A Deserving Honor
Filed under: Politik
While some U.S. Presidents get highways, schools or monuments named after them, that doesn't seem to be the case for George W. Bush.
A group in San Francisco, which call themselves the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco (sounds very official, huh?), is asking voters to sign a petition to have a nearby building named after the Prez.
The building they'd like to honor Bush with is none other than the water sewage treatment plant on the nearby coast.
Purrrfect!
And the name? They'd like to have it called the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Sweet and simple!
The plant is currently called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.
Brian McConnel, one of the organizers stated, “Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs. So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”
The plan is to place a vote on the November ballot which will supposedly provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”
The group already has plenty of signatures to qualify for being on the ballot.
Howard Epstein, chairman of one of the San Francisco Republican Party and one of the few Republicans in the city, is obviously against the naming, calling it "an abuse of process.”
He adds, “You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the city’s governance or cost.”
Oh yea, the idea to name the sewage plant after Bush apparently came to the organizers while drinking at a bar.
If approved, the renaming would take effect on January 20th of next year.
[Image via WENN.]
Think of GW every time you flush!
how childish have the liberals become. first they cant take loosing the election, then they whine over everything that has been done, now they're doing this. librals need to grow up and act like adults if they really want to be taken serious. i mean this is how my 2 year old fights back.
So funny. So perfect.
Maybe Dubya could waterboard detainees there? Maybe he could flush the last 7 years from our memories? Maybe Americans could finally feel some justification that he's finally found a better match for his talents? - - sewerage!
That's not mama. I'm mamma. I can't wait to see the last of Bush — and his pathetic groupies.
I think every plant in the coutry should be named after him
Ahhh, how gentile of all the libs & gays in San Fran.
That city is a toilet infested by turds.
Re: Anna –
Anna, you're creepy to the point of being downright scary!
AMEN Mama….so fucking true LIBERALS are the reason this country is in the shape its in. Lets VOTE that LYING throw his own MOTHER UNDER THE BUSH HALF WIT OBAMA in and give all the freeloaders more welfare and complain that the country is BROKE!! They FUCKING KILL ME THEY CRY ABOUT BEING OPPRESSED AND LIVE OFF OF WELFARE!!! FUCKING LOSERS. BUSH MADE MISTAKES ASSHOLES, EVERY PRESIDENT HAS MADE MISTAKES…BUT B/C HE DID NOT USE THE WHITE HOUSE AS HIS OWN WHORE HOUSE, AND HE SAYS MARRIAGE IS FOR MAN AND WOMAN, STANDS BY WHAT HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO YOU LIBERALS CAN NOT STAND HIM…FUCKING IDIOTS. KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT RUNNING THEIR OWN LIVES AND YET WANT TO TELL SOMEONE HOW TO RUN THE COUNTRY.
CHENEY HAS BEEN FUCKING BUSH UP THE ASS AND BUSH LOVES IT , SO FUCK ALL OF YOU ASSHOLES FEEBLEY DEFENDING THE BIGGEST PRICK IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENCY . HE DESERVES TO BE JAILED AND HUNG.
Re: ANDY2 – ooooooooookay Andy we get iT!!!!
Re: MK – OH MK FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR DELUSION. ANOTHER BUSHIE ON THE PAYROLL TRYING TO DO DAMAGE CONTROL . BUSH IS THE MOST HATED PRICK IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS AND I WILL REJOICE WHEN HE IS DYING A SLOW TORTUROUS DEATH LIKE STOMACH CANCER.
SF is a dirty filthy place
AND FUCK THE STUPID 17 YEAR OLD BOY PRETENDING TO BE A EUROPEAN. STUPID SHIT , WE CAN SEE RIGHT THOUGH YOU .
This guy is a killer. I have never witnessed such hatred toward a president he certainly deserves it.
I hope he ends up rotting in jail.
Impeach this bastard killer , impeach !!
Out of 310 comments , 285 HATE bush.
That should tell you something.
I cannot stand looking at his squinty eyes , always looking like he is ready to cry .
Go read My Pet Goat you asshole , you are the pus that feeds the algae that feeds the scum of the Earth. May bush rot in hell for all eternity.
Brilliant! This needs to happen.
I HOPE THEY HANG HIM , IT WILL BE QUITE A FINE DAY .
im a democrate and think thats just wrong, he may be an idiot but still have some class SF.
Re: MK – No, those are minor things. We mainly don't like him because he throws people in jail without charging them with a crime or giving them a trial, he tortures them, and he starts unnecessary wars that, btw, cost more than all the welfare, education, and road repair in the entire nation. Give it up — he's a schmuck, he spends too much, and the whole world will be better off when he has retired. (And don't the Republicans DARE accuse anyone else of driving this nation into debt. Bush has funneled billions into the industrial military complex so his buddies get rich. He gets rich. We get the shaft.)
Bush is a piece of shit
The man BUSH is as evil as it gets and anyone who defends him are grouped in the same league as a killer.
It's like the blow hards that defend the inmates on death row.
What a crock , this man deserves every evil imaginable and unimaginable atrocity performed on him.
Cut his dick off .
Re: Fact – Right on Fact. It will take years to get everything balanced as itr was before this man screwed everything up. Actually the President has actually been Cheney , lest we forget …
Re: Fact –
every hear of the name Jimmy Carter
Re: dick – Cut his dick off , lol that was too funny man . Hahaha.
Does he even have a dick ???
Re: dick –
so you can suck on it, sorry you'll choke yourself with his, stick to perez small dick if you want one
There once was this little man
that was in desperate need of a tan
He went by the name of Bush
and is notorious of fucking us all in the tush
He has been behind a number of deaths
too many to account for and we attest
that this man needs to hang
whilst Cheney gives him one last bang
And this country will finally be at rest …
Re: shut – you should know , lolololol
Re: umm – Oh sweet jesus.
Jimmy was the worst until Bush came on the scene.
He now holds the title for THE worst commander in chief.
He is the laughing stock of the world.
Bush is pure horse shit.
Re: mama – Okay Barbara Bush , whatever you say , fool.
Re: lib – It's D.E.M.O.C.R.A.T…if this is your chosen party , the least you could do is spell it correctly.
Every dump in the nations should be named after this corrupt midget . He is the dreg of the Earth and America's most hated.
I've never looked forward to someone dying . I agree with the other posters , it will be a GREAT day when he finally kicks the bucket . I hope he dies in jail after they convict this criminal.
Re: umm – Yeah, you mean the guy who has dedicated countless hours to humanitarian efforts? The man who worked against torture throughout the world as opposed to Bush, who likes it? Yeah, I've heard of him. Don't think for a minute that Bush is even close to his achievements. Bush IS THE WORST PRESIDENT THIS NATION EVER HAD. By a lot.
the rest of the world laughs at the USA because of stupid liberals and their actions, they tore apart the best country of the world with their foolishness, glad i decide to stay the hell out of there, maybe if it gets back on track i can move there
Re: gross – it tells me everyone here is either a dem or lib. it says most people on perez's site are fucking morons and are blinded by a "change" which will never happen. it also tells me that all the bush haters don't have jobs or just don't work hard. what the fuck else should it tell me?
Re: Fact –
haha, yeah whatever, keep kissing your party's ass you know they like it
Re: fu – Au contraire jack ass , my 2007 taxes reflect 417,000. All my Democratc friends fortunately have jobs that they wisely chose in an industry that is not affected by the economy. The other 95% of the nation is experiencing hardship all thanks to the costs of this bloody war .
How can you defend this monster that goes by the name BUSH ?? That must mean that you too, are a criminal .
