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There were so many of these that I couldn't put them all in the post. Go to the website for a full list with links to the actual articles.
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BUSH Scandals
(********) Condemns corporations like Enron that did the same things that
his company Harken Energy did with his approval. (Reuters, 10.9.02)
(********) His former oil firm formed a partnership with Harvard University
that concealed the company's financial woes and may have misled investors.
The partnership between Harken Energy Corp. and Harvard, created with
Bush's approval, bore strong resemblance to the partnerships that helped
disguise Enron's problems. Harvard Management Co., which oversees the
school's $18 billion endowment, was the biggest shareholder in Harken when
the two sides agreed to create the Harken Anadarko Partnership in late
1990. Over the next two years, the partnership allowed Harvard to bail out
Harken's business by removing from its books a large percentage of the
company's loss-generating assets and debts in the Anadarko region of Texas
and Oklahoma. Specifically, Harken turned over drilling operations worth
$26.1 million and $20 million of bank debts and liabilities to the
partnership, the report said. The maneuver improved Harken's official
financial position, leading to a gradual recovery in the oil firm's share
price. Harvard profited from the upswing to unload some 1.6 million shares
of the company. Bush - who was both a board member at Harken Energy and
worked as a consultant for the firm at the time - gave the deal his
personal approval, according to minutes of Harken's Aug. 29, 1990 special
board meeting. (Reuters, 10.9.02)
(********) Issued an executive order that would allow the government the
power to listen in on any conversation between a suspect and his attorney.
(ACLU, 11.15.01)
(********) Reneged on a campaign pledge to oppose federal funding for stem
cell research. (AP, 8.13.01)
(********) Told Georgia Rep. Charles Norwood that as a Republican, he
should align himself with the White House on the Patient's Rights issue and
not with the Democrats. (AP, 7.31.01)
(********) Reversed a position he took during the presidential campaign on
implementation of an international treaty to curb greenhouse gasses.
(********) Backed off a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide
emissions from power plants, after furious lobbying from the coal industry.
(********) Criticized John McCain for using a consultant who wrote for and
helped edit Southern Partisan, calling the consultant's writings in the
magazine "offensive" and "out of line," then appointed John Ashcroft, who
wrote for Southern Partisan, as Attorney General.
(********) "At the 1988 Republican Convention, Hartford Courant associate
editor David Fink struck up a conversation with George W. 'When you're not
talking politics,' Fink asked the vice president's son, 'what do you and
[your father] talk about?' 'Pussy,' George W. replied." (Salon, 4/12/99)
(********) Signed a bill naming a Texas highway after Houston abortionist,
John B. Coleman (yet is a constant anti-abortion foe).
(********) Allegedly was involved in an abortion in the 70s before abortion
was legal.
(********) Tried to disenfranchise some voters in the 2000 election.
(********) As President Bush prepared to make a major speech on Wall Street
about corporate responsibility, the White House found itself on the
defensive again today over the kind of action for which Bush is assailing
corporate executives: his own failure in 1990 to disclose a stock sale as
promptly as required by law. (NYT, 7.3.02)
(********) Received two low-interest loans in the 1980s from a Texas oil
company where he was a director, a practice he asked companies to end as
part of his proposal to discourage corporate wrongdoing, according to
published reports. (AP, 7.11.02)
(********) "We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to
other presidents, and other generations." 1.28.03 "Even though hundreds of
other government programs would be squeezed, the president projects the
deficit will still hit record highs of $304 billion this year and $307
billion in 2004. Over the next five years, the deficits would total $1.08
trillion.... Taken together, the new stimulus measure and making the tax
cut permanent would add up to $1.3 trillion in new tax relief, on top of
the $1.35 trillion tax reduction Congress passed in 2001." Associated
Press, 2.3.03 (CST, 2.6.03)
(********) "To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved
historic education reform, which must now be carried out in every school,
in every classroom, so that every child in America can read, and learn, and
succeed in life." 1.28.03 The president's first education budget after he
signed his much-touted No Child Left Behind Act proposed $22.2 billion, a
cut of more than $90 million below the previous year and more than $7
billion less than Congress had authorized. They need to change the name of
the law to the Quite a Few Children Left Behind Act. (CST, 2.6.03)
quinnell.us/politics/200...hscandal.html
BUSH Scandals
(********) Condemns corporations like Enron that did the same things that
his company Harken Energy did with his approval. (Reuters, 10.9.02)
(********) His former oil firm formed a partnership with Harvard University
that concealed the company's financial woes and may have misled investors.
