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April 06, 2004

Strikes Against Bush

I think it's reasonable for me to document my strikes against GWBush right about now. I'm a Republican he is in danger of losing, not that I was very strong for him in general rather than on the biggest issues.

• Slime & Defend
  Carl Rove must die.
• Valerie Plame
  This was unconscionable. Outing a CIA operative for political gain was dastardly, and he never owned up to it or rolled a head for it. He can not be forgiven.
• Steel Tariffs
  Never made sense, and backfired to boot. This was pure heavy handed manipulation, without any regard to matters of free trade, he almost got us hauled into WTO sanctions.
• Colin Powell
  Bush's timetable on Iraq has set our foreign policy backwards and has put the agenda of the PNAC ahead of that of the State Department. He has taken an American Hero and turned him into an emasculated flunky. Powell and Armitage should be kicking Perle & Wolfowitz' asses, but because of Cheney, they're not.
• Compassionate Conservatism
  That's Arnold Schwartzeneggar, not GWBush. Your domestic agenda is a joke. This is moderated by the fact that the Bush White House has all but muted Tom Delay, Bob Barr and Trent Lott. This Congress *did* pass McCain Feingold. But his fake 'hispanic' is ridiculous.
• Deficit Spending
  Republicans don't fool me with their promises not to spend. They goddamned do spend. Missile defense is a classic boondoggle. At any rate, the Federal budget has gone to hell in a handbasket, and there's nobody stopping the train.
• Microsoft
  GWBush allowed Microsoft to get away with murder. Anti-Trust law is there for a good reason, and Microsoft flaunted it. Playing this like it was a loony lefty scheme of Clinton's was stupid and wrong.
• Amicus Against Michigan
  Stupid and wrong.

  What GW Bush has done right is obvious. As a mediocre President, he has risen to the challenge of staring down Saddam. Nuff said about that.

  Posted by mbowen at April 6, 2004 03:06 PM

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  This source might help you decide (factually) which side of the fence you're going to be on. ;-)

  http://www.factcheck.org/

  Posted by: Deb at April 6, 2004 05:12 PM

  I didn't remember Bush filing an amicus brief against the entire state of Michigan. I do recall him filing two such briefs on the affirmative action/racism issue, one against the most overt forms of reverse discrimination (U Mich undergrad admissions), the other in favor of a mildly sutbler form of it (U Mich Law).

  Posted by: Xrlq at April 10, 2004 02:38 PM

  Neither of which rise to the standing of any racist discrimination which might be pursued by the Administration's own EEOC. Or has he disbanded it and decided it's all for the courts to decide?

  Details.

  Posted by: cobb at April 10, 2004 04:47 PM