Re: fu –
you are so right, their most likely a bunch of high schooler that just got out of school and have to much free time on their hands. hey kiddies go get a summer job and learn what real life is about
Re: fu – that you are one hell of a fucking idiot
Re: china – What a crock of shit. You're a Republitard. I can smell it from here. The rest of the world hates Bush even more than us local folk.
Re: china – THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST STUPIDEST POST ON THIS THREAD .
IT IS A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT CHINA MAN , WHAT THE HELL DOES LIBS/ DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO WITH THE FALL OF AMERICA?
IT IS THE VOMITUS ASSHOLE IN OFFICE AND HIS ASDMINISTRATION THAT HAS FUCKED AMERICA IN THE ASS.
你是蠢货
Re: damn – OUCH! you got me!! your reasoning is flawless; because everyone here hates bush, im an idiot. truly amazing. go educate yourself.
Okay here is the down low…Bush not only has genital herpes , but he has also fathered two illegitimate children with an African woman .
The illegitimate daughter La Fawnda Bush and the illegitimate son , Azubuike Bush, both reside in Harare and sell flea dip for dogs who are suffering from the flea epidemic.
No comment from the White House on this breaking news…
Re: taxpa – KETTLE , MEET POT…
Re: fu – Oh lawd and your original post was just reeking of class and educated remarks …talk about projection, geez.
Re: yikes – yep, all thanks to the war, not the individuals themselves. if people can't adapt, they can't survive. blame those fucks, not one individual. i too, must be a ciminal? yes, thats it, im an ex-con who just got out of jail and im killing innocent iraqis, like the terrorists like to do. you hit the nail on the fucking head. please, grace me more with your perfect logic!
Re: fu –
Here is the million dollar question …who launched the war, genius ?
Re: JENNA – hahahahahahahlolololhahahahahaha, this has got to be the funniest post here . I spit out my smoothie when I read this and even peed a little . Lolol, ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
what an unpatriotic story to report and support- if you don't like the president, remember that you are still an american and that this project is disrespectful. its one thing to hate the president, quite another to support an idea that publicly humiliates him. remember that if your an american, he's still your president.
Re: Kat – Kat , Kate , whatever you are posing under , you still don't get it . This man is behind the thousands that have died , HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT , he is behind a war that is sending America into recessions , HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT , Pee Wee Herman could have done a better , way less corrupt job as president than this sack of shit in office. He has to beef up on security , more than the norm as being the most hated president in history , he needs extra protection . He is a murdering , lying prick and I HATE HIM with every ounce of my being. I hate that whole fucking family and pray that North Korea will make a plan to shove their missles up the BUSH family's asses ( not the daughters ) From bug eyed Barbara to Bush senior to jeb to the prick himself. EVERYBODY hates this S.O.B. He is NOT our president , he stole the election twice , AMERICA did not vote for this bastard to be our president.
Re: Boom – actually, the terrorists did. bush was the only person man enough to actually do something about it. 1993 ring a bell? so when do i get my million?
A statue made of excrement will fit for him.
Re: tattooed white trash – That is the most idiotic thing i've heard. Where's your proof, huh? Heard it on CNN did ya? Dumb fuck. People like you should be slaughtered so REAL AMERICANS can thrive.
Re: Abiga – AMEN!
Re: fu – The terrorists in Iraq ? You sir are a bonafide idiot no longer worth my time arguing. If you were educated in your responses, that is one thing, but it is blatently obvious that you have no clue what the hell you are talking about …
Re: WHOA – did i say iraq??
I love it
Re: SKULL – oh really , im pretty sure its not bush's sole decision to go to war, and im pretty damn fucking sure that soldiers go fight to honor their country, last time i checked there is no draft. If anything you should quit BITCHING and respect the ones who we have lost.
and for all of you who wish death on the man grow the fuck up seriously, you, not bush are the lowest of the low when it comes to a human being if you even are one. your all sick. if you guys think you know what's best for america then you run for president.
the government is fucked up in general it always has been, you think america is in a "bad state" cause bush is in office. no sorry you lazy asses that sit at home all day and dont try and do anything with your life and bitch about the president are the reason america is so fucked up
actually… he does have a tollway named after him in Dallas, TX…
Hahahaha — that's fabulous idea, San Francisco — BE SURE TO GET GW BUSH'S COMMENTS AFTER THEY NAMED HIM!!
