BUMP
Free Ramos and Compean!!!!
Bush gave us the first real federal legislative rollback of abortion.
Bush completely destroyed the regime of Saddam Hussein and gave us a democracy on the borders of Iran and Syria, despite many calls to give up.
Bush finally stopped the gutting of our military, and now we have next generation weapons such as the F-22 and F-35 fighter and MRAP vehicles.
Bush appointed John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court, a constitutional scholar and important counterweight to Ginsburg.
Bush cut taxes and ensured an economic recovery after the tech bubble collapse.
Bush provided our law enforcement agencies with the systems and institutions that they need to keep us safe, such as the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of the Patriot Act.
(1) refused to enforce U.S. immigration laws, secure the Mexican Border, and halt illegal immigration;Bush should revere Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Warren Harding, U.S. Grant, and perhaps a small number of other presidents. If it were not for them, history might well record that he was the worst president in U.S. history.(2) spent more of the American taxpayers' hard-earned money than any president since Lyndon Johnson;
(3) increased the size, grasp, reach, and appetite of the Frankenstein's monster known as the Federal Government, that sucks the life's blood out of the American people and the United States itself and serves as a cashcow for corrupt politicians and the parasites who keep them in office;
(4) handed Congress to the depraved, parasitic, decadent Democrats on a silver platter in 2004, and the entire United States government to them in 2008.
Harry Truman only bombed once; Bush keeps doing it again, and again and again and...
Bush’s absolute refusal to live by and defend conservative principles has created the perfect storm of the red tide which will attempt to spend us into insolvency for at least the next 2 years. It will take decades to recover from what the Democrats are about to do to this country, if recovery is even possible. This is Bush’s legacy.
Too bad he screwed up the country in the bottom of the 9th.
6) Restoring the dignity, honor, integrity, and decorum of the White House after eight long years of interns, lies, stained dresses, cattle futures,questionable pardons, and pilfering of the Bonnie and Clod administration. “
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Probably going to start seeing this start up all over again.
We can do this all night. You'll run out of positives before I run out of negatives.
This is one of the highlights of his tenure....it pissed off the teachers unions (accountability, and all such nasty diversions...), and has actually forced some improvement.
Federal money has long been involved, and always will be...anybody that thinks that's gonna change is from another planet. Bush put some teeth into the doleout. Good for him.
Great president. Did what had to be done while taking flak from all corners. You always knew what he stood for. Well done President Bush.
While some uninformed will blame Bush for the bailout, the rest of us are cognizant that this little manufactured crisis gone viral, has, as of October, 2008, put Pelosi in the Queen of America seat - she has held the govt under threat of house arrest/martial law ever since.
Some have spoken out about it, some on the House floor even; (one offrecord and unidentified representative even dared to claim he would be shot) most have not said a word. Noone questioned her ability to declare such, and noone jumped up and down over the outrage; it's much to easy to point at republicans who cowered in silence, afraid for their own freedom.
I would not be surprised to learn some time in the far future that Bush was indeed, threatened with house arrest, especially in light of Josh Bolton's claim that nation-wide martial law was threatened by Pelosi if McCain did not return to Washington DC, as Bolton reported. It would sure explain his agitation, detachment and relative silence.
The fact that Pelosi demanded the bankers meet with her before they ever saw Paulsen's door, told part of the story. The fact that she instructed the ENTIRE dem caucus to vote no on the bailouts, told more, and the fact that not one rep has made more than an obligatory peep since being barred from meetings, tells the rest.
My senators and my representatives didn't stand by Bush, but by God, I will. jmo moo
P.S. less than 200 miles of border fence to go:
Here are some articles that detail what has been completed (of the 700 miles total), and types and descriptions of fencing used:
http://www.kdbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9557225&nav=menu608_1
With 500 miles complete...Another 100 miles are expected to be in place by January 20th when Barak Obama takes office. That will leave just 70 miles for the fence to be completed.
http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/border-fence-southwest.shtm
Fence completed as reported on December 18, 2008: 278 miles of pedestrian fence; 248 miles of vehicle fence
Proposed fence to be completed by December 31, 2008: 370 miles of pedestrian fence; 300 miles of vehicle fence
(also, pictures of ‘vehicle fence’ contrasted with ‘pedestrian fence’ construction)
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?s=9500900
ElPaso fence: The new fence is much more daunting than the old eight-foot fence. At 18 feet high, it can be a pretty intimidating climb
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-10-border-fence_N.htm
The overall plan for security on that border includes additional Border Patrol agents, more enforcement of immigration laws, the fence and a high-tech “virtual fence” with surveillance technology (Boeing has the virtual tech contract)
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/29/nation/na-border29
A line of towering steel now slices for about 32 miles through a sea of sand from San Luis to the Tinajas Altas mountains. The fence, built to prevent incursions on the Barry M. Goldwater Range, is now the longest on the border, more than twice as long as the 14-mile fence separating San Diego from Tijuana.
St Luis: That route is now blocked by two new layers of fencing: a 15-foot-high steel-mesh secondary barrier and a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire