Keywords For George W. Bush: Abortion, Aristocracy, Bigotry, Children, Corporate Interests, Crime and Punishment, Criminal, Despicable Behavior, Election 2000, Enron, Environment, Ethics, Faith Based Initiative, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Flat World Society, Foreign Policy, Fraud, Health, Honor and Integrity, Hypocrisy, Labor, Lack of Leadership, Laziness, Lies, Secrecy, Stupidity, Tax Cut, Terrorism, Warmonger, Women's Rights

At his father's insistence, Bush tried his hand in the oil business. He returned to Midland and formed an independent oil and gas exploration company that he called Arbusto (the Spanish word for “bush”). After losing in a 1978 race for the U.S. House of Representatives, Bush accepted an offer to merge his failing oil firm with an oil-investing fund called Spectrum 7. He became chairman of the resulting corporation. In 1986, Spectrum was sold to Harken Energy where Bush practiced Enron-like accounting, committed insider trading, received executive loans that he has since declared illegal for others. In addition, he evaded taxes to the song of $3 million on his sale of Texas Rangers stock.

As the Rangers managing partner, after an initial outlay of only $606,000, Bush walked away with nearly $15 million when the team was sold in 1998. This was the result of a government land grab for the Rangers stadium that was essentially given to Bush and his cronies. Thank you very much taxpayers of Texas.

Bush was elected governor of Texas in 1994, a figurehead position in this state. (The Lieutenant Governor literally does all the work.)

In 2000, Bush stole the presidency of the United States and still violates the White House, implementing his complex domestic (Cut taxes) and foreign (Kill Sadam) policies. He spends his free time destroying the planet and ripping the citizenry of their civil rights. 

Hobbies include: smirking, gaffing and clubbing baby seals with oilcans.

STRATEGY: Do not let Bush off the hook. Those things given short shrift in the major media (if any shrift at all) must be hammered at the grassroots level. (Ex. Regarding avoidance of service in Vietnam, the major media printed over 13,000 articles about Clinton but less than 50 articles about Bush. Damn that liberal media!)

KEYWORDS: Illegitimate, Privileged

MESSAGE: The truth will set you free

NICKNAMES: Shrub, Dim Son, Smirk, Junior, Commander-in-Theif, Chimp

(Lies) 

FACT: Bush said, "People want tax relief. That's what the people want. Once they realize we've got money in our budget to meet our needs, the people want tax relief." A concurrent CBS News/New York Times poll, however, showed that only19% of Americans favored the tax cuts while 53% favored the preservation of Social Security as their top priority. 

COMMENT: Why would a president who was installed by 5 injustices care about the will of the people anyway? They didn't elect him. They voted for the other guy. 

(Despicable Behavior, Children, Tax Cut) 

FACT: During the campaign, George W. Bush liked to say that he would "Leave no child behind." Soon after these proclamations, he announced that he was cutting spending on childcare and support for abused children by $200 million, in order to pay for his tax cut for the rich. In addition, those who actually need government support for childcare aren't getting a tax cut, even though they pay federal payroll tax. 

(Corporate Interests, Aristocracy, Abortion, Foreign Policy, Lies) 

FACT: Bush suspended a rule that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that have violated federal laws. He opposed Senator Lieberman's plan for immediate tax relief. He restricted the distribution of RU-486 to low-income women. He refused to aid the Middle East peace process. He pulled out of the Kyoto global warming treaty. 

(Lies, Despicable behavior) 

FACT: Bush traveled to Atlanta to visit Egleston Children's Healthcare, an Atlanta-area children's hospital. One report says that he "got misty-eyed" as he listened to parents talk about their children's illnesses and the benefits of the children's hospital. Then, in April, 2002 he CUT their funding. 

COMMENT: Bush will "leave no child behind" in his assault on true American values.