R-
P.S. My cat's name is Herpes. Why? Because I can.
Re: CHINA –
but isnt it dems in the congress, why not throw some shit their way for not doing anything if things were so messed up, oh thats right cause dems cant do no wrong
Re: kate – YOU ARE SERIOUSLY RETARDED, WHAT A MORONIC AND UNSUBSTANCIAL ARGUMENT. THE POOR SOLDIERS WENT TO WAR TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY EVEN THOUGH THE GODAMN STUPID SHIT FOR BRAINS PRESIDENT IS AN ASSHOLE.
Re: kate – duh , are you referring to the idiot kate that is responding to SKULL?
If so , I'm with you as kate's comments are quite illogical .
What kate , exactly do you mean sitting on our asses all day ? What are you 17 years old ? You are arguing like a misinformed teenager going only by mommy and daddy's idiotic views.
Kids today , gotta love them.
Somewhere on page 2 or 3 someone mentioned Kate being an idiot of this thread and everyone agreed , I guess more people are agreeing now too , HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Republican Governors, Frist Join Democrats in Rejecting Bush "Trust Us" Attitude on Port Security
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
February 21, 2006
From the DNC:
Washington, DC- Republican Governors George Pataki, Robert Ehrlich, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today joined the chorus of Democrats and Republicans who've voiced concerns about the Bush administration's plan to allow Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, to operate major U.S. Ports.
Time and again, the Bush Administration said just 'trust us.'
But with President Bush's growing credibility gap, it is no wonder that a growing chorus of Democrats and Republicans have expressed serious concern over this deal," said Democratic Communications Director Karen Finney. "The truth is President Bush's policies reflect a pre-9/11 worldview and fail to adequately prepare for future threats. Democrats believe we should not turn our port security over to any foreign government, especially after 9/11. Democrats are leading the way to close the gaps in our nation's security."
Democrats Take Lead on Port Security
Democrats Fought to Protect Our Borders From Terrorists. Democrats fought to invest $284 million to help ensure the security of the nation’s borders by hiring 550 additional border patrol agents and 200 additional immigration investigators. The 9-11 Commission highlighted that the United States lacked a true border security system, and that illegal entry across our borders was far too easy.
i got a feeling that Duh, Kids and Idiot are all the same little kiddie go whine to your mommy and stop trying to play with the big kids
Ros-Lehtinen Said The White House's Decision To Allow The Sale Showed They Didn't Have A Pulse On What People Were Thinking About Security. "I don't know if they were tone deaf, but they certainly didn't have a pulse on what people were thinking in terms of security,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Miami Republican. "We haven't forgotten Sept. 11. I know the president hasn't either, but that has to extend to more than just his speeches. We need substance , we need to see action directed in the appropiate places" [Miami Herald, 2/21/06]
New York Times: Bush Administration Has "Done Far Too Little" To Protect Our Nation's Ports. "The Bush administration has done far too little to protect the nation's ports against terrorists. But it has taken that laxness to a new level by allowing a company from the United Arab Emirates to run significant operations at six American ports, including the Port of New York. …Much remains to be done to protect the nation's ports against terrorism. Putting port management in the hands of a country with such a mixed record in the war on terror is a step in the wrong direction." [New York Times, Editorial, 2/16/06]
Bush Received Failing Grades for his Efforts to Improve Homeland Security. The 9/11 Public Discourse Project (formerly the 9/11 Commission) has given the Administration failing grades on its efforts to improve homeland security. Thomas H. Kean, former chair of the 9/11 Commission, said that homeland security is "not a priority for the government right now." [9/11 Public Discourse Project, 12/05]
Former 9/11 Commission Criticized Bush Policies. In December 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued a tough report "criticizing the Bush administration and Congress for failing to implement key counterterror reforms." The report highlighted the "administration's woeful record in strengthening global counterproliferation efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists" as well as their negligence on issues related to homeland security. [Newsweek, 12/12/05]
