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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Howe who wrote (513503)	12/20/2003 12:31:46 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If Bush is a moderate then why have GOP moderates consistently had to battle his agenda? The Bush and Delay pull the GOP farther to the right than they've ever been. That Texas threesome including Cheney has taken over. And what's good for Texas is bad for the rest of the country. That has always been true. They are trying to completely gut environmental laws, shift tax burdens from the rich to the middleclass, put more and more power and public money into the hands of the giant conglomerates, clash with most of our European allies, build a new generation of nuclear weapons, act as an imperial presidency above the law (Cheney's energy papers, outing the CIA agent, etc.). In the process they are damaging our economy for the long-term more than any administration ever has. The dollar already down 20% and debts to the moon. Only GOP moderates have stopped their huge corporate welfare Energy Bill (20 billion in tax breaks to the new Enrons) and slowed down their rush to deregulate polluters. Moderates also forced them to go to the UN before the war. If not for GOP moderates this would be a runaway right-wing government to the extreme. If you think they have any ressembance to JFK's administration you're way off mark. JFK would never stand for this type of arrogant greed and assault on our treasury, allies and working families. As the election nears, Bush will try to move to the center, but as soon as the election is obver, if he wins, he'll go right back to the right-wing hardliner policies. Even the Medicare bill is a smoke screen. You don't even have to read the fine print to see that it's trying to privatize Medicare and thereby put the power into corporate hands. It will borrow hundreds of billions to do this. Therefore it is a huge giveaway at tax-payer expense. For some reason the right-wing always trusts corporations. But corporations run on maximizing profits. In this case, the profits will come out of the pockets of tax-payers and consumers. BTW: Where are those Iraqi oil revenues Bushies promised us would pay for the war? You see, the money just disappears, into private hands. Well-connected private hands.