A great nader summary of the past 4 years ! Gimpy and ex-lrrp will love this !!!

[MORTARDUDE]

Dear Friend,

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Presidency of George W. Bush is the sheer volume of havoc it has been able to wreak upon the country and the world in just four years.

President Bush's election was dubious and his first 100 days unremarkable. His administration's response to the events of September 11th, 2001 has summarily squandered the diplomatic favor of the international community.

The President's economic policies have catapulted the national debt to $7.3 trillion. Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net loss of jobs. His administration has underfunded its own education act by $9.4 billion, while continuing to starve the safety regulatory agencies. The Bush White House has turned a $236 billion surplus in 2001 into a $422 billion deficit and has spent the Social Security surplus Bush had promised to protect in 2000.

Bush's cabinet is a loose amalgamation of neoconservative warmongers, who have steered us into an unconstitutional $150 billion war and occupation on a platform of deceptions and fabrications. The blood of over 1,100 American soldiers and thousands upon thousands of civilian Iraqis is on the Bush administration's hands.

Bush's energy policy was written behind closed doors by the very corporate interests who stood in position to benefit from its $23 billion-plus in corporate tax breaks.

Bush has supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages and has tried at every turn to propose some of the most ideologically bent judicial appointees in recent memory; yet the President declaims "activist judges."

The President has given free reign to Attorney General John Ashcroft, poster boy for the anti-civil liberties PATRIOT ACT. Thousands of innocent people were rounded up after 9/11 and mistreated in prison?arrested in many cases without charges and incarcerated without lawyers. Many were held in inhumane conditions. None of these hundreds of detainees were found to have links to terrorism.

Bush's idea of environmental stewardship is a joke. His original EPA administrator, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, resigned after two years of frustration with the White House, for which she inevitably took heat from environmentalists while President Bush pulled the strings. Hundreds of millions of acres of public land are unprotected thanks to the Bush administration; the President reneged on his 2000 campaign pledge to control the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute so greatly to global warming, and the Environmental Protection Agency stands to suffer a budget cut of $600 million dollars in fiscal year 2005. The influence of the anti-environmental corporate lobby on the Bush administration is palpable.

Bush's special counsel has been implicated in the creation of an intricate network of legal pretexts justifying torture, in direct violation of Geneva Conventions, the United Nations charter, and our own federal law.

All this, and George W. Bush?the no-fault President?has been incapable of admitting to a single mistake while in office; and he ran as the responsibility President in 2000!

The Nader/Camejo Team

[Gimpy]

You're right. I DO!

He's just saying more eloquently what I have raising hell about for the last two and 1/2 years!