Washington Times: U.S. Should Not Be "Outsourcing" Port Security. "We should be improving port security in an age of terrorism, not outsourcing decisions to the highest bidder. The ports are thought to be the country's weakest homeland-security link, with good reason. Only a fraction of the nation's maritime cargoes are inspected." [Washington Times, Editorial, 2/15/06]
Foley Said He Wouldn't "Blindly Follow the President" On An Issue That Created A Homeland Security Concern. Criticizing the sale of the ports, Rep. Mark Foley, a Palm Beach County Republican, said, "After Sept. 11 we can't blindly follow the president in a way that seems to create a homeland security concern." Foley said he's working on legislation to give Congress the authority to approve or reject all applications made through the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, the top-secret group that OK'd the transaction. [Miami Herald, 2/21/06]
Civil liberties advocates say these positions, among Democrats and independents alike, are animated both by frustration with Bush's failures and a desire for new leadership that wages a battle against terrorists the "American way." That is the philosophy behind a new liberal group, the American Freedom Campaign, calling on all the presidential aspirants to affirm American values in the Constitution by strongly backing a freedom "pledge." That includes a policy commitment to restore habeas corpus, secure rights of the accused, ban all torture and defend personal liberties.
A painful condemnation of the Bush Administration's failure to adjust to the insurgency in Iraq
COVER STORY: "Strategy that's making Iraq safer was snubbed for years: It sounds simple: Get help from locals to stop bombmakers. But a USA TODAY investigation shows the Bush administration was slow to accept the idea," by Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 19 December 2007, p. 1A.
Bush Administration Facing Failure On Every Front
By Paul Craig Roberts
Is the Bush administration competent? There is enough information at hand on which to base an objective opinion.
On the eve of President Bush’s second term, the US economy has fewer jobs than when Bush was inaugurated four years ago.
During Bush’s first term, the US economy was unable to create jobs in both export and import-competitive sectors. The formerly powerful US jobs machine has been allowed to run down to the point that jobs can only be created in nontradable domestic services.
During Bush’s first term, the value of the US dollar declined dramatically in relation to other traded currencies. The extraordinary diminution in the dollar’s exchange value threatens its role as the world’s reserve currency.
If the dollar loses its role as reserve currency, there will be catastrophic consequences for US living standards and superpower status.
BOTTOM LINE- THIS PRESIDENT IS POISON…GODDAMN KISS OF DEATH
Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs
After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it's part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working.
Published on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 by the Rocky Mountain News (Colorado)
Bush is Our Failure-In-Chief
by Paul Campos
Of all the phony political images that have bombarded us in the five years since al-Qaida terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, the phoniest of all remains the sight of George W. Bush donning a fighter pilot's uniform and landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier to proclaim "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.
The point of that little stunt was to send the visual message that Bush was the strong leader that America needed to triumph in a war against our enemies. As a piece of propaganda, it was fabulously successful. If the goal of propaganda is to make black seem white, then the fact the Bush administration still emphasizes this message is a tribute to the administration's ongoing triumph in its propagandistic war against reality.
That, however, is the only war this president is actually winning. With a little more than two years remaining in his presidency, Bush is on course to end up as the worst commander-in-chief in the 217-year history of his office.
One way to appreciate just what a colossal failure he has been is to imagine for a moment that he wasn't a straight-talking, brush-clearing, football-loving fellow from the hardscrabble west Texas countryside, but was instead someone whose outward appearance didn't lend itself so readily to projecting a superficial image of strength.
