They might be smarter but not enough evidence to suggest that. On the other hand, republicans are definitely better looking. Have you seen democratic ladies? Yuck, check this picture out!!!
Reps laughing their rears off. HAL gonna get the ports? And Chimp will just do his little busy work in the background where nobody sees -- like this: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary March 7, 2006 Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America's social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment of a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) shall establish within the Department of Homeland Security (Department) a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (Center). (b) The Center shall be supervised by a Director appointed by Secretary. The Secretary shall consult with the Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (WHOFBCI Director) prior to making such appointment. (c) The Department shall provide the Center with appropriate staff, administrative support, and other resources to meet its responsibilities under this order. (d) The Center shall begin operations no later than 45 days from the date of this order. Sec. 2. Purpose of Center. The purpose of the Center shall be to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services. Sec. 3. Responsibilities of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. In carrying out the purpose set forth in section 2 of this order, the Center shall: (a) conduct, in coordination with the WHOFBCI Director, a department-wide audit to identify all existing barriers to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the delivery of social and community services by the Department, including but not limited to regulations, rules, orders, procure-ment, and other internal policies and practices, and outreach activities that unlawfully discriminate against, or otherwise discourage or disadvantage the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in Federal programs; (b) coordinate a comprehensive departmental effort to incorporate faith-based and other community organizations in Department programs and initiatives to the greatest extent possible; (c) propose initiatives to remove barriers identified pursuant to section 3(a) of this order, including but not limited to reform of regulations, procurement, and other internal policies and practices, and outreach activities; (d) propose the development of innovative pilot and demonstration programs to increase the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in Federal as well as State and local initiatives; and (e) develop and coordinate Departmental outreach efforts to disseminate information more effectively to faith-based and other community organizations with respect to programming changes, contracting opportunities, and other agency initiatives, including but not limited to Web and Internet resources. [...] Sec. 5. Responsibilities of the Secretary. The Secretary shall: (a) designate an employee within the department to serve as the liaison and point of contact with the WHOFBCI Director; and (b) cooperate with the WHOFBCI Director and provide such information, support, and assistance to the WHOFBCI Director as requested to implement this order. Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented subject to the availability of appropriations and to the extent permitted by law. (b) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, March 7, 2006
Well, it is, actually. Liberalism has pushed America so far left that the Republicans feel they have to offer up liberals-in-disguise like Bush if they want to get elected. Real conservatives have been unhappy with Bush from the very beginning.
What does Bush have to do with liberalism? Just because he spends money like crazy does not make him a liberal any more than it makes him a drunken sailor. Is he spending money on the poor or uninsured, is he trying to help the middle class, is he promoting unions or minimum wage increase, is he an internationalist supporting international organizations like the UN? I don't think the answer is yes to any of those question, do you? And I am not even talking about his social agenda like gay marriages, religion and abortions which is as right-wing as it can possibly be. They certainly have been hiding their feelings pretty well then. And again that does not make him a liberal. At least the left saw him for what he actually was from the get-go.
Apparently you think the prescription drug benefit is puritanical self reliance from the playbook of Calvin Coolidge. As if conservatives were yearning to see increased Federal Education spending to facilitate the implementation of No Child Left Behind. Given that 60% of the non-post office working Federal payroll is unionized, I wouldn't exactly say Bush has been anti labor. Big City Mayors across the country are privatizing work forces as an escape from Unions. I fail to see the Federal government streamline on labor/benefit costs. If conditions and wages effecting low skill workers are so poor than why are Mexicans, Poles, Bosnians and Haitians swimming over bodies of water to get here? No, Bush is certainly not a liberal. And on social issue he's clearly old school rural right. But by the same token he leans on a wife who like most ALL American women is moderate to center left on domestic spending issues. It's awfully hard for politicians, those who serve at the whim of the people, to be Draconian cheapskates when they have virtually unlimited money to spend. W as did GHB have tried to appease the non-conservatives on spending. History shows that strategy being successful only at pissing off both sides.
You mean the prescription drug benefit written by the drug lobby on behalf of the drug industry, disaster for recipients, bonanza for providers, right? Unfortunately it's not a liberal dream come true either.
Now that part is amazing. All the strife in Iraq is in 3 Sunni provinces. The rest of Iraq is prospering, not unhappy with what America did much at all. I am thinking that if a civil war really breaks out, it is going to get finished with rather quickly since the Sunnis are the opposition and the Shiites are the majority and they have been killing each other for 13 centuries. I think the Shiites can handle it really, once the world's cameras are off to the next big Bush trashing story.