-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3750/bush.htm ----- Edited by Politex First George W. Bush Site on the Web First to Announce His Presidential Candidacy www.bushwatch.com home of the bush sunday funnies (updated weekly) "Y tu, que?" JANUARY '99 DECEMBER '98 NOVEMBER '98 OCTOBER '98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Specials 12 DAZE Updated News----> VIRGRINIA LETTER VOTER'S FRIEND MOJOTOONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Feb.'98-Sept.'98 HIS WEEK CAMPAIGN'98 PRESIDENT? HIS FRIENDS HIS RIVALS HIS WORDS HIS SOUL HIS CUBE OBSERVERS BUSHGATE READERS EXTRA! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Voucher Watch Public Policy History Politics African-Americans Finances Choice Texas Politics Questions Reading Religion Myths Opposition Supreme Court San Antonio Ed. Food Stamps HEY GUV, HOW DO YOU SAY "BENIGN NEGLECT" IN SPANISH? Bush has had over 4 years to do right for higher education in heavily-Hispanic San Antonio and has failed. The UT Board of Regents dragged its feet in providing a university in the first place, now it's spending less $ per student than at the other three branches, passing the costs on to the students: "the cost for attending UTSA is almost $2,000 above the average for Texas public universities." UTSA also has the poorest student-to-teacher ratio and the fewest tenured faculty per student. Obviously, Bush talk about cooperation with his Latino voter friends does not translate into meaningful action to correct inequities in higher- education. 2/10/99 DRAFT SPIN CONTINUES AS IOWAN PILGRIMAGE TO AUSTIN MEETS WITH SUCCESS WHEN GUV GRANTS AUDIENCE. George promised the visitors he would actively campaign in Iowa next Febuary (DMN), so no plans for a candlelight vigil took shape, although one GOP consultant said, "Why go to Iowa when you can get Iowa to come to you?" 2/9/99 NEW TEXAS CONSTITUTION LOOKS D.O.A. AND POLITICAL FORENSICS FINDS NO BUSH FINGERPRINTS. The last time the legislature tried to push through a constitutional revision in the mid-70's, all hell broke loose. Dubya recently put legislators on notice to make nice for the visiting reporters so he can be the no-sweat GOP presidential candidate, and he meant it. The word is to "start a constitutional revision process, which would be continued with further study during the interim before the 2001 session," giving George plenty of time to leave town before the fireworks start. 2/9/99 GUV CALLED "COUNTRY CLUB REPUBLICAN" BY CHRISTIAN COALITION ATTENDEE AS N.H. HEATS UP. While theocrats suggest Bush "cares more about economic issues than social issues such as abortion," it will be easy for him to favor the spirit, if not the letter, of the broadly supported proposed state religious liberties bill. "In 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court said the (Clinton-backed) law...prohibiting the federal government from interfering with religious expression unless it possessed a compelling reason to do so...could stand, but that it could not be applied to state and local governments." This has caused the states to craft such legislation on their own. The language of the Texas bill has yet to be agreed to, and, as both Theocrats and Country Club Republicans know, "the devil is in the details." 2/8/99 READ MY COLUMN: NO NEW TEXAS! Sacramento scribe fears that California could become a Texas clone, and Bush is partly to blame. 2/8/99 DUBYA'S CRUMBLING COALITION: THEOCRATS DEMAND ACTION FROM "MODERATE" BUSH. "There's a lot of doubt in my mind that he means what he says," opines Texas Eagle Forum rep. "Social conservatives" point to past Bush failed promises and call for voucher legislation, abortion restrictions, and protection of religious liberties. Clay Robison suspects "that Bush is using the ('compassionate conservative') label to appeal to a broad cross section...without using the word 'moderate,' a much hated term on his party's right wing." George Will sees G-Dub's political language in a sinister light: "Bush's rhetoric, like Clinton's which it mimics, is evidence of more than just conservative panic about the public's receptivity to Clinton's belief that pathos is the primary business of politics. Rather, Bush's manner of speaking is evidence that Clinton's political style is not idiosyncratic but symptomatic. The conflation of culture and government is far advanced." The danger Wills sees is that a government on a "therapeutic mission both fuels and legitimizes government's expansions into new spheres of society's and individuals' lives." If true, consider the Theocrats' bill for services rendered if George should ever make it to the White House. 