle East ... and on, and on. http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/ and Editorials and Information on how to Impeach Bush http://www.impeachbush.tv/links.html 030521 ... TK "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." - George Bush Source: Business Week Online, "A Gentleman's "C" for W," Richard S. Dunham, July 30, 2001 ~ "There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons." - George Bush Source: Federal Document Clearing House, "Remarks by the President at Chris Chocola for Congress, and Indiana Victory 2002 Finance Dinner," Sept. 5, 2002 030521 ... lo fbi agents will be visiting your house soon to question you...."we own you" http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201268949 030522 ... TK June 5, 2003 WOMEN'S RIGHTS: * House Votes to Ban Safe Abortion Procedures; Bush Has Repeatedly Promised to Sign Bill into Law WAR: * White House Delays Inspecting, Securing Nuclear Sites in Iraq ROGUE NATION * Bush Administration Pursues New Era of Nuclear Weapons ECONOMY: * Bush-Backed House Pension Proposal Might Hurt Workers DOMESTIC POLICY: * Bush Administration Promotes Privatization of Medicare ... Strikes Another Blow Against Affirmative Action BUSHISMS: * George W. describes himself as the "master of low expectations" -- really! WOMEN'S RIGHTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * House Votes to Ban Safe Abortion Procedures; Bush Has Repeatedly Promised to Sign Bill into Law In what could become one of the most significant restrictions on abortion rights in decades, the U.S. House approved the so-called Partial-Birth Abortion Ban bill, H.R. 760, on June 4. In his 2003 State of the Union address, Bush urged Congress to give him a bill he could sign, and has repeatedly promised to sign the legislation, which passed the Senate earlier this year in a slightly different form. The bill would ban an array of safe, common abortion methods used in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, and provides no exception for the woman's health. A number of abortion rights groups, including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation, have said they will immediately file suit to block the legislation once the president signs it. Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/women/index.html WAR ~~~~ * White House Delays Inspecting, Securing Nuclear Sites in Iraq After stalling in response to the repeated warnings issued by Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, highlighting media reports about the possibility of radioactive contamination due to looting at Iraq's nuclear sites, the Bush administration has finally agreed to allow a joint United States and IAEA inspection. The warnings -- in which ElBaradei described a "potentially serious humanitarian situation" -- called upon the Bush administration to allow an IAEA safety and security team to enter Iraq and inspect the Tuwaitha nuclear site. Yet according to the New York Times, for unexplained reasons the Bush administration is restricting the IAEA's "work to accounting for low-grade uranium and natural uranium" only. Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/war/index.html ROGUE NATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Bush Administration Pursues New Era of Nuclear Weapons Buoyed by recent developments in Congress that, according to the Los Angeles Times, will allow the administration to "fully explore their options" to restore the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and rapidly "develop and test such arms," the Bush administration is pursuing a new era of smaller, less powerful nuclear weapons. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to end a 10-year-old ban on the development of small nuclear arms, and the repeal of this ban is expected to pass the full House and Senate as part of the defense authorization bill later this month. In addition, the committee approved the administration's request for funds by allotting $46.5 million to conduct further research on advanced nuclear weapons concepts and to allow the Pentagon to recommence nuclear weapons testing. Despite denials of plans to build such bombs, according to the Nation, the Bush administration is the first since World War II to endorse a policy not based on nuclear arms control. * Bush Administration Moves to Shield Human Rights Abusers The Bush administration moved to block the ability of victims of human rights abuses committed abroad to sue their alleged abusers for civil damages in U.S. courts. Filing a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of Unocal -- which is facing a suit alleging it was involved in a number of human rights abuses committed by the Burmese army -- the Department of Justice also indicated it wants to "deny victims the right to sue ... for abuses committed abroad." Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth called the move "a craven attempt to protect human rights abusers at the expense of victims." The suit brought by Holocaust survivors against Swiss banks in 1996 is one example of the type of cases that would not have been heard by U.S. courts if victims of human rights abuses did not have the ability to file these suits. Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/rogue/index.html ECONOMY ~~~~~~~~ * Bush-Backed House Pension Proposal Might Hurt Workers A pension proposal backed by the Bush administration and passed by the House would allow workers to receive investment advice from the managers of their 401(k) plans. Opponents of the measure are concerned that the proposal would open the door to "financial conflicts of interest because advisers could recommend funds that pay them fees." Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) argued that the proposal made no sense "when many of the biggest investment houses in the nation... have just paid out nearly a billion and a half dollars for committing just these kinds of abuses." Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/economy/index.html DOMESTIC POLICY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Bush Administration Promotes Privatization of Medicare As Congress prepares to reform Medicare legislation, the Bush administration has proposed a plan that uses prescription drug benefits to induce older Americans to enroll in private health plans instead of remaining in the government-run Medicare program. According to the New York Times, the main tenets of this initiative involve providing Medicare patients with "only modest drug benefits, while those who join private plans would be rewarded with much more extensive coverage." Critics of the plan, including most Democrats and some influential Republicans, argue that this arrangement is a veiled first step towards privatizing Medicare and that it will work to the detriment of elderly individuals living in rural areas where private health plans are less accessible. There are also concerns that this plan could further restrict patients' choices of doctors and hospitals. * Bush Strikes Another Blow Against Affirmative Action Although President Bush has made his opposition to affirmative action evident in earlier statements and actions, in a recent and obscure statement on energy policy his administration expanded this stance to eliminate the consideration of racial diversity in admissions, grants, and other government programs. Bush's Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) seems to contradict statements he made during the January affirmative action case in Michigan in which he claimed to support racial and all other forms of diversity. In a critique of the SAP, the Washington Post quoted a letter that Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) wrote to Bush which stated, "It appears that with this SAP the administration is taking the position that even limited efforts to enhance the participation of underrepresented communities in government programs violate the Constitution." Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/domestic/index.html BUSHISMS ~~~~~~~~ * "I am the master of low expectations." --Bush, explaining that the recent Middle East summit 'met expectations,' June 4, 2003 * "These despicable [suicide attacks] were committed by killers whose only faith is hate. And the United States will find the killers, and they will learn the meaning of American justice." --Bush, apparently forgetting the challenges of bringing dead people to trial, May 19, 2003 * "Some one of my visits--one of the reasons I'm visiting here is to ask the question, you know, to people, because if there's moving too slow or people are saying one thing and the other thing is not happening, now's the time to find out." --Bush, speaking to residents of tornado-stricken Pierce City, Missouri, May 13, 2003 Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/bushisms/index.html 030706 ... silentbob somhow i don't think bush is the only one involved here. if you kill him, two more will pop up in his place. 030706 ... Toxic_Kisses yea well we* focus our time & energy to rid em one @ a time insted of scattering our efforts and geting spred so thin that we don't acomplish much of anything * by we I mean Me myself and Iseeing az how I dont feel az if any one besides myself is to "busy" to care and/or do anything about him 030706 ... TK typo: everyone except myself is 030706 ... somebody Bush Policies Led to Loss of 93,000 Jobs in August The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced Sept. 5 that another 93,000 jobs were lost during the month of August. With August's losses, approximately 3.3 million private-sector jobs have disappeared since Bush took office. The Economic Policy Institute reports that this is the largest sustained loss of jobs since the Great Depression. According to the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., further job losses are yet to come. The firm predicts an additional 399,000 jobs will be cut during the final four months of 2003. Unemployment has risen to over 8.9 million people, as the unemployment rate increased from 4.2% in Jan. 2001 to 6.1% in Aug. 2003. Critics believe that the continued loss of jobs and surging unemployment offer unfortunate proof that Bush's "Jobs and Growth Plan" is not really about jobs and growth but about misdirected tax cuts and mismanagement of the economy as a whole Read more at http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/economy/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STICKER SHOCK AND AWE The True Dimensions of 87 Billion Bucks Last night, President Bush officially sent Congress his request for $87 billion to fund a year's worth of ongoing involvement in Iraq. Eighty-seven billion bucks! That is, to put it mildly, a ton of money -- so much, in fact, that the number seems almost meaningless. But of course, it isn't; if that much funding were available for the environment, we could clean up -every- dirty power plant in the nation ... or provide clean drinking water for almost half of the 1.1 billion people worldwide who currently lack it ...or keep the Superfund in the black for a quarter-century ... This month's Grist editorial takes a look at what we could do with $87 billion. Get The Gist, only on the Grist Magazine website. Read more at: http://www.gristmagazine.com/thegist/gist091803.asp?source=daily 030922 what's it to you? who go blather from