Imagine, if you will, how George W. Bush's performance as commander-in-chief would be perceived if he happened to be a woman. To help this thought experiment along, let's give him a woman's name. Don't think of him as George; think of him as Hillary.
Now imagine if Hillary had been president on Sept. 11, 2001. Suppose that, five years later, the man responsible for that attack was not only still alive and free, but was thumbing his nose at the United States via tape recordings that mocked America's military power and national resolve. Would such a woman seem like a strong leader?
Imagine if Hillary were in the process of losing not one, but two wars against miserable Third World countries whose combined armed forces didn't equal a fiftieth of America's military might. Would she still seem like an able commander-in-chief? How would Americans react to her repeated assertions that, despite her catastrophic record as a military leader, we could trust her to keep America safe?
Imagine if this woman had allowed a surrounded Osama bin Laden to escape, because instead of sending American troops to either kill or capture a man who has murdered thousands of Americans, she trusted foreign mercenaries to do the job instead.
Imagine if she refused to fire the inept buffoon who was her secretary of Defense, despite repeated complaints from across the political spectrum - and even from her own generals - that he had utterly bungled both the wars her administration was in the process of losing. Would that decision project an image of strength?
Imagine if she refused to fire the inept buffoon who was her secretary of Defense, despite repeated complaints from across the political spectrum - and even from her own generals - that he had utterly bungled both the wars her administration was in the process of losing. Would that decision project an image of strength?
It is indeed a miracle of propaganda that President Bush can claim he has been anything but a spectacular failure as commander-in-chief, and not elicit hoots of derision from everyone who isn't actually paid by the administration to utter politically convenient lies.
If he were a Democrat or a woman (or, God forbid, both) he could have never gotten away with any of this. After five years of his "strong leadership," Iraq is a chaotic mess, much of Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden is alive, free and planning more terrorist attacks. With strength like this, who needs weakness?
Yet our lapdog media keep obediently delivering the message that black is white. Perhaps the president should land on another aircraft carrier, and call it "Mission Accomplished Again."
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado. He can be reached at paul.campos@colorado.edu.
© Copyright 2006 The E.W. Scripps Co.
Of 415 historians who expressed a view of President Bush’s administration to this point as a success or failure, 338 classified it as a failure and 77 as a success. (Moreover, it seems likely that at least eight of those who said it is a success were being sarcastic) Ninety percent of all the historians who responded rate the current presidency the worst in all of American history.
Re: 35 – Whatever you say Kate , lolololol.
(CNN) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue the federal government over its decision not to allow a California plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he announced Thursday.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the state will sue the federal government.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson announced the decision Wednesday, refusing the state's request for a waiver that would have allowed it to cut emissions faster than a new federal plan the president signed into law Wednesday.
"It's another example of the administration's failure to treat global warming with the seriousness that it actually demands," the governor said at a news conference Thursday.
Bush Administration Fails Workers on Safety and Health
The statutory mandates of both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) ensure workers have safe workplaces. The Secretary of Labor has the responsibility for ensuring that happens. Yet under the Bush administration, OSHA and MSHA seem to be abdicating their responsibilities to protect workers, instead choosing to implement voluntary programs so favored by its corporate allies. In fact, in agencies and departments across the administration, Bush policies and actions put corporate interests above the public interest. Below are those administration actions that impact worker safety and health.
04.30.07Another Bush Administration failure: student loan industry
The Bush administration killed a proposal to clamp down on the student loan industry six years ago following allegations that companies sought to shower universities with financial favors to help generate business, according to documents and interviews with government officials.
The proposed policy, which Education Department officials drafted near the end of the Clinton presidency and circulated at the start of the Bush administration, represented an early, significant but ultimately abortive government response to a problem that this year has grown into a major controversy.
The Department of Education has been run as a wholly owned subsidiary of the loan industry under this administration,” said Barmak Nassirian, a longtime advocate for industry reform at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. “They are running the federal loan program for the profit of their friends and not for the benefit of students and taxpayers.”
