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Originally posted by MagiK:
Moni 89% (highest percentage in the history of the office)of the people in the country disagree with you according to the washington post (a liberal rag if ever there was one) It seems you are in the minority thinking that the Bush administration is doing a lousey job.
It's still his option to do so, though there are now some people who regard saying anything negative about Dubyah as equivalent to treason.
Please elucidate and be specific please, just what is bad that the sh administration has done?? Im fairly certain all you will come up with is "OPINION" differences, things linke drilling in ANWAR
Short list:
Jerking his puppet head up and down anytime the Israeli Prime Minister makes a statement or the Israeli army makes a move against Palestinians. Regardless of where you stand on this, brokering a peace between Israeli and Palestine ain't gonna happen if the most likely candidate to enforce a peace is seen as a mannikin run by one side.
Withdrawing the US from a variety of important global agreements and pending agreements that (in some cases) the US has been negotiating positively since guess when--Dubyah's daddy was in office.
Arbitrarily abrogating the ABM treaty with the Russians. Speaks for itself.
This Axis of Evil business has set back attempts to deal with the North Koreans--a little like telling a dangerous lunatic with a loaded gun that he's a crazy maniac. The South Koreans and Japanese governments have already spoken harshly with Dubyah over the matter. (Diplomatic jargon was that the meetings showed "decided differences of opinion," which meant they really went at it.)
He's a liberal spender the likes of which hasn't been seen since LBJ, and the latter had a much better economy and a huge financial surplus. Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, a social moderate or a conservative, this kind of blithe disregard for fiscal responsibility raises my hackles. His proposed budget is a joke, and would run up a huge deficit very quickly, IMO.
He's already expressed extreme optimism in that demonic Edward Teller's Star Wars idea, and was willing (at one point) to spend even more on it than he is on "fighting terrorism." Chalk this up as a future error waiting to happen, pouring billions of dollars into developing the theories behind the prototyped parts needed to establish the equipment that many theorists think won't work but likely can't prevent attacks if it does--since terrorists have already shown how well they can mess up nations without resorting to nuclear bombs.
He's attempting to stack the courts. Clinton, the idiot, tried to play by the old cooperative rules, and appointed a large number of Republicans to the court system (federal and otherwise). Bush's appointees are exclusively from the right-wing of the Republican party, and appear to have been chosen first for their reactionary ideology. Some are very competent, some are merely competent, and some are raising protests among the legal community, itself.
Closing down the legal department's continuing fight against Microsoft's monopoly. Gets little publicity, I know, but this has big implications for the future, IMO. It also shows for the first time that the US government is unwilling to match the financial resources in court of a major international corporation.
Bush has decided to reverse a policy (literally, the "Open Portfolio Policy") set in place during the Carter administration providing Congressional and Judicial access to all Executive branch of the government files when requested. The policy was first put into place to prevent the kind of hell that erupted between the branches during the Watergate crisis. It's been followed since--up until Dubyah sent around a memo through the Cabinet and White House in the middle of last year, stating that all requests for documents from the judiciary or Congress were to be refused. So much for the informational equivalent of a "system of checks and balances" that our democracy is based upon.
Steel tariffs, the latest major error. Classic short-sighted tradeoff, IMO: it's more important for Dubyah to win senatorial seats in the big steel states (like West Virginia and Ohio) this fall, then worry about the economy, which will suffer a big hit overall when Europe responds with its own slate of tariffs, which in turn starts a complete tit-for-tat trade war.
Feel free to shoot back, Magik. I'm not going to argue, and hopefully no one here is going to stoop as low as to flame me for offering my honest opinions--even if they don't go with those of the most outspoken members like yourself. But since you asked why some people don't like Bush--and since so many people are screaming down anyone who says differently, now (all because of those stinking Al-Qua'idah terrorists), I'm telling it like I see it. [img]smile.gif[/img] I have a lot of problems with Dubyah's actions and plans, and this is just the tip of 'em, IMO. He knows his popularity is linked completely to this new "war," given that he wasn't doing well in the polls before September. If he can't continue it, I think he's going to be in for a very rocky road with the US public-at-large. Again, just my two cents.
[ 03-07-2002: Message edited by: fable ]