In response to that comical speech he gave at the RNC i have stubled upon some key points:
President Bush has Undermined the Environment
George Bush, who campaigned promising to be the environmental president, withdrew the U.S. from the Kyoto Protocol to the Convention on Climate Change signed by over 160 nations.
Reneged on campaign pledge in 2000 to reduce emissions from four pollutants including carbon dioxide.
His administration has refused to accept the firm scientific consensus that fossil fuel related climate change constitutes a real danger insisting the evidence was incomplete despite research from the National Academy of Sciences (requested by Bush) and the Environmental Protection Agency during his time in office finding human causes of climate change that will have severe environmental and economic impact.
Has proposed the Clear Skies Initiative, that would repeal portions of the Clean Air Act designed to prevent pollution with corporate trading to permit pollution. Clear Skies would loosen caps on nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide that cause smog and acid rain allowing 68% more nitrogen oxide emissions and 225% more sulphur dioxide emissions.
Weakened the New Source Review, a provision requiring old industrial plants from before 1970 to install modern pollution control technology.
In 2003 the EPA quietly reversed a long-standing environmental safeguard it lifted a 25-year old ban on the sale of land contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs.
According to the EPA, more than 300,000 miles of the nation's rivers and shorelines -- and some 5 million acres of the lakes -- are impaired. Bush has reversed a trend of years of improvement. Now, 45% of U.S. waterways are too polluted for fishing or swimming, up from 40% a few years ago.
Hid the truth from the public concerning the dangers resulting from the 9-11 attack in New York City. The EPA issued nine press releases in the four months after the attack assuring workers and the public that they were safe. In fact, they were not. Documents released in recent months show the Bush administration knew of the risks but consciously hid them from the public actually removing warnings to the public from news releases. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA messages by removing cautionary information and adding reassuring statements. The documents also show screaming matches between the White House communications director and the EPA.
Of more than $40 billion designated to restore wetlands, protect habitats, conserve water, and improve water near farms, only $9 billion will address conservation, the rest will actually subsidize corporate factory farms which pollute the environment.
The White House has bankrupted the Superfund program making toxic waste clean-up impossible and is not pressing for renewal of the polluter pays law that has expired. The fund has been underfunded by an average of more than $300 million per year since 2001.
President Bush is Leaving US Youth Behind
Bushs No Child Left Behind education law leaves more children behind by not adequately funding the programs and requiring poorly conceived testing not teaching. Local governments have protested the law because it is an unfunded federal mandate. Teachers have criticized the law because it undermines education teaching to the test.
Bush has failed to make good on his promise to increase the amount of money eligible students could receive in college scholarship grants. Rapidly rising tuition puts college out of the reach of ever more families.
President Bush is Eroding Constitutional Rights
The Patriot Act has decreased the privacy of all people in the United States. They allow increased wiretapping of telephones, snooping of Internet messages, secret searches of homes and businesses, data mining of commercial databases, review of business records including library and financial records.
Undermining womens right to choose by signing into law the unconstitutional partial-birth abortion ban and imposing a global gag rule on foreign groups receiving U.S. aid.
Continuing and expanding the failed war on drugs which now costs the federal government $20 billion annually. The Ashcroft Justice Department has misspent law enforcement resources prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers in states where voters have enacted laws allowing the use of marijuana as a medicine.
President Bushs Failed Foreign Policy Record
President Bush has led us into a quagmire in Iraq based on falsehoods, misinformation and deception. His choice to illegally invade and occupy Iraq has not only cost us more than 970 lives of U.S. soldiers and civilians in Iraq, and more than 15,000 Iraqi civilian lives, it has becoming a breeding ground for terrorism, destroyed the standing of the U.S. in the world community and diverted our attention from preventing terrorism., according to Bushs own advisors.
The Bush administration has clearly chosen sides in the Palestinian-Israel conflict making it impossible for the U.S. to be a neutral arbiter of peace. The Administration has approved the actions of the military government of Ariel Sharon, no matter whether their actions violate international law, Israeli law and the human rights of the Palestinian people. President Bush's unwillingness to involve himself in the Middle East peace process in an objective fashion is one of the more overlookedbut nonetheless crucialarguments against his ability to effectively achieve his loft goals with respect to the 'War on Terror.
The Bush administration has failed to address pandemic and disease worldwide. President Bush has remained silent in the face of a likely flu pandemic from China. The physicians and other scientists at the Centers for Disease Control have warned the administration of the growing risk of a viral pandemic from China. But the administration has failed to act. The Bush administration's $15 billion dollar pledge of humanitarian aid for AIDS-ravaged countries in Africa heartened many, but he has not fulfilled that pledge when it comes to actually providing the funding needed.
The Bush administration continues to wastefully prepare for war while failing to wage peace. The Department of Defense spent approximately $7.7 billion last year on National Missle Defense, and put in a request for $9.2 billion for FY 2005 despite the program's proven and ongoing record of practical failure. Both the American Physical Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists have public expressed strong misgiving as to the workability of a National Missile Defense system. At the same time, the United States has continued to rank dead last among developed nations in total foreign aid, measured as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product.
