To republicans?

Question

please list an EFFECTIVE(sp?) policy or policies of the Bush Administartion that you support and explain why. Please give a concise answer without getting sidetracked by making fun of a democrats name. i.e. Barak "Osama", Al "Bore", "something duragory that you managed to rhyme with Hillary" Clinton. I dont want to know what you dislike about Democrats. I want to know what policies of Bush you support and your justification. Thank you.

p.s. Please give something other than "fighting terrorists."

I just asked this question a few minutes ago and I've already gotten a bunch of people that didn't answer the question. If you dislike Bush, that's fine. If you like Bush, that's fine too. BUT TELL ME WHAT ARE HIS POLICIES THAT YOU LIKE?
You may have to actually think in order to answer this. If you don't want to, that's fine, but then please don't respond.

PLEASE GIVE A REASON OTHER THAN "FIGHTING TERRORISTS"

Answer 1

None, they have ALL failed miserably. In its own way its pretty impressive.

Answer 2

The tax cuts he proposed, which congress subsequently passed, has increased government revenue by over 750 billion dollars. Our deficit as related to GDP has subsequently dropped. The fact that conservatives in congress (along with many fiscal liberal democrats) have not been able to contain their spending, unfortunately has made these gains a wash. The conservative side of Bush began and ended with those tax cuts. I believe his policy on Iraq was basically what any sitting president would have ultimately done. It had huge bipartisan support...and to suggest Al Gore would have done anything differently is intellectually dishonest in my opinion. So I don't see the war as a "republican" or "democrat" issue. I think Bush is doing what needs to be done and will ultimately be seen as a great leader in that regard....I just hate listening to him speak at press conferences, he's awful!

Also...the s.c.h.i.p. program was his idea (hardly conservative, but anyway). And I think attempts to broaden the program in such a way as to force a veto is a really rotten thing to do. to suggest Bush doesn't care about children or that republicans don't care about healthcare for underprivileged kids is ridiculous.

Answer 3

I vote for Republicans on the ballot usually less than 1/4 of the time, but I still wanted to think of at least one thing.

Your question is a very good question.

I've been picking my brain for about 15 or 20 minutes now, the only thing that's come up is that he/administration supported changing the clocks earlier in the spring.
I don't like it. But I'm sure ten years from now I'll think back a moment and feel "Yeah, I guess I'm supportive of that ultimately by now."

I know there's something else effective he/administration did that I'm supportive of, but I'm sorry it's taking too long to remember right now.

Answer 4

First of all, let me compliment Bush on one thing that even his detractors admit is true: he says what he means, and means what he says. He doesn't take an opinion poll before he explains his stance on an issue. That is honesty.

Now his policies:

1) Bush wants real, quantifiable results. With the "No Child Left Behind Act", he made it impossible for non-performing schools to continue with the status quo. They have to "stand and deliver". Before this groundbreaking step, all we got were pointless and often counter-productive "reforms", that usually amounted to little more than just increasing teacher salaries.

2) Bush is a statesman. He doesn't waver. He knows that many events in history require you to ignore the naysayers and be persistent. He knows problems like the war on terror must be fought at a tedious pace, and that there won't be any splashy, ego-inflating headlines we can all cheer about. Bush has made it practically impossible for terrorist activity to go unnoticed. He has complicated their lives so greatly that they must hide in caves, and even abandon using their cell phones.

3) Bush doesn't sell out by buying votes. When other candidates propose ridiculous, wasteful spending, like giving "free" medical care to children of parents who earn $80,000, he doesn't bend to political pressure. He firmly says "no".

4) Bush knows that an economy must be built on a solid basis. The type of slow and steady economic growth we have had has been quite remarkable, and his tax cuts have already produced about double the revenue from increased economic activity.

5) Bush refuses to give into crushing international pressure, even when he is ridiculed. When everyone told him to just ascede to North Korea's demands for bilateral talks with the U.S. over their nuclear program, Bush bravely held his ground. He wisely analyzed the situation and knew that bilateral talks would take the pressure off North Korea because they wouldn't have to be accountable to China and Japan (among others). His strategy worked. He didn't get hoodwinked like Clinton. Like Reagan, he used a "Trust, but verify" approach.

For all these reasons, Bush is an effective and admirable President, filling the demands of his office with dignity and statesman-like behavior.

Answer 5

The small pathologies of Bush the candidate have, thanks to the purposes of the neocons and the religious right, been enhanced and upgraded. We have a bona fide madman now, who thinks of himself in a grandiose way as single-handedly turning the tide of history. Some of his Frankensteins have bailed, some haven't dared to, and others still seem to believe. His actions and his orders, especially about Iran, seem to be telling us that he will stop at nothing to prove his dominance. The elder Bush(es), Scrowcroft, Baker, and their friends, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gerson, and the neocons have made the monster and in the process endangered the country, the Constitution, and the world, not to mention the sanity of wretches like Jose Padilla.

Maybe the bums planned this mess for their own profit, or maybe they planned to profit without mess; maybe some of them regret what they have wrought. However, they all share the blame for whatever he does next.

He no longer cares about the opinions of the voters, the Congress, the generals, the press, and he especially disdains the opinions of B/S/and B [Bush Sr, Scrowcroft, Baker]. Thanks to Gerson, he identifies his own little ideas with God (a blasphemy, of course, but hey, there's lots of precedent on this), so there's no telling what he will do.

Answer 6

I am a conservative and have very little love for our current president. first off he is hardly a true conservative. however the one thing I have to give him a bit of credit for was his swift reaction to 911 and the fact that there has not been a terrorist attack on US soil since.

Answer 7

Agressive pursuit of radical islamo facists where ever they live and breathe. No attacks on US soil since 9-11.

PS: I also enjoy the tax cuts.

Answer 8

They fighting the good fight for the people of the nation of love. They keeping it real.

Answer 9

As a republican, I can tell you Bush Jr. sucks. His father was ten times better.

Answer 10

I *heart* Bush- wheher u like it or not!