2/7/99 POLITICAL SUNDAY FUNNIES.There's George Will's Simon LaGree ending to his piece on Bush, rhetoric, and government as well as Bob Ray Sanders' take on the "growing 'chigro' problem in American." 2/7/99 CNN INTERVIEW: BUSH DEFINES CHILDHOOD AS CONTINUING INTO ONE'S 30'S Refuses to discuss any uses of drugs "as a child...20 to 30 years ago," because "it is irrelevant." 2/6/99 IF GUV WANTS CHILDREN TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS, WHY DOES HE ALLOW HIS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO MAKE THE WRONG ONES? ASKS GROUPS CONCERNED ABOUT UNDERAGE DRINKING. The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife tempts kids with booze promotions and advertising in their parks, programs, and publications. Bud, alone, has poured in $5.8 million since 1991. It's time for W. to stop such promotions and advertising despite the protests of the parks officials and booze merchants. Of course, that means giving more state cash to Parks and Wildlife and giving less to reduce taxes on wealthy landowners. (See 1/31) 2/6/99 "Y TU, QUE?" LARGER HISPANIC VOTER SURVEY FOR PAST ELECTION CONCLUDES GEORGE GOT 39%, NOT 49% AS CLAIMED. G-Dub has opportunity to show that "Juntos Podemos" isn't just gas by complementing the Anglo woman and the Hispanic on the UT board of regents with another Hispanic, an Afro-American, and a non- Anglo woman,implies Carlos Guerra. 2/5/99 Y2K? DETAILS OF BUSH LEADERSHIP FAILURE SHOW ONLY 11 OF THE TOP 30 STATE AGENCIES "ON TARGET." PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE ARE IN THE WORST SHAPE, ALONG WITH THREE OTHERS. (No link.) Those five "are considered to be at risk of not being fully prepared," says Carolyn Purcell, executive director of the Department of Information Resources, the overseeing agency. Two questions. What would an independent 2YK expert report? Given the serious downside to this time-sensitive problem, why wasn't the Governor tracking this lack of progress from the start? (AAS, 2/5 and 1/28 below.) 2/5/99 DUBYA/MAD DOG'S BENEFACTOR'S SAN ANTONIO ED-STAMP PROGRAM NOT WORKING. BUSH SPINNER SAYS "GOV. BUSH BELIEVES WE SHOULD LOOK AT ANOTHER (PILOT PROGRAM)." Try Mars, Guv, 'cause what the Theocrats want is out of this world. The $50 million voucher program, backed by Leininger and Walton money, sent "the best students" out of public schools to private schools and "turned away disabled special education students." Such students are the most expensive to teach. The San Antonio project is the latest, largest, and best financed anti-public school program in the U.S. Presently, the pro-voucher lobby's media arm is financing a telemarketing blitz to convince the legislature to go with their flow. George says he wants a pilot voucher program "to see if it works." Earth to Guv: we already have one in San Antonio and it doesn't. (AAS,2/4) 2/4/99 BUSH SEES SHADOW: SIX MORE WEEKS OF UNDECLARED CANDIDACY. A gathering of citizens and out-of-state visitors as well as crews of international reporters watched as George W. Bush stepped out of the governor's mansion early this morning into Austin sunshine, amidst groans from many of the observers. It was previously determined that if Bush saw his own shadow on the morning of the second day of February, he would wait at least six more weeks before declaring his presidential candidacy. Sandra People, 26, of Scranton, Pa. said, "It's something unusual, something you can say you did once." It was not immediately clear whether People was talking about her viewing of the event or the Governor's long-anticipated announcement of his presidential candidacy. 