The partnership between Harken Energy Corp. and Harvard, created with
Bush's approval, bore strong resemblance to the partnerships that helped
disguise Enron's problems. Harvard Management Co., which oversees the
school's $18 billion endowment, was the biggest shareholder in Harken when
the two sides agreed to create the Harken Anadarko Partnership in late
1990. Over the next two years, the partnership allowed Harvard to bail out
Harken's business by removing from its books a large percentage of the
company's loss-generating assets and debts in the Anadarko region of Texas
and Oklahoma. Specifically, Harken turned over drilling operations worth
$26.1 million and $20 million of bank debts and liabilities to the
partnership, the report said. The maneuver improved Harken's official
financial position, leading to a gradual recovery in the oil firm's share
price. Harvard profited from the upswing to unload some 1.6 million shares
of the company. Bush - who was both a board member at Harken Energy and
worked as a consultant for the firm at the time - gave the deal his
personal approval, according to minutes of Harken's Aug. 29, 1990 special
board meeting. (Reuters, 10.9.02)
(********) Issued an executive order that would allow the government the
power to listen in on any conversation between a suspect and his attorney.
(ACLU, 11.15.01)
(********) Reneged on a campaign pledge to oppose federal funding for stem
cell research. (AP, 8.13.01)
(********) Told Georgia Rep. Charles Norwood that as a Republican, he
should align himself with the White House on the Patient's Rights issue and
not with the Democrats. (AP, 7.31.01)
(********) Reversed a position he took during the presidential campaign on
implementation of an international treaty to curb greenhouse gasses.
(********) Backed off a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide
emissions from power plants, after furious lobbying from the coal industry.
(********) Criticized John McCain for using a consultant who wrote for and
helped edit Southern Partisan, calling the consultant's writings in the
magazine "offensive" and "out of line," then appointed John Ashcroft, who
wrote for Southern Partisan, as Attorney General.
(********) "At the 1988 Republican Convention, Hartford Courant associate
editor David Fink struck up a conversation with George W. 'When you're not
talking politics,' Fink asked the vice president's son, 'what do you and
[your father] talk about?' 'Pussy,' George W. replied." (Salon, 4/12/99)
(********) Signed a bill naming a Texas highway after Houston abortionist,
John B. Coleman (yet is a constant anti-abortion foe).
(********) Allegedly was involved in an abortion in the 70s before abortion
was legal.
(********) Tried to disenfranchise some voters in the 2000 election.
(********) As President Bush prepared to make a major speech on Wall Street
about corporate responsibility, the White House found itself on the
defensive again today over the kind of action for which Bush is assailing
corporate executives: his own failure in 1990 to disclose a stock sale as
promptly as required by law. (NYT, 7.3.02)
(********) Received two low-interest loans in the 1980s from a Texas oil
company where he was a director, a practice he asked companies to end as
part of his proposal to discourage corporate wrongdoing, according to
published reports. (AP, 7.11.02)
(********) "We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to
other presidents, and other generations." 1.28.03 "Even though hundreds of
other government programs would be squeezed, the president projects the
deficit will still hit record highs of $304 billion this year and $307
billion in 2004. Over the next five years, the deficits would total $1.08
trillion.... Taken together, the new stimulus measure and making the tax
cut permanent would add up to $1.3 trillion in new tax relief, on top of
the $1.35 trillion tax reduction Congress passed in 2001." Associated
Press, 2.3.03 (CST, 2.6.03)
(********) "To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved
historic education reform, which must now be carried out in every school,
in every classroom, so that every child in America can read, and learn, and
succeed in life." 1.28.03 The president's first education budget after he
signed his much-touted No Child Left Behind Act proposed $22.2 billion, a
cut of more than $90 million below the previous year and more than $7
billion less than Congress had authorized. They need to change the name of
the law to the Quite a Few Children Left Behind Act. (CST, 2.6.03)
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