Bush Blinks on Davis-Bacon Suspension, Dems Still Angry

CNS NEWS. com ^ | 27 OCT 05 | Randy Hall

[traviskicks]

Appease the Left and they don't warm up to you. Hasn't Bush learned anything in the last four years? Sheesh!
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Besides foreign policy, it's all he's done in 4 years...

[Aquakat]

If you people, who think Bush has "No Stones" or "Rolls Over" all the time to appease dems were in charge the repubs would be out of power for centuries and we'd be living in a socialist dictatorship by now!!

Please substantiate your hypothesis in light of the fact that RR faced downed a congress that had both houses with demo majorities and was adversarial if not out and out hostile.

RR formed a coalition of Americans dedicated basically to reverse the march to a “socialist dictatorship” precisely by having core values and beliefs and the “Stones” to implement them.

Newt Gingrich using similar tactics won over the House.

When GWB started the Presidency in spite of the toon we had made progress and well on the road away from socialism. The Fed size and payroll had been reduced somewhat from levels of the Carter years, welfare reform (during toon due to Newt) etc.

The direction we are taking on that road since GWB lends credence to your hypothesis, albeit it looks like the proof falls on the ”NO Stones” side.

has more people working for the federal government since the end of the Cold War, largest rate of increase in FED payroll in history. (socialist and dictatorship)

increased federal spending on education by 60.8 percent. (socialist and dictatorship)

Has no intention of eliminating a single fed department (socialist and dictatorship)

increased federal spending on labor by 56 percent (socialist)

increased federal spending on the interior by 23.4 percent (socialist)

signed the farm bill (socialist)

pushed through a Medicare plan which starts with a price tag of $400 billion and will increase exponentially over the next decade, larger than LBJ' War on Poverty. (socialist)

imposed tariffs in both agriculture and steel, same thing that Taft did to start the depression in the 20’s. (socialist) (since rescinded)

Signed a campaign-finance bill he thought was unconstitutional (dictatorship)

Proposing to Federalize disaster response (military) to by pass the states. (dictatorship)

hasn’t vetoed a single spending or any other bill for that matter

Throwing money down the drain in foreign aid (not war related)

Frankly, I don’t understand why the left hates GWB so much it looks like they should be embracing him.

If you respond please don’t give credit for the economy unless you are prepared to give credit to toon during his years. The up and down of the economy is a function of the normal business cycle which the president has little influence. The tax cut was too small to have any impact.

Although GWB will not be president again, this issue along with a small host of others will/is carried over to congress and state races.

You bushies need to recognize that the emperor as well as the GOP has no clothes.

[Southack]

"Besides foreign policy, it's all he's done in 4 years..."

Our income tax cuts, banning of partial birth abortion, arming pilots, killing Kyoto, and deploying our national missile defenses appeased the Left in your world?!

[Southack]

"Frankly, I don’t understand why the left hates GWB so much it looks like they should be embracing him."

The Left hates President Bush because he is so effective at advancing America. To wit:

Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 48 months

 

President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion

Banned Partial Birth Abortion

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy

Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.

Supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals

Signed E.O. reversing Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court

Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America

First Missile is Installed For NMD on July 23, 2004

Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses

Built ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes

Killed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty so that the U.S. can once again test our nuclear weapons

The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act (less romantically known as H.R. 5382) ultimately allows average Americans to hitch a ride on a civilian space craft at their own risk. The federal ban on such citizen travel was repealed by HR 5382 in 2004. The President signed that bill into law two days before Christmas.

President Bush pledged to Israel on 4/14/2004 that it could keep parts of the West Bank, giving international legitimacy to Jewish settlements there

Denied Palestinian refugees any right of return to what is now Israel, saying they should be resettled in a future Palestinian state instead

Part of coalition (Russia, Israel, EU, Palestine, USA) for Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace"

Pushed through THREE raises for our military

Increased Defense Dept funding which had deteriorated during the previous 8 years

President Bush's Grand Strategy (click here)

President Bush's Environmental Record - 2004 (click here)

Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit

Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers

Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right

Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e. the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty)

Signed the 2004 Omnibus Budget 1/26/2004 that now MANDATES that gun buyers' background check information be fully and permanently destroyed within 24 hours of the completion of the check, no matter what.

Repealed Gun Controls Against Active, Retired, and Off-Duty Law Enforcement Personnel Carrying Weapons Into Local and State Prohibited Zones (7/28/2004)

Enacted powerful tort reform legislation that moves many class action lawsuits from state to federal courts. Requires federal courts to hear cases where the amount of the dispute is more than $5 million, and when the defendant and any of the plaintiffs live in different states.

Disarmed Libya of its Chemical, Nuclear, and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed

Won an agreement that U.S. Navy sailors may now freely board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction under a landmark pact between the United States and Liberia, the world's No. 2 shipping registry (signed Feb 11, 2004), and Panama 5/10/2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/international/americas/11ship.html).

Approves The First U.S. Counter-Intel Plan

Successfully executed 2 wars and rebuilt 2 nations: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50+ million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom...epitomized by their own free and democratic elections.

Provided Billions in aid, machines, and manpower to tsunami victims.

 

Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network)

Bush Administration diplomacy led to the 5/25/2004 peace accord that ended a massive 20-year civil war between Sudan's Islamic north and Christian south after two million deaths Click Here

  Delivered vital emergency aid to millions of survivors on multiple continents (e.g. Africa, SE Asia) of a devastating Tsunami caused by a 9.1 earthquake near Sumatra.

Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.

Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia

Initiated comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was critical.
Created NATO's Rapid Response Force
Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency

Reorganized bureaucracy...after 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency: the Department of Homeland Security.

Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.

Improving govt. efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid...weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises. Wants merit based promotions/raises only.

Orchestrated Republican control of the White House, the House AND the Senate.

Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)

Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession.

Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Signed 2 income tax cuts ---- 1 of which was the largest Dollar-value tax cut in world history

Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains

In process of eliminating IRS marriage penalty.

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Eliminated the Estate Tax (AKA "Death Tax") that was taking small farms and businesses from families

Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)

Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.

Signed trade promotion authority

Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa

Passed Medicare Reform (authorized $39.5 Billion per year for preventive medicine such as drugs and doctor visits as well as included a ten year Privatization option)

Urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits

Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims

Submitted comprehensive Energy Plan--awaits Congressional action (works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.)

Endorses and promotes The Responsibility Era ("In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else -- to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself. " -----this quote was too good to leave out)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Initiated review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of federal gov while increasing private sector jobs.

Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become The League of Nations ( in other words, completely irrelevant)

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.

President Bush opened up an additional part of Alaska for domestic oil drilling. In 2004, the National Petroleum Reserve, an area west of the existing Prudhoe Bay field, was approved for new energy exploration and production.

Increased U.S. Oil Drilling Permits 70% Above Clinton-era

Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.

As part of the national forests clean-up, the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges) and removed the need for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
New Forest Rules Gives States Power Over Federal Forests Inside Their Borders
Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens
S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.
It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.

U.S. Forces In Baghdad

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2nd Term Supplimental (incomplete)

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Broke the Chinese Yuan to Dollar currency peg

CAFTA - President Bush signing CAFTA

Bolton to the UN

Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the second group of eight ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a land-based defense (in addition to our sea-based SM-3 and AEGIS systems) of 18 ABM's against North Korean nukes (note: China itself currently only has 24 -out of several hundred- nuclear ICBM's capable of reaching the U.S.)

Energy Bill (new tax cuts...after 5 years of opposition)
Immunity For Gun Manufacturers From Crime-Related Lawsuits
5% unemployment
3.4% annual (after inflation, 5.5% actual) reported GDP Growth

Syrian Troops forced to withdraw from Lebanon

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/933f746d-c5d8-491a-bd7c-566de1b66135.html Russians Troops Peacefully Withdraw From Georgia

Brought North Korea to the Negotiating Table and won their agreement to dismantle their Nuclear Weapons Program

Chief Justice John Roberts

Dramatically improved U.S.-India relations via a breakthrough nuclear agreement

Signed Bankruptcy Reform Into Law

Waived Make-Work Enviro Studies For New Oil Drilling

Full Immunity From Frivolous Lawsuits For Our Domestic Gun Industry
Click Here

[Aquakat]

The Left hates President Bush because he is so effective at advancing America. To wit:

Thank you for the massive data dump, some of which is redundant. I attempted to go over in detail all the specific issues some of which I agree with others which reinforce my position.

However, with the exception of taking my comment out of context, there is nothing addressing the thrust of neither my post nor the post that I was addressing. The issue at hand is whether (paraphrasing) appeasement of the left is the answer.

[pollyannaish]

While I am disappointed in this, I think if you step back for a moment you will realize that we have bigger fish to fry..

If this was about rescinding Davis-Bacon everywhere, well that might be worth fighting for. But is was only a suspension. Fighting this would take valuable resources and energy away from bigger, more important fights.

Anyone who has ever had children understands just how important it is to pick your battles.

[traviskicks]

well, a few things here and there, but take a look at these charts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400545/posts?page=59#55

[Southack]

"there is nothing addressing the thrust of neither my post nor the post that I was addressing. The issue at hand is whether (paraphrasing) appeasement of the left is the answer."

It all addressed your point because none of that appeased the Left.

Sending Bolton to the UN didn't "appease the Left."

Cutting income taxes didn't "appease the Left."

Banning partial birth abortion didn't "appease the Left."

Deploying our national missile defenses didn't "appease the Left."

Putting Hussein in jail didn't "appease the Left."

Killing the Kyoto global warming nonsense didn't "appease the Left."

Pulling out of the ICC didn't "appease the Left."

Killing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty didn't "appease the Left."

Arming pilots and giving our firearms manufacturers immunity from lawsuits didn't "appease the Left."

Is that too much for you?! Is that too large of a "data dump" for you to read through?

Or have I made my point so crystal clear that you can't see some imaginary argument through it?

This is black and white. I'm giving you incontravertible examples of President Bush poking the Left in the eye with a sharp stick time and time again.

Yet you're claiming that he is appeasing the Left...no, that he is **only** appeasing the Left. Somehow, I sense a dichotomy here.

[Aquakat]

It all addressed your point because none of that appeased the Left.

LOL If you think that was my point you are woefully mistaken.

Sirchtruth said ”If you people, who think Bush has "No Stones" or "Rolls Over" all the time to appease dems were in charge the repubs would be out of power for centuries and we'd be living in a socialist dictatorship by now!!”

Full post no more or less.

I responded to that hypothesis.

I never said that GWB appeased anyone Sirchtruth implied that GWB was an appeaser.

I addressed the issue ”repubs would be out of power for centuries and we'd be living in a socialist dictatorship by now”

with specific points that were limited to the economic and loss of freedom.

You responded by basically taking one comment

”Frankly, I don’t understand why the left hates GWB so much it looks like they should be embracing him.”

which was limited to the fiscal and growth of government actions of GWB with yes, a data dump.

I pointed out the above in a brief post assuming that you would reread the posts.

Sirchtruth, I am CC you since you are refferenced.