2/2/99 17 Disabled Protesters Arrested Outside Governor's Mansion as they protested Bush decision to fight a federal court case that stands to broaden states' treatment for people with disabilities. Guv said, "I want the decision made in Texas, not through a federal court." Coalition of Theocrats including Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum meet with Forbes, Kasich, Bauer, Smith, Keyes, and Quayle in attempt to select consensus WH2K candidate to the right of Bush, Dole, McCain, and Alexander. Oilman Bush's first order of busine$$: "give emergency status to proposal to suspend (4.6%) severance taxes on oil production until Aug. 31." (AAS, 2/3) W. to have Austin meetings with New York City's Mayor Giuliani on 2/ll and William Hugue, head of Britain's Conservative Party the following day. Bush Housing Dept. appointees still under legal, legislative fire in the scandal that won't go away. (4th item.) Dubya's spinlady scolds reporters with a "caution." What's next, her way or the highway? 2/3/99 DAD, JEB, AND DUBYA KEEP MUM AT ALFALFA CLUB'S ANNUAL YUKFEST. With over 500 of Washington's top judicial jokesters on hand for the annual raucous caucus, perhaps G-Dub thought it wise not to remind anyone of the joke he served up at last year's gathering: he said that as the Alfalfa Club's mock presidential nominee he would "propose that every city have a telephone number, 119--for dyslexics who have an emergency." Alan Simpson, the mock nominee this year, said he would "retain a clear knowledge of the difference between a horse race and a political race. In a horse race, the entire horse runs!" 2/2/99 "BUSH'S PRINCIPAL POLITICAL ADVISER" CALLS ATTACK ON 60'S LEGACY BY LITERATURE PH.D. THE "ROAD MAP TO THE GOVERNOR'S ATTITUDES ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT." (From fifth paragraph on.) Conservative Myron Magnet's book contends overzealous liberals "held the poor back from advancement by robbing them of responsibility for their fate and thus further squelching their initiative and energy....For the breakdown of the poor to be healed and the moral confusion of the Haves to be dispelled, we need above all to repair the damage that has been done to the beliefs and values that have made America remarkable and that for two centuries have successfully transformed huddled masses of the poor into free and prosperous citizens." Is The Dream and the Nightmare really about "discipline for the lower orders"? (Third section.) (AAS, 1/27/99) 2/1/99 BUSH PRESIDENTIAL STRATEGY IS CYNICAL MIX OF LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLISM DERIVED FROM 80'S DEMS, HALF-WAY FIXES FOR MINORITIES, POOR, AND CHILDREN, GOVERNMENT ED-STAMPS FOR THEOCRATS, AND GOP BUSINESS AS USUAL. G-Dub has "embraced" Martin Luther King as a "benign" symbol and James Jones' (D-Ok, '84) "compassionate conservatism" as a campaign theme, but just like Dad it's "read my lips" but don't watch what I do. For example, more than 40% of all Texas famillies "report they lack health care and worry about whether they can afford food." Name an economic category and you'll find Texas families are way below the national average: "Texas has more parents with housing problems, more children in families having trouble affording food, more residents in fair to poor health and more children and adults with no health insurance." Analysis: In his recent state of the state speech, George said, "We must not become two societies--one that believes in the American dream and one that is without such hope." Yet, his economic policy proposals do just that. His child protection program has been called "a drop in the bucket": 380 new caseworkers when an estimated 2,000 are needed. Only 34% of those eligible will receive food stamps in the coming years. Nationally, the average will be 70%. Policy analyst Patrick Bresette asks, "What's going on?...You continue to have lots of poor people in Texas and yet programs are serving less and less of them that are still eligible for them. There's something wrong with that." What's wrong, of course, is Texas does not have an unlimited amount of government money, and Bush has chosen business as usual. He has recommended full $2 billion funding for property tax cuts, knowing that the lion's share of that will go to wealthy land and property owners. Further, he has also recommended fully-funded R+D programs as well as franchise tax cuts in the middle of a red-hot economy. It's turning out that what "compassionate conservatism" really means is that minorities, poor, and children get the tears and the talk and the business associates get the money. The Guv plans to run for President on such a record, apparently believeing that the center will listen to his words and the right will watch his actions. 