(Stupidity, Lies, Crime and Punishment) 

FACT: Bush announced that the Community Policing Services Program (COPS), the centerpiece of Clinton's 1994 anti-crime initiative, will be cut by 13 percent because the nation's decrease in violent crime cannot be attributed to the 103,000 extra police officers hired through the program. Violent crime has declined every year since 1994, when COPS and the Brady Bill were enacted. 

COMMENT: It seems, however that the COPS program had not hired the 100,000 new police Bush now says it did. 

(Foreign Policy) 2001

FACT: Bush announced that he was abandoning the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to pursue his missile defense shield plans. In addition, he tells China that it is OK for them to resume nuclear testing. Russia, Meanwhile announced that they would implement a multiple-nuclear-warhead strategy which would easily overwhelm a missile defense shield in response to Bush's proclamation. Multiple Nuclear warheads were to 

(Lies, Despicable Behavior, Lack of Leadership, Stupidity) 

FACT: According to the UK Guardian, when a child in Florida asked Bush what he thought after the first plane crash, Bush responded: "There's one terrible pilot." And then added "It must have been a horrible accident." It's such a typical conservative reaction, to laugh at the incompetence of the pilot before lamely acknowledging the suffering of the victims as an irritated afterthought. Bush also claimed that he learned about the crash by watching it on TV. "The TV was obviously on", he said just before he started reading to a bunch of elementary school children, even though published reports indicate that he got the news by phone from Condoleeza Rice, his National Security Advisor. 

COMMENT: There is little doubt that the pivotal moment in George W. Bush's presidency, and probably the most important moment in his entire life, was when two airplanes collided with the World Trade Center on September 11. His response is not surprising but it is both saddening and maddening.

(Anti-Labor, Women's Rights, Corporate Interests, Lies) 

FACT: Bush repealed ergonomic safety regulations, which were 10 years in the making. Gregory A. Denier, spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, said the regulation would have prevented 600,000 injuries a year through such changes as better workstation design for chicken de-boners and meat packers. Martha G. Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, an umbrella for 120 groups representing 6 million people, said women suffer many ergonomic injuries from keyboard work and machine cleaning, and called the repeal "a slap in the face of women." 

COMMENT: Meanwhile, Bush claims that, "The safety and health of our nation's workforce is a priority for my administration."

(Secrecy, Criminal, Aristocracy) 

FACT: The scheduled release of 68,000 pages of Reagan era documents is delayed by the incoming administration, which says it wants until March to review them, in violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978. The papers cover the period when Osama Bin Laden was recruited and trained by the Reagan Administration, as well as the period when arms were being sold secretly in the Middle East to finance the terrorist campaigns of the Contras. 

(Abortion, Despicable Behavior) 

FACT: Bush re-imposes a ban on federal funds for overseas groups that perform or advocate abortions, or lobby governments to ease access to abortion. At issue is about $425 million used by overseas organizations in developing countries to promote family planning, nutrition and counseling. He also orders a review of the government's approval of the RU-486 abortion pill. 

(Corporate Interests) 

FACT: Bush puts on hold meat safety regulations proposed by the Department of Agriculture that call for more stringent testing by plants producing hot dogs, ready-to-eat-meats and cheeses to detect listeria bacteria, which can contaminate processed meat, poultry and dairy products. 

(Terrorism, Corporate Interests, Criminal, Despicable Behavior, 911) 

FACT: According to the BBC, Bush halted all ongoing FBI investigations of ties between the Bin Laden family and international terrorism. Bush's father and the Bin Ladens are in business together at the Carlyle Group, a private investment house. 

(Lies, Fraud, Criminal, Corporate Interests, Anti-Environment, Despicable Behavior) 

FACT: Bush announces he is preparing to let California roll back its air pollution requirements on power plants to help the state ease its electricity crisis, despite the fact that California pollution officials said the environmental restrictions had not interfered with power plants operations at maximum capacity. 