BASTARD EVEN STEALS FROM KIDS…
Cause for Alarm: The Bush Administration's Failure to Stop North Korea's Nuclear Proliferation
The Bush Administration has failed to effectively stop and roll back North Korea's proliferation. In 1994, U.S. and North Korean negotiators signed the Agreed Framework, an agreement placing 8,000 plutonium spent fuel rods — North Korea's only known existing source of weapons-grade nuclear material at the time — under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitoring. As part of the agreement, the United States agreed to provide fuel shipments and other energy assistance including assistance with constructing "proliferation-resistant" nuclear energy facilities. In October 2002, faced with some evidence that North Korea was pursuing uranium enrichment technologies, the Bush Administration allowed the Agreed Framework to die, permitting North Korea to reprocess these 8,000 plutonium rods into enough weapons-grade material for perhaps 4-6 nuclear weapons. In January 2003, North Korea announced that it would no longer abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which it had ratified in 1992. Since that time, the Bush Administration has been unable or unwilling to put a stop to North Korea's nuclear proliferation.
The Bush Administration's policy toward North Korea has been plagued by inconsistencies.
Environmentalists Force Bush Administration To Admit Failure on Global Warming
Washington, DC: Today the Bush Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit its continued failure to take action to reduce the impacts of global warming. Responding to a lawsuit filed by three environmental organizations, the Bush Administration is expected today to officially announce it will do nothing to protect Americans from global warming pollution caused largely by greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. In an abrupt about-face from earlier agency statements, EPA now claims that it lacks the necessary authority to regulate such heat-trapping emissions, leaving American communities at risk from global warming impacts.
Bush sued for failing to protect sea otters
R. Butler, mongabay.com
December 19, 2006
A conservation group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal district court in Washington, DC, seeking more protection for sea otters in Alaska.
The Center for Biological Diversity, a national nonprofit conservation organization that aims to conserve endangered species and wild places, says that the Bush administration has failed to designate critical habitat for sea otters in southwest Alaska, despite the species' listing as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act in August 2005. Sea otter populations have decline by 90 percent in some areas according to the group.
“Once again we are forced to ask the courts to require Bush administration officials to comply with the law,” said Miyoko Sakashita, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Department of the Interior should be protecting Sea Otter habitat; instead, they are proposing oil drilling near it.”
Resolution Condemning the Bush Administration for Failure to Stop the Growth of Opium in Afghanistan
WHEREAS, Afghanistan has again, since the United States invasion, become a major exporter of opium to the world; and
WHEREAS, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deal with the issue of opium export;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Democratic National Committee condemns the Bush Administration’s failed policies in Afghanistan that have led to that country again becoming a leading exporter of opium.
How completely apropos, and I'm pissed for not thinking of it myself… surely there are some other treatment plants or toxic waste dumps that need good names…
The Numbers Crunch Bush into a Failure
by Jay Bookman
History may record that the Bush presidency, and the Republican revolution that he hoped to lead, reached its high water mark on March 21, 2005, the day that President Bush signed a bill authorizing federal court intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
By overreaching so badly in that case, Republicans gave many Americans a fresh appreciation of the dangers of unchecked government arrogance, not to mention a renewed respect for the checks and balances needed to restrain that arrogance.
And for Republicans, that realization came at the worst conceivable time. Once that insight had taken hold, voters could see that same kind of arrogance at work in the GOP's move to protect House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by rewriting House ethics rules. And when Republican leaders began to attack federal judges as part of their holy crusade against the only government branch beyond their control, what had been a vague and growing unease began to coalesce into a deep distrust.
In fact, according to pollsters, Americans have come to reject both the premise and the tactics of the GOP's crusade
To this day, millions of Americans believe we invaded Iraq because of 9/11.
