GW Bush's "Record"!

Is this a record
to be proud of ?

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Do you remember what a big deal the George W. Bush campaign, and its extension, the mainstream media made over the awkward statement John Kerry made in 2004 �I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.� Has this same so-called "Liberal Media" gone to sleep and never awoken since then? Have you heard any of them asking how George W. Bush can expect anyone to take him seriously when they can't even figure out what he stands for?
What about all of these "flip-flops"

First, Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.

First, Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.

First, Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.

First, Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.

First, Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.

First, Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.

First, Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.

First, Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.

First, Bush is for states' rights to decide on gay marriage, then he's for changing the Constitution to prevent states from having any say.

First, Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), the budget he sent to Congress cut benefits, instead of increasing them.

First, Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... the budget he sent to Congress cut benefits, instead of increasing them.

First, Bush says "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Then Bush says "I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care." But then, on Sept. 12, 2006 Bush says,"No matter how long it takes, America will find you, and we will bring you to justice."

First, Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.

First, Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote

First, Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Then Bush admitted it was his own advance team.

First, Bush was against increasing anti-terror budget, then he was for it.
First, Bush said the UN was irrelevant, then asked for the UN's help.
First, Bush was against releasing the oil reserves, then he was all for it.
First, Bush said the economy is strong, then he said the economy was in a soft patch.
First, Bush said he was for smaller government, then he created the largest government in history.
First, Bush said we only needed 50,000 troops to secure Iraq, then he sent 150,000.
First, Bush said he would not touch the Social Security trust fund, then he raided it.
First, Bush said he opposed the 9/11 commission, then he promoted it as though it was his own idea.
First, Bush said he was too busy to testify before the 9/11 comission, then he agreed to testify (provided Cheney could accompany him, they could testify off the record, and not under oath).
First, Bush said Al Qaida and Saddam were connected, then he said there were no links between the two, then acted as though they were connected.
First, Bush said we couldn't win the war on terror, then he said we could.
First, Bush said Clinton/Gore should have 'jawboned' OPEC into reducing prices, then did nothing as oil climbed to $70 / barrel.
First, Bush was against participation in NATO, then he was for it.
First, Bush is for a patients right to sue, then he argues against it.
First, Bush said no more money was needed for Iraq in 2004, then asked for 20 billion more.
First, Bush was for Chalabi and invited him to the State of the Union speech, then he had Chalabi's home raided.
First, Bush opposed extension of 9/11 commission, then he supported extension of 9/11 commission.
First, Bush says he supports diverting Great Lakes, then he opposes diverting Great Lakes.
First, Bush was for limits on carbon dioxide, now against limits on carbon dioxide.
First, Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, then he's against it.
First, Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will.

One of the Professors who had George Bush in his class at Harvard, Yoshi Tsurumi (who is now Professor of International Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York ) wrote about President Bush in March of 2004:
"At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism."
Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal."www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president

George W. Bush claimed that as the governor
of one of America's largest states
he had been a "Reformer With Results" :
His friends, who own just about all of the important mainstream media outlets let him get away with his groundless claims, despite the facts, namely: EDUCATION under George W. Bush:
Out of 50 states, TEXAS scored:
3rd from Last in High school completion. ⁽²⁾
15th from Last in Teacher salaries when he became "Gov."⁽¹⁾
13th from Last in Teacher salaries at beginning of 2nd term.⁽¹⁾
From '89 to '99 average teacher salaries went DOWN 1.1%
(in constant $'s) !
Dead Last in Teacher salary plus benefits. ⁽¹⁾
SAT (combined math & verbal scores )⁽¹³⁾:
Score of 995 = 7th from Last in 1996
Score of 995 = 6th from Last in 1997
Score of 995 = 7th from Last in 1998
FAMILY VALUES under George W. Bush:
Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
Dead Last in # of poorest counties in country. ⁽³⁾
2nd from Last in # of children living in poverty.⁽³⁾
2nd from Last in # of children without health insurance.⁽³⁾
Highest number of people stripped of Medicare benefits (10)
Dead Last in % of poor working parents without insurance.⁽³⁾
2nd from Last in % of population without health insurance.⁽³⁾
6th from Last in Child support collections ⁽³⁾
5th from Last in Teen Birth Rate. ⁽⁴⁾
3rd from Last in Hunger Rate.
3rd from Last in Per capita funding for public health.⁽⁴⁾
4th from Last in Delivery of social services.⁽⁴⁾
6th from Last in # Mothers receiving prenatal care.⁽⁹⁾

