7. He has left Americans less safe by lowering standards" for clean air, economic security, worker safety, food safety, and more. He broke agreements with the American people and with other nations by ignoring the threat of global warming.
8. He failed to create a credible energy policy, and allowed oil companies to take advantage of the American people by not limiting their windfall profits.
9. He populated the government at every level with political cronies instead of competent administrators capable of executing their duties responsibly and credibly. He prosecutes whistle blowers while he protects liars and cheats. He demoralizes honest public servants and undermines their ability to serve.
11. He has undermined Congress by ascribing to himself greater power than the Constitution provides and using various techniques such as signing statements, is destroying the ability of Congress to make law altogether. He has corrupted members of Congress, pressuring them into joining his conspiracy to defraud the American people.
12. He has ignored Supreme Court judgments and directives, thereby showing disrespect for the Judicial branch of government, in the same manner that he has shown disrespect for the legislative branch.
13. He has undermined the public's access to the information they need to be responsible citizens... by intimidating the press, allowing media outlets to consolidate and be dominated by corporate interests, and fraudulently using the media for his own propaganda purposes; he has prevented the American people from learning what is really happening in Iraq and in other places.
14. He damaged the first amendment by creating "free speech zones" which are anything but that, and has excluded dissenters from attending his public forums, which are staged, giving the public the misleading appearance that his policies are generally held in high esteem. In fact, his appearances themselves are an egregious act of disrespect for the American people and the Constitution. His use of agencies to illegally spy on US citizens is a betrayal of his oath of office.
15. He has undermined the public's right to know by preventing transparency in the operation of government processes; he operates in secret to an unprecedented degree; he thwarts laws that were intended to provide citizens with information about their own government; he disrespects the public's right to know what their government is up to; and he disrespects congress's right to exercise due diligence in their oversight responsibilities; he has made secret the papers of prior administrations, inhibiting a better understanding and accounting of our own history, and hides the truth about the illegal activities of his administration and those that came before.
16. He disrespects the Constitution's requirement for keeping church and state separate, which endangers every person's religious freedom, making it more likely that the US will one day become a theocracy.
17. He doesn't respect a woman's right to privacy or her right to make decisions about her own body. He makes it more likely that a woman will choose to have an abortion by reducing the social safety net which denies all women of limited economic means, access to resources for the support and benefit of their born and unborn children. That destroys a woman's confidence that children she might bring into the world will be treated fairly, or have a reasonable chance to enjoy the blessings of a free and prosperous life. By working to take away her hope, he has made it more likely that she will opt to abort her pregnancy. Most of what Bush has done during his presidency has undermined his own stated objective of valuing and supporting life.
18. The gap between the rich and poor is greater than it has ever been. The savings rate of US citizens is now as low as it was in 1933 for the first time since the great depression. Most states in the union are at or near insolvency, and their ability to protect and support their own citizens are more at risk than ever before. Bush advocates for limiting loans to college students, undermining our children's right to an education and making them less able to compete in the world. He advocates for the reduction of Medicare and Medicaid benefits. He tried to destroy social security, the most successful social program the US has ever had. The money he has wasted in Iraq would have made these programs secure for many many decades. His priorities are upside down, backwards, and irresponsible.
19. The US is the most powerful nation on earth and yet the health of our citizens is lower than every other rich country. We spend more on health care than other nations and yet by any measure we have the worst health. Infant mortality rates are higher than other industrialized nations and life expectancy is among the lowest in comparison. Every initiative this administration has undertaken with respect to health care is making things worse, not better. Millions of our citizens are without any health care at all, which is tragically unique among all other wealthy nations. Only our drug companies are doing well, but at the expense of our people.
20. This administration is competent in only one area... in it's ability to lie to the American people and the world about what it is doing and where it is heading. It's lies have damaged the fabric of our society, undermined the rule of law, made us all less safe, more afraid, less able to compete in the world, less loved by others, more afraid of one another, and more afraid of the future. It has made most of us uninformed so that many of our citizens regularly vote against their own best interests. This administration is a failure by any measure unless we assume their purpose is to destroy this nation, perhaps in an effort to satisfy some misunderstood religious prophesy... in which case, we could say they are succeeding.
21. This President and his supporters are associated with the most corrupt individuals who ever walked the streets of Washington or the halls of Congress.
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