1/31/99 DOES BUSH-BACKED RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES PROPOSAL ALLOW ON-JOB PROSELYTIZING? What, exactly, did the Guv mean when he said, "Recent court decisions have chipped away at the rock of religious freedom"? And why are worshippers dropping the word "Baptist" from their names? 1/30/99 SATURDAY SPECIAL: ONE HOUR C-SPAN INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR BUSH. This evening on your C-span channel at 7 and 10 p.m. central time. Recorded this past Monday. 1/30/99 LOSERS IN BUSH BUDGET ARE COMMON PEOPLE: RENTERS, CONSUMERS, TEACHERS, ABUSED CHILDREN. Analysis: The Guv wants to cut school property taxes by $2 billion but give school districts that money from the state coffers. This is obviously not an equitable use of state money, since the winners are millionaire/billionaires like his friend and past-business associate Richard Rainwater, who has vast real estate holdings, and the losers are renters too poor to own a home. Dubya tried this scheme 4 years ago with a $1 billion property tax cut, but the school districts didn't cut their property tax valuation, so the $1 billion really became additional state funding to education, badly needed to cover the cost of inflation. This time around the property tax is twice as large and a bill will be introduced to force the school districts to cut their valuation tax so schools won't get any additional funding. Then, Dubya wants to give the schools an additional $1.6 billion with no strings attached, but in the face of Dem criticism of his State of the State speech, suggests that the schools give most of it to the teachers. This didn't happen last time around when the schools got a $1 billion windfall when they didn't cut property taxes, and there's no reason to think it will happen this time around. The result will be wealthy property owners get a tax break, schools get enough money to cover rising costs, renters and teachers get nothing, and Bush will say his plan has benefited "the people of Texas." As for consumers, the Bush budget released today did not include the promised two-week sales tax suspension for children's school clothing. It did include a proposal for 380 more case workers, but that's only 45% of the social workers needed to attend to the abused children caseload. If G-Dub can fully fund property tax cuts for wealthy property owners, why can't he fully fund the abused children caseload? 1/29/99 DUBYA CALLS FOR A BIPARTISAN TX. LEGE SO HE WILL LOOK GOOD FOR PREZ RUN. DEMS ASK WHY, THEN, DID HE BACK ED. VOUCHERS, ELECTRIC DEREG, NO $ FOR TEACHERS, BIG BUSINESS TAX CUTS, ETC. Retired Democrat Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, not Bush, is responsible for past bipartisan legislatures, Republican finance chief Ratliff reports the $ is not there for the Bush tax cut proposals for big business, and Sugar Daddy and Mad Dog, the new Lt. Gov., with their agressive Theocratic/big business agenda are responsible for the growing "Washington, D.C.-style partisanship." How honestly Bush deals with the pre-spin circumstances will tell us what kind of President he would make. (For specifics, see previously reported items below.) 1/28/99 BUSH SAYS DEATH AND SUFFERING OF ABUSED CHILDREN "BREAKS MY HEART," BUT LION'S SHARE OF ESTIMATED BUDGET SURPLUS GOES TO WEALTHY LANDOWNERS. Candidate B's idea of "compassionate conservatism" is do business as usual, but feel badly for the less fortunate. As Reggie James puts it, "Giving tax breaks, especially for businesses and individuals who are doing well in the current economic boom, is tantamount to loading the able-bodied into lifeboats ahead of the children and the infirm." 1/28/99 GUV FLUNKS LEADERSHIP TEST: WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT Y2K CRISIS, HIS CONCERN IS INSURANCE COMPANY LAW SUITS. Putting his mouth where his money is, Dubya does nothing to assure us that he's doing all that's needed to continue to provide electricity, gas, transportation, phone and computer service, food deliveries, etc. when 2000 rolls around. This Bush failure suggests an inability to lead. Send Politex an e-mail message with your opinion on 1/1/2000. 1/28/99 BUSH STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS, 1/27/99 Editorial Policy: All entries are dated and documented as needed. (c) PoliTex. Permission of author required for reprinting. A Non-Profit Site with Affiliations to No-One. Duration of working link not under our control. 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