Bush's Flip Flops

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If Bush wants to compare flip-flops with Kerry?Bring it on!
By Mick Youther


The Bush Attack Machine started to define John Kerry as ?a captive of special interests?. Then it came out that Bush had received more campaign contributions from Enron alone, than Kerry had received from lobbyists during all his years in the Senate; so the attack moved on to Plan B? defining Kerry as a flip-flopper and Bush as ?steady and steadfast?.

They know that anyone who has been in the Senate for eighteen years will have a voting record that can be distorted to look bad. If a Senator voted against a bloated spending-bill that contained funding for breast cancer research, they can claim that Senator is against breast cancer research. Ask John McCain?they pulled that one on him in the 2000 primary.

Now their problem is that the attack on Kerry has resulted in lists of Bush flip-flops popping up everywhere. This is just a sampling of the kinds of things that are coming out:

? When Bush first took office, he said the economy was so good we should have huge tax cuts, but now he claims we were in a recession then and that is why we now have record deficits.

? Candidate Bush was very vocal in his criticism of nation building, but now President Bush is busy building nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and it looks like Haiti is next. These nations are being built with our soldier?s lives and our tax dollars.

? Bush claimed his budget plan would reduce the National Debt. Instead, the federal debt has increased to almost $7 trillion.

? Candidate Bush promised to protect the Social Security trust fund, but President Bush has already squandered more than $350 billion from the fund. (Consortium News, 3/2/04)

? Bush said he would, ?enforce fiscal discipline on Congress, because when spending is out of control, deficits increase and our economic growth is hindered...", but federal spending has increased 23.7 percent since he took office. (Bill Gallagher, Friends of Liberty, 12/11/03)

? Candidate Bush proposed regulating carbon dioxide, but two months after taking office, President Bush changed his mind.

? Bush opposed a Homeland Security Department when it was proposed by Democrats; but later embraced the idea and took credit for it.

? Bush said he would veto the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation, but changed his mind and signed it.

? Bush opposed an investigation of the attacks of 9/11?then he supported it, but his administration has done everything it could to obstruct the investigation.

? Bush opposed an Iraq WMD investigation, but then he's for it because he has to pretend he?s interested in why he was so wrong about Iraq?s WMD.

? When asked about gay marriage, candidate Bush said, ?the state can do what they want to do,??but now President Bush wants a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

? During an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1978, Bush opposed the pro-life amendment and favored leaving the abortion question to a woman and her doctor. Then, like his father before him, he customized his beliefs to become more electable to conservatives. (The Nation, 6/15/00)

? Bush promised money for first responders, but failed to provide the funds.

? Bush promised billions of dollars to help fight AIDS in Africa, but failed to provide the funds.

? Bush presented his ?No Child Left Behind Program? with great fanfare, but failed to provide the funds.

? Bush continues to praise American troops, but continues to try to cut benefits for them and their families.

? Bush said, "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden?, but changed it to, "I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.?

To understand why steady and steadfast Bush would change his mind about so many important issues, you must understand the problem he faces every day. He has to somehow fool enough voters to be reelected, without actually doing anything for them or straying too far from the NeoCon?s agenda for the New World Order. So, if a majority of voters want something?like clean air, Bush is for it. He won?t follow through, or he won?t fund it properly, or he will do the exact opposite of what he promised; but he will continue to be for it. If a majority of voters oppose something; then Bush will oppose it too, but he will go right ahead and do it anyway?while speaking against it.

If that is the kind of President you want, Bush is your man. If you?d like something better, John Kerry is your man.

Posted March 20, 2004


Mick Youther is an Instructor in the Department of Physiology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. You can email your comments to Mick@interventionmag.com