(Stupidity, Laziness) 

FACT: Bush takes the first weekend after his swearing in off. No president in US history will do less actual work in his first year. Bush has spent almost two months vacationing since inauguration day - and that's not even adding in the time he's spent at Camp David (14 weekends and counting so far). Bush's advisers have attempted to spin this as a "Home to the Heartland Tour" on which, apparently, he will be "working." Toward the end of his "working" vacation, Bush spent plenty of time telling reporters that he was "looking forward to getting back to work." 

COMMENT: But, but, but I thought he was working all along, you know…touring the heartland and such. (As of Sep 05, 2002, Bush has spent  42% of his time in office at one of three leisure spots: "The Ranch", Camp David and Maine.)

(Stupidity, Foreign Policy)

FACT: Further confusing US-China relations, the Bush Administration released and then retracted a memo suspending all military ties with Beijing. It turns out that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld instead meant to weigh future contacts on a case-by-case basis. Donny then proceded to place the blame on some faceless subordinate who "misinterpreted the secretary's intentions." 

(Hypocrisy, Lies) 

FACT: Last week the Department of Transportation issued a rule which will impose a $2.50 "fee" on all air travelers, to help the government pay for the cost of providing security. 

COMMENT: This fee is obviously a TAX, despite the fact that Bush proclaimed, with his usual touch of dicombobulation and Freudian slippage that, "Not over my dead body will they raise taxes!" This just goes to show how dumb Bush thinks the American population is…to be taken in by such nonsense.

(Stupidity) 

FACT: The New York Post revealed last week that Dubya never leaves home without a copy of his favorite book of all time, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (go here and search for "hungry caterpillar" for the story). Laura Bush claimed two years ago that the book was Dubya's favorite "from childhood," despite the fact that it was written in 1969, one year after he graduated from Yale. Anyway, according to the Post, Bush's handlers always have a copy of the book on hand, and he has been "spotted turning its pages" on trips to New Orleans, Phoenix, San Diego and elsewhere. 

(Lies, Enron) 

FACT: Up until just before the Enron debacle, Bush made it clear that he and Enron chief Ken Lay have been best friends, even referring to him as "Kenny Boy." Once the Enron Scandal began developing however, Bush came down with a broad case of "memory" loss (ie. He lied.) In fact, Bush said, Ken Lay "was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994." Even though Lay and his wife give three times as much money to Bush than they gave to Richards? 

(Lies, Secrecy in Government)

FACT: On January 28, 2002 Bush defended his refusal to turn over records of Cheney's Energy Task force to the GAO. "We're not going to let the ability for us to discuss matters between ourselves to become eroded," 

COMMENT: This means that neither Bush nor his minions can say what they think without that advice being either criminal, unethical or immoral. In addition, Bush implies that the heads of corporations (in this case energy concerns) are privy to information that the rest of us lowly citizens are not allowed to know.. Note that Bush's gaffes inevitably reveal Bush's true thoughts. Freud 

(Honor and Integrity) 

FACT: The peace was shattered for Washington D.C. residents when the Bush administration decided to finish up their first state dinner with a rather loud fireworks display - without notifying their neighbors. A spokesperson apologized the following day, claiming that "the White House tries to respect the area's residents and their concerns." The real zinger is the fact that the display cost taxpayers nearly $200,000.

(Fiscal Irresponsibility) 

FACT: Although the Clinton Administration was able to overcome the crippling deficits of the Reagan era and produce surpluses for the first time in a generation, Bush Jr. has had no problem hobbling the government's fiscal condition. After the Bush Recession and the Bush Massive Tax Giveaway to the Rich, we now have the Bush Deficit. To be exact: the $127 billion surplus of 2001 has morphed into a $106 billion deficit for 2002. The Washington Post called it "the swiftest plunge in the nation's fiscal health in a half century." The current White House budget director said that the budget would be in deficit for the rest of President Bush's term. 

(Lies, Despicable Behavior) 

FACT: New Yorkers were disgusted to learn that Bush has effectively slashed $5 billion from the promised $20 billion of aid for 9-11 related costs. It was revealed last week that the administration would simply steal $5 billion from the victims' compensation fund, so that federal funding would only need to provide $15 billion. Unfortunately New Yorkers had been led to believe every step of the way that the two funds would be kept separate. "It was repeatedly made clear that these dollars were not to be included as part of the $20 billion - and we're not going to let that happen," vowed Sen. Chuck Schumer. "This verges on a breach of faith." 

COMMENT: The Bush budget will include a series of cuts to important New York programs, "ranging from Head Start and Drug Free Schools grants to community-development block grants," according to the New York Post. Also, Bush's plan nearly-eliminates the COPS program, which has allowed the hiring of 7,000 new NYC police officers over the years. And don't forget that Bush, without hesitation, promised and delivered $15 billion in aid to the Airlines whose penny pinching on security was at least partially responsible for the 9-11 catastrophe.

(Hypocrisy, Terrorism) 

FACT: The Bush administration spent $3.5 million on anti-drug commercials during the Super Bowl. The commercials, which preached that American drug users are funding terrorists, were designed solely to further demonize drugs among non-drug users. "It's so important for Americans to know that the traffic in drugs finances the work of terror, sustaining terrorists, that terrorists use drug profits to fund their cells to commit acts of murder. If you quit drugs, you join the fight against terror in America," said Bush. COMMENT: More importantly, while we're on the subject of where terrorists get their money and weapons, let's note that it was Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush who supplied advanced weaponry to the Taliban while they were selling weapons to Iran (a member of the "axis of evil") in order to fund right-wing terrorists in Central America. Who's the terrorist here?

(Lies, Anti-Labor) 

FACT: Bush blocks rules meant to make it easier for sick coal miners to receive black lung benefits, despite the fact that he promised to support the same benefits while campaigning. United Mine Workers President, Cecil Roberts said, "It seems suspect that now, just a few weeks after Mr. Bush took office, we are witnessing a full-scale reversal on the assurance to fight for the immediate implementation of the regulations by the very same government lawyers who made it in the first place." 

(Bigotry) 

FACT: In an interview with USA Today, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card reveals the Bush administration's intention to eliminate the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP), created by President Clinton in 1994, and the Office of One America, created by President Clinton in 1997 to improve race 
relations. The next day, the White House, realizing the unpopularity of its decision, reverses itself, allowing both offices to remain open…. for now. The Associated Press notes that phones in both offices go unanswered, however. 

(Foreign Policy, Warmonger, Corporate Interests, Stupidity, Despicable Behavior) 

FACT: The administration refuses to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and production of anti-personnel bombs and mines. 

COMMENT: This leaves the door open to stage war on our terms and on the Defense industry's terms…and on Carlyle group's terms….and thus on Bush Sr.'s terms. Note that the millions of mines remaining in war torn regions of the world kill countless civilians and can remain in the ground and active for decades. The fact that they are hidden, makes for an obviously and excruciatingly difficult recovery operation, and since they are usually planted in parts of the world that cannot afford such a clean up effort, they remain. 

(Faith-Based Initiative, Abortion, Lies, Bigotry) 

FACT: In a meeting with Catholic groups, Bush inadvertently announces over an intercom to the entire White House that the Faith-Based Initiative plan would help them fund their anti-abortion activities. Karl Rove holds secret meetings this month with the Salvation Army offering to let them discriminate legally against gays if they would support the plan. 

COMMENT: So, the faith-based initiative is merely a covert funding scheme for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.

(Anti-Environment, Foreign Policy, Corporate Interests) 

FACT: The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 for controlling global warming is declared "dead" by Bush, who also backs off his campaign promise to regulate power plants for lower CO2 emissions. 

COMMENT: Corporate bigwigs hail the decisions in a fit of wallet fattening glee.

(Lies, Foreign Policy, Stupidity) 

FACT: After Colin Powell announced that the U. S. will continue to support the efforts of South and North Korea to hold talks, as the Clinton administration had done, Bush says we will not support talks because North Korea is not living up to all its agreements with us. It emerges we have only one agreement with North Korea, and it has been verified they are holding up their end. North Korea cancels peace talks in Seoul. 

