Compassionate Conservative? Bull Poop!

The following is a posting that was placed on the Internet in the year 2001 after Bush and Cheney had been in the White House a little over a hundred days. It is well worth re-reading this posting today to remind everyone of the extraordinary damage Bush and Cheney did to this country right from the git-go -- in their First Hundred Days -- wreaking havoc that we feel more than ever today, as all the "Compassionate Conservative" chickens have come home to roost.


"Compassionate Conservative? Bull Poop!

The Cheney Administration and its little village idiot front man has had more than a hundred days now to prove their silly claim that they offered anything even remotely resembling "Compassionate Conservatism". Let's look at just what they have accomplished and see if any of it resembles being "compassionate" on any level.

The most obvious issue to begin with is the one trillion dollars plus that has been earmarked to pay back their wealthy campaign contributors (and was passed on 5/25/01 with the complicity of way too many slime balls in the Democratic Party). That's one trillion dollars for the top one percent of all Americans and three hundred million or so to be divided up by the other 99% (you and me).

On the regulatory front, they have barred enforcement of a regulation proposed and endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences that would have limited the amount of arsenic in your drinking water to ten parts per billion. Naturally, they did this because the vast majority of the arsenic that we now find in our water is being put there through the pesticide runoff and industrial pollution that their corporate owners are responsible for. Since keeping arsenic out of our water would have cut into their owner's profits, the choice was obvious; lots more cancer cases in children and the general population arising from arsenic but higher profits for Corporate America.

How about the withdrawal of the proposed rule to prohibit mining that would cause "substantial, irreparable harm" to communities or the environment?

How about stopping a rule from taking effect that would have saved literally millions of Americans from getting repetitive stress injuries on the job?

How about their effort to open 60 million acres of national forest to oil drilling, logging, and the building of new logging roads?

How about their decision to delay a rule that would have put a stop to HMOs releasing your personal health records to anyone willing to pay for your personal information?

How about their decision to stop a rule that would have barred industry from draining wetlands?

How about their decision to block a law that would have protected children and workers from lead paint poisoning?

How about their cutting $200 million from the successful program of block grants to states that helped pay for child care for low-income family's children? These funds were the basis for Cheney's secretary of human services, Tommy Thompson, successful efforts to get people off of welfare and into the work force without endangering their children. Thompson has often stated that his state's vast program worked only because child care was available to the workers.

How about their 18% cut in funds to states to investigate child abuse?

How about their cuts in federal funds that were used to train doctors who practice at children's hospitals?

How about the 100% cut in the "early learning fund" that Congress created to improve the quality of education and child care for pre-school children five years of age and lower?

How about their decision to end mandatory testing for salmonella in hamburger meat served to our children through the school lunch programs?

How about their Clinton-like waffling and then reversal on their promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a little trick that humiliated their EPA chief, Christine Todd?

How about their plan to weaken clean air rules for coal fired power plants?

How about their decision to reduce anti-pollution standards for oil refiners?

How about their decision to allow river flows that harm the fish population and interrupt spawning activities?

How about their easily disprovable claim that they have increased discretionary spending in their budget while the reality is that, in constant dollars and allowing for inflation, there is actually a 4.7% decrease.

How about their specious claims of an 11% increase in education funds when the reality is that the majority of that increase was passed in Clinton's last budget and they have actually decreased funding for job training for displaced workers?

How about their decision to center the administration's "energy policy" around using more and more oil, coal, and nuclear resources and completely ignores any alternative energy sources and pretty much laughs at any form of real conservation programs?

How about the fact that their "energy policy" supports more nuclear power plants but offers no clue as to how the tons and tons of radioactive wastes will be safely disposed of?

How about the fact that all of the oil projected to be found in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve (regardless of the lies told to support this insanity) is only 3.2 billion barrels or barely enough to satisfy our thirst for oil for six months?

How about the fact that the huge tax cuts for the wealthy are fashioned on Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy in Texas during his last two years there and that the state of Texas is now facing a $700 million shortfall in providing the absolute minimum of services in that state (and absolute minimum in Texas means exactly that)?

How about their 36% cuts in federal funds for renewable sources of energy and for conservation programs?

How about their decision to destroy the historical and necessary wall between religion and government in their desire to use "Mainstream" churches to provide vital government assistance programs?

How about their fawning over such religious maniacs as Pat Robertson who demand that any church outside of their narrow minded version of "Mainstream" be barred from providing those services?

How about their mean spirited decision to ban aid to international family planning groups that promote, perform or even discuss abortions, meaning millions and millions more children born into abject poverty that will die of starvation or disease or war or any of the other myriad of deaths inflicted on the poorest on the planet? How about announcing the ban on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade?

How about wasting $2 billion for research into "clean coal" techniques rather than truly renewable sources?

How about undermining chemical plant safety rules?

How about barring project labor agreements that ensure union and worker rights in complex construction projects?

How about completely pulling the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol and abandoning the international global warning treaty on the basis of truly "fuzzy math" by conservative "scientists"?

How about signing into law a bankruptcy bill that force individuals to repay credit card debt ahead of paying child or spousal support?

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http://conservativesarecommunistss.blogspot.com/2009/08/compassionate-conservative-bull-poop.html

Broken Government, by the numbers. It's a collection of facts numerically presented that really illustrates how the last administration failed the people. It's lengthy, diversely thorough and very telling of an agenda that is diametrically opposed to the smooth running of a democratic republic.

They lied their way in, cheated to stay and left the kind of mess that suggests tampering with the crime scene so as to elude ever being exposed. Whether or not these sinister, greedy blood hounds face the music is the other big test of our time. Surviving the attempt to return us to a status driven monarchy might be a little more pressing.