Bush's First 100 Days By Joel Skousen jskousen@qwest.net World Affairs Brief http://www.joelskousen.com 5-12-1

MY ASSESSMENT OF BUSH'S FIRST 100 DAYS Last week's Washington Times lauded President George W. Bush's first 100 days as a resounding success. This is to be expected from the nation's most unabashedly pro-Bush-at-any-cost newspaper. The real record of Bush's first 100 days shows the inevitable signs of saying all the right things to please the conservatives, but making sure the liberal and globalist agenda moves forward. 1. Conservatives hailed Bush when he had the courage to dump the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. However, the Bush administration immediately yielded to the demands of the radical environmentalists who reintroduced their own version to replace the Kyoto Treaty. The bad science of global warning is not being challenged--only the administrative implementation, giving fewer exceptions to third world countries like China, one of the world's worst pollutors, and mandating equal compliance by all. Global warming is a complete fraud based upon computer modeling techniques designed to support the phony eco-tragedy claims. If you want a detailed scientific examination of the global warming claims, visit the website of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Dr. Arthur Robinson's slide lecture is a powerful rebuttle of this latest example of fraudulent scientic claims. http://www.oism.org/oism/s32p686.htm 2. Bush has refused to overturn the Clinton edict to close many roads in Forest Service areas, effectively turning them into no-access wilderness areas without Congressional approval. Instead he claimed he would allow each closure to be considered on a case by case basis. This puts the onus on each aggrieved party to make their case before the forest service--an organization that has gone through a radical environmental shift during the Clinton era. Not only is this a costly and time-consuming process for the user (who has to find other users in order to show a substantial "public interest" in the road) but it also has little hope of success given the Forest Service's Clinton-era hostility to roads on public lands. 3. The Faith Based Initiative program was cheered for having allowed religious-based charities to become party to the federal distribution of millions in welfare spending. While this may be an improvement in efficiency, it is still an unconstitutional social welfare program that conservatives should have no part in. When we look at the specifics of which religious groups are being showcased and promoted, we find the usual groups of minority-based organizations that pander to the race issue, and the exclusion of religions viewed as too "intolerant" because of their strong stand against homosexuals and integration of women into the priesthood. Worse yet, in the first major public spectacular showcasing these mainline religious leaders, a 3 minute propaganda message about the benefits and inevitability of global government was aired. This portion of the presentation was later eliminated when objections started to be raised on internet chat groups. Its inclusion tells me that those who are running this Bush administration program are globalist promoters, just like the Clinton administration. 4. The Bush administration has accelerated its outreach to the homosexual lobby and has formally met with the Log Cabin Republicans and other groups promoting homosexual "rights." The legal approach these groups promote denies people the fundamental right to make exclusionary judgments about those whom they do not wish to associate with or do business with on their private property. 5. The administration is continuing the improper lawsuits against tobacco companies. In fact, Attorney General John Ashcroft is vowing to increase funding for these lawsuits. I'm not pro-tobacco by any means, but the legal basis for these suits constitutes a dangerous trend in lawmaking that will end up making all companies liable for the health consequences of their products--even when the addicted public knows of the major dangers. This amounts to extorting money from companies targeted and found to be at fault. The fact that the tobacco companies withheld from the public some of the health effects is not sufficient reason to make them liable for all health consequences of smoking. Nobody smokes today who doesn't know about the health risks of tobacco. The prime dangers of tobacco have long been recognized and smokers' illnesses are the result of that knowing use of tobacco, even if the full exent of the risks was obscured218. This same case could be make against every addictive product--caffeinated colas, coffee, tea, alcoholic beverages, and so forth. There is little danger, however, that these other damaging products will be targeted--they have a much broader constituency than tobacco does. What the new breed of "killer lawyers" are taking on are politically incorrect gun manufacturers, proving that these cases are part of a political agenda--not a crusade to protect people's health. 6. Bush has decided not to overturn or reverse Clinton's misuse of the "Antiquities Act" in locking up millions of acres of federal land as environmental monuments. This includes the creation of the infamous Escalante Grand Staircase Monument in Utah, which effectively tied up the nation's largest deposit of sulfur-free coal. In our nation's growing energy crisis, this coal could have fueled existing and new coal plants with non-polluting coal for years to come. 7. Rather than work to abolish the Federal Department of Education, as Republicans have long promised to do, Bush has made proposals to increase federal spending and control over education. His budget proposal totalled $18.6 billion more than his predecessor--a 72% increase. 8. Rather than cut off federal subsidy of the left-leaning Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Bush is asking for increased spending of $10 million for this propaganda outfit. 9. Bush has refused to heed the call by conservatives to scrap President Clinton's suicidal PDD-60 mandating that our military forces absorb a nuclear first strike. Instead, Bush is proposing more unilateral disarmament, taking our nuclear warhead stockpile down to 2,500--not enough to win a nuclear war, and therefore not a credible deterrent to such a war. Lest any readers believe the propaganda that "no one wins a nuclear war," both Russia and China are building enough new and modern nuclear weapons to do just that. Bush has demonstrated that, even after the hostile EP-3 incident, he is unwilling to stop this government's headlong "constructive engagement" with China--a euphemism for continued aid, trade and appeasement of a future mortal enemy. 10. President Bush has decided to maintain the "Gore Tax", one of those additions to your local telephone bill each month that funnels billions into the federal program to provide internet access to every public school. Take a close look at your phone bill and you'll see that this has become the favorite place to increase taxes. The amount of extra taxes and federal charges on my phone bill exceeds my regular telephone bill each month, literally doubling my cost for basic service. Adding special taxes to people's cell phone bills is also a new legislative fad. It's time to start protesting this system of selective taxation. I'm all for true user fees to fund government, but this is not a user fee. 11. Instead of abolishing the Clinton boondoggle Americorps, Bush is promoting increased funding of $282 million. This amounts to a domestic peace corps. Regardless of the services performed, many of which are beneficial, this is not an appropriate role for government and is clearly unconstitutional. These types of federal programs use tax moneys to do what church programs have done for years with voluntary efforts. Historically, after the federal government moves into areas of private charity, private giving declines. 12. Bush has asked for an increase of $400 million in the IRS budget to increase enforcement, rather than mandating true reform of IRS abuses. 13. The Bush administration has decided to not overturn President Clinton's wetlands enforcement policies. The wetlands regulations are stretched so broadly that virtually all private property with any significant standing water bigger than a puddle is vulnerable to its draconian controls and restrictions on development. Bush is missing a great opportunity here to overturn years of administrative edict and abuse of private property rights. There are many other examples to document that this administration is a powerful continuation of the leftist and globalist agenda running this country, albeit a slightly milder version. Even Bill Clinton in a recent interview expressed surprise and admiration at the sophistication George Bush was exhibiting in his dealing with issues. Sadly, the pawns in this sophisticated manipulation of the issues are the Republican conservative base, who, as in Ronald Reagan's presidency, are too enamored with having "their man" in the White House to see the ongoing sellout on core issues. Quotations permitted with attribution Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief c. Joel Skousen 2001 MainPage http://www.rense.com This Site Served by TheHostPros

-- snodgrass (snodgrass@aol.com), May 12, 2001

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Sadly, the pawns in this sophisticated manipulation of the issues are the Republican conservative base, who, as in Ronald Reagan's presidency, are too enamored with having "their man" in the White House to see the ongoing sellout on core issues.

-- republican zombies R you (gotth@tfreaking.right), May 13, 2001.