COMMENT: Bush apparently made this jack-ass move in retaliation for South Korean premier, Kim Dae Jung publicly supporting the ABM treaty (Which Bush unilaterally declared dead). Bush knows that peace = no money for defense contracting buddies. Thus, concludes the lame one, war = profits. Ha, ha, ha! This is further proof that there is nothing more important in the miniscule mind of Bush than that which inflates his pockets or his ego. World be damned. 

(Anti-Environment, Corporate Interests) 

FACT: In an interview with the Denver Post, Bush says that there is room in the nation's national monuments for oil drilling. 

(Anti-Labor, Corporate Interests)

FACT: Bush supported legislation that would repeal federal regulations helping workers with repetitive-motion injuries. Under the repealed regulations, employers would have to inform workers about repetitive-motion injuries, provide free access to doctors and pay 90 percent of employees' pay for the first 90 days they missed work because of a work-related repetitive-stress injury. Cashiers, assembly-line workers, meat cutters, forklift operators, secretaries and computer operators are among the many that are affected by the changes. 

(Corporate Interests, Anti-Environment, Anti-Public Health) 

FACT: The Bush administration rescinds a regulation to update the arsenic standard from 50 ppb to 10 ppb.

(Hypocrisy, Election 2000) 

FACT: The White House rejected a request from the Federal Election Commission for $5.5 million over two years to beef up its Office of Administration. The money would have been used to develop standards that ensure elections are run properly. 

(Lies, Hypocrisy, Corporate Interests) 

FACT: Bush announces he is ending the American Bar Association's (ABA) half-century role in vetting nominees for federal judgeships. White House Counsel Al Gonzales notified ABA president Martha Barnett in writing, saying, "In our view, granting any single group such a preferential, quasi-official role in the nomination process would be unfair to the other groups that also have strong interests in judicial selection. It would be particularly inappropriate, in our view, to grant preferential, quasi-official role to a group, such as the ABA, that takes public positions on divisive political, legal and social issues that come before the courts." Shortly thereafter, the Administration grants that preferential, quasi-official role to the fringe right wing Federalist Society, headed by Ed Meese. 

COMMENT: Of course we cannot forget the meaningful and invasive role that Enron and other energy interests played in the forming of the Cheney "Contributor Payback Program" as well as the firing of the FERC head by Ken Lay himself.

(Flat World Society) 

FACT: Bush scraps the X-33 space plane after five years of research and scales back the International Space Station to pay for his tax cut. NASA now has no replacement for the aging space shuttle fleet and will have to rely on the planes until at least 2012. We have only four space shuttles, and the oldest dates back to 1981. 

(Tax Cut, Fiscal Irresponsibility) 02/2001

FACT: Republican Greenspan testified that the "Tax Stimulus" argument to stimulate the economy is nonsense. Alan Greenspan tells the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee that tax cuts will be no help in staving off a recession. "In other words, if a recession is going to happen -- and I must say to you, it's not happened yet -- it's very unlikely to be affected one way or the other by what tax policy is going to be."

(Anti-Labor) 

FACT: Bush signs executive orders banning project labor agreements, eliminating the National Partnership Council and taking away job protection for service industry workers contracting with the government; he also reinstates an executive order requiring contractors to post notices about union dues.

(Tax Cuts, Fiscal Irresponsibility) 

FACT: Texas legislators are forced to confront a $1 billion shortfall caused by tax cuts under then-governor Bush in 1998. 

(Despicable Behavior, Ethics) 

FACT: At a recent fundraiser for New York's Republican governor George Pataki, Bush proclaimed that Pataki should be reelected because, "It also makes sense for New York State to have a governor whose phone calls will be returned from the White House." 

COMMENT: So, now Bush will not even do the job that the Felonious Five Injustices gave him, going as far as threatening American citizens with executive branch neglect if they don't vote for republicans. This is the same punishment tactic used with the false "energy shortfall" in California in 2001.