Posted on 2-5-2003
Bushed
By William Rivers Pitt,Thursday 1 May 2003
A writer named Kelly Kramer recently compiled a `resume'
for George W. Bush. In it, she listed his central accomplishments.
Of course Bush isn't acting alone, so a whole team has to be
given the credit for the below dubious achievements:
- Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history;
- Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12
month period;
- Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock
market;
- First year in office set the all-time record for most days on
vacation by any president in US history;
- After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided
over the worst security failure in US history;
- In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their
jobs;
- Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any
president in US history;
- Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than
any president in US history;
- Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than
any president in US history;
- Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to
intervene when corruption was revealed;
- Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans;
- Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
take to the streets to protest a sitting American President, shattering
the record for protest against any person in the history of
mankind;
- Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US
history;
- First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union
simultaneously go bankrupt;
- Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market
in any country in the history of the world;
- First president in US history to order a US attack and military
occupation of a sovereign nation;
- Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history
of the United States;
- Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases,
more than any president in US history;
- First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the
US from the human rights commission;
- First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the
US from the elections monitoring board;
- All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign
donations;
- Biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the
largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former
CEO of Enron Corporation);
- Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US
history;
- First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and
then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1);
- Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less
than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly
the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history);
- With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile
Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years;
- Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of
Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and
stability;
- First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more
threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea;
- Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts;
- Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who
violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding
for government contracts;
- Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or
alive';
- Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders
of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months he
has no leads and zero suspects;
- In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he successfully prevented
any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history
of the United States;
- Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any
other president in US history;
- Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two
years turned every single economic category straight down.
If you can believe it, this is an edited
list.
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