The Respectfully Republican Conversation

Ah my dear bc / republican sisters are in full force this day.  I have a special New Years gift for you all!

All we hear from the media and such is how horrible a president George Bush has been.  Those of us who defend him (a very small percent of us exist) are pounced on by the opposition.  I know that the economy is bad right now.  I know that EVERYONE has a bit of blame for it too.  EVERY single American shares at least a piece of the blame pie.

But President Bush is not the "worst president" in history.  In fact, I bet many will be surprised by all the things his administration has accomplished since 2001.  These are things the MEDIA WONT tell us, and democrats won't acknowledge, but readily available at www.whitehouse.gov.

So lets take a look at just what this "horrible" president has been up to since 2001:

Iraq & Afghanistan are now democracies & women have right to vote.

Because of the Bush Administration, 6 million children in Afghanistan are in school now compared to 1 million in 2001, and girls now have right to go to school- they were banned before 2001.

Anbar Province restored and al Qaeda was eliminated from there.

1.  USA Patriot Act
2.  Intelligence Reform & Terror Prevention Act
3.  Protect America Act
4.  Modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
5. National Counter-terrorism Center
6.  Dept of Homeland Security
7.  Transportation Security Administration
8.  Created the "Air Monitoring System" to detect biological agents & stockpiled vaccines and antibiotics in case of attack
9.  Office of Terrorism & Finance Intelligence at Treasury Dept.
10. National Security Re-Organization
11. Advanced Missile Defense
12. Pact of Czech Republic & Poland for Missile Defense
13. Liberated Lebanon, Ukraine, Georgia, Pakistan & Kosovo
14. Civil Nuclear Agreement w/ India
15. Millennium Challenge Corporation
16. Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (12.3 million worldwide now getting tx)
17. Malaria Initiative Act (25 million people treated and saved)
18. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (combined treated 300 million)
19. African Education Initiative (34 million children now in school)
20. African Growth and Opportunity Act
21. African Financial Sector Initiative
22. Initiative for Expanded Education of the World's Poorest Children Act (now has +1 bill children in schools)
23. No Child Left Behind: 2000 charter schools & 515,000 children now have after-school tutoring.
24. Pell Grant:  1.2 million more in college now than 2001
25. Reduced income tax giving $40,000 an additional $2000 in take home pay
26. Doubled Child Tax Credit
27. Reduced Marriage Penalty Tax, Death Tax, Capital Gains Tax and Dividends Tax
28.Launched FHA Secure & Hope in 2007
29. $150 billion rebate package where we all got $$$$ back
30. Reduced congress discretionary spending by 13% from 2001
31. Created a website www.omb.gov to expose congressional "earmarks" that were being added to legislation last minute, out of public view.
32. $1.6 trillion increase in export of USA Goods
33. 74% increase in USA Agriculture Exports
34. After tax per capita +12% since 2001
35. Medicare Prescription Drug Relief
36. Medicare Advantage Act (now insures 10 million people)
37. Health Savings Accounts (70% small business and 7 million people now have health insurance.)
38. Funded 1200 new Community Health Centers nationwide
39. Faith Based & Community Initiative:  200,000 recovered addicts and provides mentors to 100,000 children of prisoners, and homes to 50,000 homeless!
40. Doubled funding to Dept of Veteran Affairs and VA Hospitals
41. GI Bill & Family Medical Leave Act to include family members of service men & women
42. Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health & Trauma Brain Injury
43. Energy Independence & Security Act
44. Healthy Forrest Initiative (protecting 27 million acres)
45. Wetland Initiative (3 million acres)
46. Conservation Reserve Program (28 million acres and 140,000 sq. miles in Hawaii are Marine Refuge protecting 7000 species)
47. Reduced greenhouse emissions by 18%
48. Project Safe Neighborhood (2007 was record setting reduction in crime in 30 yrs!)
49. National Drug Control Strategy (reduced teen drug use by 25% and dismantled 5000 drug organizations)
50. Innocence Lost Initiative (result so far in 575 children rescued from sex offenders and 300 sex offender convictions)
51. Project Safe Child & Internet Crimes Against Children  (seen a 15% increase in catching child predators: 2350 of them!)
52. PROTECT Act - responsible for 30% increase in the prosecution of child predators.