CULTURE under George W. Bush:
Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
3rd from Last in Quality of Life in Texas
(Spending for parks and recreation)⁽⁷⁾
3rd from Last in Spending for the arts.⁽⁷⁾
5th from Last in Public libraries and branches.⁽⁸⁾
3rd from Last in Affordable Housing (12)
7th from Last in Home ownership (2)
Dead Last (i.e. highest) homes insurance rates in the nation (11)
4th from Last in Spending for police protection(12)
3rd from Last in Quality of place to raise children.⁽⁹⁾
(was 22nd from Last BEFORE Bush!)
Teen drug use - down nationally, but up 30% in Texas.⁽⁵⁾
Teen smoking - down nationally, NOT in Texas⁽⁵⁾
Dead Last (i.e. highest) # of executions (per capita)⁽¹¹⁾

Charlie Rangel is one of the U.S. House's most distinguished members, now serving his 17th term in the Harlem district where President Bill Clinton has set up his office.
ENVIRONMENT under George W. Bush:
Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
Dead Last in # of Smog days.
Dead Last in Pollution released by manufacturing plants.⁽⁶⁾
Dead Last in Pollution by industrial plants.
in violation of Clean Air Act.⁽⁶⁾
Dead Last in Greenhouse gas emissions.⁽⁶⁾
2nd from Last in Spending for the environment.⁽⁷⁾
3rd from Last in Spending for parks and recreation.⁽⁷⁾
5th from Last in Water Resources Protection.
======================================================== Sources:
⁽¹⁾ National Education Agency.
⁽²⁾ U.S. Department of Education Office
of Educational Research and Development.
⁽³⁾ U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Populations Trends.
⁽⁴⁾ U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services:
National Center for Health Statistics.
⁽⁵⁾ 1998 Texas School Survey of Substance:
Use Among Students: Grades 7-12, Texas.
Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
⁽⁶⁾ U.S. EPA, Office of Pollution and Prevention .
⁽⁷⁾ Texas Observer.
⁽⁸⁾ Statistical Rankings by State.
⁽⁹⁾ Children's Rights Council.
⁽¹⁰⁾ Families USA
⁽¹¹⁾ National Association of Insurance Commissioners
⁽¹²⁾U.S. Bureau of Census, State Government Finances 1998
⁽¹³⁾College Examination Board
There is even more at :
http://www.I know what you did inTexas.com
( a Democratic National Committee site on Bush)

God bless you, TEXAS, if YOU were happy with such a governor.
The rest of the country would have been eternally grateful
if only you had kept him for yourselves !

Hope you're happy with the Republicans you elected to run your state
since you cursed the rest of the country with "W":
http://Liberal-Insights.org/about/texas-rankings.html.
More than eight years after they were launched as a bold experiment in education, Texas' charter schools as a whole are performing well below other public schools on state tests,according to a Dallas Morning News review of data .

It's really strange the way so many citizens of "Conservative" states support Republicans who say they oppose government welfare, and support self-sufficiency and independence, have no idea how dependent their very own states are on "government welfare". Welfare assistance that is largely contributed to their states by the "Liberal" states that elect generous public servants like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy. See this very interesting chart on "Liberal" vs. "Welfare" states.

While President Clinton is remembered for ONE famous lie, George W. Bush lies so much that catalogues of such lies are appearing all over the place, beginning with our very own at : www.Liberal-Insights.Org/about/Bushlies.html.