33 percent still believe there was some interconnection between Saddam Hussein and the nightmares here and in Washington and in Pennsylvania.
Iraq, of course, had nothing to do with 9/11. Then. Six years later, that has changed.Iraq has distracted us from punishing those responsible for 9/11.
If another 9/11 comes, our focus on Iraq will surely have been central to that nightmare.How did we get here? What consequences have been paid by those who brought us here?
As we reported yesterday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell tells G-Q magazine he is “sorry” he gave the world wrong information when he told the U-N of the threat Iraq supposedly posed.He was not fired for doing so.
He paid no price we know of, other than the admitted “blot” on his record, and whatever toll his conscience exacted.
Unrepentant, however, is former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, also talking to G-Q;Saying he does not lose sleep over the war… declining to apologize for it… despite pushing for it… despite using 9/11–the day after 9/11–for his own benefit, to pursue his goal of bombing Iraq.Rumsfeld, not fired for his performance, but for politics… now in private life… reportedly trying to see how much he must tell, to make for a profitable tell-all. Rumsfeld was served, and the nation ill-served, by a flock of Pentagon hawks, bent on war, seeing 9/11 not as an obligation to answer,. but an opportunity to exploit.
Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz who also tied Iraq to 9/11, who ridiculed warnings we needed more troops to invade Iraq–not fired– named head of the World Bank, until resigning in disgrace.
Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle– not fired– forced to retire not for pushing the war, but for allegedly profiting off it.
And within the president’s circle of advisors, marketing the war:
Andy Card and Dan Bartlett– neither fired. Card retired, Bartlett promoted, then retired.
Karen Hughes– not fired– promoted, stunningly, to the task of winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
But let us go higher still.
Vice President Dick Cheney, creator of his cherry-picking intel apparatus, gave its poisoned fruit to the media and then fed the lie to us on national television — even after truth, and shame, rendered its mendaciousness, manifest. He continues to do so to this day. Not fired.
Cheney’s aide, Lewis Libby, came closest of all to suffering genuine consequences. Convicted of covering up Mr. Cheney’s role in sliming critics of the war, his consequences nullified at the last minute. When the president commuted his prison sentence–ensuring that no one in his circle, least of all him– paid any price for selling us the lie of Iraq; for failing to punish the bombing of the U-S-S Cole; for neglecting the warnings pre-9/11;. for turning back at Tora Bora; for ultimately ensuring that while the rest of the world suffers painful, deadly consequences for his actions, only he does not.
Only he and one other. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11, his reach, and recruiting, all benefiting from Mr. Bush’s war, his group’s strength today at a six-year high. His Afghan allies, the Taliban, as NBC reported tonight, also resurgent, planning the death of Americans, just 25 miles from Kabul.
All while bin Laden himself operates freely, unmolested, with his own media operation, thanks to a regional Pakistani truce endorsed by Mr. Bush in a region where Mr. Bush will not go– cannot go even if he chose to.
Because he has spent so much American blood and treasure, in the desert of a nation that had neither means nor motive to threaten us, but that tempted Mr. Bush and those around him who wished to transform the Middle East, so much so that he forswore the vow he made, standing here, literally atop New York’s dead… that their killers would hear us soon.
Six years later, we still hear them, because now, finally, Iraq and 9/11 really are connected–by him.
And we suffer the consequences.
News: Inside the Bush administration's dream of resurrecting the nuclear weapons complex—and the old-school Republican congressman who stood in its way
By James Sterngold
January/February 2008 Issue
Representative Dave Hobson is a Republican in the old mold. Stocky, silver-haired, and congenial, the 71-year-old Ohio congressman is a fiscal hawk and a gun-rights supporter but has no truck with the religious right. He works hard in the legislative trenches tending to the arc of suburban and rural counties near Columbus that he's represented since 1991. Like his home territory, the legislative terrain Hobson occupies is solid if unexciting; he's the guy you might catch on c-span picking through a military construction bill.