Then I got tired of writing, but the list continues.  Please feel free to check full disclosure of each and everyone of these acts, laws and initiatives listed above and read of the rest here:
http/www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/legacybooklet.pdf

I think it goes without saying George Bush can't POSSIBLY be the worst president ever.  His humanitarianism is unsurpassed by any president to date.  In fact, he has done a remarkable job and it is too bad that John McCain didn't do more to bring things like these to "light" while he had the opportunity to do so.

Also too bad (but good) that Bush is modest and doesnt care about getting the "glory", he just wants to do what is right for the good of the people.  In fact, it is a biblical principle to not do things for glory, but to do them from your heart.

Happy New Year, I love each and every one of you!

ladysuz,

Her statement on Bush and BC was a bit ridiculous, won't you agree ? Normally people say 2008 was a bad year, let's hope 2009 is a better one. Bush presidency has spanned  8 years., lot of things happened then.

. $150 billion rebate package where we all got $$$$ back

I didn't get a check!! 

Sorry, for me, he spent too much money worrying about other countries:  Afghanistan and Iraq and the continent of Africa. My thoughts run toward taking care of your own house before someone else's ... I can't justify him invading Iraq when it all happened... to me it was illegal.  Sadaam did the last minute "uncle" and we should have accepted it instead of invading.  I think that and the misinformation he received about WMD is criminal -- someone on his staff or the CIA or whoever it was, should be held accountable.  We spent billions invading and now trying to secure a country that ended up having no WMD.  I am NOT blaming the misinformation on Bush but I do blame him for invading when Sadaam had his hands in the air:  that was arrogant of Bush and Cheney.

I know I am an outsider with my thoughts on Bush but I am not proud of his term.  I am ready for him to get out.  I just wish we had a proven track record on Obama.  I wish the ticket had been McCain/Romney or the best would have been McCain/Clinton!

I don't have as much problem with Bush going to Iraq as with his underestimation of what it would take to win, I forgot the name of that general who openly stated that there were not enough troops to do the job but he was pushed aside for this and he was absolutely right. I am glad to see he is in Obama's administration. That's one of the very few things I give McCain credit for : a call for the surge

I just can't get the pic thing right.  I thought I had this sized to small

No, Nothing on me moves well enough to get on stage with.

She won me with her beauty, I won her with my wit.  Years later she is still gorgeous and I have lost half my wit.  But the end result is the half wit still is in love with the beauty, inside and out.

RBM,

I think ti will take at least a decade to see whether Iraq war was the right move. It's always hard to see things while in the midst of it. As they say the history will judge

Vivre, my only single dd has a boyfriend now.  So, it won't work.  He a "potential" husband, but too soon to know if that will happen.

Shirley

Kelly, talking about the rebate....you need to go back and read..perhaps you made too much last year.  However, the rebate is really for this year...2008.  If you made less (enough less) you can get a rebate check.  I have the info somewhere.  I'll try to find it.  In other words, it's really based on this year's income.  And, if you made too much this year too bad.  You keep the money.  Did I make sense....LOL

Shirl, I know, everyone was fooled ...  I am not lying blame on Bush for believing it ... everyone believed. 

I am just disgusted with alot of our politics .. like paying for Osama and supporting him while he was in Afghanistan and then he turns on us and he did his first attempt on the WTC.  Lots of our leaders are to blame, repubs and dems. 

Maybe Obama will bring change and maybe it will be the same old same old ... 

(need to pray hard this coming year that God indeed helps our leaders help our country)

It's a hard one, Roctobermom.  The war was not planned well.  I don't believe anyone knew that all these terrorists were gonna come in and blow themselves up.  And blow our men and civilians up too.  Do you remember how our military and even the media had masks to wear in case biological weapons were used against them.  I was glued to the TV during the war.  I just hope we can get out of both Afghanistan and Iraq, and that they can live in peace in a democracy.  We've lost too many young men and women for this war to be fought in vain.  I do think it's time for the Iraqis to step up and start paying.

Love that pic, IBC.  I NEVER was that purtty.  DUH!

Shirley

Ok I would like to have a sanity check here. I beleive in bringing things into open So instead of sending PM messages , I would like to ask a question in the open. Is there any reason all of my postings as of late being ignored ? Have I done something to deserve it like opposig banning people even someone like Amy ? Or I am being supersensitive due to PMS ?