Bush's First Eight Months' Accomplishments

Sat 31 Oct 2009, 11:43 PM

So let's get this straight right from the beginning: I did not vote for Obama (or McCain). But there's an e-mail campaign going on right now titled "Obama's First Eight Months' Accomplishments" (go find it yourself). And it's so bad, it pissed me off. Looking around the interwebs, I couldn't find anything similar for Dubya, so I spent the time to make one. Here it is. Hopefully it will be as popular as my ”Fashion Advice For Women Part I”, at least according to The Google...

 

• Saved the world from Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore.
• Was the first and only president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
• Had an inaugural that was attended by 40,000 people and had his limo egged (Note: Obama's inaugural was attended by roughly 1,800,000).
• Lost a high tech spy plane to China, and had it returned in pieces (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1425318.stm).
• Established a 'faith based' give-away for religious groups to push abstinence (which, statistically, did not work).
• Held some town hall meetings to push a $1.35 trillion tax cut --one of the largest cuts in U.S. history (note: the U.S. national debt at the time was approaching $6 trillion, and this cut was opposed by his Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill).
• Stood by while national unemployment rose by approximately 2 percent (see also: median household income drop, poverty rate increase, lower GDP, etc).
• Pushed the No Child Left Behind Act while significantly under-funding it.
• Opposed the Kyoto Protocol --signed and ratified by 184 other nations.
• Ignored presidential briefings such as 'Bin Laden determined to strike in US' (August 6, 2001).
• Read 'The Pet Goat' to Booker elementary school students (September 11, 2001).
• Signed executive order authorizing the 'President's Surveillance Program', then co-masterminded the 'USA Patriot Act' which allowed Hoover- and Nixon-esque spying on U.S. citizens (amongst other things).
• Announced a global War of Terrorism --starting with Afghanistan-- but didn't send enough troops, supplies, etc. Then allowed Bin Laden to escape to Pakistan (well, it's really just a work in progress, right?).
• Held A LOT of closed-door energy policy meetings, attended only by energy industry executives (AKA 'my friends from Texas').
• Took a month-long vacation in August, spending most of it clearing brush at his ranch.