David Corn published a whole book,
about them, featured at the www.bushlies.com/ site:

www.bushwatch.com/bushlies.htm &
http://www.schlatter.org/Dad/Politics/bushlies_1.htm &
The American Prospect &
Online Journal &
"Top Ten at Lies.Com &
TVNewsLies &
http://www.serendipity.li/impeachment.htm &
Molly Ivans "Bushwacked" (by G.W.B.) &
Lies about Military Record &
Fraud Watcher Network
Bush's "education miracle"?
It's a miracle he wasn't exposed sooner.
It's a commonplace with the national media that the strongest card in Bush's play for the presidency is his education record in Texas. It's now becoming clear that the Bush education record is nothing but "smoke and mirrors." That may be putting it kindly, if Boston College's Walt Haney is right in his in-depth study of education reform and statewide testing in Texas in the 90's, "The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education". Haney marshalls his facts to show that "The Texas 'miracle' is more hat than cattle."
"Because Texas Academic Achievement Scores (TAAS) scores were given such great importance, cheating scandals and "teaching to the TAAS' were inevitable". Haney documents that many students haven't fared well at all. There has been dramatic growth in dropout and student retention rates (especially in the ninth grade), an explosion in special education classifications and an upsurge in students who skip graduation - and the TAAS - for a GED that isn't really a "high school equivalency' certificate." The Texas Education Agency's number-jugglers created classifications designed to mask the true dropout rate and make it appear that a greater percentage of students than ever before were staying in school. From 1994 to 1998, the number of special-education students in the state doubled. To summarize, then, officials were able to gild the in-state education statistics by having more students drop out and by moving poorer students into categories that allowed them to skip the TASS tests, upon which Bush based his "miracle." Further, officials cooked the books to hide these negative outcomes.
Is it really fair to say that Bush had anything to do with the phony numbers and manipulation of categories that caused the education "miracle"? Well Bush is claiming that "As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards." Bush's people claim that "while only 52 percent of students passed the exit exam in 1994, that rate mushroomed to 72 percent in 1998." Why haven't there been any corresponding miracles in Texas' SAT or ACT scores. College entrance exam scores have remained flat, his minions explained, because more Texans are taking them, which is good. But Bush's crew haven't been able to explain why more students are taking the tests in the rest of the country as well, yet national average scores have risen. "Wouldn't it logically follow that any politician bragging about meeting his own standards would assure himself that his figures are correct? Since they are misleading, at best, the Governor is either consciously misleading us on one of the major claims of his campaign, or is he so far out of the loop that he doesn't know and doesn't care how the figures were reached? If so, is this the kind of person we want in the White House?
Further, "Ernesto M. Bernal, a University of Texas-Pan American professor who teaches graduate-level educational psychology courses, primarily to teachers and administrators....echoes the findings in "The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education". Boston College professor Walt Haney says that 'less than half, but at least a quarter' of the increase in passing rates can be credited to statistical and other bureaucratic acrobatics." For example, "the percentages of students retained in grade 9, or whose TAAS scores aren't calculated in school rankings because they are classified 'in special education' have mushroomed. So has the number who drop out of school but aren't counted as 'dropouts.'"
At the very least, then, Bush is claiming credit for an education "miracle" clearly based on phony numbers. If he or his advisers have no knowledge of how the numbers were obtained, he has failed as governor to oversee his education program, he lacks the ability to evaluate the validity of the outcomes of that program, and he is unable to appoint education officials to do good, honest work in his name. We don't believe such ineffectiveness would change if Bush were to reach the White House.
At any rate, Bush should stop bragging about an educational "miracle" that doesn't exist and stop telling the voters to choose him as president on the basis of his non-existent education accomplishments in Texas. The problem is, what does he have left to brag about then? How he cleaned up the environment in Texas? --Politex, 9/11/00

Bush Supporters
Also, check out :
AWOL from National Guard Duty
The Real Lie is what Bush and in friends in the media
have been saying about Al Gore "inventing the Internet"
Bush's 'Texas miracle' in schools? (Sacramento Bee)
Education 'miracle' or 'myth'? (Birtannica.com)
the sneaky G.O.P. plan to 'BushWhack' Social Security !