"You say Liberal like its a bad thing"
President Bush has Undermined the Environment
George Bush, who campaigned promising to be the environmental president, withdrew the U.S. from the Kyoto Protocol to the Convention on Climate Change signed by over 160 nations.
Reneged on campaign pledge in 2000 to reduce emissions from four pollutants including carbon dioxide.
His administration has refused to accept the firm scientific consensus that fossil fuel related climate change constitutes a real danger insisting the evidence was incomplete despite research from the National Academy of Sciences (requested by Bush) and the Environmental Protection Agency during his time in office finding human causes of climate change that will have severe environmental and economic impact.
Has proposed the Clear Skies Initiative, that would repeal portions of the Clean Air Act designed to prevent pollution with corporate trading to permit pollution. Clear Skies would loosen caps on nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide that cause smog and acid rain allowing 68% more nitrogen oxide emissions and 225% more sulphur dioxide emissions.
Weakened the New Source Review, a provision requiring old industrial plants from before 1970 to install modern pollution control technology.
In 2003 the EPA quietly reversed a long-standing environmental safeguard it lifted a 25-year old ban on the sale of land contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs.
According to the EPA, more than 300,000 miles of the nation's rivers and shorelines -- and some 5 million acres of the lakes -- are impaired. Bush has reversed a trend of years of improvement. Now, 45% of U.S. waterways are too polluted for fishing or swimming, up from 40% a few years ago.
Hid the truth from the public concerning the dangers resulting from the 9-11 attack in New York City. The EPA issued nine press releases in the four months after the attack assuring workers and the public that they were safe. In fact, they were not. Documents released in recent months show the Bush administration knew of the risks but consciously hid them from the public actually removing warnings to the public from news releases. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA messages by removing cautionary information and adding reassuring statements. The documents also show screaming matches between the White House communications director and the EPA.
Of more than $40 billion designated to restore wetlands, protect habitats, conserve water, and improve water near farms, only $9 billion will address conservation, the rest will actually subsidize corporate factory farms which pollute the environment.
The White House has bankrupted the Superfund program making toxic waste clean-up impossible and is not pressing for renewal of the polluter pays law that has expired. The fund has been underfunded by an average of more than $300 million per year since 2001.
President Bush is Leaving US Youth Behind
Bushs No Child Left Behind education law leaves more children behind by not adequately funding the programs and requiring poorly conceived testing not teaching. Local governments have protested the law because it is an unfunded federal mandate. Teachers have criticized the law because it undermines education teaching to the test.
Bush has failed to make good on his promise to increase the amount of money eligible students could receive in college scholarship grants. Rapidly rising tuition puts college out of the reach of ever more families.
President Bush is Eroding Constitutional Rights
The Patriot Act has decreased the privacy of all people in the United States. They allow increased wiretapping of telephones, snooping of Internet messages, secret searches of homes and businesses, data mining of commercial databases, review of business records including library and financial records.
Undermining womens right to choose by signing into law the unconstitutional partial-birth abortion ban and imposing a global gag rule on foreign groups receiving U.S. aid.
Continuing and expanding the failed war on drugs which now costs the federal government $20 billion annually. The Ashcroft Justice Department has misspent law enforcement resources prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers in states where voters have enacted laws allowing the use of marijuana as a medicine.
President Bushs Failed Foreign Policy Record
President Bush has led us into a quagmire in Iraq based on falsehoods, misinformation and deception. His choice to illegally invade and occupy Iraq has not only cost us more than 970 lives of U.S. soldiers and civilians in Iraq, and more than 15,000 Iraqi civilian lives, it has becoming a breeding ground for terrorism, destroyed the standing of the U.S. in the world community and diverted our attention from preventing terrorism., according to Bushs own advisors.
The Bush administration has clearly chosen sides in the Palestinian-Israel conflict making it impossible for the U.S. to be a neutral arbiter of peace. The Administration has approved the actions of the military government of Ariel Sharon, no matter whether their actions violate international law, Israeli law and the human rights of the Palestinian people. President Bush's unwillingness to involve himself in the Middle East peace process in an objective fashion is one of the more overlookedbut nonetheless crucialarguments against his ability to effectively achieve his loft goals with respect to the 'War on Terror.
The Bush administration has failed to address pandemic and disease worldwide. President Bush has remained silent in the face of a likely flu pandemic from China. The physicians and other scientists at the Centers for Disease Control have warned the administration of the growing risk of a viral pandemic from China. But the administration has failed to act. The Bush administration's $15 billion dollar pledge of humanitarian aid for AIDS-ravaged countries in Africa heartened many, but he has not fulfilled that pledge when it comes to actually providing the funding needed.
The Bush administration continues to wastefully prepare for war while failing to wage peace. The Department of Defense spent approximately $7.7 billion last year on National Missle Defense, and put in a request for $9.2 billion for FY 2005 despite the program's proven and ongoing record of practical failure. Both the American Physical Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists have public expressed strong misgiving as to the workability of a National Missile Defense system. At the same time, the United States has continued to rank dead last among developed nations in total foreign aid, measured as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product.
"You say Liberal like its a bad thing"
