George W. Bush's first year in office (List of 77 accomplishments)

www.redpepper.org.uk ^ | 3/25/02 | Red Pepper staff

[MassExodus]

You're out of control. WE? Somehow I don't think so.

So you are lumping yourself into the camp of folks who don't MIND having your God given right to free speech infringed upon ?

Or are you that confident that our "side" is winning and that the Bill of Rights is no longer "needed".

Do you not see that your lock-step defense of one man is no better than that of Carville and the other Clinton synchophants ?

If expressing my intense displeasure of having been duped AGAIN is "Out of Control" than I'd rather be that than what YOU are ....

Controlled.

[Balding_Eagle]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

[deport]

Hey round up the crew. We're gonna bury this here fellow Bush and his administration. We'll get us a real Democrat in 04 and a good crat congress in 02. Hey it shouldn't take long with all the help around here providing we can pry them loose from the keyboards for a spell.

[Sender]

Even the few items in this list which appear to be bad are probably just due to the liberal penchant for twisting the spin. As in, stopping a very bad program which indoctrinates young people into 'alternative lifestyles' and the liberals spin it into 'Bush cancels millions in education'.

[LarryLied]

Even the few items in this list which appear to be bad are probably just due to the liberal penchant for twisting the spin.

Exactly. Such as the cut in funding for doctors to study advanced pediatric care. Sounds bad but when you think about it, doctors do have the money to pay for it themselves. And "advanced" care could mean anything. Ten to one there is a homosexual, anti-gun or race based agenda in there somewhere.

[Tauzero]

LOL!

[hawaiian]

TOP OF YOUR LIST SHOULD BE #1. Helped KILL the first Ammendment

Gimme a break. All of you who are getting wimpy over supporting W are spoiled brats. He can't do EVERYTHING exactly as we wanted it, and to say that he is "KILLING" the first amendment is absurd, and you know it. Pick your battles. This battle (CFR) is not worth fighting over and will end up being better for us anyway.

[WhiteGuy]

Keyes / Paul 2004 ?

Waddya think?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Except that most of it is just show. When Bush signs the CFR, he signs the end to his presidency. He may become the only sitting president in many, many years to actually lose his own party's primary. I for one will NOT vote for him if he signs CFR or allows it to become law.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Most of it looks good. Are you a liberal from DU?

[LarryLied]

Click on my screen name and find out :-)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that he had NO experience, could it?

He failed miserably, even as a Senate candidate. What LarryLied said is also true - many conservatives simply don't like or trust him. I think his lack of success may also have to do with the fact that he is a very divisive figure, and that most people probably fear his all-or-nothing approach. The guy is simply unelectable.

[humbletheFiend]

Alan Keyes looks better and better all the time.

Amen. He's looking better than ever.

And he feels better about himself now. The horrible post-election depression that he suffered last year is a thing of the past.

He has his own TV show now. He has abandoned all of the crazy criticisms of the President that we heard from him last year. He now supports our President and all of his policies. He knows that George W. Bush is "the Lincoln of our generation."

Yes sir, the real Alan Keyes is back and he's unquestionably the President's best friend in the media.

[Teacher317]

I didn't see one of his first, and one of my favorites... with his first Executive Orders, he re-inforced the 1988 SCOTUS Beck decision in which the Court concluded that workers required to pay union dues without joining the union can only be forced to contribute funds for three activities: collective bargaining, contract administration, or grievance adjustment. Anything other expenditures must be refunded. Of course, the unions ignore this law/SCOTUS decision/EO anyway, and may never be held accountable, and even if they are, they'll just pay some fines with MORE dues money, but at least the rule of law and individual property rights were paid SOME lip service.

[Amelia]

Is there anything on this list that's supposed to really bother us?

[LarryLied]

I wasn't aware dues had risen so much, over $600 in some areas. Thought they were half that. Teachers would be better off pooling their money, hiring a local lawyer and getting their own insurance. Sure would help in the good will area.

[Amelia]

Alan Keyes looks better and better all the time. The only reason he couldn't win was because everyone was saying he couldn't win. It had little to do with reality.

Alan Keyes talks a good game - but has he ever actually done anything besides talk?

I'm beginning to agree with an editorial I read a while back that opined that he only ran to get enough publicity to raise his profile and his speaking fees. I'll bet his creditors would appreciate it if he'd use some of that money to pay off his campaign debts.

My question, however, is how Keyes would gain the political capital necessary to get enough legislation passed to really change anything - or would he just veto everything that came his way?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Ping!

(Though you might like to see this last post.)

[Texasforever]

I am glad you brought the EO up. Tell me do the unions now post the Beck decision requirements as required by the courts?

[Sci Fi Guy]

I have always felt that most of the Good that Bush does will not attract media attention, because it will be done by the hundreds of conservatives he appointed to different places in the govt.