Check out these links from Texans :
School Modernization Facts - Texas
High TAAS Scores Nothing to Cheer About?
Dallas News.com: Metro
Ad Watch - Bush: Dangerous World, 11/16/99
Bush to Latinos: Higher Education is Not My Priority

The Most Authoritative Study of the Record of Death Penalty Cases
in Texas, under the Compassionate Conservative Governor George W. Bush :
Chicago Tribune's study of Texas Death Penalty Record (Part 1)
Chicago Tribune's study of Texas Death Penalty Record (Part 2)

The Well Hidden

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The case claiming that the Bush Administration was behind the 9/11 attack.

Many a great truth is said in jest, or as Jay Leno has said:
"Don't you think a man who has fried so many people ought to be called "Colonel" rather than "Governor"?
Texas prisons may be so bad that "Compassionate Conservatism" means executing people to spare them an even worse fate
trying to stay alive in their prisons !
What IS a "Compassionate Conservative" anyway?

or is it somebody who "feels the pain" of the Super Rich
and can't stop crying about
the heavy tax burden they have to carry ?

How "bright" is Gov. George W. Bush ?"
New study shows that Bush was in TOP 5%
of his classes at Harvard and Yale
. . . alphabetically.

"In 1989 Bush told Roland Betts, his good friend and former Yale classmate: "You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office."
Fortunate Son by Hatfield ( Page 95 . . .ch 4 . . .). Betts was also a partner in the Texas Rangers and in Spectrum 7, an energy company. ( pg. 289).

According to a Biblical Prophecy web site, the Prophet Daniel predicted that George W. Bush would usurp the presidency (2000) and eventually turn against Christianity.
In early June, 2000 New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican, was introducing his friend George W. Bush, the Texas governor and the GOP's presumptive nominee for president in Albuquerque. Now, the Bush campaign has worked very hard in recent months to portray its candidate as a man of reasonable intelligence. That has not been easy in the face of missteps, mispronunciations and other signals that the Texan might be a few bales short in the brain barn.
Bush has even been posing for pictures with faux intellectuals such as Henry Kissinger in order to create the impression that he can hold his own on issues like war and peace. But Johnson, a man known for his frankness on issues such as drug policy reform, offered a taste of the true Texan. The New Mexico governor began his introduction of Bush before a crowd of 600 by relating the following: "At one of these governors' conferences, George turns to me and says, `What are they talking about?' I said, `I don't know.' He said, `You don't know anything, do you?' And I said, `Not one thing.' He said, `Neither do I.' And we kind of high-fived.'' Celebrating ignorance with a high five. Now, that's the real George W.
For some entertaining musical pictures of George W. Bush and other Republican individuals and institutions, get to know a great web site with hundreds of fun lyrics and midi files that you can play and sing, all free:
The "Boot Newt" Sing Along Page.
He's Really That Dumb
("Little Drummer Boy")
and here for your listening pleasure is the balad,
"My Hero Mr. President"
sung by Paula Cole
&
You (W) Ain't a Cowboy
by Stephan Smith

For about a couple of weeks in July, 2004 we posted a chart purporting to show among other things that the 25 states with the lowest IQ (which usually correlated with lowest average income as well, voted for Bush, with the lone exception of New Mexico, which Gore won by just a few votes.
However, as soon as we discovered that it was a hoax, which had fooled the prestigious "Economist" magazine as well as ourselves, we removed it, as we don't want any weak or erroneous material weakening our case against Bush and Conservative Republicans in general. For the sake of curiosity, those who may want to know what we are talking about can find it at State_IQ_Income.html

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he had been a "Reformer With Results" :

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